Also, Pink Floyd’s The Wall…the whole thing, but specifically Empty Spaces/What Shall We Do Now.
Welcome to the Machine:
Devo. Whip it. Aha. Take on me. Bugles. Video killed the radio star. Eddie Money. Take me home tonight.
Insanity by Oingo Boingo
Echos, Live at Pompeii by Pink Floyd
DCTV’s version of “Re: Your brains” by Jonathan Coulton
Prodigy: Smack My Bitch Up 1997 uncensored.
Holy shit the 90s were wild
Ya… We had fun.
I’ve had that album on CD since it came out, yet I’ve never seen this video. That was mesmerizing.
I saw the premiere on MTV, it was late after Liquid Television if I remember right. I remember seeing a disclaimer, never saw one before or since on MTV. There it was. It’s a ride for sure.
I don’t even care for the band that much, but the video is still really cool.
Oh I also forgot about this one which I did like a lot.
Ah, excellent choice.
Peter Gabriel- Sledgehammer
I prefer Steam.
Michel Gondry made some amazing videos, and one of my absolute favorites was Cibo Matto’s Sugar Water. Blew my mind the first time I saw it. https://youtu.be/EN9auBn6Jys
The music video i came to post in here is Lucas With The Lid Off, and it’s also a Michel Gondry video. Absolutely brilliant video.
Sugar Water is such a great song though. Cibo Matto was so good.
Same but his video for Kylie Minogue - Come into my world
I saw a video about how they did it. The madman shot it in one long take.
It had to be shot in one take. The overlays are all in real time and keyed out using a Z-channel, which was brand new technology at the time. (At least used this way).
I just about to comment “Any by Michel Gondry or Chris Cunningham. Pick any one!”
Anything from The Work of Directors DVDs are great, Michel, Cunningham, Spike Jones, Anton Corbjin, Mark Romanek, etc.
There’s something about the video for Len’s “Steal My Sunshine” that’s just very comforting to me. I don’t think it’s just nostalgia, because this is how I felt when I first saw it back in the 90’s, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1fzJ_AYajA
interesting trivia:
The song’s music video—which uses the shorter “album edit” of the song, as featured on the single—was jointly directed by Marc Costanzo and Bradley Walsh under the respective stage names “The Burger Pimp” and “B-Rad”.[30] When Len had signed to Work Records, one of its demands was to be able to direct its own videos.[7] The group used a $100,000 budget to make the video. They flew to Daytona Beach, Florida[5] with two dozen friends while the area was crowded with people on their spring vacations. They spent much of the budget on alcohol, buying so much that they broke their hotel’s elevator trying to lift it.[5] They shot the video in the afternoon so that they could recover from hangovers in the morning and drink in the evening. The scenes were shot without a script or storyboard. In the video, Len and friends are shown relaxing together and riding on scooters, go-karts, and jet skis.
Motorrad, whose scooters were included in the music video, later held a promotion giving away scooters of the same model.[7] At the 1999 MuchMusic Video Awards, “Steal My Sunshine” won awards for Best Video, Best Pop Video, and Favourite Canadian Video.[32]
Fantastically captures mankind’s eternal obsession with power and greed
A powerful story telling music video.
While watching, I couldn’t help think that the animation style seems familiar. I felt it to be very close to the animation style of Batman: The Animated Series. And I was right.
Musically Pearl Jam didn’t quite scratch my itch even though I respected them as a band. Then this song and video dropped and has always been a favorite. The Spawn craze has died down a bit but this came out at the time McFarlane was huge and it was cool to see his style animated for the first time.
Star Guitar by the Chemical Brothers.
Since then I need to have perfect synchronization between sound and sight, I’d love to have the real world in sync with the music I’m listening to. It would be my own personal musical.
Good one, brothers gonna work it out! Here is another great one from the bros, Wide Open featuring Beck
There are a number of them:
“Do you Remember the Time” from Michael Jackson.
“Take on Me” from AHA.
“I would do Anything for Love” from Meatloaf
Take on me just might be the best music video i have ever seen. Truly a great pick!
Hard tie between three different ones.
Particle Man - They Might Be Giants
Experimental Film - They Might Be Giants
Those are tied for top three for me.
It’s not a music video as much as it is an animation animated to match the song ( or vise versa, IDK ), but runner up would be Jason Honingford’s Squirrel Funk.
EDIT:
Replaced the Squirrel Funk link with an older video because the one I originally linked was done poorly with AI enhancement.
If you’re gonna say that, you might as well just count the entirety of Interstella 5555.
Anyway, along similar themes:
