Best / Favorite Music Videos

**Archive_Reports** · 05-06-2020, 09:20 AM

Don't think there's a thread for this already, so post your favorite or what you think are the best music videos here!

**Erneuert** · 05-06-2020, 09:28 AM

**katara** · 05-06-2020, 10:39 AM

**eversonpoe** · 05-06-2020, 01:35 PM

muse • knights of cydonia

nin • the perfect drug

aphex twin • come to daddy

coil • tainted love

portishead • only you

tool • parabol / parabola

**katara** · 05-06-2020, 01:48 PM

Dir en grey - OBSCURE

Very NSFW.

**Deadpool** · 05-06-2020, 02:08 PM

Probably my Top 2:

Depeche Mode: Wrong (directed by Patrick Daughters)

Jon Hopkins: Collider (directed by Tom Haines)

**henryeatscereal** · 05-06-2020, 02:12 PM

**katara** · 05-06-2020, 02:47 PM

It'd be nice to see this in higher quality.

**Tom** · 05-06-2020, 03:05 PM

Bonus points if you get the nin connection.

**katara** · 05-06-2020, 03:46 PM

In all seriousness, this is one of my favourite music videos. Such a massive piss-take.

**neorev** · 05-06-2020, 03:53 PM

The Prodigy - Firestarter
The Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be
Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy
The Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight
Jackson And His Computer Band - Dead Living Things
Beastie Boys - Sabotage
Nirvana - In Bloom
Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug
Lorn - Timesink
Radiohead - Pyramid Song

**kel** · 05-06-2020, 03:59 PM

madonna -- "justify my love"

**brotha52** · 05-06-2020, 04:15 PM

**hologram parade** · 05-06-2020, 04:23 PM

**eversonpoe** · 05-06-2020, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by kel

madonna -- "justify my love"

ah, shit. i can't believe i forgot to mention ANY madonna videos. i feel like almost every single one (from "like a virgin" up through the ray of light era) was groundbreaking and incredible.

"frozen" is probably my favorite, though.

**brotha52** · 05-06-2020, 04:48 PM

I really appreciated some of the more interactive experiences like this one that put your house's google maps data into an Arcade Fire video.
Doesn't look like the site still works but here's one version of it.

Their Reflektor experiment still works though.
https://www.justareflektor.com/

**theimage13** · 05-06-2020, 04:55 PM

Surprise entry: this one from Justin Timberlake. Six minutes, one shot, one take, full band and chorus recorded live. Whether or not you like the song (I do, but to each their own), you've gotta respect the amount of work that went into this and the skill of both the artists and crew members who pulled it off.

**eversonpoe** · 05-06-2020, 06:00 PM

i mean, most of their videos since this have been amazing but you can't top the original (even with a giant rube goldberg device)

**BRoswell** · 05-06-2020, 07:53 PM

Too many to link to, so here's a list:

A Perfect Circle - Judith
Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy/Windowlicker/T69 Collapse
Basement Jaxx -Where's Your Head At
Beak> - Life Goes On
Beastie Boys - Sabotage/Intergalactic
Big Black Delta - Side Of The Road/Money Rain Down/x22
Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet/All Is Full Of Love
Blondie - Rapture
Boards Of Canada - Reach For The Dead
Childish Gambino - Sweatpants/Sober/This Is America
Com Truise - Propagation/Ultrafiche of You
Daft Punk - Da Funk/Around The World/Interstella 5555/Robot Rock/Prime Time Of Your Life
David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time
David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes/I'm Afraid Of Americans/The Stars (Are Out Tonight)/Love Is Lost (Remix)/Blackstar/Lazarus
Dirty Vegas - Days Go By
Drab Majesty - Ellipsis/Oxytocin/Out Of Sequence
Eminem - Stan
Faithless - We Come 1
Fatboy Slim - Praise You/Weapon Of Choice
Gotye - State Of The Art
Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor/I Feel Better/Night And Day/Need You Now/Hungry Child
How To Destroy Angels - How Long?/The Loop Closes
HEALTH - We Are Water
Jack White - Over and Over and Over
Jon Hopkins - Singularity
Justice - Stress/Audio, Video, Disco/Fire
LCD Soundsystem - Drunk Girls/Oh Baby
Magic Machines - Hey Mister
Michael Jackson - Thriller/Smooth Criminal/Scream
Mick Jagger - God Gave Me Everything
Mint Royale - Blue Song
Missy Elliot - Work It/WTF
Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat/Ham
Nobody Beats The Drum - Natural Thing
Nine Inch Nails - Happiness In Slavery/Gave Up (2nd Version)/Closer/The Perfect Drug/We're In This Together/Survivalism/Came Back Haunted
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit/In Bloom/Heart-Shaped Box
Oneohtrix Point Never - Sticky Drama/Black Snow
OutKast - Ms. Jackson
Queens Of The Stone Age - No One Knows/Smooth Sailing
Radiohead - No Surprises/There There/House of Cards/Burn the Witch/Daydreaming/Lift
Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
Sigur Ros - Óveður
SSION - Comeback/At Least The Sky Is Blue
Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime/Burning Down The House/And She Was
The Black Queen - Ice To Never
The Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be/Star Guitar/Get Yourself High/Midnight Madness/Sometimes I Feel So Deserted/Free Yourself
The Dead Weather - Treat Me Like Your Mother
The Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight
The White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl/The Hardest Button To Button/Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground
Thom Yorke - Last I Heard (…He Was Circling The Drain)
Tobacco - Streaker

**piggy** · 05-06-2020, 09:52 PM

R.E.M., "Low"
Nine Inch Nails, "The Perfect Drug"
U2, "Please"
Depeche Mode, "Walking In My Shoes"
The Cure, "Close To Me"
The Jesus And Mary Chain, "Just Like Honey"
Stone Temple Pilots, "Big Bang Baby"
Soundgarden, "Fell On Black Days"
PJ Harvey, "Down By The Water"
Neil Finn, "She Will Have Her Way"
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, "(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?"
Failure, "Stuck On You"
Jeff Buckley, "So Real"
Richard Hawley, "Serious"
Anna Calvi, "Desire"
Tom Waits, "Hold On"

**Soma** · 05-06-2020, 10:48 PM

**eversonpoe** · 05-07-2020, 12:50 AM

@BRoswell somebody's watching me is such a fun video for such a fun song
@piggy can't believe i forgot down by the water! it's always interesting when an entire album's aesthetic is perfectty realized. i love that a still from the video (or at least a photo that was taken while it was being shot) is the album cover.

**bobbie solo** · 05-07-2020, 03:05 AM

these two always got me when I was a kid:

**Soma** · 05-07-2020, 02:53 PM

Originally Posted by Deadpool

Depeche Mode: Wrong (directed by Patrick Daughters)

I remember being mesmerized by this video when it came out! I was still pretty young and hadn’t emersed myself in DM, until a few years ago. I thought I was going crazy when I couldn’t find it on their YT channel, looks like they recently uploaded it

**Deadpool** · 05-07-2020, 03:07 PM

Originally Posted by Soma

I thought I was going crazy when I couldn’t find it on their YT channel, looks like they recently uploaded it

Oh, wow! Good catch! Looks like they just uploaded it! I wonder why now? Quarantine/Pandemic craziness?

Anyway, I was looking for it recently, too, and only found it on Vimeo. Glad it's finally more easily accesible! <3

**chuckrh** · 05-07-2020, 03:28 PM

**allegro** · 05-07-2020, 03:48 PM

I really love Madonna videos, but I especially love this one; the choreography is super complicated

But I’ll always love this one, too (David Fincher)

And I love this video (David Fincher)

And this video will never not make me laugh (David LaChapelle)

And I will always love this video (Peter Christopherson)