[Heccubus]

Okay, so the music video seems to have a bad rap, thanks to MTV, but sometimes there are some amazing works of art set to music that slip through the video channel's fingers, or are forced into late-night programming. Or, even mainstream videos that plain kick ass. Just list some favourites, if you have any.

• Anything by The White Stripes, except "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself"
• Aphex Twin - "Come To Daddy"
• Anything by Bjork
• Broken Social Scene - "Cause = Time"
• Green Jelly - "Three Little Pigs"
• GWAR - "Meat Sandwich"
• Stephen Malkmus - "JoJo's Jacket"
• Radiohead - "Just", "Street Spirit", "Knives Out", and "Pyramid Song"
• UNKLE - "Rabbit In Your Headlights"
• The Chemical Brothers - "Star Guitar"
• Foo Fighters - "Everlong"
• Oh hell, anything Michel Gondry has ever laid his God-like hands upon
• I can't think of any others right now.

[barend]

• Aphex Twin - "Come To Daddy"
• Anything by Bjork
• Radiohead - "Just"

• MINISTRY - "Reload", "Flashback", (well all of them i guess - but those 2favs)
• OhGr - "Cracker", "maJik"
• SEPULTURA - "Ratamahata"
• Wall Of Voodoo - "Mexican Radio"
• Bomb The Bass - "Bug powder dust"
• WEEN - "can't put my finger on it"
• Aphex Twin - "Windowlicker"
• David Bowie - "Ashes to Ashes", "I'm Afraid of Americans", "Blue Gene"
• The Firm - "Star Trekkin"
• YELLO - "oh, yeah"
• SKINNY PUPPY - "Spazmolytic", "Dig it", "smothered hope" (just for the hair)
• IGGY POP - "five foot one", "bored"
• DEAD MILKMEN - "punk rock girl"
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Catholic School Girls Rule", "fight like a brave"
• NIRVANA - "Heart Shaped Box"
• Killing Joke - "Eighties", "Money is not our God"
• Faith No More - "Another Body Murder" (w/Boo Yaa Tribe), "A small Victory"

to name a few.

[Heccubus]

Aphex Twin - "Windowlicker"

Awesome video, but the full-length one drags on a bit too much at the beginning. I like to have the ginormous limo appear right away, not ten minutes into it. In fact, the following directors rarely make a poor video:

• Michel Gondry
• Chris Cunningham (director of both Aphex Twin videos mentioned thus far)
• Spike Jonze
• Shynola (see: "Pyramid Song" by Radiohead)

Also, for specific videos:

• The Chemical Brothers - "Elektrobank"
• Alexisonfire - "Waterwings And Other Poolside Fashion Faux Pas" (Possibly the best dance-off sequences ever)
• Blur - "Coffee And TV"
• ALL of the Gorillaz videos (especially "Clint Eastwood", which is so laden with pop culture references that it makes my head spin)
• Sonic Youth - "Bull In The Heather"
• Pixies - "Here Comes Your Man" and "Debaser"
• Any and all Beck videos
• The Flaming Lips - "Fight Test" and "Do You Realize??"

[Reader]

[*]Alexisonfire - "Waterwings And Other Poolside Fashion Faux Pas" (Possibly the best dance-off sequences ever)

Rivalling that of that one Run DMC remix by Boys Against Girls. Nothing kicks more ass than that guy who gives his opponents a face fulla 'fro before he does his shit.

Anyway, i have favorite videos but i... forget. been so very very long since i watched a music video all the way through. Shame on me. I can name a bunch of live-perfomance videos i like, but that's off topic so i'll spare you.

[Stongbah]

I never watch any music videos so the two best that I know of are Weezer: Buddy Holly and Pennywise: F uck Authority

[A Mighty Pirate]

The Fatboy slim song where Christopher Walken Dances.

Enough Said.

[barend]

Sonic Youth - "Bull In The Heather"

i've got that clip somewhere, but i can't find it!!!

after i first saw it, i fell in love with that girl with the pigtails that runs around annoying everyone!!!!

[Jordan]

Oh man, I can't believe none of you thought of -----

FOO FIGHTERS---BIG ME


That music video is hilarious! I love David Grohl's smile, it makes me smile.

[Heccubus]

The pinnacle of Foo Fighters video exists within "Everlong".

[Jane Sherwood]

The Fatboy slim song where Christopher Walken Dances.

Enough Said.

Agreed. That and the Clint Eastwood video, even though I've only seen them once. I may be a bit biased simply because I love the songs themselves, but I like Foo Fighter's "Learn to Fly", "Wonder Boy" and "Tribute" by Tenacious D (well, parts of them...the downloads screwed up before I could see the whole things), "Take on Me" by Reel Big Fish (for Baseketball), and a few other that I can't remember off the top of my head.

I'd really like to see that Pennywise video now, too.

[barend]

I can't believe the Beastie Boys have yet to be brought up...

[Jane Sherwood]

Christ, I haven't listened to the Beastie Boys since I was twelve or thirteen...

I really liked the videos for Intergalactic and Body Move It (is that what it's called? Like I said, it's been quite a while). That one mainly sticks out because the video looked like that move Diabolique, which was also the last episode of MST3K.

Maybe not one of my all-time favorites, but it's memorable at least.

[Heccubus]

The Beastie Boys reached their peak video-wise with "Sabotage". I should also mention "Main Offender" by the Hives. It seems fitting to do so with their new album merely weeks away. Any video that pits a band against their alter-egoes in a poorly choreographed fist fight is okay by me.

[A Mighty Pirate]

I had "Check your Head"(the cd) in the second grade.

I thought it was the coolest thing because they said "fuck".


My mom took it away.