Best Music Video

[Reply #240 on:]

I really do not see a problem with showing a non hetrosexual kiss on TV at any time. It's a kiss and I don't see how it is offensive to anyone (I know some people find it offensive but these are usualy quite bigoted people)
I mean they had male homosexuals kiss on the Christian Agualria video. So I really do not see a problem with lesbians kissing (besides it's only acitng most of the time.)

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I didn’t say that I don’t have a problem with it. I suppose the music industry is focusing on what’s the real issue about sexuality and they don’t have problem with it.

[Reply #242 on:]

Jack Johnson - Taylor. Hilariously funny video clip, featuring Ben Stller.

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Well, well, I've just seen Courtney Love's new video- most fucked up thing I've ever seen.  Just when I thought I couldn't hate her anymore... 

on the note of I Miss You, I think any kiss can be shown on daytime tv, it shouldn't make a difference- it's still two people kissing, not nude or anything, treat it like every other kiss.  Though it was rather odd to put that in the video- the video was meant to be more...serious....i'd say... felt out of place 

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Originally posted by Futurama_Hil:
Well, well, I've just seen Courtney Love's new video- most fucked up thing I've ever seen.  Just when I thought I couldn't hate her anymore...   

Oh no, you can never hate Courtney Love enough.

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One of my favourite videos was on TV at the weekend - Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinead O'Connor. It looks so pretty, and there's real, not fake, emotion in it when she sheds a tear or too.

Saw the video for Chris Issak's Wicked Game too ... I liked it 

[Reply #246 on:]

the best music videos i know were

Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
Adventures in Success - Will Powers
China Girl - David Bowie
Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
Like a Prayer - Madonna

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Anyone else seen the video for Franz Ferdinand's Take Me Out? I love that video. It's very cool 

[Reply #248 on:]

 

Originally posted by Impossible:
Anyone else seen the video for Franz Ferdinand's Take Me Out? I love that video. It's very cool   

Yeah I have. I also like the song too.

[Reply #249 on:]

fatboy slim weapons of choice, who doesnt wanna see same creepy christopher walken dance? who i ask you, who?

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My favorite video at the moment is The Darkness – love is only a feeling. Justin is really hot in that outfit and the way that they were performing on the mountains is excellent.

The other video that I like are Foo fighters – breakout and the one

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I saw Will Young's video for Your Game on TV the other day ... and I like it  I just like the fact that the background is constantly changing, but he's still standing in the middle!

*prepares for the backlash*

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Just as long as you don't like the actual song, and only like the video for the backgrounds, and not Will Dung making them look ugly...

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I have no problem with sexuality so long as it's adult and consenting. And by adult I mean mature (so I'm drawing the line around 15).

Oh man evan, I never realised it before but that Jet video DOES look like a GAP advert. Run away!

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Mabey you can help me people, I cant think of who performed this video it went something like:

Well there was a band playing in this concert hall type thing and there was a crowd of people in the audience, then all the people(band and audience...and the instruments) they all turn into stick people. It was along while ago since I saw the video on Kerrang, the band were ok but...meh.

Anyway if you know what the hell i'm yakking about please feel free to respond.   

I dont think it was the best music video ever but anything with matchstick guys playing guitars is very cool.   

[Reply #255 on:]

 

Originally posted by Otis P Jivefunk:
Just as long as you don't like the actual song, and only like the video for the backgrounds, and not Will Dung making them look ugly...

The changing backgrounds just remind me of Sledgehammer, which is what makes it good 

Oh yes .. and unfortunatly this song seems to be growing on me. Argh. Curse you Simon Cowell and you other Pop Idol judges!

[Reply #256 on:]

EDIT: Agh, double post, sorry 

Just now I saw the video for Dire Straits' Money For Nothing. I'd never seen this in full before, and it's so strange! Watching it gives you a good idea on how computer graphics have changed in 20 years   

[Reply #257 on:]

Radiohead - No Suprises

It starts off innocently enough...

...then wherever Thom is sitting starts to fill with water...

...and it basically stays like this for over a minute, not moving at all...

...then the water goes out of the tank...

...and the song finishes off normally.


Well, if it wasn't depressing I guess it just wouldn't be Radiohead.

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I may have said it before (in fact I'm sure I have) but in this case I don't care about repeating myself.

I watched a program last Friday on the life of Johhny Cash and it ended with his last video "Hurt". Now I rarely say this but I think Cash's version is better than the NIN version. It is so emotional, as is the video, and now I know a little more, suits Johhny Cash perfectly.

More musicians should try to put as much menaing and feeling into their works.

So long to the man in black.

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I've never really been into music videos as in the dance genre they tend to use it as an excuse to stick some scantily clad missy in there to sell the record because its a load of shite.

I prefer to think of music as a medium for my ears and not my eyes although I did like the video to Massive attacks 'Teardrops' and some of Prodigy's stuff was quite amusing.

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I saw the video for Black Eyed Peas' Hey Mama yesterday. It's groovy.

[Reply #261 on:]

 

Originally posted by Impossible:
I saw the video for Black Eyed Peas' Hey Mama yesterday. It's groovy.

Yeah but the song is annoying

[Reply #262 on:]

 

Originally posted by Juliet:
 Yeah but the song is annoying

Even more annoying than Shut Up?   

Although the lyric "I've got a nutty nutty crew, with a nutty nutty style!" makes me laugh   

I saw the coolest video yesterday, Fatboy Slim's Weapon Of Choice, with Christopher Walken dancing. It's brilliant 


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[Reply #263 on:]

Just seen a brand new video from Basement Jaxx – Plug it in about these female robots that got out of control. Really funny.

The other Basement Jaxx video that I like is where your head at with the monkeys.

[Reply #264 on:]

That Basement Jaxx video for "Where's your head at?" is freaky. Its just plain weird, I dont like it 

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Originally posted by ghoulishmoose:
That Basement Jaxx video for "Where's your head at?" is freaky. Its just plain weird, I dont like it   

It did actually feature in C4's "Top 100 Scariest Moments". It's quite freaky though.

I haven't seen it in ages, but I like the video to Tears For Fears' Everybody Wants To Rule The World 

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Originally posted by Impossible:
 It did actually feature in C4's "Top 100 Scariest Moments". It's quite freaky though.

I'm not surprised, its freakily bizarre 

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I managed to see U2's The Sweetest Thing on TV the other day. I'd forgotten how much I like that video. The banners at the top - "I'm sorry", "I'm really sorry!" ... and - correct me if I'm wrong, Alex - was full of things that Bono's wife liked?

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Originally posted by ghoulishmoose:
That Basement Jaxx video for "Where's your head at?" is freaky. Its just plain weird, I dont like it   

Yeah, the video is freaky, but I prefer it to the song...

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Originally posted by Impossible:
I managed to see U2's The Sweetest Thing on TV the other day. I'd forgotten how much I like that video. The banners at the top - "I'm sorry", "I'm really sorry!" ... and - correct me if I'm wrong, Alex - was full of things that Bono's wife liked?

And Boyzone was on it, the big headed version of U2 and the firemen   

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Originally posted by Otis P Jivefunk:
 Yeah, the video is freaky, but I prefer it to the song...

I dont like either 

[Reply #271 on:]

 

Originally posted by Impossible:
I managed to see U2's The Sweetest Thing on TV the other day. I'd forgotten how much I like that video. The banners at the top - "I'm sorry", "I'm really sorry!" ... and - correct me if I'm wrong, Alex - was full of things that Bono's wife liked?

Yes, yes it was. Off the top of my head, the song was written because Bono forgot his wife Ali's birthday, and it was written to say sorry to her. It was actually released as a b-side to the Where The Streets Have No Name single (both 7" and 12" ) back in 1987, and was re-done as the promotional single for the 1980-1990 Best Of back in 1998. 

[Reply #272 on:]

Wow, Alex, you know your stuff! 

I got Q magazine today, and it had the 50 top music videos in it. Here's the top 10:

1. Johnny Cash - Hurt (2003)
2. Fatboy Slim - Weapon Of Choice (2001)
3. Michael Jackson - Thriller (1983)
4. Electric Six - Gay Bar (2003)
5. Beastie Boys - Sabotage (1994)
6. Blur - Coffee + TV (1999)
7. Guns N' Roses - November Rain (1992)
8. Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U (1990)
9. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (1991)
10. Missy Elliot - The Rain (Super Dupa Fly) (1997)

[Reply #273 on:]

hmm... i can certainly understand coffed & tv and especially sabotage which has to be one of the coolest videos ever made.

but why smells like teen spirit? if they wanted to put a nirvana video in there, they should've chosen heart shaped box. it's a hell of a lot better. i don't know, smells like teen spirit is a very generic rock video. it's not bad, but it doesn't deserve to be in the top 10.

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Johnny Cash did some really good covers- I like how he covered bands that you wouldn't normally connect him to. Who would've put their money on Johnny Cash covering a NIN song? And a DM one? It's really a crying shame that he's gone (not because of those covers- just in general). I have never seen the video for Hurt, but I hear good things.

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Originally posted by Impossible:
Wow, Alex, you know your stuff!   

I got Q magazine today, and it had the 50 top music videos in it. Here's the top 10:

1. Johnny Cash - Hurt (2003)
2. Fatboy Slim - Weapon Of Choice (2001)
3. Michael Jackson - Thriller (1983)
4. Electric Six - Gay Bar (2003)
5. Beastie Boys - Sabotage (1994)
6. Blur - Coffee + TV (1999)
7. Guns N' Roses - November Rain (1992)
8. Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U (1990)
9. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (1991)
10. Missy Elliot - The Rain (Super Dupa Fly) (1997)

hmm, some of those are a little surprising...i'd also expect to see better ones there...there an online list of the rest floating around somewhere?

[Reply #276 on:]

 

Originally posted by Impossible:
Wow, Alex, you know your stuff!   

Damn right! In fact, I'm watching the Where The Streets Have No Name video right now. Very good. 

[Reply #277 on:]

That's their best one!
Which city was it in? And was it actually filmed illegally or what?

Sweetest Thing wasn't great, when I watch it I just think:
"Pffft, you rich idiot, I wish I had a wife so I could forget her birthday!! You could have paid someone to remind you!"

[Reply #278 on:]

Most of the "Weird Al" Yankovic videos. Especially "Headline News".

[Reply #279 on:]

 

Originally posted by ~FazeShift~:
That's their best one!
Which city was it in? And was it actually filmed illegally or what?

It was filmed in downtown LA. And yes it was shot illegally. Well not really illegally, but the cops didn't like it at all that thousands of people went along.