# The Greatest And Best Music Videos In The World **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 23, 2006, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-and-best-music-videos-in-the-world/369873 "2006-08-23T12:07:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-and-best-music-videos-in-the-world/369873/1 "2006-08-23T12:07:41Z")
… Tribute. 😃 Seriously though, I’ve always been of the opinion that a good music video can make even a bad song tolerable, and make a brilliant song sublime. So, let’s hear your thoughts on the best Music Videos out there! Mine (in no particular order) - _Body Movin’ (FatBoy Slim Remix)_- Beastie Boys - _Smack My Bitch Up_- The Prodigy - _Owner Of A Lonely Heart_- Max Graham vs Yes - _Take On Me_- A-Ha - _Tribute_- Tenacious D - _Hey Boy, Hey Girl_- The Chemical Brothers - _Weapon of Choice_= FatBoy Slim - _Frontier Psychiatrist_- The Avalanches - _Koochy_- Armand Van Helden - _Let Forever Be_- The Chemical Brothers - _Pumping On Your Stereo_- SuperGrass - _Where’s Your Head At?_- Basement Jaxx Along with all the others that are just as great, but which have slipped my mind at the moment… What are your favourite music videos? ---
**Author:** ![Foldup\_Rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Foldup\_Rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foldup_Rabbit)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-and-best-music-videos-in-the-world/369873/2 "2006-08-23T13:11:29Z")
_Take On Me_ - A-Ha - The awesomeness of comics coming to life knows no bounds. _Sledgehammer_ - Peter Gabriel - Completely surreal and strange and relevant to nothing. _Black Hole Sun_ - Soundgarden - This video gave me nightmares. _Love is a Battlefield_ - Pat Benatar - Possibly the first use of the Group Dance Sequence in music videos. Definitely the first use of Group Dance Sequence by Prostitutes in music videos. _Nothing Compares 2 U_ - Sinéad O’Connor - My heart breaks for her, because she looks so thoroughly sad. _Lady Marmalade_ - Christina Aguilera, Mya, Pink & Lil’ Kim - Yeah, I bought into it. The video was completely slick and shiny and polished and a perfect vehicle for the song. _Bastards of Young_ - The Replacements - I guess this is the anti-video, as it is four minutes of a stereo playing the song. Brilliant statement about the music video culture or lack of a production budget? Either way, it’s confident and I dig it. ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-and-best-music-videos-in-the-world/369873/3 "2006-08-23T13:15:41Z")
[The boat left, and you weren’t on it.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=382382&highlight=) ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-and-best-music-videos-in-the-world/369873/4 "2006-08-23T13:16:29Z")
Today - [this one.](http://www.fugufish.org/frog/?p=38) ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-and-best-music-videos-in-the-world/369873/5 "2006-08-23T13:22:22Z")
That Art of Noise video where they saw apart their instruments & the little girl in makeup talks about England in the springtime & the band manacingly follow her & her dachshund. WHat? Really, tho TenD’s tribute IS the best parody video. I still love Bonnie Tyler’s TOTAL ECLIPSE video. ---
**Author:** ![DaddyTimesTwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@DaddyTimesTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaddyTimesTwo)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-and-best-music-videos-in-the-world/369873/6 "2006-08-23T14:41:53Z")
My favorite video is a rather obscure one. And I’ve only seen like three times. when I was a freshman in high school, Scandal’s EP came out (Patty Smythe? “Goodbye to You”? Anyone?) I absolutely _loved_ that record, and you know, it’s a shame they never recorded another one. Cause the didn’t. I never saw a second one. Nope. Anyway, my favorite song of the 5 on that EP was (and is) “Love’s Got a Line on You” for which there was a video. I saw it a few times, but my buddy saw it like five times a day for months. I was so mad. It’s like unrequited love or something. Maybe obsession. I can’t even tell you much about it, I think Patty wore a blue dress. And it’s the greatest cause I’ve never seen the damn thing. Trust me on this. ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-and-best-music-videos-in-the-world/369873/7 "2006-08-23T16:16:08Z")
How does the old _Thriller_ video by Michael Jackson stack up? I’m not in the know on music videos, but my understanding was that this was one of the first videos that told a story with a beginning, middle, and end. And it’s a pretty damned good video on its own. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-and-best-music-videos-in-the-world/369873/8 "2006-08-23T17:28:13Z")
_Human Behaviour_ - **Bjork** and that one by _Keane_ with the nature spirits, also the one by _Moby_ with the LGMs ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-and-best-music-videos-in-the-world/369873/9 "2006-08-23T17:31:04Z")
Van Halen, “Hot For Teacher” ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-and-best-music-videos-in-the-world/369873/10 "2006-08-23T17:32:58Z")
The video for Lordi’s “Blood Red Sandman” would work as a short horror film even on mute. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-and-best-music-videos-in-the-world/369873/11 "2006-08-23T18:38:46Z")
_Human Behaviour_ - **Bjork** Many **Red Hot Chili Pepper** ones, but I think _Otherside_ is my fave. and that one by _Keane_ with the Roxleys - _Somewhere Only We Know_, also the one by _Moby_ with the LGMs ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-and-best-music-videos-in-the-world/369873/12 "2006-08-23T18:40:16Z")
Well, that was weird… ---
**Author:** ![some\_white\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@some\_white\_dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/some_white_dude)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-and-best-music-videos-in-the-world/369873/13 "2006-08-23T22:23:50Z")
[QUOTE=PoorYorick] How does the old _Thriller_ video by Michael Jackson stack up? [/QUOTE] I think this is generally regarded as a classic music video. ---
**Author:** ![some\_white\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@some\_white\_dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/some_white_dude)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-and-best-music-videos-in-the-world/369873/14 "2006-08-23T22:27:24Z")
Oh yeah. Here’s Pitchfork’s [100 Awesome Music Videos](http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/36588/Staff_List_100_Awesome_Music_Videos). There are definitely some good ones in there. I think my favorite is Blur’s “Coffee and TV.” ---
**Author:** ![some\_white\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@some\_white\_dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/some_white_dude)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-and-best-music-videos-in-the-world/369873/15 "2006-08-23T22:32:11Z")
That gives me an idea. Why don’t we try to link to our videos on YouTube? I’d definitely like to see some of these that you guys are mentioning. I’ll go first: Daft Punk’s [“Around the World”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUoUpLMfngA)