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Music Videos You Like

Started by Clownbaby, July 07, 2018, 04:01:55 PM

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Quote from: Phoenix Lazarus on July 08, 2018, 08:42:25 PMAnyone else remember the pure brilliance of the video for Sledgehammer, by Peter Gabriel?

No, everyone in the world apart from you has forgotten the video to Sledgehammer. A sad day

Vodka Margarine

That Feeder video with all those teenagers singing along in their bedrooms. I don't much care for Feeder - everything they ever did was ultimately done better by the band they happened to be aping at the time (Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead etc) - but that video popped up on YouTube recently so I watched it for a bit of silly nostalgia. I then spent a frankly unreasonable amount of time feeling a bit sad and 'days are gone' about it, just thinking about all those goofy kids and what became of them. I hope they're all ok.

DukeDeMondo

I really love the video for "Welcome To Heartbreak" by Kanye West. I've been watching it loads recently. The datamoshing and whatever the hell else is going on is compelling enough, but it's the endearingly awkward and clumsy shapes that our man throws throughout that make it, far as I'm concerned.

batwings

Some ones I've enjoyed of late:

Carpenter Brut † TURBO KILLER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er416Ad3R1g

Juno Reactor - Let's Turn On
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rzrsD5bL6s

Orbital - Tiny Foldable Cities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CC5aX8OzOI

Radiohead - Day Dreaming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTAU7lLDZYU


Captain Z

As someone who watched a lot of MTV Dance between 2003-2005 I appreciate the video for Poker Pets 'Lovin You':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPaBXbf2390

Chemical Brothers 'Star Guitar' is another favourite on a geeky level:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S43IwBF0uM

manticore

The best videos are the ones in your head. "Seen videos are sweet, but those unseen are sweeter."

lazarou

One of the things I love most about K-Pop is that they never lost the art of the great video. Even mid tier groups will put serious effort into one, bless 'em. My favourites shift around all the time, but these are always on constant rotation:

Peek-A-Boo by Red Velvet. Sinister and silly, backed by a great tune and it just looks fantastic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uJf2IT2Zh8

'Last Night Story' by IU. Taking an old '80s korean pop song and retrofitting it in an indie girl-group style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxcxskPKtiI

Triple H (No, not that one) with '365 Fresh'. Bit try-hard maybe but I really like the fit with the song on this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gPQenyj1nI

Clownbaby


Quote from: Captain Z on July 09, 2018, 12:20:41 AM

Chemical Brothers 'Star Guitar' is another favourite on a geeky level:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S43IwBF0uM

Amazing song, amazing video


wosl

Quote from: soaking wet, mate on July 08, 2018, 03:27:34 PM
Brilliant track and video, shoulda been massive:

Beta Band - Assessment
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5XdUt3iIkZ4

Bought the CD largely on the back of a single viewing of this! (A choon in its own right, of course.)

Always liked the ones Anton Corbijn did for a couple of early David Sylvian solo singles.  Knowingly pretentious, but still a visual treat; another example of homages-cum-parodies being as beautiful as the art they mimic (in this case both early American landscape and Surrealist photography, and the fixed or langourous tracking shots of figures picked out against buildings or set against landscape-scrub of the sort you get in Antonioni and Tarkovsky.  The close-up of the horse in the first vid could be an outtake from one of Bergman's later '60s Faroe Island films):

Red Guitar
The Ink In The Well

buzby

Quote from: Better Midlands on July 09, 2018, 02:08:34 PM
Amazing song, amazing video
Gondry's demo explaining the process used to make the video is worth a watch too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF0-wGbRqEs
It's very much the evolution of the technique he used for The White Stripes' The Hardest Button To Button

Famous Mortimer

Anton Corbijn made some belters, definitely.

I'll give you a nice list of Die Arzte videos. They're a German pop-punk band, been around since the early 80s, and even though you can't understand what they're banging on about (unless you speak German, presumably) their videos are still visual treats, telling a story or just having a laugh.

EDIT: You may have heard of them a few years ago, when in response to a rise in xenophobic violence in Germany, their single "Schrei Nach Liebe" (Scream For Love) was re-released due to a social media campaign, got to no.1, and the band donated the entirety of the proceeds to a refugee charity.

Junge (Unzensiert)
Rock n Roll Ubermensch
Schrei Nach Leibe
Unrockbar
Leid Vom Scheitern

There's loads though, if these interest you.


Ron Superior

I enjoy the videos Ft. Langley have been doing. They've done a few with Aidan Knight, and this is my favourite. I love the song too and think they work well together:
https://youtu.be/JdOkpUS_iYM

Also, JSBX directed by Weird Al!
https://youtu.be/CIgz9HvsVjA

Fisher Goes Berserk

I love most of Die Antwoord's videos, and find the songs a bit dull without them.

This is my favourite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uee_mcxvrw&;

Clownbaby

Quote from: Fisher Goes Berserk on July 10, 2018, 10:14:31 AM
I love most of Die Antwoord's videos, and find the songs a bit dull without them.

This is my favourite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uee_mcxvrw&

I love Die Antwoord. As a visual/music combination they are just fierce.

Fisher Goes Berserk

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Quote from: Clownbaby on July 10, 2018, 10:34:54 AM
I love Die Antwoord. As a visual/music combination they are just fierce.

I remember watching the video for 'Enter the Ninja' and feeling the same way as I did the first time I heard the Sugarcubes. Absolute bewilderment and joy.

Edit: the stuff they did as Maxnormal.TV is wonderful as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_7uYhN0Pbw

Quote from: Clownbaby on July 10, 2018, 10:34:54 AM
I love Die Antwoord. As a visual/music combination they are just fierce.

The time Kanye & Ninja played basketball at Drake's.

https://youtu.be/Rqa8p1xbjds

Clownbaby


Clownbaby

Quote from: Fisher Goes Berserk on July 10, 2018, 10:45:24 AM
I remember watching the video for 'Enter the Ninja' and feeling the same way as I did the first time I heard the Sugarcubes. Absolute bewilderment and joy.

Edit: the stuff they did as Maxnormal.TV is wonderful as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_7uYhN0Pbw

Maxnormal.TV, Watkin Tudor Jones' solo stuff, I discovered all of this recently and it's great. He's got such a unique voice and delivery. Bugs me when people think Die Antwoord are a dumb act cause you just need to dig a bit to find out about what they were up to before Die Antwoord. They've got hidden depths

Bhazor

Lil Xan - Betrayed

Terrible terrible song.
Awful awful video.

But I realised it's basically Limmy's Dee Dee character as a rapper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbfK7dei7ec

A rapper who was recently hospitalised for eating too many cheetos.

https://abc3340.com/news/entertainment/rapper-lil-xan-hospitalized-after-indulging-in-too-many-flamin-hot-cheetos-09-28-2018

kittens

Quote from: Clownbaby on July 10, 2018, 04:33:47 PM
Maxnormal.TV, Watkin Tudor Jones' solo stuff, I discovered all of this recently and it's great. He's got such a unique voice and delivery. Bugs me when people think Die Antwoord are a dumb act cause you just need to dig a bit to find out about what they were up to before Die Antwoord. They've got hidden depths

listen to the constructus corporation bud, best thing he ever did

alan nagsworth

Quote from: kittens on September 30, 2018, 11:56:29 PM
listen to the constructus corporation bud, best thing he ever did

You think so? It's probably my least favourite along with Die Antwoord (whom I've long thought should have packed it in after the first album, an average joke stretched way too thin).

"The Fantastic Kill" is my favourite thing Waddy did, by a country mile. The dude has so many styles and voices, it's compelling in its surrealism and humour. Him and Yolandi also seem like they're just extremely lovely people, too.

kittens

yeah, it's banger after banger after banger. plus i'm a sucker for a concept album. couldn't get in to fantastic kill, i remember it sounding all aggressive and i guess i got frightened. memoirs of a clone is more up my street. been a few years since i listened to either though so maybe i should give it another try.

alan nagsworth

:( I'm sorry you got frightened

kittens

i'm tougher now so i'll try again

a duncandisorderly

Quote from: buzby on July 09, 2018, 02:41:50 PM
Gondry's demo explaining the process used to make the video is worth a watch too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF0-wGbRqEs
It's very much the evolution of the technique he used for The White Stripes' The Hardest Button To Button

this was one of the earlier gondry jobs that actually registered as being his work, because we (mtv staffers) stopped & stared when it came on. this, "army of me", "snowbound", "high head blues"... he was no slouch. prolific, inventive.. I still can't figure out how he did "sugar water". a mate of mine interviewed one of cibo matto for his fanzine recently, & they didn't know either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY5zaDZq0sc

alan nagsworth

Never been a fan of David Shrigley on the whole - in fact I think most stuff he's done is basically just shit - and Blur don't particularly blow my mind, but they come together perfectly in the "Good Song" video. The leaf blower stuff at the end cracks me up:

https://youtu.be/VRrJugyk1Yw

Portal's "Curtain" video is definitely one of the most dark and disturbing music videos I can think of:

https://youtu.be/2Vyw_FGIhAE

As well as being pretty much the only Dirty Projectors song I like (mostly because the bloke isn't singing with his awful voice), "Stillness is the Move" also has a wonderful video. I adore this song. The bit at 1:48 where Deradoorian and the other two girls are dancing with the matching blue dresses is one of my favourite little bits in any video. Mesmerising:

https://youtu.be/YMPF6lpM0XM

Chriddof

Quote from: Porter Dimi on July 08, 2018, 08:44:08 PM
Grandaddy - Way We Won't


watch it til the end

I did, and Youtube ruined it by sticking two great big thumbnail links to other videos over most of the screen at the worst possible moment.