Favorite Music Videos and why?
 

"I Feel Love" by the Blue Man Group featuring Venus Hum

Just such a beautiful rendition of that song. Check it out if you want, I watch this video seriously every day, it just makes me smile.

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White Stripes - Fell in Love with a Girl
An original concept, to be sure, the fully-lego music video is visually stunning and incredibly creative.
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Michael Jackson - Thriller
Probably the most cinimatic of all music videos and the quintessential music video of the 80s, Thriller is everything that's right about music videos. Also, Vincent Price is incredible.
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Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight
Mesmerizing music with an incredible facsimile to the old 20s and 30s silver screen science fiction fantasy movies, paying homage to classic From the Earth to the Moon.
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I'll skip Take On Me because I don't like the song....

Röyksopp - Remind Me
Really quirky video using the visuals you might get from directions and such. Cool stuff.
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Ok Go sucks.

I'll start off with a little Mark Romanek genius:

Nine Inch Nails - Closer
I really like how this video captures the feel of old film while having modern technological inventions throughout, and manages to fit the song extremely well.



Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug
Can't beat Trent Reznor playing Edgar Allen Poe in a rather surrealistic environment :)



Next, a long, but intriguing video:

Tool - Schism
Awesomely creepy.



Finally, I was going to post a Björk video or two, but then I realized pretty much all of her videos are awesome. So, I'm posting just one, but encourage people to check out others on youtube :)

Björk - Human Behavior
Fun. Crazy. Appropriate.



Almost forgot...

The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
Seriously...this one is just weird.

Men Without Hats - Safety Dance



It's just barkig mad.

Bjork--Pagan Poetry


Best she's ever done

Tool--Prison Sex



love the little dude

Marilyn Manson--Coma White..so good for some many personal reasons.


The greatest of all time?? Pink Floyd--The Wall

I agree on the Closer video. It is an awesome and beautiful piece.

I like Mark Romanek videos more than most of the songs they are made for, lol.

such as...

Madonna's Bedtime Story.

Scream by Michael & Janet Jackson.

Janet Jackson's Got Til It's Gone.


You can tell that I haven't been a regular viewer of music videos in many, many years, lol.

Radiohead's Paranoid Android is a classic.

I also have always like Madonna's video for Vogue...it's very pretty and I love the throwback to old Hollywood stuff.

oh! and Aphex Twin's Come to Daddy video freaks me the hell out, but I like it. :)

forgot a couple:

Deftones--Digital Bath



Rage Against The Machine--Killing In The Name Of (live)

oh man, I forgot about Aphex Twin :D Come to Daddy is indeed messed up! Have you ever seen Windowlicker?

I love the white stripes vid...but it pales in comparison to the stop motion originator and innovator Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer.

Seldgehammer: Hated the song. video was cool tho.


I agree! one of the best...


Mine? Supertramp:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjazA_Vg3uQ



really cool.

Yes, I have and it's messed up, too, but in a less terrifying way. :p

Johnny Cash - Hurt (NiN cover)

Beautiful song, and also I believe it was Mr. Cash's final video.

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Great video's you all, I've been watching these and really liking all of them. :)

Cochise - Audioslave . its just kick ass

Coolest thread, ever. -edit Excuse me, let me thank you all for sharing, the videos kept me entertained for quite some time. Love it. Maybe some love for youtube is in order, but the framework never made people smile, it's always the ones that use it.

pearl jam - Evolution : awesome animated video. and the song is great.


Pink Floyd - The wall : entire movie is the best music video! and i love the style. it's 2hrs long. i wont be posting it!

The Cardigans - My Favorite Game : this video was just intense the 1st time i watched it and it stayed with me forever since. plus the girl is hot!


The Offsprings - The kids aren't allright : nice morphing and style and the song rocks!

Yeah I only posted a snipet. It's really an amazing video..no matter what state of mind you are in. ;)

Every tool video and the two nin vids linked are awesome.

Two favorites:

Slipknot invited a bunch of fans to a house to trash it while playing Duality:
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Such a fitting video for One by Metallica:
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One of my favorite songs with the video being a take on the Twilight zone episode, Inside Out by Anthrax:
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And just because it's where my avatar came from: Domination by Pantera:
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Nice ones spec!

The one and only version of Hurt in my book (yes Cash's version sucked)



Skinny Puppy--Worlock



Sepultura--Refuse/Resist



Fear Factory --Ressurection (goddamn they kick so much ass)



Twisted Method--Reach (live) These guys are pretty good for straightedge kids



Mudvayne--Death Blooms (back when they were actually good)

I dunno.. this video by SadKermit of Hurt is pretty compelling...



imma watch the NIN version again... been a long time...

I just find art direction and the perfect integration of a song's meaning conveyed by a music video is lost on some people. Here are some examples of what made me convert: (By the way, I agree with about 92% of the choices you guys before me made choosing those as great music vids. kudos!)

Daft Punk: Around the World

{Recommendation: also check out Da Funk}

Blur: Coffee & TV

{Recommendation: also check out Beetlebum}

Enjoy.

Kermit is the fucking shit.

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The Roots - What They Do, video mocks everything you see in every fucking rap video and I love it.

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Smashing Pumpkins - Thirty-Three, I think it's an awesome song and video.

jetsteam: damn! i forgot that one. Around the world was the 1st great video i saw that made me want to watch it over and over again!

gotta add a favourite from back in the days:
KMC featuring Dhany - I feel so fine : obviously picked for the girls and i liked the song too. so simple yet perfect.

And you aren't even watching the good version of that video. Go to http://www.blueman.com/multimedia/video/ , then navigate to the I Feel Love video. (If you can figure out how to download it, let me know!)

My addition: Rockit by Herbie Hancock. Love those robots.
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ever since this thread poped up, i've been trying to remember my favorite videos... heres one from WAY back.
Jamaroquai - Virtual insanity : i love it because i saw a making of and it's actually the whole room that moves. not 3d or anything like that.

I can't believe nobody has mentioned this little gem...

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Sabotage by the Beastie Boys

That is the only song the Beastie Boys ever did that I enjoy, and I think it's mostly because of that video. It's just too good.

My favorites include:

Rubber Johnny - Aphex Twin

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Monkey Drummer - Aphex Twin

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Parabola - Tool

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Yes, I lean toward the more abstract stuff. :thumbsup:

This is one of the best live performances of pop music I've ever seen. KT Tunstall puts on an amazing one-woman-band performance with her hit, "Black Horse and a Cherry Tree." There's something about her performance that is simply mesmerizing.


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I can't list my favorite music videos without NOFX. When I was a teenager growing up in a conservative Christian household, NOFX and other pop punk bands allowed me to escape the neoconservatism and imagine myself in a completely different world. Fat Mike may be too political nowadays, but he rocked when he was younger. I present to you NOFX -- Stickin in my Eye


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Favorite Music Video
 

Nirvana "You know you're right"
It shows Nirvana live and that's why it's the best video at the moment. (If you like it you should also watch Nirvana "Lithium")

More of the Greatest Music Videos
 

Sorry not sure how to post videos, anyway the 2 that come to mind are Johnny Cash - Hurt. I'm not a Cash fan but that video just got to me, especially knowing he died soon afterwards. Also Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy. A very good video that came out when I was in my early teens, it made think about how gay people were treated at the time, and made me more sympathetic towards people.

Refer to This Thread for the coding instructions :D

Maybe the sweetest video ever

Wow Derwood, I had never heard this song before but the video is amazing. I think it is my new favorite song!

My addition is: Here It Goes Again by Ok Go. It never fails to put a smile on my face.

do doooo do do do (menahmenah) do dodo do (menahmenah) do doooo do do do do do ...

[QUOTE=ColonelSpecial]Wow Derwood, I had never heard this song before but the video is amazing. I think it is my new favorite song!

Welcome to the world of Bright Eyes. Their latest album is pure brilliance

The Shins--Pink Bullets



I don't even want to know how long it took


Back when Axl was good



You can't have a video list without Christopher Walken



Smack it (NSFW)



Get it stuck in your head.. go ahead I dare ya



Hrmm who knew Pearl Jam was psychic



Popularity.. sucks?

thanks to Lankrypto...
 

Most mellow and most relaxed...

also reminds me of a Green Day I was never quite able to grasp, but enjoyed nonetheless


Green Day - Warning

This one reminds me of Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer:

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The Art of Noise - Close To The Edit

...and the original version
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Also, Autechre has grabbed my attention a couple times:
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Autechre - Gantz Graf

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Autechre - Second Bad Vilbel


A former roommate of mine introduced me to Coldcut & Hexstatic:
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Coldcut & Hexstatic - Timber
(obvious notes of the effect of deforestation here...)

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Coldcut & Hexstatic - Natural Rhythm

And something Canadian :)
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Kid Koala - Fender Bender

I have lots more, but I'll post later...don't want to completely fill up your screens at once. :)

I picked these mainly because they culminate my high-school experience. These videos are appealing for their variances in energy, moving from aggressive to restrained... a common enough style at the time, but effective nonetheless.

In both of these videos you get a good harmony between the visuals and the music. Excellently produced in both cases.

Nirvana - "Heart-Shaped Box"
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Smashing Pumpkins - "Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
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I give you this one, because these guys rock, and they show that even with a low budget you can be incredibly cool:

Sloan - "Money City Maniacs"
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