Doing a Hitchcock: Music videos where the act makes a fleeting appearance

Watching some videos for the music videos poll I enjoyed the brief appearances The Chemical Brothers make, not least as employees of the month in ‘The Golden Path’.

What other videos feature acts doing similarly brief and witty cameos?

One of my favorite videos hands down is Depeche's "Wrong," and their quick appearance in it adds to the unease.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR5xGHPUEew

Pulp: Bad Cover Version (featuring Jarvis Cocker as both Brian May and the voice of a Jarvis Cocker impersonator)

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

Donald Fagen: The New Frontier (DF only appears on a poster of the Nightfly cover)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34XX_fg-R_4

Sleater-Kinney: Worry With You (featuring Corin & Carrie on the TV in the apartment)

Every Fatboy Slim video

I've never done a close study, but iirc there are loads he's not in at all?

There are only brief flashes of Anton Fier, Michael Stipe, Syd Straw and maybe some other members of the Golden Palominos in "Boy (Go)":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPFCDzomQU8

Good thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf-MaLXgl3A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXzs47qy2Pk

I never noticed or realized before that Townes Van Zandt is in the classic Willie & Merle video for "Pancho & Lefty" until I saw it again last week.

Radiohead "High and Dry" (the version at the diner).

xp new order also only appear briefly as a poster on a wall in the video for 1963 (should have nominated that for the video poll but forgot)

MJ’s « Liberian Girl »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3V-7DEAgdc

Every Fatboy Slim video

― Chris L, Wednesday, March 16, 2022 11:49 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I've never done a close study, but iirc there are loads he's not in at all?

― beepy fridges (sic), Wednesday, March 16, 2022 11:51 PM (yesterday)

I'm just going on hearing years ago he tried to do in every video. There's a portrait of him in "Weapon of Choice."

Here's his first video.

I think a few by R.E.M., "Stand" and "Man on the Moon" in particular.

I think the guys are just prominent enough in the “Stand” video to make it a little more than a cameo(?)

Don't they only appear in one shot apiece at the end?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5aZOW42vbQ

Devo: Through Being Cool (with the band playing the equipment managers)

George Michael, 'Too Funky'

xxp They also show up jumping through the air a few times.

The Coathangers - Follow Me: Mastodon pretend to be the band, actual band make an appearance at the end. (NB it contains a bit of "lol men in dresses" but I don't feel like it's supposed to be derogatory - there's a possibility I read it too positively though.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTUcoR8_pyE

Kate Bush: Experiment IV

Kate briefly appears as a both a monster and a secretary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zrkf65GmwE

Talking Heads: "Cross-eyed & Painless"

Possibly the first video without the artist appearing in it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYwQ9wOOLxA

TISM: Thunderbirds are Coming Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B__8N5d_LA

Duran Duran: "The Chauffeur" (NSFW)

...and really those last two I posted probably shouldn't be here, since the artists aren't in them at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycvJHQUqU1M

REM: "Crush With Eyeliner" (featuring The band popping up as audience members near the end)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cwS_db9DtY

John Fogerty: "The Old Man Down The Road"

I missed this when it came out earlier this year another amusing cameo from the Chemical Brothers. Skip to 2’48 if you don’t want to watch the whole video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqU4g5iJk2Y

As far as I can see, they don’t feature in this. Though there is a very brief name check for them and Beck which I missed first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRtxogXp8sY