[Slade]

Fat Boy Slim's music video Weapon of Choice is the single greatest achievement in all of cinema. I dislike the song but the video is just so awesome I don't care. You just can't argue with Christopher Walken getting fun-kay. Any other friggin' great music videos out there?

This post has been edited by Slade: 17 October 2004 - 05:37 PM

[Heccubus]

Anything that Michel Gondry has placed his brilliant hands upon. "Fell In Love With A Girl", "Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground", and "The Hardest Button To Button" by the White Stripes are all good, as are "Army Of Me", "Hyperballad" and "Human Behaviour" by Bjork. He's also done great things with The Rolling Stones, Beck, Foo Fighters ("Everlong" stands as both my favourite Foo song and video), and a slew of other bands. The videos that Chris Cunningham did for Aphex Twin are great as well ("Windowlicker" and "Come To Daddy"). I also enjoy Spike Jonze's work. He did the Fatboy Slim video that you mentioned, Slade, as well as the video for "Praise You". Those three directors aside, however, I'm very picky about videos.

[Melissa]

Fat Boy Slim's music video Weapon of Choice is the single greatest achievement in all of cinema. I dislike the song but the video is just so awesome I don't care. You just can't argue with Christopher Walken getting fun-kay. Any other friggin' great music videos out there?

Agreed, excellent music video!

The videos that Chris Cunningham did for Aphex Twin are great as well ("Windowlicker" and "Come To Daddy").

very scary stuff!

[civilian_number_two]

My faves include Michel Gondry as well: "Around the World" and that Kylie Minogue video --- you know the one.

I'm old school, though, and have fond memories of pretty dumb videos from the 80s and 90s as well, and there's a long period between then and now where I didn't really much follow music, so ....

[Slade]

Yeah, I've never really followed music at all. I just find something I like and say "Hey, this sounds cool." I don't bother learning all of the information about bands, don't really stay in touch with the music scene, or enjoy discussing it too much any farther than "This band has an awesome bassist, but their guitars are all boring power chords." and stuff like that. Except for classical piano, mainly Beethoven, because in playing it, there's a part of my brain that goes into analyze mode as I learn the piece.

[FastEddie]

I do like the clip to weapon of choice, but I'm not sure if it's the single greatest achievement in cinema. Combining music and cinema, I'd have to argue for both Pink Floyd's "The wall", and "Quadrophenia" by the Who. But thats just me.

[civilian_number_two]

You must mean TOMMY. QUADROPHENIA doesn't really link the music and the film at all. For one, the lyrics are entirely in the background. QUADROPHENIA is a movie about the same themes included in the music of the album, sure, but there's no intrinsic conection. You have to have already heard the album a bunch of times and listened to the lyrics.

[FastEddie]

I bow to your superior knowledge, civilian number two. I'd listened to Quadrophenia before I saw the film. I saw it a while ago, but wasn't that the one which started off with the kid on the scooter, and it zoomed out to the cliffs? With Baba'O Riely? I thought that was a great scene. Tommy was a great film though.

[Melissa]

Check this out! Some great videos.

[civilian_number_two]

I bow to your superior knowledge, civilian number two. I'd listened to Quadrophenia before I saw the film. I saw it a while ago, but wasn't that the one which started off with the kid on the scooter, and it zoomed out to the cliffs? With Baba'O Riely? I thought that was a great scene. Tommy was a great film though.

I'd have to watch it again. You seem to remember the film (although that's the end, not the beginning), but I don't think Baba O' Reilly is in that film. It's not on the album. You might be confusing the score Pete Townsend wrote to flesh it out.