so whats your favorite music video?

[blackdragon6]

heres mine http://youtube.com/watch?v=9t36-QsccLI

[Dennis K]

I'm sure some people will mention Thriller, but to this day I have yet to see a video that impressed me more than the one Pearl Jam did for Jeremy.

http://www.wpe.com/~musici/22Jeremy%5B1%5D.jpg

[blackdragon6]

ah heres another one http://youtube.com/watch?v=tEaGNQ8t5Vs

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FRR76n9os9s


http://youtube.com/watch?v=kRnCT6jsvOI

[zombie]

I don't know about favourite of all time, but my current favourite is E-40's "Tell Me When To Go" (http://youtube.com/watch?v=BBRN2YLYzRU&search=e-40%20tell%20me%20when%20to%20go).

[Patrick Ferguson]

Definitely Duke Ellington's "Symphony in Black."

And the White Stripes videos are a lot of fun on the whole.

[Ilash]

And here's the "problem" with mostly liking music from before the birth of MTV...

[Valmore]

For intent of being artsy - "Losing My Religion."

For intent of just being fun - "Big Me."

[elheffe]

You know, these days I try not to watch music videos. I mean, there's nothing worse for me than to associate a song with the stupid video.

[Punchy]

"Smack My Bitch Up" by Prodigy

[Slam_Bradley]

Johnny Cash "Hurt"

or Chris Isaak "Wicked Game"

[K'Nort]

Big Me was fun. So was Blues Traveler's Runaround.

Weapon of Choice was pretty brilliant. And Sabotage.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

November Rain by Guns n Roses. It has it all and is G'n'R at thier hieght. Those videos just whupped ass.

[Tish-the-Scorpion]

faith no more-epic

bone thugs-n-harmony-all of them

michael jackson-all of them

janet jackson-anytime anyplace,

eazy-e-neighborhood sniper

wu-tang-triumph

methodman-judgement day

fugees-ready or not

Notorious B.I.G -hypnotize

jay-z-big pimpin,yeah its been done to death but its the be all end all of superficial rap video's

more l8trer when i think of them

[ghostrider666]

I hate,hate,hate youtube. I can spend hours there.
My fave music video?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=P_sDqfRawqw&search=dimmu%20borgir

[Trucker Belt]

Johnny Cash "Hurt"

Waylon Jennings & Hank Jr "The Conversation"

Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson "Poncho and Lefty"

[ghostrider666]

Here's my close 2nd

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0sq9gTk32mA&search=slayer

[Adam Crocker]

Having a hard time choosing one so just to up my indie snob cred I will say "Bastards of Young" (http://youtube.com/watch?v=_tZO94Mhfzk) by the Replacements, the anti-music video for the celebratory anthem of failure.

[Speed]

I don't know why but I have a soft spot for Britney's ...Baby, One More Time and the Pussycat Dolls Don't 'Cha.
Funnily enough, I don't really like the songs.

[BigJayStudd]

Ain't even close for me.


Aha's "Take on Me"

[BigJayStudd]

Also anything by Peter Gabriel was pretty good.

[Chiasm]

A couple of my favs:

Closer - Nine Inch Nails
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran
Wrapped Around Your Finger - The Police

[Valmore]

Tom Petty had a couple pretty good videos: like "Don't Come Around Here No More" and "Free Fallin'".

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Tom Petty had a couple pretty good videos: like "Don't Come Around Here No More" and "Free Fallin'".


Ohhhh that reminds me....gonna look and see if www.youtube.com has the Axl Rose/Tom Petty MTV performance . :)

[Phrozen]

Adam Ant "Stand & Deliever"
The Cult "Edie (Ciao Baby)"
The Police "Synchronicty"

[Cactusakic]

Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy
Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
Beastie Boys - Sabotage
Bjork - All Is Full Of Love
Wax - California
Dinosaur Jr - Feel The Pain
Nine Inch Nails - Closer
Nine Inch Nails - Starfuckers Inc
Nine Inch Nails - Happiness In Slavery
Squarepusher - Come On My Selector
Leftfield (feat Afrika Bambaataa) - Afrika Shox
Weezer - Undone (The Sweater Song)
Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar
Chemical Brothers - The Test
Chemical Brothers - Get Yourself High
White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
White Stripes - Hardest Button To Buttton
New Order - True Faith
Jay-Z - 99 Problems
Audioslave - Cochise
Smashing Pumkins - Try, Try, Try
Smashing Pumpkins - Perfect
Smashing Pumkpkins - Today
Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box
Metallica - The Memory Remains
Metallica - One
Metallica - Whiskey In The Jar
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Into The Great Wide Open
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Pearl Jam - Do The Evolution
Pearl Jam - Jeremy
Korn - Freak On A Leash
Tom Waits - What's He Building
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Tool - (Everything they have done)

I'm sure that I will remember more later, but those are some of my fav's off the top of my head. If I had to pick one as my absolute favorite it would probably be Windowlicker, but I'm not sure.

[Buried Alien]

Possibly Men At Work's videos for "Who Can It Be Now?" and "Down Under." That band's videos were hilarious.

Cyndi Lauper's video for "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" was, well, fun...and her video for "Time After Time" was heartbreaking.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[clayholio]

Talk about hard to pick! I think Nirvana's "Heart Shaped Box" might be my all-time favorite. There are about a million others that I thought were great too. I did watch Korn's "Twisted Transistor" video not too long ago, and I thought it was really funny.

[Punchy]

Ain't even close for me.


Aha's "Take on Me"
oooooo, good one

[GozertheGozarian]

All of Tool's
Matthew Sweet's Girlfriend

[jessecuster]

I love Bjork's video for It's Ohh So Quiet

I always liked Korn's Freak on a Leash but I hated the song.

I thought Eminem's Mosh was really good

[SlightlyMad]

I can't belive no-one has mention Paul Simon's "Call Me Al" video featuring Chevy Chase, it's a classic!

I also love the video for "All the Things She Said" by Tatu:

http://park8.wakwak.com/~freezone/Russia/Tatu/all_the_things_she_said_promo_dvd_us_2002.jpg

Lesbian Russian girls dressed as schoolgirls kissing in the rain...

Best

Video

Ever!

:cool:

[Buried Alien]

I can't belive no-one has mention Paul Simon's "Call Me Al" video featuring Chevy Chase, it's a classic!

Oooh, yeah. Haven't seen that one in years, but it was one of the great videos of the 1980s...maybe of all time.

And who would be less likely to have a hit *music video* than Paul Simon? :)


Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[DDM]

Siouxsie & the Banshees, "Spellbound"

http://eil.com/newgallery/Siouxsie--The-Banshees-Spellbound-54153.jpg

[Dennis K]

I've always kind of liked the video for Roxanne by The Police, by his own admission, Sting was stoned out of his mind at the time.

http://image.com.com/mp3/images/video/thepolice_roxanne_medvid.jpg

[Pinball]

Van Halen, "Hot For Teacher"

[PunkMC]

All of Tool's videos.

[Lubichev]

There was a Nine Inch Nails video (I forget the song) that was banned because it depicted an old man strapping himself to a "torture chair" that tortured him to death. I saw it at a record colletcors show a few years ago. Fucking gross. But good special effects.

[Cactusakic]

There was a Nine Inch Nails video (I forget the song) that was banned because it depicted an old man strapping himself to a "torture chair" that tortured him to death. I saw it at a record colletcors show a few years ago. Fucking gross. But good special effects.

Happiness In Slavery.

Super-Sweet Video. I downloaded it from imesh a year or so ago. Never fails to gross out non-N.I.N fans the first time they watch it.

[twilight]

Interpol's Evil

[tangentman]

The B-52's "Song For A Future Generation", "Love Shack", and "Roam"

The Breeder's "Safari" and "Hellbound"

Catherine Wheel's "Black Metallic" and "Way Down"

Concrete Blonde's "God Is A Bullet" and "Caroline"

Crowded House's "Don't Dream It's Over"

Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", "She-Bop", and "Time After Time"

The Cure's "Charlotte Sometimes", "Just Like Heaven", "Lullaby", "Caterpillar"

Dokken's "Dream Warriors"

Elastica's "Connection"

Eurythmics' "Here Comes The Rain" and "Sweet Dreams"

R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion", "Shiny Happy People", and "The One I Love"

Siouxsie & The Banshees "Kiss Them For Me"

Sonic Youth's "100%" and "Kool Thing"

Suzanne Vega's "Luka"

Tina Turner's "Private Dancer", "What's Love Got To Do With It?", "What You Get Is What You See", "Proud Mary" (w/Ike)

Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It"

ZZ Top's "Legs"

[DubipR]

Wow. There's a whole slew of them that I like. But here's a list of some:

- all Bjork videos
- all Devo videos (no matter how cheesy they are)
- all Daft Punk videos
- Twilight Zone by Golden Earring
- Girls On Film (uncensored) by Duran Duran
- Sledgehammer and Big Time by Peter Gabriel
- Land of Confusion by Genesis
- Smack by Bitch Up by Prodigy
- Sweet Lullaby by Deep Forest (perhaps the most beautiful I've ever seen)
- California by Wax

That's all I can think of right now

[tangentman]

Does anyone remember the earliest years of MTV when nudity snuck into videos? I'm thinking of a video by The Tubes that showed both female and male frontal nudity. I don't remember the song, but it was set in a locker room. IIRC, Billy Joel's "Allentown" video seemed to have nudity, too.

[Indigo Al]

I have to say, Pat Benetar's "Love is A Battlefield" demonstrates everything that is right about 80's videos, and wrong with 90's video's

It told a story. It had a dramatic structure: beginning - climax - denouement. High school English classes should teach this video, chronicling Pat Benetar's epic battle against an evil pimp, whom she defeats with the power of her shaking chest.

[tangentman]

Don't forget Pat's back-up, the chorus line of jiggly-busted street-walkers. :D

As far as Pat Benatar videos go, I love her World War II story in "Shadows Of The Night". Speaking of Benatar, one of my favorite uses of her songs took place in a gay dive bar in Oklahoma City. My roomie at the time--who was a 4 foot plus femme dyke with a profound love of drag queens--was helping a local drag queen perform "Hell Is For Children". She dressed up Shirley Temple style and walked onstage with a cleaning pad and a can of Comet. While she frantically scrubbed the stage, the queen came out dolled up as Joan Crawford with a wire coat hanger held firmly in hand. Cue the Pat Benatar classic! :D

[Pinball]

Does anyone remember the earliest years of MTV when nudity snuck into videos? I'm thinking of a video by The Tubes that showed both female and male frontal nudity. I don't remember the song, but it was set in a locker room.
"Sports Fans"

and i just found another fave:
the Avalanches - "Frontier Psychiatrist"

[SlightlyMad]

and i just found another fave:
the Avalanches - "Frontier Psychiatrist"

Great song and video (which tie together beautifully). If anyone here hasn't seen it, check it out now! (http://theonenetwork.com/playvideo.asp?speed=300&type=music&videoid=theavalanches_frontierpsychiatrist)

[Maleficentogre]

emiliana torrini's Heartstopper. E. Torr is my favourite female artist of the past five or so years.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FyigzKMntGA&search=emiliana

[Huh?]

Not surprisingly, I can't remember either of the songs, but I remember really liking two videos.

One was a Roots video that was a parody of hip-hop videos. It was genius.

And the other was Korn's video with the bullet travelling the whole time.

Those were both great videos.

[OhMyGato]

im feeling that e-40 tell me when to go joint.

and of course the three 6 poppin my collar video. i watch that off my tivo....

[Noir_Dark]

November Rain by Guns n Roses. It has it all and is G'n'R at thier hieght. Those videos just whupped ass.
You’re joking right?













That song was so bad, and that rain was so cold, Duff had to jump through the wedding cake.

[Eric_Carnaby]

Aphex Twin's Windowlicker is sheer brilliance.

[Pinball]

Ah, here's another one-hit wonder: Lucas - Lucas with the Lid Off
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dahONyptuo0&search=lucas
an amazing bit of cinematography there

[i_mmmchocolate]

Californication!

[Totoro Man]

Peter Gabriel: "Sledgehammer"--groundbreaking--bizarre, and probably one of the most historically significant music videos made in the 1980s.

Bjork usually has interesting videos. I still remember that odd video for "Human Behaviour" with the guy in the bear-suit. I've always kinda wondered if that was Kanye West chasing her. :rolleyes: