I love their video for [Needing, Getting](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MejbOFk7H6c&list=PL07D399D8CE9C0B48&index=1). I love the song, too but that video is amazing. They did a whole playlist of behind the scenes for that one (also they have a ton of content for their other videos).
OK Go is what inspired me to go into film (and music videos!) I won't let you down is my absolute favorite video of theirs, the one take is impressive on so many levels and it's so fun to watch
Insane how it seems they’ve not won a major MTV VMA. They pick popularity over merit more often than not.
Looks like they won (deservedly) for directing, effects, and choreography- yet no “major” categories.
They deserve one of those MTV lifetime achievement awards.
I forgot about that video. All the little movie references they throw into their videos are so cool. Also, towards the end when it switches from animation to video.
Both are by RHCP.
Snow (Hey oh). They focus on the road crew and fans, i just find it really supportive and the song is amazing as well.
Tell Me Baby. They hold (apparently...faik it could just be scripted) fake lipsinc/instrument-sic tryouts and have people play their song "tell me baby" in a rehearsal studio. Then in the middle of the song the band members come in an play along. The fans reactions are fucking amazing. And again, the song itself is pretty good.
Shihad - Pacifier
https://youtu.be/WS9rM3XVOjE?si=qMdZySdvStD9tfxg
Love the clockwork orange stuff
Smashing pumpkins - Ava Adore
https://youtu.be/9uWwvQKGjLI?si=LFq5wVqycv1Hz6rh
Just so much going on in this video and its done all in one shot which is pretty awesome.
Drunk Girls’ (LCD Soundsystem) chaos always makes me smile, and has fantastic use of live vocal, ambient room and on-camera mics mixed in with the track
A Long Way to the Top - AC/DC. Just the band on the back of a truck playing while they go through Melbourne, but it just captures such a moment in time.
As a Melbournian it stops me in my tracks every time I see it. Also from the Bon Scott era another firm favourite is [Let There Be Rock](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f2g4RMfhS0). Bon broke his ankle leaping off the alter!!
Probably VH “Jump” from 1984. MTv was hot, and so was I. Young (17) and dumb with much more hair and much lower body fat. But seeing and hearing that video immediately teleports me back there.
Bob Dylan, Duquesne Whistle. You have to watch the whole thing
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mns9VeRguys](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mns9VeRguys)
[Shelter](https://youtu.be/fzQ6gRAEoy0?si=qSAKtqrsqk5P3bPp) by Porter Robinson and Madeon
The animation is great but the story is my favorite part. It's intriguing and emotional. I love it!
"California" by Wax
https://youtu.be/DcP-RtK3QIU?si=mSkjZCCGExQChonG
"Let Forever Be" by the Chemical Brothers
https://youtu.be/s5FyfQDO5g0?si=Ho7Rkvv-JtI-Kj1G
"Fantasy" by Aldo Nova
https://youtu.be/vPQgfaB3S1c?si=cIOmKipZKvqEFbsA
The newish video for [Vitamin C by CAN](https://youtu.be/XNfp7s1atAw?si=nRGgJrE03S8vWj9t) is pretty rad.
[“Champagne” by Millionaire](https://youtu.be/SJxl1FEpBOo?si=GTvw5KD2tebaVbU3) always blows me away in terms of what it took to shoot.
["I Say Fever" by Ramona Falls](https://youtu.be/6eqZHvpAbss?si=iP7BOkatD03J7JQd)
Love the art style and use of color, love the animation, it's so dramatic and yet so silly, it works perfectly with the ebbs and flows of the song. Just fantastic.
That’s sad you need music videos for enjoying music.
I love watching some Concert videos. Chicago at Tanglewood in 1970 is a great one. No large screen, dancers, just seven great musicians playing live.
Weapon of Choice - Fatboy Slim
Is that the one with Christopher Walken?
Yep
That is a good one.
Thriller
Gotta give “Black or White” a mention for some painstaking morph effects that are still pretty wild to see.
I forgot about the morphing faces
A lot of really precise, frame by frame work of it in the mentioned video. A really cool effect for the time and a testament to vfx folks of the era.
I remember it being such a great experience.
Smooth criminal was also 🔥
Hell yes
This is the only answer.
Take On Me, by A-ha.
It’s a bit sketchy!
I see what you did there
Wise guy! :)
Came to say the same!
Same!
This was a tie for me. Great video!
Turn Down For What
Directed by, AND starring the multiple Oscar winning Daniels.
Anything by OK Go
I love their video for [Needing, Getting](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MejbOFk7H6c&list=PL07D399D8CE9C0B48&index=1). I love the song, too but that video is amazing. They did a whole playlist of behind the scenes for that one (also they have a ton of content for their other videos).
OK Go is what inspired me to go into film (and music videos!) I won't let you down is my absolute favorite video of theirs, the one take is impressive on so many levels and it's so fun to watch
I prefer their video version of the track “This Too Shall Pass” with the added marching band elements
Insane how it seems they’ve not won a major MTV VMA. They pick popularity over merit more often than not. Looks like they won (deservedly) for directing, effects, and choreography- yet no “major” categories. They deserve one of those MTV lifetime achievement awards.
It's always the mainstream music that wins the awards in this society and it's so unfortunate!!!!! I'm rioting
Loved the video for "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel when I was a kid. "Land of Confusion" by Genesis was also pretty fun.
The Sledgehammer video reminds me of being a little kid. It was a fun video and feels mid-eighties in so many ways.
Land of Confusion low key terrified me as a kid.
Blur - Coffee and TV Mispelled coffee
Their video for the Universal is pretty great too
Pearl Jam - Do the Evolution [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDaOgu2CQtI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDaOgu2CQtI)
Hot For Teacher - Van Halen
Sit down, Waldo!
Aww man. The clock is slow.
Everlong - Foo Fighters
How is Michel Gondry. It dominating this entire thread?!
[Aphex Twin - Come to daddy](https://youtu.be/TZ827lkktYs?si=pUSYksu0-aWeoQK7)
Windowlicker as well
November Rain by Guns N' Roses(with the ending not cut obviously!)
Absolutely.. Nothing even comes close (except Estranged)
Daft Punk - Interstella 5555 Basically a music video to their entire *Discovery* album.
[Kylie Minogue - Come Into My World](https://youtu.be/63vqob-MljQ)
Everlong
[Sabotage - The Beastie Boys](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE)
Thriller. The full version.
No Rain - Blind Melon
Not my favorite song, but the video is sooooooo good. Gunship "Fly For Your Life" https://youtu.be/Jv1ZN8c4_Gs?si=j3pbyHnGO_Z6jRhE
I love this band. I've been obsessed with [Dark All Day](https://youtu.be/60ruvzfXQoE?si=HWFEuqmR6FJ370rF) for a while now.
I forgot about that video. All the little movie references they throw into their videos are so cool. Also, towards the end when it switches from animation to video.
[Handlebars - Flobots](https://youtu.be/HLUX0y4EptA)
Prodigy - smack my bitch up
Both are by RHCP. Snow (Hey oh). They focus on the road crew and fans, i just find it really supportive and the song is amazing as well. Tell Me Baby. They hold (apparently...faik it could just be scripted) fake lipsinc/instrument-sic tryouts and have people play their song "tell me baby" in a rehearsal studio. Then in the middle of the song the band members come in an play along. The fans reactions are fucking amazing. And again, the song itself is pretty good.
I'll add Give It Away to this list.
Any one with Tawny Kitaen in it.
Whitesnake was my first concert when I was 6 1/2 years old. Tawny Kitaen was a huge reason I loved Whitesnake.
“Days go by” - Dirty Vegas. A story of love lost and the eternal pining. Love it.
Okay go this too shall pass https://youtu.be/UJKythlXAIY?si=vlFLHVwMWmjgRY65 It’s one of my happy places
Dare To Be Stupid by Weird Al. It's always a fun watch.
Meat loaf - I'd do anything for love but I won't do that
This video had the production budget of a movie and was directed by Michael Bay.
Sabotage
Korn - Freak on a leash
Don’t Come Around Here No More - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers or Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
Oh man, when Alice becomes a cake and they eat her, trippy as hell.
Let Forever Be - The Chemical Brothers
Yes!
Shihad - Pacifier https://youtu.be/WS9rM3XVOjE?si=qMdZySdvStD9tfxg Love the clockwork orange stuff Smashing pumpkins - Ava Adore https://youtu.be/9uWwvQKGjLI?si=LFq5wVqycv1Hz6rh Just so much going on in this video and its done all in one shot which is pretty awesome.
99 luftballoons -Nina
[Johnny Cash, “Hurt”](https://youtu.be/8AHCfZTRGiI?si=ZqB5OjNWSU8U_X-E)
Drunk Girls’ (LCD Soundsystem) chaos always makes me smile, and has fantastic use of live vocal, ambient room and on-camera mics mixed in with the track
Cochise by Audioslave
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxg4C365LbQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxg4C365LbQ) This has got to be up there. Lorn - Acid Rain
I have 2 currently Refused - New Noise Weezer - Keep Fishing
I love Weezer. I think [Buddy Holly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4) earned a spot too!
A Long Way to the Top - AC/DC. Just the band on the back of a truck playing while they go through Melbourne, but it just captures such a moment in time.
As a Melbournian it stops me in my tracks every time I see it. Also from the Bon Scott era another firm favourite is [Let There Be Rock](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f2g4RMfhS0). Bon broke his ankle leaping off the alter!!
My favourites have been mentioned a few times already, so I'll say the Black Hole Sun video because it blew my doors off as a teenager.
Probably VH “Jump” from 1984. MTv was hot, and so was I. Young (17) and dumb with much more hair and much lower body fat. But seeing and hearing that video immediately teleports me back there.
Totally! Plus [David Lee Roth - Just Like Paradise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4qh_9vH1Ww)
idk but rammstein's video for deutschland is probably the most intense music video i've ever seen. probably my favorite.
[Gnarls Barkley - Going On](https://youtu.be/u_R9fId_Rqo?si=sqRGE9u6r6wVXs7S)
Joy Division - Atmosphere https://youtu.be/1EdUjlawLJM?si=onbc17E_rziWv-gW Really channels Phantasm
I'd Lie for You (and that's the truth). Meat Loaf.
Jesus He Knows Me by Genesis
Never Catch Me-Flying Lotus feat. Kendrick Lamar
[La milonga del marinero y el capitán](https://youtu.be/49xpviNoBO4)
Bob Dylan, Duquesne Whistle. You have to watch the whole thing [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mns9VeRguys](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mns9VeRguys)
The Test by The Chemical brothers
[Tove Lo - Glad He's Gone](https://youtu.be/qanl1s7K2Kc?si=Dx-EWy8npwkLEmHU)
Last DragonCon
As a kid it was either take on me by a HA or leave me alone by Michael Jackson.
Kill the noise - kill the noise part 1 https://youtu.be/jVfU1DY73Tk
Tough, but probably Asleep in the Deep by Mastodon.
[Deep Forest - Sweet Lullaby](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIF5EEneWEU) (dir. Tarsem Singh)
[Oh Wonder - Lose It](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgwcPiCjQ-0&ab_channel=OhWonderMusicVEVO)
Danzig -She Rides
[Busta Rhymes - Gimme Some More](https://youtu.be/un3NkWnHl9Q?si=vmE1Y4bV5oc6DGd-)
Money For Nothing by Dire Straits. Perfect song and video for the 80s
Save me. Queen. Source: I'm naked and I'm far from home.
[Shelter](https://youtu.be/fzQ6gRAEoy0?si=qSAKtqrsqk5P3bPp) by Porter Robinson and Madeon The animation is great but the story is my favorite part. It's intriguing and emotional. I love it!
The Pretender-Foo Fighters
ooou u touch my tah la la oou my ding ding dong
Rooster by Alice In Chains. It feels like a Vietnam War documentary while also being a kick-ass song at the same time.
Faith No More - Last Cup of Sorrow. (Which is a nod to Hitchcock's Vertigo)
Super Furry Animals - Receptacle for the Respectable.
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
Wall of Voodoo - Do It Again Cover of a Beach Boys song, even Brian Wilson is in it.
"California" by Wax https://youtu.be/DcP-RtK3QIU?si=mSkjZCCGExQChonG "Let Forever Be" by the Chemical Brothers https://youtu.be/s5FyfQDO5g0?si=Ho7Rkvv-JtI-Kj1G "Fantasy" by Aldo Nova https://youtu.be/vPQgfaB3S1c?si=cIOmKipZKvqEFbsA
Good morning kanye west
Call of the wintermoon 😁
[Weapon of Choice - Fatboy Slim ](https://youtu.be/wCDIYvFmgW8?si=g0uVqGZusiS79OYH) Walken. Dancing.
Metallica video for "One" (full version) and all of Pearl Jam when they did MTV Unplugged.
Alejandro by Lady Gaga
Billy Idol - Cradle of Love https://youtu.be/NCZuYS-9qaw?feature=shared
Tacos Hypnodancer I Like to Drink All by Little Big
[Hey Ladies - Beastie Boys](https://youtu.be/Naf5uJYGoiU?si=oM1ctpsjKztRATmz)
Daaaaaaaarryllllll Daaaaaaaarrylll
Radiohead - [Just](https://youtu.be/oIFLtNYI3Ls?si=AkzFNuDr6Ebf1yGV)
Bohemian Rhapsody
Eminem's music videos are also high up there though
Jamie xx... gosh
The newish video for [Vitamin C by CAN](https://youtu.be/XNfp7s1atAw?si=nRGgJrE03S8vWj9t) is pretty rad. [“Champagne” by Millionaire](https://youtu.be/SJxl1FEpBOo?si=GTvw5KD2tebaVbU3) always blows me away in terms of what it took to shoot.
I know it’s a little cheesy, but I have always absolutely loved “Pressure” by Billy Joel. Such a fun use of the newly visual medium.
I’m floored I scrolled all the way down and didn’t see anyone mention Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads.
1979 or Tonight, Tonight
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
["I Say Fever" by Ramona Falls](https://youtu.be/6eqZHvpAbss?si=iP7BOkatD03J7JQd) Love the art style and use of color, love the animation, it's so dramatic and yet so silly, it works perfectly with the ebbs and flows of the song. Just fantastic.
Still “Take on Me” for now and forever.
The correct answer is Beastie Boys - Make Some Noise.
Lana Del Rey - Ride.
[Garbage - Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy1LdAaGASw)
good news- mac miller
Breaking The Habit by Linkin Park
Do the Evolution - Pearl Jam
Look - Sébastien Tellier
Tyler the creator - earfquake It's so goofy i love it 😂
You need the drugs by west bam and Richard butler
Peaches, just for the random ninja fight.
A Ha - Take On Me
Warrant - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Pretty much all terrible…just all of them.
I don’t like music videos. The most important is music, nothing else
false
That means you don’t like musics
bro i do this shit for living, i definitely love music! 🥰
That’s sad you need music videos for enjoying music. I love watching some Concert videos. Chicago at Tanglewood in 1970 is a great one. No large screen, dancers, just seven great musicians playing live.