Favorite/Most Memorable Music Videos

Robnark · Post by **Robnark** » Sun Sep 01, 2002 4:23 pm

Originally posted by Mr Sleep
I don't know if it has been mentioned but my most memorable video has to be Come to Daddy by Chris Cunningham for Aphex Twin.

The video is intense, disturbing and blackly humourous. The censors banned it for a while but you could occasionally catch it on MTV alongside such videos as Massive Attacks Blue Lines which featured a strip show to the track...that was actually also really good

Any one who has seen the video will know why it is disturbing, it fits the song perfectly but is also art in itself.

damn straight. i love the aphex twin videos that i've seen - they suit the tracks perfectly. on the downside, they get banned a lot and i don't have all the music channels, so i rarely get to see them.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Sun Sep 01, 2002 4:30 pm

Originally posted by Robnark

damn straight. i love the aphex twin videos that i've seen - they suit the tracks perfectly. on the downside, they get banned a lot and i don't have all the music channels, so i rarely get to see them.

There used to be a show on MTV that showed all the rated X videos, some of them were brilliant (like the Aphex Twin ones) I can understand why they banned the video, it is disturbing after all.

I actually don't like the way that Kerrang seem to play anything at any hour, one can turn it onto Kerrang by accident and be assaulted by images of Slipknot and other such bands whos images are very provocative...

gnomethingy · Post by **gnomethingy** » Sun Sep 01, 2002 10:14 pm

Originally posted by Weasel
HLD got some the greats.

There was a video in the 80's with Stevie Ray Vaughan..(can't remember the name) where the ambulance kept coming and getting him..

Cold shot...

Its HI larios... Ive got it in a tape, always good for a laugh + the song steals all base in itself

Cool videos...

cool videos, Id say..

Pearl jam, do the evolution.. Becouse it took that annoying "Shiny" animated happy little elves thing thats just been making me ill of late (Think, Daft punk) and made it all filthy and cool

Tool, Parabol / Parabola (Just for the weirdness factor)

Outkast, Ms jackson... The singing dog bit just cracked me up

Metallica, One, For a band of Notoriosly miserable Film clips this is a masterfull effort

Obvoisly, theres many many more.. Thats all I can think off at the moment

gnomethingy · Post by **gnomethingy** » Sun Sep 01, 2002 10:18 pm

Originally posted by Ode to a Grasshopper
Nothing to be embarassed about. Tool is a band, slightly more heavy than I usually listen to but very skilled musically.
Perfect for playing first-person shooters to.

On tool, I know its off topic but ffft....

I am being forced to accept vast amounts of stick for saying that Lateralis is there best album,

I mean, C'mon.. Lets be serios, It kicks the crap out of all there other stuff, its lyrics make more sense, it sounds better, it rules!

I saw them twice this year.. They jumped up the price on the second go around but I didnt care

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Mon Sep 02, 2002 4:08 pm

Originally posted by gnomethingy
Pearl jam, do the evolution.. Becouse it took that annoying "Shiny" animated happy little elves thing thats just been making me ill of late (Think, Daft punk) and made it all filthy and cool

A truly excellent video, it is definately filthy and also quite sad at the same time, but an impressive comment on the Nuclear era. I like the whole juxtapose of images in that video, they mix so many natural images with entirely unnatural.

humanflyz · Post by **humanflyz** » Mon Sep 02, 2002 6:30 pm

The most captivating video I've seen recently is the Point Of Authority by Linkin Park. It's so cool..... I am sucker for giant battling robots.

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Mon Sep 02, 2002 6:48 pm

That reminds me of another good video:

"In the End" by Linkin Park-A great song that has a video that uses computer animation vs live action and all together, youve got a pretty cool video. My favorite part was when he was stepping on the arid ground, grass grows wherever he steps, and when he lifts his foot off the ground, the grass that grew dies. That was cool.

gnomethingy · Post by **gnomethingy** » Mon Sep 02, 2002 8:10 pm

Originally posted by Mr Sleep

A truly excellent video, it is definately filthy and also quite sad at the same time, but an impressive comment on the Nuclear era. I like the whole juxtapose of images in that video, they mix so many natural images with entirely unnatural.

Mcfarlane (SP?) .. They do dang good videos,

I beleive they did that Korn one, (Cannea remember the name, couse I dun like Korn)

And a few other... All good Videos

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Mon Sep 02, 2002 8:18 pm

Originally posted by gnomethingy

Cold shot...

Its HI larios... Ive got it in a tape, always good for a laugh + the song steals all base in itself

Thanks, I will see If I can find it.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Tue Sep 03, 2002 2:52 am

Originally posted by gnomethingy
Mcfarlane (SP?) .. They do dang good videos,

I beleive they did that Korn one, (Cannea remember the name, couse I dun like Korn)

Didn't he do the cartoon of Spawn?

I was going to mention the Korn one, I can only remember the words really "Something takes a part of me..." etc, i am not that big a fan of Korn but that video is excellent.

Ode to a Grasshopper · Tue Sep 03, 2002 6:11 am

Originally posted by gnomethingy

On tool, I know its off topic but ffft....

I am being forced to accept vast amounts of stick for saying that Lateralis is there best album,

I mean, C'mon.. Lets be serios, It kicks the crap out of all there other stuff, its lyrics make more sense, it sounds better, it rules!

I saw them twice this year.. They jumped up the price on the second go around but I didnt care

I've only heard Aenima, but it's very well done IMO. And I've seen the video clip for Parabola, it was very weird indeed.

gnomethingy · Post by **gnomethingy** » Tue Sep 03, 2002 6:17 am

Originally posted by Ode to a Grasshopper
I've only heard Aenima, but it's very well done IMO. And I've seen the video clip for Parabola, it was very weird indeed.

I heavily recomend Lateralis, it has much more tension and is more ambient than any other...Less heavy on alot of tracks but overall much MUCH better

..... Yes, Mcfarlane did do spawn (Never saw it myself, 'part from the live action movie which was VERE bad)

He also does these 'action figures' from campy old horror movies and the like, LIKE ASH FROM EVIL DEAD!!! WA-HEY!!! Chain saw, shotgun, the whole deal!!!

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Tue Sep 03, 2002 6:55 am

Originally posted by Tybaltus
But are there any you particularly hate/dislike?

I generally don't like concert videos. Aside from being cheap to produce, what's the point? So you get to see the band playing in an arena or stadium--big whoop. They generally don't add anything to a song, so I think they're superflous and are only made to say there's a video for the song (after all, since the advent of MTV in 1980, it's hard to have a hit song without an accompanying video).

There are only two good concert videos that I actually like, "Wanted Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi and "Faithfully" by Journey. Of course, neither are true concert videos because there's lots of behind-the-scenes stuff going on.

Ned Flanders · Post by **Ned Flanders** » Tue Sep 03, 2002 12:15 pm

Favorite/most memorable videos

Divinyls - I touch myself

Van Halen - Hot for Teacher

Neil Young - Wonderin'

This is in no particular order but I read the thread title and these were the first three that popped in my head. Well, ok, Divinyls is number 1.

smass · Post by **smass** » Tue Sep 03, 2002 12:48 pm

I was watching MTV at my neighbors house when it first came on the air - dude had cable first in town - his dad had pull - so my video perspective is from the 80s baby:

- Duran Duran - RIO - theres something about chicks and sailboats.

- U2 - NewYears Day - snow and agnst - what a combo.

- Tom Petty - You got lucky - Petty meets Roadwarrior - Petty is the king.

These are my top three - I turn on MTV today and my eyes cross - kind of like my father's did when he first saw Motley Crue - must be getting old - I am a VH1 kind of guy now.

Scott Evil · Post by **Scott Evil** » Tue Sep 03, 2002 12:48 pm

well here i some videos that i've enjoyed, some of these i was suprised nobody said anything about

a-ha - take on me
everyone's gotta love this video

collective soul - the world i know
kinda cheesy, but i like the idea

billy joel - we didn't start the fire
one of my all time favorites, plus, it's a nice hisoty lesson at the same time

blind melon - no rain
i really really like this one. same director as smells like teen spirit, funny that all the guys who he directs videos for die.

eminem - without me
kinda funny i guess

eminem - stan
pretty good for a rap video

foo fighters - everlong
waaay good. i love the giant telephone, and i soo wana do my hair like dave grohl in this video

foo fighters - learn to fly
very funny

lots and lots of other foo fighter videos, most of them are good

guns n' roses - november rain
of course this is on my list

metallica - enter sandman
kinda creepy, fits really well with the song

rammstein - du hast
never really understood it, but still pretty cool

rammstein - links 234
i like the ants, they're cool

REM - losing my religion
didn't understand this one either, but maybe my favorite video

smashing pumpkins - 1979
i like the cinematography, quite enjoyable

smashing pumpkins - perfect
i like how it has the same people as 1979, it's like a sequel, or maybe it's the prequel, i dunno

smashing pupmkins - tonight tonight
i like the old feel to it, and the aliens are just way to cool

tenacious d - tribute
hilarious, true jack black style

van halen - right now
always makes me feel bad that i'm just sitting there watching a music video

and i wanna say that spike jones wins my award for best video director

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Tue Sep 03, 2002 1:03 pm

Originally posted by Scott Evil

billy joel - we didn't start the fire
one of my all time favorites, plus, it's a nice hisoty lesson at the same time

blind melon - no rain
i really really like this one. same director as smells like teen spirit, funny that all the guys who he directs videos for die.

REM - losing my religion
didn't understand this one either, but maybe my favorite video

smashing pupmkins - tonight tonight
i like the old feel to it, and the aliens are just way to cool

tenacious d - tribute
hilarious, true jack black style

OK-good picks. Lets see how I can comment on the ones above....

"We didnt start the fire" was a very good video. I have made a few different music videos for old film classes that I took. And the first thing I do is try to get a grand vision of what I want to do in the video that flows in concordance to the lyrics. This is one song that crossed my mind and I really couldnt come up with anything too great. Certainly this video did.

"No Rain" was a strange video. But it was quite memorable. That little girl in the yellow and black dress, with the gates and flowing grasslands. Certainly this one is stuck in my mind for a while.

"Losing My Religeon" was a classic. When I first saw it, I didnt really understand it, cause I think I was 8 or something. But it was a very emotional video, that I think stirred a bit of contraversy. Which can be a good thing, as long as it wasnt offensive or rude contraversy.

"Tonight Tonight" Is a very original video, Ill give you that. Kind of strange how the director envisioned this video. I would never have thought of it quite like that.

"Tribute" is indeed, a humerous video. I thought it was a joke when I first saw it, because I never heard of the song before I saw the video. I think this is one song that just doesnt work well on the radio/stereo but it works perfectly on tv.

BTW-Welcome to SYM, Scott. Always good to see new faces.

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Tue Sep 03, 2002 4:58 pm

An excellent new video - Envy by Ash - it's got a bunch of new bands in the back of a taxi, kissing each other...The White Stripes getting off, The Hives kissing rather passionately etc...it is very funny, but cheerful too

gnomethingy · Post by **gnomethingy** » Tue Sep 03, 2002 8:22 pm

Fatboy Slim : Right here, Right now

Does anything beat that guys shirt? (Im NO.1 So why try harder?)

Robert Plant : Big log

This is not good, nor is the song, Its actually an education in just how bad music / filmclips can be, and thusly worth watching all the same

SpiderBait : Shazzam

Just pure gold

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Mon Sep 30, 2002 7:23 pm

Well there are a couple of videos Ive seen recently that Id classify as memorable....

E=mc2 by Big Audio Dynamite- There are a lot of strong visual effects to the lyrics in the song and they backed it up in the video by showing lots of memorable images tied together into a video.

Blue Monday by New Order- Well this has got to be one of the strangest videos Ive ever come in contact with. There were lots of random kids drawing in it-and when I say random, I mean like modern art type of random. It was strange. And there were also some increadibly confusing shots of a dog balancing on random objects like a tennis ball, chairs, and tables. This was a wierd, wierd video.