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Greatest Music Video?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Buck Turgidson, Apr 27, 2015.

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  1. Sadat X

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    For the rap fans- I always liked these from back in the day.

    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHHT7dTmw8U" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kwamhqyHN0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
     
    #41 Sadat X, Apr 28, 2015
  2. OmegaSupreme

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    rebbie jackson's centipede all day. :grin:

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    #42 OmegaSupreme, Apr 28, 2015
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    <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q3Yc3HhSl1Q" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
     
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  4. Buck Turgidson

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    Great call!

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    #44 Buck Turgidson, Apr 28, 2015
  5. AtheistPreacher

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    <iframe width="853" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vt1Pwfnh5pc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
     
    #45 AtheistPreacher, Apr 28, 2015
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    Xerobull You son of a b!tch! I'm in!

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    That Johnny Cash Hurt cover is sublime. Trent Reznor's reaction:

    I pop the video in, and wow... Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore... It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning — different, but every bit as pure.​

    I was always partial to the early Tool Videos:

    <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hglVqACd1C8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

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    #46 Xerobull, Apr 28, 2015
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    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o9IXAJg4Vm0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
     
    #47 LCAhmed, Apr 28, 2015
  8. Buck Turgidson

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  9. Ottomaton

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    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZKLSmHqXhzA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

    Not even particularly partial to the song or band, but this one was very novel and creatively unique when it came out, even before it dropped the surprise ending.

    To my thinking, whether you like the song or not should be irrelevant to the question being asked.
     
    #49 Ottomaton, Apr 28, 2015
  10. Buck Turgidson

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    Exactly.

    I remember that song, don't know if I'd ever seen that video before.
     
    #50 Buck Turgidson, Apr 28, 2015
  11. BamBam

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    Weird Al Yankovic has set the pinnacle for videoes...:eek:


    <iframe width="1280" height="750" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N9qYF9DZPdw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>


    <iframe width="1280" height="750" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FklUAoZ6KxY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
    .......
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    #51 BamBam, Apr 28, 2015
  12. AtheistPreacher

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    Indeed. Speaking of Weird Al:

    <iframe width="640" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lOfZLb33uCg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

    <iframe width="640" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/t2mU6USTBRE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
     
    #52 AtheistPreacher, Apr 28, 2015
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    What was that video meme from years ago with an old guy in dad jeans singing in a heavy metal voice?
     
    #53 hooroo, Apr 28, 2015
  14. AtheistPreacher

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    BTW, I'm sure TC meant "official" music videos by the original band, but of course there's the whole realm of fan-made videos, which are often better than what the original artists put out (if they even do a video at all). In particular, being an anime fan I see a lot of good anime ones. A few humble examples:

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    <iframe width="853" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QwMSemZX81U" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

    <iframe width="853" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2J66uWXIp7E" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
     
    #54 AtheistPreacher, Apr 29, 2015
  15. Ottomaton

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    Couple of things divided in two posts:

    #1 -

    Back in the day, when I was in my late teens/early twenties there were a couple of videos that, lets say if my parents were home and they came on, I'd make sure I had the remote right next to me and a nice thick blanket to cover the abnormal geometry of my blue genes just in case they entered the room.

    Keep in mind this was the days before internet p*rn so they probably seem pretty tame to some of you kids. I'm sure there were "sexier" videos with more t*** and twerking rear ends, but these two basically made me understand the difference between "erotic" and "sexual". In order they were released:

    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5D3Nl1GZzuw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FFOzayDpWoI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

    The Fiona Apple video, particularly with the weird lighting and general strangeness mixed in with the sexiness punches exactly the right buttons in my mind and awakens the part of my mind that wants to be a on a Viking rape-and-pillage rape of England. And I'm pretty sure you don't even get a single boob shot. I can't quite explain it.

    Maybe they don't exactly qualify as "best", but they were both very "moving", both in my mind and just below my waist.
     
    #55 Ottomaton, Apr 29, 2015
  16. Ottomaton

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    #2 -

    There has been a Grammy for Best Music Video since 1984.

    YouTube has a list:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Music_Video

    Keep in mind that this is the same people who awarded Crest of a Knave by Jethro Tull "Best Heavy Metal Album" over ...And Justice for All by Metallica among others in 1989. Jethro Tull didn't even belong in the category, much less to beat Metallica.

    HOWEVER there are some good videos there, especially if you expand beyond just winners to include nominees:

    Tonight Tonight was actually a beautiful, very well executed, and reasonably accurate homage to the earliest science fiction films. I'm going to bet that a whole lot of time, money, and love went into making it:

    <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NOG3eus4ZSo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

    I remember how beautiful and moving I thought REM's - "Everybody Hurts" was at the time. The execution isn't mind blowing, but it idea of showing everybody's thoughts is great. It does a brilliant job of making you feel the message of the song.

    <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ijZRCIrTgQc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

    PS -

    Two more that made a big impression on me at the time:

    Not a rap fan, but Busta Rhymes - Gimmie Some More with the fish eye camera and costumes:

    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eHHT7dTmw8U?list=RDeHHT7dTmw8U" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

    and

    Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun with the early warping computer graphics...

    <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3mbBbFH9fAg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

    Both had a visually surreal thing going on that I really enjoyed watching, although the connection to the music is much more tenuous than in some of the others - they were pretty for prettiness sake, without complimenting the song.
     
    #56 Ottomaton, Apr 29, 2015
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    "Knights" is 6 minutes of awesome, but Cash's "Hurt" is just so powerful. I'm going to give the nod to "Hurt".

    By the way Buck, the Cars video you were looking for is "Magic", which is another awesome one:

    <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/E0Kv6vxZwL8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
     
    #57 rocks_fan, Apr 29, 2015
  18. david_rocket

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    yeah, I remember watching the Wicked Games vid, and damn that was hot back in the day, also another "sexy" vid in the 90s, was Crazy By Aerosmith, maybe not the best video, but it definitely was sexy, and it left a lot to the imagination: wanting to see the photos the give to the guy in the store, and then im sure something happened over night, in that house, especially with 2 of the sexiest girls in the 90s: liv tyler and alicia silverstone.

    <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NMNgbISmF4I" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
     
    #58 david_rocket, Apr 30, 2015
  19. Shroopy2

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    Was thinking of that video. And Missy Elliott, she took the fish-eye view, quirky costuming, fast-twitch movements in vids to another level. (And quirky lyric style too, underrated music influence really)

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    Both of those vids directed by Hype Williams who popularized those themes. He's the "Spike Jonze of Hip Hop"
     
    #59 Shroopy2, May 1, 2015
  20. Shroopy2

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    So many decently done videos, hard to pick. Or maybe back in the day didnt really have high standards, as long as a video didnt totally suck I'd enjoy the song

    Always thought this video was influential as "kicking off the 80's". The off-colors, that "new-romantic" look, post-punk new wave, random artsy imagery

    <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fGfzpqgBvl8" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe>


    I remember being moved by this video lol
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    I don't care how low budget it is, will ALWAYS like the "head swap"!

    <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GND7sPNwWko" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
     
    #60 Shroopy2, May 1, 2015
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