Music Videos You Like

[a duncandisorderly]

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.

a lot of the gondry stuff I rabbit-holed a few hours ago were similarly marred. yt really has gone shit the last couple of years.

[Better Midlands]

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

I love that song, his other output is mostly trash though. The video fits the track, shows what you can do on a low budget with Adobe Premiere skills nowadays.

"And her pussy tastes like Skittles, what?
Yeah, ay, and you can really taste the rainbow."

Always makes me smile

Not a fan of mumble/Soundcloud rap, but this is really catchy and a great instrumental too.

The Dee Dee reference is spot on.

[Lord Mandrake]

Beasties, Shadrach.

https://youtu.be/fhMQ_i4KmPU

[Phil_A]

De Staat, WITCH DOCTAAAAAAH

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

[non capisco]

Beasties, Shadrach.

https://youtu.be/fhMQ_i4KmPU

Yeah, that one's wonderful. My favourite Beasties tune of all as well.

[Lord Mandrake]

My favourite Beasties tune of all as well.

It's 'Gratitude' (crap video) for me Clive but Shadrach deffo top 5.

[EOLAN]

Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler.

And not just because I am perving over all the finely toned young male bodies throughout the video. Yet for all its weirdness; I assume it is set in an old-fashioned English boarding school but then for a brief second they appear to be wearing American football gear rather than good old rugger.

Anyway it pretty much comes across to me as a documentary of Boris Johnson, David Cameron et al's school days.

[Clownbaby]

De Staat, WITCH DOCTAAAAAAH

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

Yaaaas

[buzby]

Peter Fox's Alles Neu (the sampling of Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony was later shamelessly ripped off on Plan B's Ill Manors).
Also, as posted in the other thread, LSD's Thunderclouds - like a live action Studio Ghibli short.

[studpuppet]

I just got reminded of the Serafinovicz-directed Hot Chip videos:

I Feel Better

Night And Day

Bonkers, but brilliant.

[alan nagsworth]

Gorgeous, bewildering sci-fi stop motion-style video for Yeasayer's "I Am Chemistry"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XzqCUbiPc4

[yesitsme]

I remember when we were young we loved the Ultravoxes or was it yer Midges of this world on his own video for Love's Great Adventure.

Because half way through he stopped, got his breath back and carried on.

Different times.

[rasta-spouse]

A music video that's always on my mind is Radiohead's No Surprises. I've never been able to work out what it's about, upside down in a bubble with lights going on and off.

[holyzombiejesus]

I think Roots Manuva's Witness video is my favourite but also remember Notwist's Pick Up The Phone fondly. That Arab Strap one where they're playing at a wedding and Aidan gets punched out is a good 'un too.

[buzby]

A music video that's always on my mind is Radiohead's No Surprises. I've never been able to work out what it's about, upside down in a bubble with lights going on and off.

Grant Gee says he was inspired by the line "A job that slowly kills you' (he had been following the band to make a documentary of the world tour and could see how they were being run into the ground by the corporate machine), a still of Dave Bowman's head in his helmet from 2001 he had on the wall above his desk, a magician attempting Houdini's underwater escape he saw on Blue Peter when he was a kid and the Aliens from UFO that had green liquid in their space helmets. He wanted to see if he could make a 3 minute video out of a single locked camera shot like the still from 2001, and added in the other influences to make it interesting

I presume you have seen the behind the scenes postage that was included in Meeting People Is Easy of the failed takes from filming it? It explains the look of triumph on Thom's face at the end of the successful take

[Cuellar]

Seeing as I'm currently listening to it, I find the video to Richard Dawson's The Vile Stuff the right mix of sinister and joyful. Everyone's having a jolly good time, it seems. But should they be? Doesn't seem right. Invests the mundane with pagan significance. Perfect for the song. Very Wicker Man.

[Bhazor]

The video for Road to Nowhere is still one of my favourites. No great story or gimmicks to it but just some little images that have stuck with me. The couple kissing while flapping their arms or David's head in the box (which I had as an avatar for a while) and if I make a videogame I'm so having David's awkward running on the spot as my loading screen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQiOA7euaYA

Of course Peter Gabriel also knobbed the stop motion sequence for Sledgehammer.

[alan nagsworth]

For my money, the best Radiohead video (and easily one of their best songs) is Pyramid Song. The coalescence of sound and vision is perfectly realised. I can't ever listen to the song without thinking of the beautiful teals of the video. I also love it for its use of glitchy pixelated graphics and the very basic digitally rendered diver character on top of more lush visuals, the sunken city, the cars and buildings. Argh it's just perfect and I feel moved every time I watch it. The ending is absolutely gorgeous for ways I can't put into words.

The YouTube upload is dismal quality, unfortunately, but there's a better version here (though it's still not the HD version I'd so love to see, and apparently it's not much better on the official Best Of DVD):
http://www.rsafilms.com/uk/directors/commercial-directors/shynola/music-videos/radiohead-pyramid-song/

[DrGreggles]

A music video that's always on my mind is Radiohead's No Surprises. I've never been able to work out what it's about

It's about Thom Yorke showing how long he can hold his breath for.

[the]

Unhinged and acerbic animation (some bits probably not suitable for work), great song too:

Alice Donut - Madonna's Bombing Sarajevo (2006)

Always irritated that there doesn't seem to be a decent quality copy of this in circulation. I think all the uploads you find are crummy quality because a 240p video was made available as a download on release.

[buzby]

The video for Road to Nowhere is still one of my favourites........

Of course Peter Gabriel also knobbed the stop motion sequence for Sledgehammer.

Same director (Stephen R. Johnson)

[rasta-spouse]

Grant Gee says he was inspired by the line "A job that slowly kills you' (he had been following the band to make a documentary of the world tour and could see how they were being run into the ground by the corporate machine), a still of Dave Bowman's head in his helmet from 2001 he had on the wall above his desk, a magician attempting Houdini's underwater escape he saw on Blue Peter when he was a kid and the Aliens from UFO that had green liquid in their space helmets. He wanted to see if he could make a 3 minute video out of a single locked camera shot like the still from 2001, and added in the other influences to make it interesting

Yeah I have seen the behind the scenes clips, but they never really explained what it was all about which made it even more baffling. Where is the Grant Gee info from? I have searched for an explanation of it online many times but other than the "making of" clips came up with nothing. I guess you've solved a 20 year-old mystery for me. 

[buzby]

Yeah I have seen the behind the scenes clips, but they never really explained what it was all about which made it even more baffling. Where is the Grant Gee info from? I have searched for an explanation of it online many times but other than the "making of" clips came up with nothing. I guess you've solved a 20 year-old mystery for me.

It was in this interview he did for The Quietus.

[a duncandisorderly]

It's 'Gratitude' (crap video) for me Clive but Shadrach deffo top 5.

the vid for 'gratitude' is one of my favourites because (surprise) it's a tribute to pink floyd's 'pompeii' flick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdJ5e70Q8mw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-E7_VHLvkE

[Alberon]

Bjork's I Miss You directed by John Kricfalusi

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

Also from Bjork Army of Me by the mighty Michael Gondry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3biZkA-TNvs

[alan nagsworth]

Bjork's I Miss You directed by John Kricfalusi

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

Also from Bjork Army of Me by the mighty Michael Gondry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3biZkA-TNvs

fuck john k tho

[Bhazor]

MGMT - When You Die

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

[Head Gardener]

instant warmness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QNEf9oGw8o

[Head Gardener]

the drum breakdown on Look Back In Anger

[pupshaw]

Alice Cooper Elected

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSvy8HpxFxo