Well, this is a little different, but I dare you to watch this whole video and not get a lump in your throat. You have to click on the music video link. http://www.catsunn.com/
Disclaimer: I don’t know who put this together, but I do believe they have the artist’s permission
“Drive” The Cars
Is that a joke, as it sounds like that song is considered a flaming lump of mokey shit.
Only because that song’s responsible for breaking up the band. Rick Ocasek refuses to sing any song he didn’t write. So when the drummer wrote that song (IIRC), Rick wouldn’t sing it, the drummer did. It became one of their biggest hits which pissed Ocasek to no end. Not surprisingly, the band split up, and it’s members are stuck doing VH1’s Whatever Happened To….
Add my vote for Hurt (The NIN version of the video isn’t bad either) and Jeremy. I’d also like to add a vote for One by Metallica.
(hijack: a lot of the footage for the Metallica video is taken from some old movie, does anyone know the name?).
Johnny Got His Gun, IIRC.
And thirded.
And a second to Unbreak My Heart. That song, even on the radio, kills me. Braxton sings that with more emotion than just about anything I’ve ever heard.
And Sinead O’Connor’s Nothing Compares to You (or Nothing Compares 2 U, if you prefer) never fails to make me bawl.
This is just a personal preference, but arguably the saddest film clip that always comes to mind for myself is “Let it Be” by The Beatles. They made two actually - the one in colour which featured in the film, and then a second, superior one in black and white which they made as the official film clip for the single.
The thing that’s really sad about it is that even though the band was totally professional and consummate in their execution of the song as they played it live in the studio - nonetheless you could visibly discern the tension and dysfunctionality which had openly creeped into their relationships with each other by that late stage in their career - and as such, you could easily see that the end was near.
Ironically, about 3 months later they contacted George Martin to make one last album - to consciously go out with a bang - and the result was Abbey Road, but apart from a montage sloppy effort to the song “Something” which didn’t feature any footage of the members together, to my knowledge, no footage or photographs of The Abbey Road sessions exist at all - which is really odd considering what a great, legendary album it is.
So as a result, the final memory that we, the public, have of The Beatles together is that sad dysfunctional film clip to “Let it Be” - and that’s why it’s sad for mine. I can imagine that they actually had a few laughs and smiles during the making of Abbey Road which would have been a nicer thing to remember them by I reckon.
I thought their Bass player did the vocals on that.
“I remember you” by Skid Row is a pretty sad video/song
Whichever one of them is blind, I believe it’s the drummer.
You can see some/most of these videos at either Launch.com or MTV.com.
The saddest ones I have seen are Waterfalls by TLC and Goodbye by Jagged Edge.
Sorry, Magayuk, but that song was one of the ones playing while I had the best sex in my life with the hottest woman I’ve ever met… There’s nothing on this planet that could make me get choked up over it.
Nanook- Stan is the Eminem song in which Dido sings “Thank you”, MM reads a fan letter from ‘Stan’ who models his life after MM’s persona & has a crush on him & ends up killing himself & his pregnant girlfriend when MM doesn’t answer his letters
The Scientist- I glanced at- basically, a man is rushed into the ER after a car accident & then is praying in the chapel & it runs backwards so that he gets killed in the accident & his girlfriend who had been dead is now in the ER
Bless you, FriarTed.
The video for Imagine by John Lennon always brings a lump to my throat. The bit where Yoko goes and sits by him at the piano and he just gives her this look - it makes me go all shivery.
Bones Thugs-n-Harmony’s Tha Crossroads.
That video still chokes me up.
Unless you can’t screw that woman anymore…
Drive was the first video to pop into my head when I read the thread title.
OK, major Cars fan here, and I feel the need to fact-check the above.
Point 1 - Ocasek wrote the damn song, or at least he has solo writing credit on it. In fact he has solo or co-writer (with other band members, usually Greg Hawkes) credit on every song they released while intact (A few covers popped up on the post-mortem box set).
Point 2 - Benjamin Orr (bass player) sang the song, as he sang about half of the Cars material, going all the way back to the first album. Just What I Needed, Moving In Stereo, Bye Bye Love, any song that required real singing as opposed to Ocasek’s quirky delivery, was Orr on vocals.
Point 2a) I don’t know if Orr ever went blind, but he is dead. Died in 2000 of pancreatic cancer, which kills any reunion, given that he sang about half the songs.
Point 3) They didn’t break up for another 3 years. It was during the tour for the IMO rather inferior follow-up Door To Door that the band “went on haitus” (the cover story at the time). I remember this because I had tickets for the LA show which was scrubbed.
Possible source of confusion: David Robinson (drummer) was very vocal in interviews about being extremely pissed that he wasn’t allowed to play live drums on Heartbeat City. He bitched to no end that every percussion sound on the album was programmed. All he got to do was lay down the beats which were sampled into the drum machine. So there was a lot of tension between Robinson and Ocasek.
Besides, Ocasek met his wife, the still smoking hot Sports Illustrated cover model Paulina Porizkova, during the video shoot, so he shouldn’t hate the song too much.
I don’t know if it counts as a “video”, but seeing VH1’s program on Warren Zevon last night brought a few tears to my eyes.