Slaggis Posted February 2, 2008 Posted February 2, 2008 Decided to make the thread after having a great conversation with Coolness on msn! Music Video's are awesome, or at least they can be when done well. I can find a song kind of "meh" and then see the video and end up loving it! What are some of your favourites, whether you like them because of the style, how fun they are, or how generally awesome they are? Mine, at the moment at least are: Way to Go (Rogue Traders) - Sexy teacher, lots of stripping, enough said! :p (There's also 2 versions of the video, the other is also awesome and completely different to this) D.A.N.C.E (Justice) - Fantastic! Don't You Wanna Feel (Rogue Traders) - Mental Institute, Strange sexy floating woman It's Oh So Quiet (Bjork) - Utterly crazy, and goes fantasically well with the song
EEVILMURRAY Posted February 2, 2008 Posted February 2, 2008 Bollocks to this new age shit, although I will appreciate abit of the Izzy when I check out that Rogue Traders video [j00 have her in your sig and you insult her by spelling it wrong?! SHAME ON j00!] The people want A-Ha and Peter Gabriel. Take On Me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMWXyEHoN88 Sledgehammer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqyc37aOqT0
Paj! Posted February 2, 2008 Posted February 2, 2008 It's Oh So Quiet (Bjork) - Utterly crazy, and goes fantasically well with the song It's Oh So Quiet is probably one of her worst videos. But it's still great. Pagan Poetry is her greatest video, and perhaos THE greatest video I've ever seen. The imagery and simplicity, and the veiled, liquified sex scenes just add together to create art of an amazing quality. The final half is just so intense. Very emotionally raw. It's like a passionate suspense. Not work safe, she's half nude, and the video features self-harm to an extent, and censored sex scenes. I also love Way To Go by RT, but had never seen the vid.
somme Posted February 2, 2008 Posted February 2, 2008 Placebo - Pure Morning - http://youtube.com/watch?v=jQQmAP9Poo4 Nearly won a Brit award back in the day but Robbie Williams beat them to it - and his video was shite. Haven't seen a decent video for years, bands tend to just perform in their videos now which is lame.
Paj! Posted February 2, 2008 Posted February 2, 2008 Placebo - Pure Morning - http://youtube.com/watch?v=jQQmAP9Poo4 Nearly won a Brit award back in the day but Robbie Williams beat them to it - and his video was shite. Haven't seen a decent video for years, bands tend to just perform in their videos now which is lame. Love that song and video! Placebo are the shiz.
Slaggis Posted February 2, 2008 Author Posted February 2, 2008 It's Oh So Quiet is probably one of her worst videos. But it's still great. Pagan Poetry is her greatest video, and perhaos THE greatest video I've ever seen. The imagery and simplicity, and the veiled, liquified sex scenes just add together to create art of an amazing quality. The final half is just so intense. Very emotionally raw. It's like a passionate suspense. Not work safe, she's half nude, and the video features self-harm to an extent, and censored sex scenes. I also love Way To Go by RT, but had never seen the vid. Wow, that video's amazing! I'd never seen it before, she can express emotion incredibly well. Also, there's another version of the "Way To Go" video, it's completely different and was used in the UK for the single. Link
Calza Posted February 2, 2008 Posted February 2, 2008 I didn't used to be keen on Triumph of a Heart (or Medulla for that matter) but it has really grown on me and I love the video for it. I still not keen of the bit in the middle, I don't think it adds to the song at all but it is still a great song just the album version is better.
chairdriver Posted February 2, 2008 Posted February 2, 2008 I didn't used to be keen on Triumph of a Heart (or Medulla for that matter) but it has really grown on me and I love the video for it. I still not keen of the bit in the middle, I don't think it adds to the song at all but it is still a great song just the album version is better. I love. I laugh at that video every time. It's just so random, like a cat-sex. lol. Apparently the bit where she falls over wasn't scripted, and she actually fell over and cut her head really badly, but they just kept it in.
Calza Posted February 2, 2008 Posted February 2, 2008 I had heard she had actually hit her head during the filming and then they got a stunt double to do the fall. So she didn't actually need makeup on her head to make it look real because it was... Well that is what my friend told me but it dosn't really matter anway. It still looks incredibly painful
Raining_again Posted February 2, 2008 Posted February 2, 2008 A couple of my favourites: Muse:Hysteria Muse are win. =D I like the concept of the hysteria vid
ipaul Posted February 2, 2008 Posted February 2, 2008 As EEVIL mentioned, Sledgehammer is an awesome video. I always also quite liked Bohemian Rhapsodys video as well as Believe by The Chemical Brothers. Infact quite a few dance videos (good dance music not the charv crap) have quite interesting music videos to go with them. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0WW8flwpH-Q I especially like that one
Dan_Dare Posted February 2, 2008 Posted February 2, 2008 Once In A Lifetime is awesome. Coolest nerd of all time.
killthenet Posted February 2, 2008 Posted February 2, 2008 Bjork has some damn good videos, mostly care of Michel Gondry, but Cunningham's one for "All Is Full Of Love" is fantastic too. Best one of her's is probably "Hyperballad". Otherwise the video for Liars "Plastercasts Of Everything" is brilliant, "Around The World" by Daft Punk, Andreas Nilson's video for "Silent Shout" by The Knife. "Drop" by Pharcyde. And an honourable mention doing their best Dad dancing.
Paj! Posted February 2, 2008 Posted February 2, 2008 How could I forget All Is Full Of Love!? I'm such a bad Bjork fan...
Dan_Dare Posted February 2, 2008 Posted February 2, 2008 forgot to mention There There ( The Boney King of Nowhere). Not only is this song utterly fucking incredible, but the video is genius: Thom in a forest, tripping out to the sight of animals having tea parties and weddings, all in stop frame animation.
Jamba Posted February 2, 2008 Posted February 2, 2008 Quite a big fan of the Greedy Fly Video by Bush:
AshMat Posted February 2, 2008 Posted February 2, 2008 All the old Foo videos, when they used to dress up and that, were class.
EchoDesiato Posted February 2, 2008 Posted February 2, 2008 Queens of the Stone Age - Go With the Flow. Fast cars and sex all represented in a trippy visual style. What more could you want?
Roostophe Posted February 2, 2008 Posted February 2, 2008 Millencolin - Kemp, great vid with the band as robots. Mad Capsule Markets - Pulse, Awesome vid from the J-Rock badarses. The Vandals - 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, -1, amusing video with the band performing in front of a backdrop, which is another music video. Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight, class song with a clever video.
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