Best music video of all time!
 

One of the best imo would be the Chemical Brothers' Elektrobank. I only saw it a few times and it was short-lived on mtv, but it was excellent. . . .Has anyone ever seen it or have new suggestions?

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All The Small Things - Blink-182

pretty f-ing funny at the time

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Some memorable ones imo:

"Tonight,tonight" by the Smashing Pumpkins
"Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys
"Thriller" by Michael Jackson
"Paranoid Android" by Radiohead

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Renegades of Funk by RATM, and it's not close.

-Diplomat

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One of the best imo would be the Chemical Brothers' Elektrobank. I only saw it a few times and it was short-lived on mtv, but it was excellent. . . .Has anyone ever seen it or have new suggestions?

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It is, indeed, a great video.

Others of note:

Paranoid Android (Radiohead)
Hello Skinny (The Residents)
Whip It (Devo)
Prison Sex (Tool)
Ashes To Ashes (David Bowie)

These last two still sort of frighten me.

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Metallica - One
Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up
GN'R - Don't Cry/November Rain/Estranged (up until the dolphin)

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Metallica - One
Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up
GN'R - Don't Cry/November Rain/Estranged (up until the dolphin)

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One: good but nothing great
Smack my bitch up: amazing. great choice
GNR: horrible. Way too long and overdone.

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"Once in a Lifetime"
- Talking Heads

Nice. **NM**
 

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That one by Beck was cool - Where its at.

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I recommend you drop what you are doing and run to the store and buy "Odelay" right now. If you have any money left, buy "Mutations".

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That's been my favourite video for ages. I've searched and searched the 'net for places i could download it with no luck. Anyone have any suggestions?

Add Teardrop by Massive Attack too. Star Guitar - Chemical Brothers too.

edit: they just released a dvd with all the singles on [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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"Hurt" Johnny Cash

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I don't care for music videos. Do you see why?

Woody

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Pearl Jam: Do the Evolution

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as far as artistry goes, any Tool video is way out in front of anything else ever done, and its not even close. Unfortunately, the music video isnt a tool for artists, its just a vehicle to give young boys a boner or to make stupid girls pee on the floor. So in that light I'm going with that whitesnake video with tawny kitain in it....mmmm mmm mmmmm!!

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Videos do suck, but, Prison sex was awesome (any other tool video I've seen for that matter) As far as boner vid's Tawney's is way up there, how about Cherry Pie? I understand that the song/band were worse than dental surgery, but that chick was hot as hell!

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Years ago The Replacements were forced (or something to that effect) to do a video by their record company and doing videos apparently wasn't their idea of what rock was supposed to be about. So they simply had a still shot of somebody (probably a band member, maybe Paul Westerburg) slightly off camera sitting on a couch. All you could see was his arm as he smoked a cigarette. In the background was a speaker with the cover off so you could see the woofer moving as it played one of their songs. That was it ;-)

I treasure the fact that I grew up to rock without videos, and have my own images of what a song may be trying to illicit.

~ Rick

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Radiohead's "Just" is also pretty good. That White Stripes one by Sofia Coppola is nay bad - Kate Moss poledancing usually does it for me. Heart-shaped Box by Nirvana's pretty strong.

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All The Small Things - Blink-182

pretty f-ing funny at the time

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"First Date" had a great video too.

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Any and all videos directed by chris cunningham

k

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Come on now. "Put 'Em on the Glass," Sir Mix-a-Lot. MTV can't even show the very best videos.

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Whitesnake - "Here I Go Again"
Tawny Kitaen on the hood of that car....nice.

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Peter Gabriel "Sledgehammer"
Genesis "I can´t dance"
Alanis Morisette "Ironic"

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I don't watch a lot of Music Videos but The video that Johnny Cash did last year for his cover of Nine Inch Nails 'Hurt' was incredible.

I think MTV aired it twice. So if you missed it, you missed something truly great. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Bubbagump

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chris Isaac's Wicked Game.

-AA

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There is a version of the "The Man Comes Around" CD that has a bonus DVD of the "Hurt" video. Although I already had a copy of the CD when I found about the CD w/bonus DVD version I ordered it immediately... the "Hurt" video is just too f'in' good to not have a copy of.

"Wicked Game" is probably the 2nd best video of all time, but Johnny Cash's "Hurt" is the 1st and it's not close.

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"Jeremy" by Pearl Jam

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Wasted Years. Iron Maiden

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The one with Christopher Walken dancing all over the place was cool.

"After the Rain" Nelson
"Land of Confusion" Genesis
"Black and White" Michael Jackson

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I like Radiohead's Paranoid Android and Just. WTF does that guy say at the end? Also, I'm not much of a fan of the song, but love the part at the end of Radiohead, UNKLE & DJ Shadow's Rabbit In Your Headlights when the guy gets hit by the car and the car is totally destroyed. Very cool. I also think Coldplay's Trouble is a very cool and well-done video. Of course I also have to mention Tonight, Tonight by The Smashing Pumpkins, but I think my favorite video of theirs (and one of my favorite songs) is Rocket.

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I am kinda partial to "whip it" by Devo.

al

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Peter Gabriel "Sledgehammer"


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AARRGGH! That video (and the song) makes me stabby.

This debate is pointless- Billy Idol's 'Cradle of Love' is the clear winner. It had the hottest woman ever to grace a television screen.

I would put 'Sabotage' 2nd, with 'Land of Confusion' running third.

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two videos that I liked whose songs I pretty much hated were Take on Me and Opposites Attract. I thought they were cool, but the songs were just blech.

I also liked She Blinded Me With Science.

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You are all nuts. This category begins and ends with Thriller.

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"Epic" by Faith No More. The one where the piano explodes after playing itself, not the p*ssy edited version.

I also like all the Metallica videos, for the same reasons I listen to Danzig.

Honorable mention goes to the Aerosmith videos with Alicia Silverstone, though that might just be a product of the fact that I was of a rather, shall we say, "tender" age when they came out.

And I give a major salute to rtrombone, who mentioned Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Put Em On Da Glass." Sheer genius.

-McGee

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Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart

Thats My Vote
 

All though time hasn't been kind to her.

Sabotage
 

By the Beasties and it is not close.

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"After the Rain" Nelson

Hilarious. Dude, you have just become my favorite poster ever.