Top Music Videos

[HalRoachFan]

I like this topic. Here's my favorite videos

Dirrty- Christina Aguilera MY FAVORITE VIDEO!
Come On Over- Christina Aguilera
Trapped In a Box- No Doubt
It's My Life- No Doubt
Underneath It All- No Doubt
Hey Baby- No Doubt
Sunday Morning- No Doubt
Without Me- Eminem
Pretty Fly for a White Guy- Offpsring
Bouncing Off the Ceiling- A*Teens
I'm Still In Love With You- Sean Paul with Sasha LOVE THE SOUND!
Tilt Ya Head Back- Nelly with my girl, Christina Aguilera!

As you can see, I LOVE No Doubt's videos. Gwen is really cool.

I'm going to make a new avatar with Christina Aguilera shortly!

Oh God, how much things change in over a year! I cringe when I read that post as most of those aren't my favorites anymore. My tastes have changed some for more mature stuff (I stopped listening to A*Teens all together, Tilt Ya Head Back isn't all that great. Why was Come On Over ever on that list???? I was never a fan of Christina's early ditsy teen blonde days).

I haven't watched music videos much the last few months, so I'd need to refresh my memory as to which ones crack my top 10. I still LOVE No Doubt though, they can stay. I also really like Mariah Carey's videos since her album hit stores last April. As for Christina Aguilera, I'm ready for NEW material. Hurry up already, girl!

[Wonderlicious]

They recently had a Top 100 music video special on in England (on Channel 4, who are obsessed as I am with these nostalgia specials), and a number of these featured in that show.

Do You Want To- Franz Ferdinand
I know that it's not technically a ground breaking video, yet I happen to really like its surreal spoof on the arty people.

Seven Nation Army- White Stripes
It rattles the brain...but what's wrong with that?

Fell in Love with a Girl- White Stripes
This is a very inventive video, and the movement seems to flow well too.

Bad- Michael Jackson
It's not bad! I know that what I just said was a terrible pun, but I really like this video.

Beautiful Day- U2
The tune is a refreshing piece of beauty, and the video reflects it.

Nothing Compares 2 U- Sinead O'Connor
This video is rather simple. However, its simplicity causes it to soar.

It's Oh So Quiet- Bjork
Bjork videos are often weird, but this is one of the more normal ones. That makes it one of the best ones, being a great homage to classic musicals.

Ray of Light- Madonna
I have always had an obsession with the frantic nature of this video.

Sledgehammer- Peter Gabriel
This is an amazing piece of film making, period. Not just music video production, or animation production; any type of film production. Kudos to Aardman Animations, who made it.

Do The Bartman- Bart Simpson
I know that the tune is generally a goofy cash in on the success of the series, but considering that this was directed by Brad Bird, it comes out well. The audio commentary on the Season 2 DVD is also rather interesting.

[SuicideSeaside]

Helena - My Chemical Romance
That video is beautiful. The color scheme, setting...everything.

Blue Orchid - White Stripes
Ballet heels and a gothic mansion. ^_^
I think their live performances are better. Jack is amazing live.

What You Waiting For - Gwen Stefani
Long live Alice.

I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself - White Stripes
Kate Moss pole dancing. Enough said.

[Lazario]

Bjork - "Human Behaviour" : you simply have to see it to believe it. Michel Gondry is a genius! One taste of this will have you as obsessed as I am about Bjork! Maybe more. Surrealistic only begins to describe it. It's provocative, strange, beautiful. You'll never forget it, it's an experience unto itself. It's one of the all-time greatest music videos ever made. And a stellar piece of filmmaking, period!

Marilyn Manson - "Long Hard Road Out of Hell" : sort of a religious-themed video, sort of not. Marilyn Manson just completely transforms himself into a character. Most likely some kind of elegant, deathly transexual angel, royalty, or high-class whore. He simply embodies all of these characteristics into a martyr expressing lust, sin, repent, and self-hatred through the most articulate and skilled physical acting. It's one of the greatest 'performances' in a music video. Watching it is itself like an unbelievably artistic religious experience. It's beautiful, ugly, sad, and scary - all at the same time. Try to take your eyes off it!!! Just try!

Pearl Jam - "Jeremy" : another touching / disturbing video, but possibly the greatest music video of the 1990's! It's actually very difficult not to cry watching this if you were growing up during the period. It's very reminiscent of that feeling of hopelessness, fear, paranoia, and intense sadness that comes with being a child with absentee role models. Proves through visuals just how many ways a person can be let down!

Spice Girls - "Say You'll Be There" : the style of photography / camerawork matches the sound of the music perfectly. Sleek as hell. Energetic!

Shania Twain - "Still the One" : Shania really needs to be celebrated for her devotion to showing some god damn beautiful men in her videos - this man's body is one of the most stunning ever to be committed to a music video. And in sumptious black and white!

Lil' Kim, featuring Lil' Cease - "Crush on You" : colorful, very colorful! Incredibly pleasing to the eye.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - "Don't Come Around Here No More" : you just have to love that moment when they're eating Alice and she's a big cake! Surrealistic, ambitious, fun, strange, cool, good-natured humor!

Sade - "No Ordinary Love" : really beautiful.

Chris Rock - "Champagne" : I'm still convinced the traveling hot tub was a reference to Beck's "Loser"

Paula Cole - "Me"
Another one of my favorites.

[2099net]

The Pet Shop Boys have done it again with their I'm With Stupid video which uses Little Britain's Lucas and Walliams to re-enact their most successful and iconic videos. Plus, the opening line is a riot.

"Must I, Neil Tennant, spend the rest of my days in this pet shop?"

It can be viewed on the Chris Lowe site (and for a limited time actually downloaded).

http://www.chrislowe.co.uk/news.shtml

[Lazario]

My old list definitely needed some updating. This one's subject to change since this takes a long time (I had another list on my friend's board but it's down temporarily because he's strapped for cash). This is alright for now:



1. Marilyn Manson - "Long Hard Road Out of Hell"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNEolxBmso



2. Björk - "Human Behaviour"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDbPYoaAiyc



3. Veruca Salt - "Shutterbug"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHtVvq4I_S0



4. Peaches - "I Feel Cream"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpAUXCekSYc



5. Spice Girls - "Say You'll Be There"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ro0FW9Qt-4



6. Duran Duran - "Save a Prayer"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uxc9eFcZyM



7. Beck - "Loser"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSPaXgAdzE



8. Paula Cole - "Me"
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcw1nz ... d-me_music



9. Nine Inch Nails - "Closer"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kh0E4Sd3NU



10. Madonna - "Human Nature"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS6FCoq349o



11. Beck - "The New Pollution"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxugaMpt1vU



12. Peaches - "Mommy Complex"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXJEw0-sGEE



13. 'Weird Al' Yankovic - "Like a Surgeon"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=notKtAgfwDA



14. No Doubt - "Sunday Morning"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiBX-ESFDF0



15. Ke$ha - "Blah Blah Blah"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3taEuL4EHAg


Björk - Pagan Poetry, Possibly Maybe
Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For
Goldfrapp - Utopia - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PMniYLxrq4
Beck - Cellphone's Dead
Pet Shop Boys - Domino Dancing, Jealousy, So Hard, Heart, Always on My Mind
Liz Phair - Jealousy
Lil' Kim, featuring Lil' Cease - Crush on You
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Don't Come Around Here No More
Sade - No Ordinary Love
Chris Rock - Champagne
Shania Twain - Still the One
Pearl Jam - Jeremy

[singerguy04]

WOW! Talk about reviving a topic! haha

This is a really neat idea, I'll be coming back later with my list!!!!

[Goliath]

And this thread isn't under "Movies and music" because...?

[Lazario]

There didn't used to be a Movies, Music, TV section. It was created in... maybe '07 or thereabouts whereas the first entertainment posts date back to '03. The mods were... kinda too lazy to move all the entertainment related threads to the right section.

[Avaitor]

Music videos are a bit of an under-appreciated artform IMO. I know a fair share of critics believe that they deplete the need to create images in our head for the music and insult the audience's intelligence, but you can have that same argument for movies as opposed to literature, and there are more than enough films out there to debunk that theory. On that count, I think that there are enough music videos which add to the experience of a song in a positive light and don't take away the need for interpretation.

Some of the gods of the videos include:

Michael Jackson
Prince
Madonna
Van Halen
Aerosmith
Guns N' Roses
R.E.M.
Beck
Tom Petty
Peter Gabriel
Eminem
New Order
Lonely Island

I think besides maybe MJ and Madonna, the best of the best were INXS. They pulled off sex appeal on both ends and made highly engrossing videos throughout their run. Michael Hutchence is one of the sexiest fuckers ever born, and he and his band had some damn great songs and videos.

Here's a couple of favorites by them:

"Need You Tonight"/"Mediate" (their VMA winner)

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"Suicide Blonde"

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"Devil Inside"

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And not INXS, but one video that I think is required viewing for anyone

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[slave2moonlight]

To avoid just listing the ones with girls I adore, one word:

THRILLER

But, I have to agree with Jack Sparrow (I haven't bought many CDs in recent years, but I got both Lonely Island CDs, ha). Of course, there are many other great ones too.

[Super Aurora]

Smooth Criminal.

I like a lot of the MV of 80's and early 90's with use of vibrant colors, stop animation, clay animation etc.


I do like Christina Aguilera's Dirty as I love the 1940's Pin-up theme she was going with.

[Goliath]

Best music video ever:

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