General Discussion : The music video appreciation thread

[Pickpocket]

I love a good music video. Post the best here.

Aphex Twin - Windowlicker. Director: Chris Cunningham
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P3Wc-37pC4[/youtube]

Beastie Boys - Sabotage. Director: Spike Jonze
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4PN7Xbexq4[/youtube]

Radiohead - Knives Out. Director - Michel Gondry
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr89Nyx8WF8[/youtube]

Daft Punk - Da Funk. Director - Spike Jonze
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVEm1OMfEes[/youtube]

Fatboy Slim - Praise You. Can't remember the director but Spike Jonze dances in it. Think this is the unofficial video as well. Christopher Walken was in the original video and that was pretty cool.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqrDWKq9gGU[/youtube]

[Llamadeus]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQfVte5nfg0[/youtube]
Yes.

[KGB]

Oh yes, You have unleashed hell. This topic it just for me.

A-Ha - Take on Me
[googlevid]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=379399441132904905&ei=LEaQSbelMaierALw5Yi3Cw&q=take+on+me[/googlevid]
Well, no music video thread is complete without this. The ultimate music video of it's kind, the music video that pretty much defined what music videos have to look like. It's cheesiness is highly appealing, too.

The White Stripes - Fell In Love With a Girl
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRDi67G0Siw[/youtube]
Now I actually hate The White Stripes, but this song is pretty great. Not that it matters anyway - this video was directed by Michel Gondry and it is fucking amazing.

Architecture in Helsinki - Do The Whirlwind
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXIzyquw-kc[/youtube]
Architecture In Helsinki have and interesting shtick (they used no computer effects, and play all the instruments by themselves, which is pretty interesting considering their 16-bit music sound), but this song is simply awful. The music video, though, is something to stare at for hours.

Weezer - Buddy Holly
An alternative rock song that is a tribute to the 50's. I'm in love with this video.

Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N64QMKEbJQg[/youtube]
The ultimate WTF music video production. An Arctic Monkeys song in the background of a cheap russian flick in which two gangs fight for the personal motives of the leaders. Also, members of one of the gangs are dressed as clowns. Also a great song which I just can't stop listening to. Warning: highly addictive.

Steriogram - Walkie Talkie Man
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asdN1jJw4EE[/youtube]
This video talks for itself. I think it's directed by Gondry as well, which isn't too hard to believe given the video's awesomeness and style.

Cassius - Sound of Violence
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ml-jUdIbcI[/youtube]
Now this is just an example of how you can make great videos with just a little creativity. I'm sure this video is relatively cheap to produce and the gimmick is not new, but the song in the background and some of the CGI designs make it all just hypnotic.

Royksopp - Remind Me
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBvaHZIrt0o[/youtube]
Talk about hypnotic videos.

The Clash - Rock the Casbah
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD3D20AHW00[/youtube]
Now don't ask me what it is. But there's something very, very awesome in a video about a rabi and a muslim becoming friends and going to a The Clash concert.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_71j7X76og[/youtube]
RHCP have great videos. Nearly all of their videos are directed by real proffesional and are all highly exciting. I'm not a big fan of the band, but I've bought their 'Greatest Videos' DVD and enjoyed every second of it. Insted of just linking to all videos I chose this one - the Red Hot Chili Peppers describing the history of rock music by dressing up as key bands from different eras. They are Elvis, The Beatles, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, something that might be Funkadelic and, er... Well just watch it for yourself.

Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpzV_0l5ILI[/youtube]
'nuff said.

Radiohead - Karma Police
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ay699qcSb4[/youtube]
Radiohead is coming with Kraftwerk to Argentina in about a month. Problem is, it costs 260$ (argentine pesos). That's a lot of money, and I constantly remind myself of that. I know that I will forever regret it, but fact is there's no reason to throw so much money away, especially not when I will have to go alone since none of my friends have that kind of money (I do thanks to my good old-fashioned summer job). Yet I see this video and I feel an intense urge to break the piggy and take all my money to Club Ciudad, where it is playing, and buy my entrance. This car ride is pretty creepy. Damn, I love Radiohead.

Emir Kusturica & the No Smoking Orchestra - Unza Unza Time
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpO93jR4kL4[/youtube]
For those of you who are not aware of it, genius director Emir Kusturica (who directed this video) is the guitarist of the No Smoking Orchestra, an eastern-european gypsy punk band (if you're unfamiliar with the genre, please download now songs by this band and by Gogol Bordello). Hey, you know who saw Kusturica live just two meters away from him? You know who almost lost his lungs shouting? You know who managed to touch Kusturica's hand and hold Nenad Janković when he jumped off stage? Yeah, me. Now see Unza Unza Time, imagine it's live potential, multiply it by 30 and your closer to what experience that was. Narcissistic little bitch I am.

El Cuarteto de Nos - Ya No Sé Qué Hacer Conmigo
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9LlnLTH87U[/youtube]
Another band I saw live, this time in a free concert in a bad neighbourhood of Buenos Aires; great concert, really (also I got robbed twice that day). This is a little band from Uruguay that is ganing fame and while it's definitely not their greatest song, it's without doubt the best latin music video I've ever seen. Maybe the impact is lost when you don't know spanish as what you see is literally connected with the lyrics, but it's still worth watching. This kind of video, where the words said appear on screen on the instant, has a specific name but I forgot it, if anybody knows it please let me know.

The Killers - Bones
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M0WwbNJ008[/youtube]
I'm not a fan of The Killers at all, but this video - directed by Tim Burton - is really great. I guess it's not that hard to spot Burton the second that people start turning into skeletons.

Patricio Rey y Sus Redonditos de Ricota - Masacre en el Puticlub
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhwsHmokOO8[/youtube]
Patricio Rey y Sus Redonditos de Ricota (or more simply Los Redondos) is a cult band in Argentina: from underground, hallucinated concerts during the dictature that involved more of a circus show than the music, the band gained fame and became one of the most prestigious bands of all times in Latin America, and the youth of today - yes, that's me included - are desperate to see the band play again before they die, since the band was separated in 2001 given to intern conflicts. And this video, I just don't know what it is about it - but it's whole rustic, authentic feeling is simply hypnotic, even when the given video is a poorly animated stop motion one.

Radiohead - Paranoid Android
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szdWPWnnNls[/youtube]
Best for last. Remember what I said about the Kraftwerk/Radiohead concert coming soon? Yeah, well, I'm going to buy my entrance, you just wait there. I'll be right back. Meanwhile watch this, it's one of the greatest videos ever made.

...Hell yeah, bonus!

Mashina - Rikud Ha'mechona (The Machine Dance)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p028ShWNTLs[/youtube]
I love ska. I love watching it live, I love listening to it, I love dancing it (more like throwing kicks in the air, but that will do for an ammateur punk like myself), and I love watching videos of it as well. Mashina is a Ska-Punk band from Israel, and Rikud Ha'mechona is very simply addictive. I honestly can't stop watching those movement, that wierd little bass, the screaming camel, all the little details. The combination of a Ska-Punk band with the israeli desert (the Neguev) in the background is just awesome. I can't stop watching this video. Help.

[Llamadeus]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 0640496152
every bjork video

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvOOegxKIoI[/youtube]
also every feist video

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9lpy6UROF4[/youtube]
bleep bloop bleep

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDDnuZAL9ps[/youtube]
also this

[Pickpocket]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQfVte5nfg0[/youtube]
Yes.

Haha, yessss. One of the only good songs off of Wu-Tang Forever. Deck's verse is so sick. That video was tight. What the hell is 50 cent doing talking shit to these guys? I guess GZA destroying 50 was worth it though.

And that Weezer video was Spike Jonze as well. I love that even though Weezer is awful.

Here is another cool one. UNKLE featuring Thom Yorke of Radiohead
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ClCwcCvdQ[/youtube]

[jnmovie]

I'm absolutely loving the Radiohead guys! +1 to everyone

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lstDdzedgcE[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdrCalO5BDs[/youtube]

^ Easily my favorite by them.

[Katya]

Noir Desir - Le Vent Nous Portera

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIkXK6rxt4c[/youtube]

And my all time favourite music video; Blur - Coffee & TV. I love the way that little guy dances.^^

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWUil383us4[/youtube]

[paulofilmo]

The only video that ever stuck with me is Starsailor's "Born Again"

Indeed, it looks like many of my favourite films. - Spirit of The Beehive, Ratcatcher, Badlands etc. (barren landscapes, a dull look, wheat fields). (It's a little Tarkovskian, too). I have no idea where this comes from.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlOvE9Orpq0[/youtube]

[HorrorMaster]

"In This World" - Moby

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nas51x3ZQCg[/youtube]

"Even When I'm Sleeping" - Leonardo's Bride

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weyiF1Prkx0[/youtube]

"Mann Gegan Mann" - Rammstein

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKktBiQd7RU[/youtube]

"Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday)" - Moby

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdFUKuaReWw[/youtube]

"Nemesis" - Arch Enemy

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9AcG0glVu4[/youtube]

"My Spirit Will Go On" - Dragonforce

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEeoCGzENso[/youtube]

"Progenies of the Great Apocalypse" - Dimmu Borgir

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joEAb_y7ZYA[/youtube]

"B.Y.O.B" - System of a Down

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Az7JPZ6ZA[/youtube]

"Vermillion" - Slipknot

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dLEXjrpLJk[/youtube]

"Beautiful" - Christina Aguilera

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNthqC2fsVw[/youtube]

"Firestarter" - Prodigy

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmin5WkOuPw[/youtube]

"Don't Panic" - Coldplay

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4w7an00vGI[/youtube]

"Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?" - Moby

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqLvbpcsPj4[/youtube]

"Beautiful to Me" - Little Birdy

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMcFmWZyV1U[/youtube]

"Relapse" - Little Birdy

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_mkMONSEjM[/youtube]

"Excited" - Little Birdy

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP7NyDzN8ss[/youtube]

"I'm Afraid of Americans" - David Bowie Ft. Trent Reznor

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slKNd22GGaQ[/youtube]

"The End is The Beginning is the End (Batman & Robin)" - Smashing Pumpkins

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWTVDhrer4s[/youtube]

"Like Toy Soldiers" - Eminem

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMieL1IxxNc[/youtube]

"Thriller" - Michael Jackson

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtyJbIOZjS8[/youtube]

"Heal the World" - Michael Jackson

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W61Q-EZ8R7M[/youtube]

"Plug in Baby" - Muse

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65Gh0U0wkBs[/youtube]

"New Born" - Muse

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDDCieKfrvY[/youtube]

"Bruise Pristine" - Placebo

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPYCn_nDFIo[/youtube]

"Nancy Boy" - Placebo

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcbYEXdVwWQ[/youtube]

"Slave to the Wage" - Placebo

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UDF_zZQXHA[/youtube]

"You Don't Care About Us" - Placebo

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEfJF0uflYk[/youtube]

"Zero" - Smashing Pumpkins

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJOGq5XTojo[/youtube]

"Black or White" - Michael Jackson

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI9OYMRwN1Q[/youtube]

"Epic" - Faith No More

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYq3hA3YsZo[/youtube]

"Babylon A.D. (So Glad For the Madness)" - Cradle of Filth

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDDwPCLIRhw[/youtube]

"No Time to Cry" - Cradle of Filth (Sisters of Mercy cover)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wokDxDt504g[/youtube]

[edkrak]

Juno Reactor "God Is God"
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8LY2VgiikE[/youtube]

Here is one of my favourite tracks and at the same time my favourite music video. They used scenes from Sayat Nova. I find this film quite boring, although it's absolutely beautiful visually and fits Juno Reactor's music perfectly.