Best Music Videos

how delightful!

Madonna is another one. Actually, I think she's better than Michael.

I have a soft spot for the Daft Punk videos, particularly "Revolution 909".

Air - Kelly watch the stars

Art of Noise - Close to the edit (where they smash up a piano)

Pretty much anything by Chris Cunningham esp Aphex Twin - Windowlicker/Come to daddy and Bjork -All is full of love.

Chemical Brothers - Block rockin' beats(? - the one with the breakdancing copper)

Human League - Don't you want me.

A couple of newies worth checking out Fatboy Slim -Weapon of choice and REM -Imitation of life.

BEST VIDEO OF ALL TIME: "All that I Wanted" by Belfegore, directed by Zbigniew Rybczynski,...who also directed Art of Noise's equally fantastic "Close to the Edit" video. Constant motion, total mayhem,...the visuals are literally enough to induce vertigo and nauseau. Superb.

CLOSE-SECOND: "Bastards of Young" by the Replacements

Strangest video I remember seeing -- Ted Nugent's "Scream Dream," which opened with him swinging across stage on a rope and a loin- cloth (uuuuuuughh). Then again, I was 10 and getting over the flu so it might have been a cough-syrup hallucination.

'Knowing Me, Knowing You' - ABBA

'The Perfect Kiss' - New Order (the minimilist approach. I like it.)

How about Lou Reed's "No Money Down"? That was a wicked one.

I've still never seen the oh-so-legendary bleachers Nirvana vid, for example. Do I just have to bite the bullet and fuck away what "free" time I do have and finally get MTV?

I also like Tool music videos. Just as freaky as the music.

And I agree that all Michael Jackson videos really kick ass. But just remember that it was probably easier for him because music vids hadn't been around that long when he did most of his, so he didn't have the challenge of not doing something already done.

The original 'best videos ever' thread is here. Like I said, the correct answer is the Chemical Brothers' 'Let Forever Be'. Have you seen video for the new Camera Obscura video? It's rubbish.

Honourable mentions to Kelly Watch The Stars and Just by Radiohead, which I find weirdly compelling.

Gareth, where did you see this? Where can I GET it?!?! I wanna see!!! I wanna see!!! Can you or anyone else tape this for me? My Dead Husband(c) DANCING. This is too much for my poor brain to take.

Another one that's really good is New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle". Actually, most of the stuff on the _Substance_ video is pure gold.

Radiohead made some great videos... I don't understand why they stopped. Then agan, upon seeing the crass JG Ballard's the Drowned World ripoff for Pyramid Song, well, I guess they should go back to ignoring the video format. Just was absolutely fantastic, as was High & Dry, the much touted Karma Police was a bit of a disappointment, but still amazing compared to the booty-shaking bonanza MTV had going at the time. Paranoid Android was one of those videos so good that it actually made me stop what I was doing and just stare at the screen.

OK, and the most OVER-RATED video of all time is probably Bittersweet Symphony by the Verve. He's walking down the street. He's being an arse. I just wanted the car to come back and run him over. Fat Les's version was much, MUCH better.

I would take any booty-shaking video you care to name over the COMPLETE SHITE that was Karma Police (see also: Rabbit In Your Headlights, Street Spirit). Not helped by it being one of their worst songs. Just is the lying-down one yes? - good concept admittedly but cross-cuts to Thom and co. jumping about in b&w in a room rather spoil it.

God, Gareth, where did you *see* all these videos? Damn, I hated being stuck in the States for the early 90s. A friend of mine managed to catch the Run, Run, Run (which, coincidentally, also featured much of that silly fractal/Kalleidescope imagery, guess Jason and Sonic were still doing the same drugs at the time...) video on 120 Minutes and taped it. The others I had to wrangle as promo items. If it wasn't for _The Story of Creation_ I'd never have seen any early 90s brit videos at all... BTW, My Bloody Valentine? For such a great band, they sure made SHITE videos!

As far as videos in this vein are concerned, I much prefer the 1-2 punch of Massive Attack's "Unfinished Sympathy" and "Safe From Harm".

Laid eyes 'pon it 5 years past. Surreal of surreals. Words fail description how it uncannies me t'date.

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just looks like 'yeeaah! party'

Kate, I have decent copies of *every* Spacemen-related video there is, including the one for "Hypnotized" and "Walking With Jesus". The WWJ one is so amateurly funny - nearest I can tell they had a video camera, a big bag of pot, and just rolled tape.

Fave video of the moment is for Ride's "Vapour Trail", very trippy.

My Top 20 music videos

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also just, eat yself fitter, and various others

Fever Ray - If I had a Heart

I'd love this to be the introductory plot to a movie set to each song of the album, something like intersellar 555. But even better!

Martin de Thurah, who did "If I had a Heart", also directed the 2nd Fever Ray video "When I Grow Up", which may be even better. He also did that stunning video for Röyksopp's “What else is there” a few years back. A name to watch.

We have the technology. Martin de Thurah vids:

Even his more conventional work is a cut above:

wow, I wasnt aware she had released a second single already that video is stunning indeed. I don't know what's the source of the magic behind Martin's lens but he manages to create a very strong and powerful imagery out of the most simple situations. I literally couldn't look away in any of those videos even when I knew there was nothing really happening at first glance.

There seems to be some sort of connection between both fever ray's videos, the cult symbolism repeats on both (the handpaint on the girl in the 2nd video and the shot of the house on the first one with the pool full of corpses), so perhaps both Karin and Martin will answer my prayer and flesh out a full story and direct a video for each song on the album. I better not mindwank on this one because I'll end up very sad if i get overexcited and nothing ever happens.

I'm up for a poll of all time best videos but I don't have the time to pull it myself, anyone interested?

wtf.. I just found out Jonas Akerlund was a founding member of Bathory.

Seems unlikely this will ever be surpassed on several levels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOad0FU9zF8

“Sugar Water” is on… this has to be one of the most creative videos ever, it’s just amazing

Igorrr - Very Noise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osqf4oIK0E8

Possibly the silliest music video ever made