Post your favorite music videos!
I've been in love with music videos as an art form ever since I was little, when I was a pre-kindergarten insomniac and MTV (which actually showed nothing but videos then) was the only thing on TV in the middle of the night. Yes, little four-year-old Yek would get up at 1 a.m. and take her teddy-bear bottle full of milk, and go watch "Headbanger's Ball" into the dawn. I could never stop dreaming of the day that I could be just like Cyndi Lauper, but I sure loved me some Van Halen too.
I've spent years mourning the loss of good music videos in my life, but through the magic of YouTube I've recently rediscovered them! Some of my favorites...
Sometimes I think I should just say the hell with the whole screenwriting and feature directing thing, and start making music videos. I can start cheap on YouTube and see if it leads to work and making me the next Michel Gondry, or Spike Jonze.
What are some of your favorites?
Oh, and if this should be in Music Mix, feel free to move it... I wasn't sure since it's the videos that I mean, not the songs themselves.
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oh, i am a music video whore! old school, anyhow.
bjork "it's oh so quiet"
and... while i was searching for the others... youtube started sucking.
silverchair "miss you love"
red hot chili peppers "otherside" <--- my fave band evarrrr.
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Aesop Rock, "Fast Cars." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLbcxcVcZks
based on a pop-up book. how f*in cool is that... ;D
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I LOVE this thread....
yes music videos can be a work of art, especially the videos you never expect....;D
- the whole thing is great,plus having Chris Watkin dance, do I need to say more?
- I love the transitions, plus hitting on the 70s pretty hard.
- 1 of 2 of the first music videos I ever saw, kinda hard to top.
- From 1986, a very poignant political statement made on a channel that the youth was watching.
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Just because a thread in Music Mix reminded me of it not long ago, I give you "Rock DJ".
And I've seen it literally dozens of times, and still enjoy it over & over, "Here It Goes Again"!
I'll think of more, I'm sure . . .
(Hi everybuddy! Man, it's hard to catch up around here if you've been away for more than a week!)
*back to catchup mode*
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OH YEA on the "Weapon of Choice", G Real. He can SO Walken to Mordor.
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RoseWhite
And I've seen it literally dozens of times, and still enjoy it over & over,
nice catch, ladies and gentlemen, the video that will MTV/VH1 obsolete...
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Totally "Weapon of Choice"! I was showing that to my students just this afternoon, actually!
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I just had a creepy mental image of Robert Palmer, uh, violating some mannequins. Fetish, anyone?
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It came out when I was interning at a radio station in boston.....I remember pretty much everyone would just stop what they were just to watch the video.....
and lemme just say FBS can effing spin!
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This band is HUGE in England and Europe, not so over here.....but they are really good...
This video, , is basically a take on 10 different movies, some are obvious some are obscure. I love the song and I think the video was over the top!
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I just had a creepy mental image of Robert Palmer, uh, violating some mannequins. Fetish, anyone?
The man is dead! Have some respect ferchristsake!
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Ok. I'm-a share a special treat with you. I just found a video of what was truly my sexual awakening. NOT KIDDING.
And I did three whole net searches to find it on! Hope you appreciate my labors ;D
See, I was thinking how much I used to love Eurythmics videos (there are some really good ones, if dated, of course), and how I had worshipped Annie Lennox so, so I watched a few of those on YouTube, and a dim memory emerged of watching an awards show WAAAAYYY back in 6th or 7th grade where she performed in drag, and being very . . . fixated on it. I had taped the show for some reason (probably Michael Jackson related, blush), but this was the part I ended up watching over & over again.
I thought it was lost forever, but lo and behold: Hello, androgyny.
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The man is dead! Have some respect ferchristsake!
Is he really? Eeep. I had no idea. Sorry, Robert. Hope you're up in a heaven where all the angels are identical expressionless vixens.
(I need to go calm down after watching Annie work that Elvis wig. Seriously, that still works me up.)
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Oh, I can do you one better, Rose! (Or worse...) I had a major sexual awakening to . I remember it vividly... I was 12 years old, at a slumber party at my best friend's house. This video came on and I was so turned on I couldn't believe it. I was all tingly and could not stop staring, wide-eyed and open-mouthed, at the screen. And I could not understand why none of the other girls in the room were turned on by this woman. This woman was the sexiest thing I'd ever seen and I didn't understand why I seemed to be the only one reacting that way. By the end of the slumber party I had been completely written off as a "lez" and no one was willing to sleep in the same room as me; I had to go downstairs and sleep on the couch.
It's okay though, because a few months later one of those same girls became my first kiss when she stayed over at my house and we stayed up in the outdoor hot tub after my parents went to bed. "Lez" indeed!
But watching that video now, I'm sort of embarrassed that it played such an important part in the birth of my sexuality. I mean, hair band. Seriously. LOOK at these guys.
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HEE HEE! Yay! That's too classic. I love the part when the slice of pie drops right into her crotch. :D I haven't seen that one in AGES - but man, she IS hot, no doubt. I love the way she moves, too. Way hotter than that Whitesnake chick.
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It's funny because she's totally not my type now, not with the bleach thing... but she moves like a goddess and I've always had a hot fetish for red lipstick.
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One more & I MUST go to bed.
Call me a cheeseball - okay, I KNOW I'm a cheeseball, but I think this holds up for a rewatch. Come on, VOGUE!
I'll have you know that I used to know every step in this video. Still remember most of it. *hobbles away on cane* (I still own an "Express Yourself"-style bustier from that era too.)
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Yay! I have 10 minutes before youtube does it's scheduled maintenance.
Until then:
This one used to turn me on a lot:
This one is super hot too. Talk about androgyny!:
This one is just interesting:
My all time favorite music video:
There are more but I'm out of time! :P
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Great thread, Yek!
My old school favorites, in no particular order, with some notable exclusions:
Steely Dan's backbone, dynamite effects plus a nod to Fritz Lang's "Metropolis"...
Still angry, still socially relevant...
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A video-within-a-video that sucked viewers into a routine studio performance by the band which dissolved into a montage of mystifying images...
No apologies, da title sez it all...
Primitive by today's technical standards but still compelling. I was a horny 20-year-old running amok in Sydney pubs when this band broke onto the Australian music scene...
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Budai! I love you for posting a Public Enemy video. I was actually thinking of posting "Welcome to the Terrordome" but lost track of it in my head. :P
eta: I used to do "gymnastics" in my living room to the Terminator X and the Valley of the Jeep Beats tape.
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I love the music video for Scissor Sister's 'She's my man'. So clever.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjNLAG6bKno
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Rubber Johnny! http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...76545570345084
Anything directed by Chris Cunningham, really.
"Worlock" by Skinny Puppy. http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...25498311788360
^It was never "officially" released, since they use clips from a bajillion different hooror flicks, and didn't clear all the sampled clips. Hmm, that's a crappy quality version.
I only like this one for the little milk carton http://www.mojoflix.com/Video/Blur-Coffee-And-TV.html