Martha, My Dear: ILM's All-Time Video-Poll Results Thread

Can 100% live with that #1. Surprising and inspired.

my quickly cobbled together ballot subject to massive change

Top 10 (17 points each)

1)Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be
ABBA - Take A Chance On Me
Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
Busta Rhymes - Gimme Some More
Daft Punk - Around The World
Prince - Mountains
Kylie Minogue - Come Into My World
Alcazar - Crying At The Discotheque
Flowered Up - Weekender
Psy - Gangnam Style

11-20 (11 points each)

Tiga - Hot In Here
Herb Alpert - Rise
Bjork - All Is Full Of Love
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately
Oneohtrix Point Never - Problem Areas
Orbital - The Box
Fleetwood Mac - Big Love
Adam Freeland - We Want Your Soul

21-30 (7 points each)

Madness - House of Fun
Nightmares on Wax - Aftermath
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
Dandy Warhols - Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth
Village People - Sex Over the Phone
Azealia Banks - 212
A-HA - Take On Me
Coldcut and Hexstatic - Timber
Air - Kelly Watch The Stars
Elton John - I'm Still Standing

31-40 (5 points each)

Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
Herbie Hancock - Rockit
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Bjork - Pagan Poetry
Beyonce - Single Ladies
New Order - True Faith
The Fall - Hit The North
Bicep - Glue
Madonna - Open Your Heart

thanks clemenza

Yep thanks for running this.

My ballot (15 points each for the first half, 5 for the second):

Adam & the Ants - Stand and Deliver
Beck - The New Pollution
Blue Nile - Stay
Cardiacs - RES
Cibo Matto - Sugar Water
Fall - Cruisers Creek
Grace Jones - Slave to the Rhythm
Grimes - Realiti
Guided by Voices - I Am a Scientist
Kiesza - Hideaway
Janet Jackson - The Pleasure Principle
Judas Priest - Breaking the Law
M.I.A. - Bad Girls
Madness - House of Fun
Missy Elliott - The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)
Mud - Dynamite
New Order - True Faith
Oneohtrix Point Never - Lost But Never Alone
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Playboi Carti - Magnolia
Prince & the Revolution - Raspberry Beret
Propaganda - p: Machinery
Roots Manuva - Witness (1 Hope)
They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng
Yo La Tengo - Sugarcube

Beastie Boys - Sabotage
Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
Björk - Bachelorette
Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar
De La Soul - A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
Knife - We Share Our Mothers Health
Kylie Minogue - Love at First Sight
Lana Del Rey - Video Games
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
Missy Elliott - Beep Me 911
Mondo Grosso - Labyrinth
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
Nightmares On Wax - Les Nuits
Nine Inch Nails - March of the Pigs
Notorious B.I.G. - Mo Money Mo Problems
Pavement - Painted Soldiers
Paramore - Hard Times
Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine
Prince & the Revolution - Mountains
Residents - Hello Skinny
Skepta - Shutdown
Talk Talk - My Foolish Friend
Todd Terje - Inspector Norse
Van Halen - Panama

Flowered Up - Weekender

Fuck! Somehow never occurred to me to vote for this, despite being the most obvious choice ever

My ballot, with (points, placement in Top 100):

Shura - What's It Gonna Be? (30, dnp) <--the best high school-set music video
Bruce Springsteen - Brilliant Disguise (22, dnp)
Janet Jackson - Love Will Never Do (Without You) (20, 97) <--the sexiest Herb Ritts-directed beach-set music video
Owen Pallett - The Riverbed (18, dnp)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Log Driver's Waltz (15, dnp)
Childish Gambino - This Is America (9,dnp)
Pet Shop Boys - Always on My Mind (9, dnp)
Fiona Apple - Paper Bag (9, dnp)
Aimee Mann - Labrador (9, dnp)
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues (9, 4)
LCD Soundsystem - Oh Baby (5, dnp)
A-ha - Take on Me (5, 5)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero (5, dnp)
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy (5, 47)
Weird Al Yankovic - Amish Paradise (5, dnp)
Replacements - Bastards of Young (5, 25)
Azealia Banks - 212 (5, dnp)
El Debarge - Who's Johnny (5, dnp)
John Prine - Summer's End (5, dnp)
Outkast - Hey Ya! (5, dnp)

Thanks, clem! Actually--double thanks, as you helped me with my scoring as well!

My gf will be thrilled that 'Star Guitar' won. She always make me throw that track on during a particular stretch of the drive to my mom's where we pass a similar trainscape. It syncs up pretty nicely.

(xpost) Another Canadian, camouflages it better than Kent Burt.

(xxpost) If anyone ever does live clips, I'll definitely vote for Mud doing "Tiger Feet" on Top of the Pops in '74--really one of the most insane things I've ever seen.

01. Björk - All is Full of Love
02. The Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar
03. George Michael - Too Funky
04. Kylie Minogue - Come Into My World
05. Cibo Matto - Sugar Water
06. Janet Jackson feat. Q-Tip - Got 'Til It's Gone
07. Chet Faker - Gold
08. D'Angelo - Untitled (How Does It Feel)
09. Erykah Badu - Honey
10. Flying Lotus feat. Kendrick Lamar - Never Catch Me

Björk - Pagan Poetry
Herbie Hancock - Rockit
Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity
Madonna - Express Yourself
Massive Attack - Protection
Nine Inch Nails - Pinion
Notorious B.I.G. - Sky's the Limit
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
Sigur Ros - Vidrar Vel Til Loftarasa
Vitalic - Poney Part 1

alt-j - Hunger of the Pine
Björk - Wanderlust
The Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be
Janet Jackson - Love Will Never Do (Without You)
Knife - Pass This On
Lucas - Lucas with the Lid Off
Madonna - Vogue
Missy Elliott - Work It
Pharcyde - Drop
UNKLE feat. Thom Yorke - Rabbit in Your Headlights

DJ Snake & Lil Jon - Turn Down for What
Drake - Hotline Bling
Eric Prydz - Call on Me
Erykah Badu - On & On
George Michael - Freedom! '90
Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation
Laurie Anderson - O Superman
Madvillain - All Caps
Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend
Weird Al Yankovic - Fat

Annie Lennox - No More 'I Love You's
Beyonce - Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)
Busta Rhymes - Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See
Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart
Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing)
Michael Jackson - Leave Me Alone
Missy Elliott - The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)
Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box
Outkast - B.O.B.
Robert Palmer - Addicted to Love

Ranked ballot.

Danny Brown - Grown Up
Grimes - Oblivion
DJ Format feat. Abdominal & D-Sisive - 3 Feet Deep
Bats for Lashes - What's a Girl to Do?
Aldous Harding - The Barrel
Vitalic - Poney Part 1
Jamie XX - Gosh
Supergrass - We Still Need More
Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar
Daft Punk - Around the World
Todd Terje - Inspector Norse
Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At
R.E.M. - Drive
The Shins - New Slang
Demics - New York City
Nine Inch Nails - Pinion
Flying Lotus - Parisian Goldfish
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart
Feist - 1234
Blur - Coffee And TV
El Guincho - Bombay
Beastie Boys - Sabatoge
Björk - It's Oh So Quiet
A-ha - Take on Me
Hot Chip - I Feel Better
Metallica - One
George Michael - Freedom '90
Kylie Minogue - Come Into My World
Azealia Banks - 212
Jacque Dutronc - Mini Mini Mini
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
Cibo Matto - Sugar Water
Knife - We Share Our Mothers Health
Bee Gees - Idea
Whale - Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
Beastie Boys - Whatcha Want
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
Childish Gambino - This Is America
Connells - '74-'75
David Bowie - Lazarus
Drake - Hotline Bling
Dua Lipa - New Rules
Igorrr - Very Noise
Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity
Massive Attack - Protection
Pharcyde - Drop

There were a couple of posts about vote-splitting, so another list--two lists, the same names reordered. I went through the spreadsheet and looked for people who got votes for four or more videos. There were 33--it was easy to pick them out. Here's a list of those 33 ordered by most total points, and also by most total videos. The points list only includes artists with at least four videos, so A-ha, Cibo Matto, and a few others aren't on there; they had enough points to qualify, but only got votes for three or fewer videos.

Most Total Points (4 or more videos only)

1. Bjork - 368
2. Chemical Brothers - 327
3. Beastie Boys - 243
4. New Order - 242
5. Madonna - 219
6. Radiohead - 218
7. Bob Dylan - 203
8. David Bowie - 197
   Pet Shop Boys - 197
10. Kylie Minogue - 186
11. Janet Jackson - 169
12. Missy Elliott - 168
13. Prince - 164
14. R.E.M. - 156
15. Sonic Youth - 142
16. Devo - 122
17. Rolling Stones - 118
18. Busta Rhymes - 115
19. Michael Jackson - 108
20. Outkast - 103
21. Smashing Pumpkins - 99
22. Weird Al Yankovic - 92
23. Tom Petty - 89
24. Cure - 87
25. De La Soul - 85
26. Oneohtrix Point Never - 80
27. Beck - 74
28. Hot Chip - 69
29. ZZ Top - 67
30. Duran Duran
31. Kraftwerk - 45
32. Rihanna - 43
33. Elvis Costello - 27

Most Total Videos

1. Bjork - 10
2. Madonna - 9
3. Radiohead - 8
   Janet Jackson - 8
5. David Bowie - 7
   Pet Shop Boys - 7
   Prince - 7
   Sonic Youth - 7
9. Devo - 6
   Rolling Stones - 6
11. New Order - 5
   Kylie Minogue - 5
   Missy Elliott - 5
   R.E.M. - 5
   De La Soul - 5
   Beck - 5
   Hot Chip - 5
18. Chemical Brothers - 4
   Beastie Boys - 4
   Bob Dylan - 4
   Busta Rhymes - 4
   Michael Jackson - 4
   Outkast - 4
   Smashing Pumpkins - 4
   Weird Al Yankovic - 4
   Tom Petty - 4
   Cure - 4
   Oneohtrix Point Never - 4
   ZZ Top - 4
   Duran Duran - 4
   Kraftwerk - 4
   Rihanna - 4
   Elvis Costello - 4

i thought i hadn't voted for any chris cunningham videos but i just learned he did portishead's "only you." seems obvious now

Not a lot of surprises in the results, but I tend to like a lot of the videos that rate highly in these kinds of polls - a lot of my ballot placed. But I'd never even heard of that Pharcyde song, cool to watch that

The one I really hoped would place that didn't was Grace Jones' "Slave to the Rhythm". Such a visually arresting video, at least it's on the 41-100 list

I think I might have casually voted for Björk and Madonna tracks that were unlikely to place ("Wanderlust", "Oh Father") precisely because they would *surely* both withstand serious vote-splitting! At least I inflated their total appearances/points tallies there lol.

Thanks for crunching the numbers etc clemenza and viborg. It's been an amusing exercise.

And speaking of the 41-100 list, that "Crevice Tool" song and video are something, certainly new to me

After helping every step of the way, the minute I started the countdown, Viborg completely vanished. He may not actually exist--I may be going through a Fight Club thing.

LOL, glad that Bamff almost made it. I would never have heard of it if wasn't for one of the Canadian contingent drawing my attention to it some years ago.

Lol I thought of making a ballot just to vote for it.

You could have pushed it into the top 40! (Probably deserves to be there.)

Just watched most of it. That almost made the Top 40.

My ballot. Unranked, in alphabetical order:

Toni Basil - Breakaway
Beastie Boys - So What'cha Want
The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
The Breeders - Safari
David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
Deee-Lite - Groove Is in the Heart
Devo - Jocko Homo
J. Geils Band - Centerfold
The Go-Go’s - Our Lips Are Sealed
Herbie Hancock - Rockit
Elton John - I’m Still Standing
Kylie Minogue - Love at First Sight
My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
The Pretenders - Brass in Pocket
Prince - Kiss
The Rolling Stones - Jumpin’ Jack Flash
Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
Bobby Vee - The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

*would've voted for "Subterranean Homesick Blues" if I'd thought of it
*probably would've voted for "Take a Chance on Me" by ABBA if I'd thought of it

Apologies to everyone for not voting for a Michael Gondry video... I didn't realize that was a requirement.

Gondry directed “Centerfold” (little-known fact)

As if!

It was directed by Paul Justman, brother of the guy who wrote the song, Seth Justman, the keyboard player in the band

I did an unweighted 50-vid ballot where the only reasoning was they were the first 50 I liked alot that I thought of Monday night.

Replacements: Bastards of Young
Devo: Beautiful World
Tupac: California Love
Garbage: Only Happy When It Rains
Sparks & Jane Wiedlin: Cool Places
Golden Earring: Twilight Zone
Dwight Twilley: Girls
Blue Oyster Cult: Take Me Away
Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit
Grateful Dead: Hell In A Bucket
Pretenders: Middle of The Road
Nick Lowe: Cruel To Be Kind
Michael Nesmith: Rio
ZZ Top: Gimme All Your Lovin'
Ice Cube: It Was A Good Day
Sonic Youth: Bull In The Heather
Go-Gos: Our Lips Are Sealed
Wall of Voodoo: Mexican Radio
Chemical Brothers: Let Forever Be
Beck: Devil's Haircut
Duran Duran: A View To A Kill
Robert Plant: Burning Down One Side
Peter Gabriel: Sledgehammer
Pulp: Bad Cover Version
PJ Harvey: Man-Sized
Lou Reed: I Love You Suzanne
Rolling Stones: Undercover of The Night
David Lee Roth: Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody
Herbie Hancock: Rock-It
B-52's: Girl From Ipanema Goes To Greenland
Neil Young: Wonderin'
B-52's: Song For A Future Generation
Garbage: Stupid Girl
Nirvana: In Bloom (I don't know if it matters, but this is for the DGC/Faux Variety Show clip)
ZZ Top: Burger Man
Beastie Boys: Hey Ladies
Talking Heads: Burning Down The House
Beastie Boys: Sabotage
Devo: Love Without Anger
Cyndi Lauper: She-Bop
Butthole Surfers: Who Was In My Room Last Night
Ministry: Jesus Built My Hot Rod
Blue Oyster Cult: Joan Crawford
New Pornographers: Moves
Yeah Yeah Yeah: Maps
New Pornographers: Crash Years
Donald Fagen: The New Frontier
Free: Wishing Well
Spice Girls: Wannabe
Kinks: Come Dancing

I have a friend who does great music video TwitchStreams, usually on Tuesday nights, and yup, the next night I was reminded of like five vids I should have voted for (including "The Perfect Kiss", but that case worked out anyway).

(Oh--I also learned, via his ballot, that ILX'or Kent Burt must be Canadian.)

Uh oh - secret's out. What can I say - we had some nifty/absurd videos... ("Apple Strudle Man" by Jolly Tambourine Man, anyone?)

Glad to see some post-rollout "Crevice Tool" love. MuchMusic used to play that frequently in the late 80s. BAMFF featured members of art punk/new wave icons UJ3RK5.

Thanks for the poll!

whoa, it's over? looking forward to poring over this, and guess it's time I see "Star Guitar"!

missed a lot of the poll, but felt compelled to blurb my (hasty, unranked) ballot:

Bjork - Joga — feels a bit wrong to go with a relatively Bjork-less Bjork vid, but her computerized form at the end was like an artist dreaming themselves limitless, and I believed it at that moment if I didn’t already. also the camera movements (stumbling, sweeping, stumbling again), blocks of digital earth… simply etched in my head.

Janet Jackson - Go Deep — what is a music video if not the artist partying at your house? love the specific quality of the images (like early MTV off-the-cuff creativity on late 90s cameras) and contrasting them with the rest of the Velvet Rope run to remember how visually controlled she’s always been.

Black Box Recorder - Child Psychology — makes a bigger impression when you’re 11 and haven’t heard of Night of the Hunter yet, but its windblown cattails and face constellations aren’t any less beautiful as homage.

Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You — somehow blended this in my mind with Les Rhythmes Digitales’ “(Hey You) What’s That Sound?,” had to remember which video was which. both still great, but this one has video watching as a narrative element (always important!) and thus a sorta “Cloudbusting”-redux finale, except it’s the artist up there in the clouds.

Massive Attack - Protection — what if all those boxes you’d seen were stacked up into a building, but instead of containing bands they contained you, and also Tracey Thorn?

De La Soul - A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays — if you’re gonna make a video you go where people are, and if you wanna find people, you go to the roller rink, then the park.

Possum Dixon - Radio Comets — cool images remembered from movies, the singer play-acting with lyrics as script, the band performing in a white room: this checks all the boxes.

Sonic Youth - Little Trouble Girl — “Bull in the Heather” and “Sunday” were formative, but sorta glad I was spared this one til recently, I’d still be trying to unpack my childhood through its prism.

Busta Rhymes - Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See — did for curtained hallways what “Joga” did for landscapes (as I hadn’t seen Twin Peaks yet).

Eels - Last Stop: This Town — basically the greatest thing I’d ever seen at the time, and I still find the way carrot-man’s progress and the song’s structure work together to be pretty magical. plus I find E weirdly hot in this.

Fugees - Killing Me Softly — everyone was so young! what is a music video if not proof of youth? also love the ambiguity of the images this sold-out crowd is so increasingly absorbed by, and the idea of singing “Killing Me Softly” to a movie.

Cornershop - Brimful of Asha — see “Go Deep,” except the artist stays one step removed, stuck inside their records. the kid doesn’t care though — I think that was me.

Erasure - Stop! — Andy twirls, never freer; Vince mans the gadgets, never cooler.

Scritti Politti - Absolute — dreamy Green and vid-dom’s most enchanting dance party.

Anita Baker - No One in the World — ha, figures that Spike Lee would cast himself in the two-minute prologue. but the idea of a post-war Baker performance at the Apollo is well imagined, even if the core of it, the performance (beautifully filmed), doesn’t really need any context. also this has a genuinely unsettling/haunting final shot of an artist stranded, easy to miss as it comes right when the camera goes wide, makes way for the little corner credits, the next video.

"Apple Strudle Man" by Jolly Tambourine Man, anyone?

I don't know it, but we must be from the same place and time--they were big on Queen St. when I started writing for Nerve in the mid-'80s.

De La Soul - A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays — if you’re gonna make a video you go where people are, and if you wanna find people, you go to the roller rink, then the park.

Nice. I imagine the two or three people who voted for "Roller Skating"--I almost did--get exactly the same thing out of that that I get from "Summertime." (There was another song from the same time just like those two that I liked a lot too...kind of vague, I know.)

I broke the Michel Gondry Rule too, I think--too much work to wade through his videography to be sure.

Oh yeah, "Music Sounds Better With You"! Much like "Rockit", I'd have found a way of squeezing that onto a ballot if only it had occurred to me.

I voted for these from the top 100. I guess I largely steered clear of Gondry, quite unconsciously.

3. “The Perfect Kiss,” New Order (1985) - 150 points/9 votes/two #1 votes
4. “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” Bob Dylan (1965) - 144 points/14 votes
9. “Once in a Lifetime,” Talking Heads (1981) - 114 points/12 votes
13. “Drop,” Pharcyde (1995) - 104 points/9 votes
25. “Bastards of Young,” Replacements (1985) - 73 points/8 votes
26. “Unfinished Sympathy,” Massive Attack (1991) - 68 points/8 votes
27. “Oblivion,” Grimes (2012) - 68 points/5 votes
39. “When I’m with You,” Sparks (1979) - 57 points/4 votes/one #1 vote
40. “Jocko Homo,” Devo (1977) - 56 points/6 votes
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43. BAMFF - Crevice Tool - 55/2/one #1
59. Pulp - Bad Cover Version - 48/6
64. Yo La Tengo - Sugarcube - 47/6
93. Go-Betweens - Streets of Your Town - 40/3 [The Kriv Stenders version!]
98. Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring - 39/3/one #1

I find the last two insanely affecting. #98 is an order of magnitude better than "West End Girls" IMHO. No surprise it got a first-place vote.

I should've voted. I only know a limited selection of videos and figured there'd be a lot I've never seen before, but pretty much all of these are pretty familiar.

Other stuff I might've voted for but didn't place: a lot more Talking Heads ("Burning Down the House," "Road to Nowhere," etc.), more Beastie Boys ("Intergalactic," "Body Movin'," etc.), the Beatles' "A Day in the Life" and "Strawberry Fields Forever," Elvis Costello's "Accidents Will Happen," Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," Madonna's "Like a Prayer" and "Express Yourself," R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion," Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box," Bruce Springsteen's "Brilliant Disguise," Nine Inch Nail's "Closer," Kanye West's "Touch the Sky," Johnny Cash's "Hurt," Tom Waits's "I Don't Wanna Grow Up," The White Stripes' "Hardest Button to Button," Beck's "Devils Haircut," David Bowie's "Blackstar" and "Lazarus," Childish Gambino's "This Is America," Beyoncé's "Formation"

Also Prince's Batman videos which aren't his best work but I enjoy them more than any of the Batman movies.

The Massive Attack “Protection” video was always a disappointment to me… I don’t know how you could possibly capture the atmosphere of that song, but what they ended up with felt like more of a busy distraction.

Missed the rollout, just catching up.

Thanks for running the poll, clemenza - great results even though very few were new to me, and i might have voted for some others on a different day. My ballot (bolded placed):

23 points:
Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar
My Chemical Romance - Helena
Kylie Minogue - Come Into My World
Cibo Matto - Sugar Water
Radiohead - Just

13 points:
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Wednesday Campanella - Jeanne D'Arc
Blur - Coffee and TV
Squarepusher - Come On My Selector
Foo Fighters - Everlong

11 points:
Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy
Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At
2NE1 - I Am the Best
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Happy House
FKA Twigs - sad day
A-ha - Take on Me
Björk - Hyperballad
charisma.com - HATE
Kate Bush - Breathing
Daft Punk - Around the World

9 points:
Madonna - Vogue
Orange Caramel - Catallena
Pissed Jeans - False Jesii Part 2
Missy Elliott - The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)
Grimes - Oblivion
Roger Sanchez - Another Chance
Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreet's Back)
Fiona Apple - Paper Bag
New Order - True Faith
Pearl Jam - Do The Evolution

7 points:
Smashing Pumpkins - Today
Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity
Big Bang - Fantastic Baby
K. Will - Please Don't
Zebra Katz & Reddd Foxxx - Ima Read
Mondo Grosso - Labyrinth
M.I.A. - Bad Girls
Cardigans - My Favorite Game
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
Charli XCX - Boys

5 points
School of Seven Bells - I L U
The Golden Filter - Kill Me
Utada Hikaru - Hikari
Dirty Vegas - Days Go By
DJ Zinc - Show Me
Billie Eilish - Bury A Friend
Janelle Monae - Q.U.E.E.N
T.O.P. - Doom Dada
Sakanaction - Yoru No Odoriko
Ronika - Never My Love

Made a playlist of the Top 40, for easy viewing: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP-ajiMFDEG6R2Nmw3aYqeagS7gcoJS8y

regret not voting for "B.O.B" after seeing where it ended up :/

I should've voted for "Relax" too.

Thanks for running even though I totally forgot to vote

Pass This On by The Knife would have been my number one by a million miles

Surprised Windowlicker didn't make the top 40

Being on the boomer/Gen X cusp, and neither fully one nor the other, I lean towards the boomer-ish re. videos, preferring to visualise the music inside my own head. That said, if I'd voted, it would have included Gong "How To Stay Alive", Dry Cleaning "Scratchcard Lanyard", Billie Eilish "Hostage", Tom Jones "Talking Reality Television Blues", The Blaze "Territory", John Grant "Glacier".

Of the videos mentioned upthread which didn't make the Top 40, I'd have boosted The Knife "We Share Our Mothers Health", Johnny Cash "Hurt", Blur "Coffee & TV", Madonna "Like A Prayer", R.E.M. "Man On The Moon", David Bowie "Lazarus", Elton John "I'm Still Standing", Feist "1234", Fatboy Slim "Weapon Of Choice", Bronski Beat "Smalltown Boy".

The major reason for the absence of Thriller has only just occurred to me.

Thanks for the playlist, Roz. There must be a second video blocked in Canada besides the Bjork--I only get 38. Didn't encounter that, so either it was just blocked or it's a second version of one I could access. Anyway, that's great.

xp yeah, John Landis the murderer

Lol

I was working on something else and just belatedly discovered this. Had no idea it existed--would have voted for it for sure, not as art but as memory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XonFZjuyc6E

Missed the rollout as well. Thanks to the poll runners. I've got lots of new things to check out as only 9 of my votes placed. My ballot was based on watching early MTV (Our Lips Are Sealed, Cruel Summer and She Blinded Me With Science were robbed!) and then kinda random videos I saw much later on youtube.

Beastie Boys - So What'cha Want
Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener
Deee-Lite - Groove Is in the Heart
Everything but the Girl - Five Fathoms
Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed
Low - Canada
Massive Attack - Protection
Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
Pulp - Common People
Slowdive - Alison

A-ha - Take on Me
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
Fiona Apple - Criminal
Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing)
Miranda Lambert - Vice
New Order - The Perfect Kiss (Jonathan Demme!)
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me with Science
Townes Van Zandt - Waitin' Around to Die

Bananarama - Cruel Summer
De La Soul - The Magic Number
Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl
Hurray for the Riff Raff - St Roch's Blues
Joy Division - Transmission
Junior Senior - Move Your Feet
Lana Del Rey - Venice Bitch
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
Miranda Lambert - Mama's Broken Heart
Run-DMC & Aerosmith - Walk This Way

David Bowie - Let's Dance
Garbage - Stupid Girl
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
Romeo Void - Never Say Never
Sinead O'Connor - The Emperor's New Clothes
Slowdive - Souvlaki Space Station
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Don't Come Around Here No More
Weird Al Yankovic - White and Nerdy
White Stripes - Fell in Love with a Girl

The kid playing drums is the only thing I remember about "Boys of Summer." Not sure why it's eligible for "lock thread start over."

one of the positive things i can say about the list is that nothing by jonas akerlund placed

His videos are generally overrated but I do love "Paparazzi" and "I Miss You."

I hadn’t seen “Drop” in a long time and now wish I’d voted for it. Seems kinda proto-Jackass now in a way.

imo It's a huge bummer that "Bombay" and "Y Control" are not considered canon. Two of the most-impressive/least-discussed I've seen.

Young Thug "Wyclef Jean" and Thundercat "Tron Song" are also very fun and underdiscussed 2010s videos. The Grimes video is better than I thought it would be but not an especially great choice for best of the decade. It's not better than "Sticky Drama."

El Guincho - Bombay 30
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control 27
Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box 25
Smashing Pumpkins - Today 24
Pharcyde - Drop 22
Radiohead - Paranoid Android 20
Sigur Ros - Vidrar Vel Til Loftarasa 19
Young Thug - Wyclef Jean 19
Guns N' Roses - Don’t Cry 17
Thundercat - Tron Song 15
Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat 14
Wax - California 13
Busta Rhymes - Dangerous 13
Nirvana - In Bloom 13
Outkast - Bob 12
My Chemical Romance - I'm Not Okay 12
Oneohtrix Point Never - Sticky Drama 12
Notorious B.I.G. - Sky's the Limit 12
Ludacris - Get Back 11
Earl Sweatshirt - Earl 10
RMR - Rascal 9
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Talk About the Blues 8
Talking Heads - Burning Down the House 7
Nine Inch Nails - March of the Pigs 6
Jay-Z - 99 Problems 5
Rihanna - B*tch Better Have My Money 5
Replacements - Bastards of Young 5
Yo La Tengo - Sugarcube 5
Björk - Bachelorette 5
Björk - Human Behaviour 5
Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized 5
Michael Jackson - Leave Me Alone 5
Beastie Boys - Sabotage 5
Rihanna - We Found Love 5
Metallica - One 5
Sex Pistols - My Way 5
Sheck Wes - Mo Bamba 5
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Don't Come Around Here No More 5
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime 5
Beastie Boys - Whatcha Want 5
Pulp - This Is Hardcore 5
George Michael - Freedom! '90 5
Beach House - Wishes 5
Kylie Minogue - Come Into My World 5
CSS - Alala 5
Van Halen - Hot for Teacher 5
Squarepusher - Come On My Selector 5
Cibo Matto - Sugar Water 5
Air - All I Need 5
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Shimmy Shimmy Ya 5

Not sure why it's eligible for "lock thread start over."

Because the poster was bored, and he wanted to entertain everyone, and he did an excellent job with the joke he repeated 37 times.

"Don't Cry" >>> "November Rain" >>> "Estranged"
They're all really good but I mean come on.

I'm noticing a lot of people nominated and voted for videos where some band from the 70s or 80s performs in a nondescript setting and it just kinda looks like 1000 other videos and nothing happens and then the video ends.

Like idk even the Joy Division video. Granted they look very cool and it's mesmerizing watching them play but conceptually it might as well be "Working For The Weekend."