Best Music video ever?

[SpoiledPrincess]

They're not the greatest music videos ever made but a few I particularly like are

LDN
YouTube - LILY ALLEN LDN exclusive video

The Red Shoes
YouTube - Kate Bush-The Red Shoes

No Ordinary Love
YouTube - Sade - No Ordinary Love

 

[T-Lex]

No Ordinary Love
YouTube - Sade - No Ordinary Love

Oh yes! No "greatest video" list would be complete with Sade! A true classic and timeless...plays as well today as it did back then.

 

[T-Lex]

Ok, ya'll gotta check this one out...it's strange but hilarious. (I first heard this song in the movie "Lost in Translation.")

YouTube - Peaches - Fuck the pain away

On a completely opposite plane, check these 2 (absolutely gorgeous and chill music):

YouTube - Andain - You Once Told Me (Original )by espetasetas@
YouTube - Motorcycle - As the rush comes gabriel & dresden chillout

 

[Yorkie]

The Red Shoes
YouTube - Kate Bush-The Red Shoes

Trust you to choose one about shoes! :biggrin1: It's a good video though.
I always liked this one starring Donald Sutherland...

YouTube - Kate Bush Cloudbusting

 

[whatireallywant]

Definitely A-Ha - "Take On Me"!!!

I'm surprised that no one mentioned Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" yet either! Great video...

And this one...

James - "Laid" (this is the radio edit though - didn't find the uncensored version...)
YouTube - James - Laid

And here are some of my new favorites...

The Shins - "Saint Simon"
YouTube - Saint Simon - The Shins

Hidden Cameras - "Death of a Tune"
YouTube - The Hidden Cameras - Death of a Tune

Of Montreal - "Wraith Pinned To the Mist and Other Games"
YouTube - Of Montreal - Wraith Pined to the Mist

Of Montreal - "Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse"
YouTube - of Montreal - Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse

The New Pornographers - "Sing Me Spanish Techno"
YouTube - The New Pornographers - Sing Me Spanish Techno

And here's the group I listen to when I'm depressed for an instant cheer-up. :smile:

Baka Beyond - Baka Beyond and Baka Gbine Live...
YouTube - Baka Beyond and Baka Gbine live at the Zodiac, Oxford

 

[Not_Punny]

Gets me so fired up. Watch it to the end to get the full effect.

YouTube - Carbon Leaf - War Was In Color


warning no big cocks.

Whoa. Brought a tear to my eye.

OR

YouTube - Terri Clark - Girls Lie Too

:biggrin1:

The end was frigging hilarious!

Massive Attack have some great videos.I think this one is my favourite...

YouTube - Karmacoma - Massive Attack feat. Tricky

Whoa! Intense. Sort of The Shining meets Pulp Fiction if you know what I mean.


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SP -- I wasn't sure if you liked the dresses or the music better!!

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[whatireallywant]

Trust you to choose one about shoes! :biggrin1: It's a good video though.
I always liked this one starring Donald Sutherland...

YouTube - Kate Bush Cloudbusting

:biggrin1:

Here's another "shoes" video for SpoiledPrincess...

Paolo Nutini - "New Shoes"
YouTube - Paolo Nutini - New Shoes UK Version

 

[SpoiledPrincess]

A new pair of shoes, nothing to beat it

 

[SpitFireWheels]

A new pair of shoes, nothing to beat it

YouTube - Shoes

 

[Yorkie]

The Shins - "Saint Simon"
YouTube - Saint Simon - The Shins

Some good choices,I haven't got through them all yet.I like the mixture of animation and photography in this Shins video.
Here's a great (but cruel!) animated vid by Mogwai...
YouTube - Hunted By A Freak

Whoa! Intense. Sort of The Shining meets Pulp Fiction if you know what I mean.

There are quite a few cinematic references there but The Shining is the most striking one for me.Music videos should all try to be this good!

 

[VeeP]

YouTube - Richie Kotzen - "Sara Smile" (Unplugged)

Nice cover of a Hall & Oates classic. :smile:

Yesterday I was pondering whether MTV, VH-1 and like ever run music videos anymore. They were the shit when I was a kid...

 

[whatireallywant]

Some good choices,I haven't got through them all yet.I like the mixture of animation and photography in this Shins video.
Here's a great (but cruel!) animated vid by Mogwai...
YouTube - Hunted By A Freak


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The Hidden Cameras and one of the Of Montreal videos is all animation.

Here's another Hidden Cameras one (also all animation)

YouTube - The Hidden Cameras - A Miracle

 

[B_Italian1]

A few that I would pick were already mentioned like "Thriller" and "Don't come around here no more".

I would add....

"Express yourself" by Madonna

YouTube - Madonna - Express Yourself (1989)

"Sowing the seeds of love" by Tears for Fears

YouTube - Tears For Fears - Sowing The Seeds Of Love

"Childhood" by Michael Jackson

YouTube - Michael Jackson - Childhood (Video)

 

[b.c.]

A-ha - Take on Me

Nickelback - Savin' Me

Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

Michael Jackson - Billie Jean & Thriller

Sarah McLachlan - Fallen

Evanescence - Call me When You're Sober

Excellent choices the Aha, Soundgarten, M. Jackson viddys (not familiar with the others)... also the Tears for Fears one mentioned by I-978. Good videos for me have to be combined with likeable music. If I don't like the ditty I'll probably not like the viddy.

Add to the above a few of my favs (right off the top of my head):

Enigma "T.N.T for the Brain"
Fleetwood Mac "Hold Me" and "Gypsy"
Wang Chung "Everybody Have Fun Tonite" (interesting to watch)
Outkast "Hey Ya"
The Clash "Rock the Casbah"

and my pick for a great live vid:

DEVO "Uncontrollable Urge" live (from Urgh a Music War).

 

[B_Italian1]

YouTube - Richie Kotzen - "Sara Smile" (Unplugged)

I don't like music videos; they always seem so contrived. I prefer live music. If you see or hear something there you know it wasn't manufactured in a studio.

PS watch the staccato 3/4 of the way through

I saw Hall and Oates in concert when they were at their peak. Never knew anyone else covered that and never heard of that singer. Cool!

Nice cover of a Hall & Oates classic. :smile:

Yesterday I was pondering whether MTV, VH-1 and like ever run music videos anymore. They were the shit when I was a kid...

I used to love those channels when they first started, but whenever I'm channel surfing and come across either MTV or VH-1, they never have any music on. Seems like everyone has a reality show these days.
Videos were something in their day, but eventually they'll go the way of 8 track, cassettes, albums, and other dinosaurs. I just found out recently that videos are available on Yahoo.

Yahoo! Music Videos

I rarely listen to any of today's music. I'm still listening to 60's, 70's and 80's. When music stopped being about good vocals, I stopped listening. Once in a while someone like Chris Daughtry will come along and catch my attention, but good vocalists are few and far between.

 

[whatireallywant]

I found one of my all-time favorite songs on YouTube that I hadn't heard in YEARS!!! I have it on vinyl but haven't had a working turntable in a long, long time...

YouTube - Juluka - December African Rain (Music Video)

 

[VeeP]

I rarely listen to any of today's music. I'm still listening to 60's, 70's and 80's. When music stopped being about good vocals, I stopped listening. Once in a while someone like Chris Daughtry will come along and catch my attention, but good vocalists are few and far between.

Likewise and agreed. Whenever someone is talking about pop music I usually find myself saying "Who the hell is that?". Very few exceptions unless they happen to be involved in scandal du jour.

 

[B_ScaredLittleBoy]

Music is shit today. Take for instance Michael Buble. He might have a good voice (I wouldn't know) but the songs are just so shit. Really poor lyrics. Also that Shayne Ward whose songs are just basically saying 'look at me aren't I fit, all the girls want to sleep with me'...Leona is better. Sexy girl with a sexy voice. Her songs are better written. I imagine her having a team of writers writing songs for her. Bleeding Love seems to be the best, heard another one of her songs and it doesn't have the same 'hit' quality (Take A Bow).

Anyway...

Rap music is also dominant, I'm REALLY not into that.

I don't watch the music TV channels, they're overrun with shite. I listen to the radio :redface:

 

[B_Think_Kink]

This one.... hahaha be warned it's not PC or suitable for younger viewers but it's my favorite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBGl0vzoZA

 

[VeeP]

Music is shit today. Take for instance Michael Buble. He might have a good voice (I wouldn't know) but the songs are just so shit. Really poor lyrics.

Erm... his abilities aside, you do know that he primarily performs American "standards" written by some of the most brilliant composers and lyricists to have ever lived... right?