Music Videos

[DF118]

Know of a brilliant music video you want to share? Post it here! Here's a few to start:

Einstuerzende Neubauten- Sabrina



U.N.K.L.E- Rabbit in Your Headlights



Michael Jackson- Smooth Criminal

[xmd 5a]

Pretty much my favourites.

[henryeatscereal]

There's tons of awesome directors like Jonze, Romanek, Sigismondi but i like them creepy and awesome so it's good ol' Chris Cunningham for me:


Aphex Twin - Rubber Johnny


The Horrors - Sheena is a Parasite


Squarepusher - Come on my selector


And the creepiest...

[DF118]

I'd forgotten how amazing System of A Down Are:

[BRoswell]

[Highly Psychological]

I always thought this was Chris Cunningham's best video













I wish all Metal video's were as cool, and smooth as this one.



Im not mad on the song but this director in the 90s made some astonishing dark trippy hip hop videos.

[ninedead]

Just thinking about all my favorite music videos(not really songs or bands) and thought i would make a list

1) david bowie(t.rez)- im afraid of americans
2) Beastie Boys - Sabotage
3) korn- A.D.I.D.A.S
4) Aphex Twins- Come to Daddy (so great)
5) Marilyn Manson- Man that you Fear
6) Tool - Sober
7) Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice
8) Radiohead - just
9) Johnny Cash - Hurt
10) Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box

[Sutekh]

From dope hat to coma white, every manson video (except rock is dead) had amazing production design, on balance the lest we forget dvd is probably one of his 3 top releases (others being acss/ma)

Others
- heart shaped box
- manic street preachers - faster
- prodigy - smack my bitch up
- die antwoord - fatty boom boom (also the cookie thumper video is really unsettling)
- michael jackson - don't stop til you get enough
- metallica - one
- the verve - bittersweet symphony

Wow... I don't like as many music videos as i thought. And yet i seem to spend my whole life watching the bloody things

[ninedead]

- the verve - bittersweet symphony

oh yeah forgot about that one and when it came out i remember walking down the street just like he did without a care all the time afterwards haha

[Sutekh]

I have gone to that street in hoxton and listened to the song as i walked down it

(I'll get me coat)

[LaneSax]

Some of me faves...

Guns N' Roses - Estranged
KoRn - Freak on a Leash
MetallicA - Turn the Page
Weezer - Buddy Holly
Smashing Pumpkins - Ava Adore
Marilyn Manson - Come White
Ramones - Something to Believe In

[frankie teardrop]

i prefer videos that capture the mood of the song, regardless of they're thought provoking or iconic or neither:

unkle- rabbit in your headlights
bjork- human behavior
the cure- charlotte sometimes
smashing pumpkins- thirty three
asylum party- misfortunes?
breathless- don't just disappear
front 242- headhunter
hole- violet
swans- new mind
pj harvey- down by the water/man size
slowdive- shine
the chills- pink frost
cranes- shining road/inescapable
xymox- muscoviet mosquito
the names- nightshift (no blinking)
cabaret voltaire- sensoria
pale saints- fine friend
for against- echelons/autocrat
bowie- ashes to ashes/life on mars/heart's filthy lesson
curve- horror head/missing link (delightfully "of the times")

and then there's a few that are so cheesy, they're great:

ssq- synthicide
strawberry switchblade- jolene/since yesterday
fuzzbox- love is the slug

[xmd 5a]

Pretty much every single Chemical Brothers video is a winner, "The Test" and "Star Guitar" being my personal favourites.

[Deadpool]

Patrick Daughters' music video for "Wrong" by Depeche Mode is one of my favorites of all-time: a cool concept that was deftly executed, and still made room for a band appearance!

[Jinsai]

probably the best music video I've ever seen

[Mantra]

The 90s were the best decade for the art form, hands down. The 80s were the fun infancy phase, but the 90s were when they hit their stride. I actually feel like the medium has sort of died off. I mean people still make them to post on youtube and hopefully generate some blog hits, maybe go viral or whatever, but it's still not the same as it used to be. With the gradual demise of MTV and VH1 and whatnot, there really isn't much of a platform for making music videos a staple of mass pop culture like they once were. The fragmented, "narrowcasting" nature of youtube makes it where it's not really worth it to invest much time/money into them, not like they used to be.

[ChasingTheGhost]

Depeche Mode - Barrel Of A Gun / Wrong
Bjork - Pagan Poetry
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Face to Face
NIN - Closer
Collide - Euphoria
Garbage - Push It

Comes to mind when I think about favorites.

[JessicaSarahS]

I love music videos! Even if I don't care much for the band/artist or the song, a good music video can still grab my attention. I'm a sucker for anything sad and strange. Some of my favorites off the top of my head (some have already been mentioned above):

Cage the Elephant - Shake Me Down
Sigur Rós - (Untitled)
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Dave Matthews - Gravedigger
Tool - Prison Sex
HTDA - How Long
The White Stripes - Blue Orchid
Depeche Mode - Wrong
NIN-Closer & Happiness in Slavery
Arcade Fire - We Used to Wait -(The Wilderness Downtown Interactive video)

And some funny ones:
Muse - Knights of Cydonia
The Black Keys - Howlin' For You
Rammstein - Pussy

[piggy]

R.E.M., "Everybody Hurts"
R.E.M., "What's The Frequency, Kenneth?"
Nine Inch Nails, "Closer"
Nine Inch Nails, "The Perfect Drug"
U2, "Please"
Depeche Mode, "Walking In My Shoes"
Morrissey, "The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get"
The Jesus And Mary Chain, "Just Like Honey"
Stone Temple Pilots, "Big Bang Baby"
James, "Say Something"

[Millionaire]

The 90s were the best decade for the art form, hands down. The 80s were the fun infancy phase, but the 90s were when they hit their stride. I actually feel like the medium has sort of died off. I mean people still make them to post on youtube and hopefully generate some blog hits, maybe go viral or whatever, but it's still not the same as it used to be. With the gradual demise of MTV and VH1 and whatnot, there really isn't much of a platform for making music videos a staple of mass pop culture like they once were. The fragmented, "narrowcasting" nature of youtube makes it where it's not really worth it to invest much time/money into them, not like they used to be.

I think if somebody had the guts to make a good music video channel on cable today, and truly dedicate it to music and not reality shows and whatnot, it could catch on. Model it after 80s/early 90s MTV, except even better; make it skew toward the more intelligent music fan. Don't rely so much on what you think the demographics want; play more interesting stuff and less pop. Have a good interview show with musicians that isn't afraid to talk about things that would go over the head of the casual viewer, talking about equipment, technique, process, and inspiration. Show a good amount of live shows and festival feeds; imagine if you could just turn on your tv and watch NIN live sitting on your couch on your big screen.

I think some interesting music videos are still being made today, but Youtube is kind of a disjointed medium where it could be hard to find new things. Like MTV in the 80s and 90s this could turn people onto stuff they wouldn't have normally wouldn't have seen. I liked the experience of turning on a tv and not knowing what you are going to get, and if you don't like it its going to end in 3 minutes anyway. The one non-music thing I would add would be a weird animation block like Liquid Television, just because I really liked that, but everything else would be all music.

[staleincense]

Some of my favourites include:

Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
Rammstein - Sonne and Mein Herz brennt (the album version)
Atari Teenage Riot - Revolution Action
Nine Inch Nails - Into The Void and Closer
Autechre - Gantz Graf
Bjork - All Is Full Of Love
Tool - Parabola

[MrsMeowMeow]

I watched so much MTV when I was a kid. I suppose I'm lucky that I still witnessed real music television in the late 90's.. I miss that sometimes.

Anyway, I probably forgot a whole lot, but this is what comes to my mind first, beside the ones that are already mentioned:

NIN- closer and the perfect drug
Marilyn Manson- Tourniquet .....most of mansons videos are great actually, same goes for tool
Skinny Puppy- Spasmolytic
Editors- eat raw meat = Blood Drool
Soundgarden- Black hole sun
Coil- tainted love
Type O Negative- Black No. 1
Rammstein- Ich will and Du riechst so gut

[ninedead]

was thinking about the video for deep(nin). i know it nor the song is a big favorite of everyones (me not included) but i remember when it first came out, i worked third shift and lived with a girl at the time, so i would come home and usually crash on the couch and she watched a lot of mtv and everytime it would come on she said i would wake up from a deep(pun not intended ha) sleep everytime and start singing it. i dont remember this but i do remember the stories she told me.

[onthewall2983]

I think if somebody had the guts to make a good music video channel on cable today, and truly dedicate it to music and not reality shows and whatnot, it could catch on. Model it after 80s/early 90s MTV, except even better; make it skew toward the more intelligent music fan. Don't rely so much on what you think the demographics want; play more interesting stuff and less pop. Have a good interview show with musicians that isn't afraid to talk about things that would go over the head of the casual viewer, talking about equipment, technique, process, and inspiration. Show a good amount of live shows and festival feeds; imagine if you could just turn on your tv and watch NIN live sitting on your couch on your big screen.

I think some interesting music videos are still being made today, but Youtube is kind of a disjointed medium where it could be hard to find new things. Like MTV in the 80s and 90s this could turn people onto stuff they wouldn't have normally wouldn't have seen. I liked the experience of turning on a tv and not knowing what you are going to get, and if you don't like it its going to end in 3 minutes anyway. The one non-music thing I would add would be a weird animation block like Liquid Television, just because I really liked that, but everything else would be all music.

Palladia kind of does it right showing mostly concerts, and documentaries. But they regulate videos to early morning hours, and filler in between shows when one ends too early. I'll take what you're saying a step further and say that I'd like to see a channel that's more devoted to independent or foreign artists not familiar to American audiences. Something like what IFC and the Sundance Channel used to be for movies. Maybe land a concert or exclusive special or with a big act once in awhile to get people interested or talking about it.

[Alexandros]

Damn, so many memories...I kind of miss the days when I had ample free time and spent a good part of it watching MTV and MCM (for the Europeans among us). So, apart from many that have already been mentioned:

Rollins Band - Liar
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
Mylène Farmer - Que mon cœur lâche (kind of cheesy, but I have a soft spot in my heart for it)
Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun
Robbie Williams - Rock DJ (the uncensored version of course)
No Doubt - New
Michael Jackson - Earth Song, Thriller and Stranger in Moscow
Fever Ray - If I Had a Heart
Röyksopp - Eple
Porcupine Tree - Time Flies (timelapse goodness)
Woodkid - Run Boy Run (it's like an epic dream)
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance (for the pure, unadulterated fun and silliness)

And I'm sure I'm forgetting about as much as I'm remembering.

[burnmotherfucker!]

A bit of a lost artform. The music video. Sound and light flowing together in time.

I thought with the top albums thread we could also list off some of the best music videos of all time. The weirder the better and bonus points if they trip out your stoner friends.

I'll start with an obvious but essential one.

[muad'nin]

Vintage TISM. These were all bands in the Aussie scene back in the day, who were invited to appear. (That’s TISM right at the end.)

[Camille]

Chris Cunningham's video for Aphex Twin's Come To Daddy.

[bobbie solo]

I'll just get this out of the way now and then we can continue.

[DVYDRNS]

I directed this one... I think folks here would appreciate it...