# Quite possibly the best music video ever. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 4, 2013, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-best-music-video-ever/665345 "2013-08-04T19:58:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2013, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-best-music-video-ever/665345/1 "2013-08-04T19:58:14Z")
Mumford and Sons wins the Internet [Hopeless Wanderer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rId6PKlDXeU) ---
**Author:** ![Myglaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Myglaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myglaren)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2013, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-best-music-video-ever/665345/2 "2013-08-04T20:15:52Z")
Or perhaps [XXL](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ezp4NaA0xA) Or pretty much any of her videos. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-best-music-video-ever/665345/3 "2013-08-04T21:01:08Z")
[Sorry, you’re both wrong.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0zlkB-s_Vk) (NSFW but YouTube is going to force you to sign in to view the “explicit content”, so I think that qualifies for the “two click” rule) ---
**Author:** ![Craneop2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Craneop2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Craneop2)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-best-music-video-ever/665345/4 "2013-08-06T21:35:03Z")
Video unavailable? ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-best-music-video-ever/665345/5 "2013-08-06T21:48:56Z")
May I suggest [The Wizard of Ahhhs by Todrick Hall featuring Pentatonix.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkVeKb2igrg) It is a 6.5 minute retelling of the Wizard of Oz movie done in popular songs performed a cappella. Features extraordinary costuming and makeup (for a seven minute video). It captures the surreality of the original story. And, if you are familiar with the source of some of the songs they use, there are lots of inside jokes, too. But you don’t have to be familiar with any of the music to get a kick out of this. Did I mention it’s a cappella? (Except for the cup in the cup song and some percussion.) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-best-music-video-ever/665345/6 "2013-08-06T22:02:04Z")
_Tool_ and _Foo Fighters_ have the best videos ever. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-best-music-video-ever/665345/7 "2013-08-06T22:34:14Z")
These are all good. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-best-music-video-ever/665345/8 "2013-08-06T22:46:10Z")
[Build Me Up, Buttercup](http://youtu.be/HeP1Klmk0ng). Amateur ukulele with a cool reveal at 1:10. Didja see it coming? ---
**Author:** ![Asympotically\_fat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Asympotically\_fat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asympotically_fat)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-best-music-video-ever/665345/9 "2013-08-06T23:15:51Z")
Adam Buxton’s BUG has is a great place to find good music videos, here’s a few of my favourites : [Wild Beasts - ‘Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants’ (2008)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bW6USsmR70) [Etienne de Crecy - No Brain](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-3z3DNUGiE) [Grimes - Oblivion](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtH68PJIQLE) [M.I.A. - “Bad Girls” (Official Video)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYs0gJD-LE) ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-best-music-video-ever/665345/10 "2013-08-06T23:43:57Z")
I’m a bit partial to the Leonard Nimoy version of [The Lazy Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dULOjT9GYdQ) by Bruno Mars. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-best-music-video-ever/665345/11 "2013-08-06T23:46:46Z")
I’m not the biggest Madonna fan… but [Walk Off The Earth’s cover of "Material Girl"](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpnHhii3ZIk)is at least the best of that particular band’s videos, I think, and one of the best music videos on YouTube. You wouldn’t believe some of the instruments used - and it was shot in one take. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-best-music-video-ever/665345/12 "2013-08-07T00:06:19Z")
I like it when the song and video are conceived together. My favorite: [A--Don't Nobody Move (This Is a Heist)--Tony Powers - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8GtVwBQWtc) . Loads of cameos. ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-best-music-video-ever/665345/13 "2013-08-07T01:09:43Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > [Build Me Up, Buttercup](http://youtu.be/HeP1Klmk0ng). Amateur ukulele with a cool reveal at 1:10. Didja see it coming? No, I sat there wondering what on earth is going to happen at 1:10. I didn’t guess. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-best-music-video-ever/665345/14 "2013-08-07T01:30:45Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I like it when the song and video are conceived together. My favorite: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_8GtVwBQWtc](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8GtVwBQWtc) . Loads of cameos. [You want to talk cameos?!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdgLMslbDuY) ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-best-music-video-ever/665345/15 "2013-08-07T01:35:29Z")
An oldie but goodie from back when music videos were still a new thing. [Malcolm McLaren – Something’s Jumping in Your Shirt.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuXjoCTxDkc) It stars Lisa Marie Smith who later became the Calvin Klein Obsession girl. It seems like a mash up of a Mother’s Day perfume ad, 1950s teenage angst movie, and high-brow art film. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-best-music-video-ever/665345/16 "2013-08-07T01:42:50Z")
Horse Outside by the Rubberbandits wins: [noparse][The Rubberbandits - Horse Outside - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8%5B/noparse%5D) (NSFW) Okay, but seriously, I think the best music video ever made is A-Ha’s Take on Me. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-best-music-video-ever/665345/17 "2013-08-07T02:06:29Z")
> [@beagledave](#): > > Mumford and Sons wins the Internet > > [Hopeless Wanderer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rId6PKlDXeU) I was about two minutes in before I realised what was going on. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-best-music-video-ever/665345/18 "2013-08-07T02:08:16Z")
A two part mini-movie by Biting Elbows - [The Stampede](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYm-dT24iRY) and [Bad Motherfucker](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgox84KE7iY) - spoilered due to violence, profanity, and bikinis ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-best-music-video-ever/665345/19 "2013-08-07T02:44:35Z")
This is kinda off-topic, but I was just watching the Blu-ray of _ **Help!** _ and I was impressed all over again at the proto-music videos that make up the film. There’s some really neat stuff in there, my favorite being the smoky recording session for “You’re Gonna Lose That Girl”. And I love that shot looking down the neck of Paul’s bass on “The Night Before”, They weren’t high tech, but in many ways they set the pattern for what was to follow. ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-best-music-video-ever/665345/20 "2013-08-07T06:05:17Z")
I’m pretty fond of both music videos for OK Go’s This To Shall Pass: (Rube Golderg) [OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine - Official Video - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w) (Marching Band) [OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Official Video - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJKythlXAIY) But they really have a lot of awesome videos (Including Here It Goes Again, of course) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quite-possibly-the-best-music-video-ever/665345.md?page=2)