Favorite Music Videos?
 

Usually I like to listen to my music, but sometimes I'll watch a video for a song I don't really care for because the video is so damn good, so, what are your favorite videos, regardless of whether you like the song or not?

My picks are

Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly (The Fighters manage to land a plane after the pilots accidentally drink drugged coffee and can't fly the plane)

Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice (I knew Christopher Walken could dance, but I didn't know he could fly)

Pearl Jam - Do The Evolution (I like Todd McFarlane's style, come to think of it....)

Korn - Freak on a Leash (The McFarlane bits, and that bullet thing it had going on was pretty cool)

Pearl Jam Jeremy is also very good.

Bjork - Human Behavior

Aphex Twin - Window Licker

Beck - Loser

NIN - Closer

Hmm does The Wall count? It's kind of like a music video for the full album. If not then, I agree with Weapon of choice I find that video oddly hypnotic and now after thinking about it will probably have to download it again. I'm also fond of the video for Parabola. Though I don't watch many music videos since I have limited access to MTV2 and other stations that actualy play videos.

Kiss - 'Because I'm a girl'
[korean song but you dont need to know korean to enjoy the mv]
beautiful mv, it's not an eye candy type thing at all in fact you never even see the singers, it's just a mini movie with a TRAGIC TRAGIC PLOT...which made me weep, so much. If they made the mv into a movie it'd be a hit because of how GOOD the plot is...nothing is comparable to this mv...NOTHING...

other enjoyable mvs:
Madonna - 'Human Nature'
Geri Halliwel - 'It's raining men'
[i have a thing for dance mv's]

NIN - 'closer'
Garbage - 'Cherry Lips'

and just for the hell of it
Tatu - 'all the things she said' for the delicious pseudo lesbianism

Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice

I also enjoy some Van Halen videos that still feature David Lee Roth. There's just something about 'em that's funny.

Beastie Boys-Sabotage

This is a pretty old topic, but I'll go along...

Metallica - One

Queens of the Stone Age - Go With the Flow

Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up

Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy

Norma Jean - Face:Face

Public Enemy - Night of the Living Baseheads

Metallica - One

Anthrax - Inside Out

Megadeth - Hangar 18

Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon

Ok I'll be showing my age with some of these:

Kate Bush - babooshka (She just looks sooo good)

Most Madness videos - not much money spent but a lot of imagination

Puff Daddy - Come with me - So over the top.

Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood - And any other Gorillaz videos

Prodigy - Smack my Bitch Up

White Stripes - Fell in Love with a Girl

Christina Aguilera - Beautiful (say what you will about the song, but the video is fantastic)

Radiohead - Just

Johnny Cash - Hurt

White Stripes- Seven Nation Army
I think that video is visually stunning. I love it.

Tool videos are all great
I also like NIN/Closer

definitely Weapon of Choice.
i also really love Praise You (also Fatboy).

i also love the Basement Jaxx video´s for Wheres Your Head At? and Romeo.

placebo - bruise pristine

you should check out this minotoba video.. i think that is how it is spelt..

also the faint video is super hot. you can see that at www.mk12.com if you are into design, they are where it's at.

i love the coldplay trouble video, i think that it was beautifully made.

aphex twin videos are hilarious.

Queens of the Stone Age - Go With the Flow
Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice
Van Halen - Hot for Teacher
Johnny Cash - Hurt

definitely Dire Straits - Walk of life
I also like van Halen - Right now
and Billy Joel - We didn't start the fire

Aphex Twin's Windowlicker and Come to Daddy
AFI - Girl's Not Grey, because I just don't get it.

blur - coffee and tv, it's just so damn cute!
bjork - human behaviour
smashing pumpkins - stand inside your love
metallca - one

Another vote for sabotage.

Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight Tonight
The Avalanches - Frontier Psychitrist
Blur - Coffee and TV
White Stripes - Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
REM - Imitation of Life

Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice
Tool - Sober

i forgot about that blur video.. that blur video is quite genius.

Anything by Shania because well, it's Shania.

Those are good videos. And if you like breaking things... Everlasting Gaze by the Smashing Pumpkins. That video got me pumped the first time I saw it!

Also Fell in Love with a Girl. Gotta love the leggo!

I'll agree with that. She's one fine-looking woman.

The T.A.T.U. video where they are all oveer each other in the pouring rain

Faith No More - Stripsearch

great song, awesome video.

Metallica- One
Foo Fighters--Learning to Fly
Beastie Boys--Sabotage

apart from Aphex twin's 'Windowlicker', it sounds gay but chris isaak's 'wicked game'. i like it!

I will have to agree with some people here

Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight
Blur - Coffee and TV
White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
The Hives - Hate to Say I Told You So
Gorillaz - 19-2000 and Clint Eastwood
Rage Against the Machine - Freedom (an awesome tribute to Leonard Peltier)

Oasis - Wonderwall

Massive Attack - Teardrop

Radiohead - Paranoid Android

Daft Punk - Da Funk

Chemical Brothers - Elektrobank

Pearl Jam - Do The Evolution is the greatest video ever. There's really no comparison. Other good ones...

Audioslave - Show Me How To Live
Foo Fighters - Big Me (Pat Smear is great in this)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

And this isn't really a music video but the video of Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins playing Stairway To Heaven on Kilborn is awesome. Dave forgets how the song goes and it's halarious.

OK, so one of the elevators in the building where I work has been out of service for some time and it was finally up and running as of yesterday. The repair company left coffee and donuts in the lobby to say "sorry" I guess. A coworker mentioned that if the quality of the donuts was any indication of the quality of their repairs, that elevator was going to be nothing but a nonstop fiery ride into hell...

Which brings me to my point.

I immediately had to go find Dio's "Last in Line" video. That got me to thinking about the delicious cheesiness of Leppard's "Rock of Ages" video and I was spinning off on bad, but-you-love-to-watch-them-now, early videos.

Fun stuff. Dio's "Mystery" was awful in the best kind of way, too. Remember Quiet Riot's "Metal Health"?

Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It" was actually a good one from the early days. A real classic, but cheesy by today's standards. "WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WITH YOUR LIFE???"

This topic will always remind me of Beavis and Butthead watching Judas Priest's "Breakin' the Law" video and Butthead commenting, "you know...I still like Judas Priest and all, but.......... this sucks!"

That _was_ pretty funny, but it was pretty obvious he didn't forget a single word, he was messing it up on purpose. You should have seen the shit-storm from angry Zep fans on the Foo message boards for the week or two afterwards - that's where the real funny of that event was.

If you can find it *cough*on Kazaa*cough*...check out Dave doing "Tiny Dancer" also on Kilborn's show. It was after the summer when Almost Famous came out and funny as hell.

Any tool video.

Hawkeye had it right with Johnny Cash's remake of Hurt.

I showed my wife that video and she actually teared up. It's an amazing vid.

#1 of all time imo: Primus - Wynona's got a big brown beaver

#2: Bloodhoung Gang - ballad of chasey lain

#3: Christina Aguilera - dirrty - for obvious reasons :)

How could I forget about that one. That video is awesome.

a-ha - Girls on Film, for very many obvious reasons!