i am the proud papa of a new video ipod. i need help coming up with a list of super cool music videos to download. having a good song is a plus, but the key word here is video. robbie william’s rock dj was a trens etting video example, as well as most of bjork’s videos. likewise, indigo girl’s ‘galileo’ altho not visually stunning, was unique and clever.
so please give me some suggestions for really cool, unique, visually stunning, or culturally important music vidoes!
also, any other downloadable onto video ipod cool videos, especially but not nessecarily free and especially but not nessecarily available on itunes.
also, looking for music videos that have homoerotic subcontext (or supercontext lol). I think there was one Red Hot Chili Pepper video, and several Madonna videos that fit the bill though I can’t remember which ones and I’m looking for others.
REM’s “Losing My Religion” is not only a very cool video, but it oozes homoerotic subtext.
Radiohead’s “Just” is eerie and foreboding, and more like a short film than a music video.
For something a bit more recent, "Your Ex-Lover is Dead by Montreal band Stars is one of the most visually striking videos I’ve seen in a long time. Though I guess it helps that the song itself totally breaks my heart.
Two people suggesting the same video at exactly the same moment? Sweet.
Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart is kinda heavy on the subtext. Anything involving Jimmy Somerville (Bronski Beat, Communards, solo work) will be not subtext, but text. Also text is anything by Johnny McGovern, the Gay Pimp.
The quintessential music video IMHO is Golden Earring’s “Twilight Zone.” It has everything. Great song, cool storyline, hot semi-naked (and bound) guy, sexy (female) dancers, the total package. I’d pay good money to download it.
“My Culture” by 1 Giant Step in pretty innovative and contains a very festive little bit by Robbie Williams. Great song also.
Probably the polar opposite of innovative, even at the time, but “Rock Me Tonight” by Billy Squier and “Separate Ways” by Journey should be in the dictionary under “homoerotic videos”, if there were such a listing
I dunno … “Rock Me Tonight” was pretty innovative. I mean, had anybody ever made a video of the same career-killing magnitude up to that point? Or since? He lost a LOT of fans by prancing around like that.
Huh. I’ve seen that video a hundred times and I never even thought about the technical aspects. Now you’ve got me wondering, too.
Here are some of my recommendations and the reasons for them:
Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack (Awesomely bleak computer animation fits the song perfectly)
Orbital - Are We Here (The contrast between the drudgery of a laundromat and the beauty of nature is perfect)
Pat Benatar - Shadows of the Night (Purely for the humor value of Pat, Judge Reinhold, and two other guys taking down the Nazi army)
Queen - These are the Days of Our Lives (The closing shot of the video, when Freddie looks up at the camera and whispers “I still love you” was the very last image of him recorded on video before his death. He knew that at the time. I can’t watch it without getting choked up.)
Tall Dwarfs - Turning Brow + Torn in Two (This video will put you into a trance. It’s amazing.)
Bongwater - Jimmy/Lesbians of Russia (Possibly my favorite video of all time, but I can’t quite pin down why that is.)
Those last two videos (and many other cool and innovative videos) are available on this DVD.
