Favorite Music Video

[PonyOne]

What's everyone's favorite all time music video? There have been a few times I've heard a song a few times that never piqued much interest but, after seeing the video, I've looked at it in a toally different light.
Any videos that seriously jumped out and grabbed you? Left you with a sense of foreshadowing, hope, dismay, happiness, sadness, or any other emotion? Make you cry like a baby or laugh until you were vomiting? Go to bed and pray to whatever was listening that the world wouldn't end?

My favorite video is Stuck On You by Failure (a clip can be viewed on this page http://www.angelfire.com/ct/failure/ ). Also striking was One by Metallica, Jurrasitol by Filter (filmed in the catacombs in Paris!), and Coffee & TV by Blur.

[Joseph]

Superunknown By Soundgarden, just like the song itself, the video takes you on an even further journey of music and wonder. The colors are amazing. Fo the most part, these guys made great videos, how about "The day I tried To Live", the one where the guy is standing on the ceiling, that was neat...

-Joseph

[Led Zeppelin]

November Rain(GnR), Bitter Sweet Symphony(Verve), Anyting For Love(Meat Loaf), Thriller (Michael Jackson)

[Fender Man]

I've just recently seen the "it's been while" video by Staind and it's pretty good.
"Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns 'n Roses
"Enter Sandman" by Metallica
"legs" by ZZ top

[Kirk Hammett is God]

The best video is any Metallica video. Everyone knows that!

Kirk Hammett is God!!!

[Joseph]

Originally posted by Fender Man

"legs" by ZZ top


I didn't think that too many people remembered this video, I think it was awesome. It made me purchase their cassette...

-Joseph

[PonyOne]

C'mon, who wouldn't remember two guys who look like Rabbis spinning identical fur covered Explorers on their belts...Or was that the other video? Oh well, i remember them all individually, more just as one big video.
BTW, I just got Blur's DVD video collection... man, after watching that thing i have a newfound respect for those britpop genesis types. I got it for the hilarious Coffee & TV video, but most of the rest are very good. Like in Song 2 (the famous "Woo-Hoo" song), it is for the first verse nothing more than your run-of-the-mill badn performance video, then as soon as the chorus hits, the guitarist flies into the upper corner of the room and rebounds violently off the wall, the bassist is thrown against the wall as tohugh in a bar fight, the lead singer looks as though he's thrown violently through the air against the wall by an unseen demon, the drummer gets blasted against the back, the lead singer rebounds off the floor only to have the mike cable pull him violently back up, all resumes as normal for the second verse, and then they turn on a giant movie hurricane fan and throw in random scraps of paper as they get blown around (the guitarist's Tele gets blown into the wall toward they end...sniff)... i'm still reeling in its two minutes and three seconds of glory.

Go out and buy it NOW. Most of the stuff on it is really Eurotrash-ish and good for a laugh if nothing else, but it's still very good.

[biosmaster]

Hell on stage live
MANOWAR!!!!

[Joseph]

Originally posted by Led Zeppelin
November Rain(GnR),

This is a wonderful video, its basically a classic. I admire the fact that Gun's N Roses put so much effort into the overall production, here they actually made MTV important, I swear at the time that this video came out mtv used to be on my tevelvision set all of the time, I think after this video several different other bands did their best to top GNR. But to no avail.. But with the current scene on Mtv as of late I thank God for my radio, :).

-Joseph

[zepo]

have you guys ever tried out http://www.launch.com ? It's a service of free vid's pretty cool actually all you have to do is register to get the service. I recommed you people try it some time. ohh yeah and fear factory's newest vid linchpin kicks any STP music videos are cool too.

[Mr. Vai]

poor milk got drank at the end of that video, Coffee and TV

[James]

God damnit why is it that whenever I turn on MTV to give it a chance I end up with Britney Spears? What I would do to see November Rain... but I did see Estranged the other day by some fortunate coincidence, and it was awesome.

[Mr. Vai]

watch mtv2, they play alternative rock and stuff, non of that gay pop stuff, and I saw november rain on mtv2 im pretty sure and they had like a 45 min special with weezer videos, watch mtv2

[Joseph]

Speaking of MTV2, what do you guys think about the new Radiohead video, I thought it was beautiful. The colors, imagery, the whole atmosphere really tied together nicely, creating such a strong impact. A girlfriend of mine cried when she saw it... Then again, it almost looks like a nintendo game, :rolleyes:.

-Joseph

[kingsxkid]

I'm afraid my choices for best videos have not been seen by many of you on TV, because they were not performed by gangster rappers, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Britney Spears nor Jennifer Lopez.
You can have them all if you have a strong stomach, with a few exceptions
The videos for "Beetlebum" by Blur and "My Own Prison" from Creed were amazing for steadycam and helicopter shots on Blur's, and great early-era DV editing for Creed's.
King's X short films "It's Love", "Summerland", and "Over My Head" were all fantastic but nobody has ever seen them on MTV. You'll need to buy "Chronicles".
Is anyone old enough to remember when MTV really showed music videos? I'd like to see "This Burning Heart" by Adrian Vandenberg again. Nice harmony in the solo, MTV played it once.

[johnny5]

my favorite video is the one where the chick is horny and then she starts to feel herself all over then a guy pops in then she unzip his pa.... oh wait thats a **** nevermind.lol.

[agentfuschia]

have you seen a perfect circle's "judith" video? I like it because its showing the band playing the song as if it was live. also great camera angles, closeups. (by the way, Paz is preety.)

[PonyOne]

Ever watch the Tool DVD? Creepy.

[Mai Zure]

Are we ready for a flashback??
I would have to say Van Halen's "Jump"...
Flock of Seagulls - "I ran (so far away)"
Dexy's Midnight Runners - "Come on Eileen"

Thank you :)

[PonyOne]

still doesn't beat ZZ top spinning their guitars

[Siren Lydian]

Could it be the video of a live performance? because my personal favourite video of all times (from here 'till the day I die) is Dream Theater's "scenes from new york". Everybody should check it out!!!

-Siren

[Starman]

Robert Palmer Addicted to love !!!!!

[jake sommers]

Best videos to me of all time are Sabotage by the beastie boys and ain't nothing but a g thing baby by dre featuring snoop dogg.

[Christoph]

Yeah, that new Staind vid is pretty cool.

He burns his ass down at the end . . .

[howie50]

Check out a video by crappy 80's Swedish popsters A Ha. The music sucked but their first video was called Take On Me. It was first filmed using live people but then kind of melded into a cartoon world. The video was a small story and it was beautifully done. If you get to see it turn the sound down. My personal favourite is a 70's video by Frank Zappa, it's called City Of Tiny Lights, it's all done with plasticine and is truly ammazing. I have to agree with Starman that Robert Palmer's Addicted To Love is amazing for the sheer sexiness of the girls in it.

[PonyOne]

Best video for sheer sexiness? Either Jigga What by Jay-Z or Stuck on You by Failure.

[metalisbest]

KoRn-Freak on A Leash, Faget
Staind-Mudshovel
Metallica-The Unforgiven II
3rd Strike-No Lisa
Limp Bizkit-Rearanged
all Tool videos, which are really weird
Godsmack-Stay Away From Me
Deftones- Change(House of Flys)

[ZackyH]

Skinny Puppy - Worlock. You most likely haven't seen it because it was banned. They got a bunch of horror movie clips and put them together to sync with the song. It wasn't banned because of violence. It was banned because they couldn't get permission for all of the movie clips. Oh yeah, Charles Manson's face is in the video as well as he's singing a cover of Helter Skelter. A totally messed up video. The song is an underground classic.

[PonyOne]

The best recent video I've seen is the video to "Sweetness" by Jimmy Eat World. I got the CD for my sister and listened to it, and it sucked, except for the song Sweetness, which is pretty good. But that video is so frickin' sweet. It's this weird low-grade CGI stuff that is basically about being a low grade rock band with dreams of grandeur.

There's a part where they'r eplaying in a club, and all the people in it are flat, 2D pictures pasted up, drinking and chatting and ignoring the song, and all of a sudden, the walls of the club fall down and these huge lighs and amp stacks pop up out of nowhere, and the crowd multiplies and stretches to infinity. There's also a cool part where it shows a closeup of the bassist doing his thing and the bass has the pistons of a car engine moving superimposed on the pickguard... beautifully done, I must give them credit. It's worth staying up late watching MTV for.

The video to "The Key To Gramercy Park" by Deadsy is also very good if not very odd, and it's up on http://www.deadsy.com

[iamthe_eggman]

I am very surprised that 5 pages have gone by and no one has mentioned "Just" by Radiohead. Maybe by now everyone is sick of it, but it is definitely my favourite music video. It's an instance of where a music video actually improves the experience of listening to the song, instead of just being a diversion while the song plays.

Someone mentioned the video "One" by Metallica. Has anyone else seen the movie from which they took all those clips? It was really freaky, about some guy who loses his arms and legs in the war, and then communicates to the world via Morse code.

Also, this is waaaaay off topic, but has anyone ever seen a Gene Wilder flick where everyone around him is turning into rhinoceroses? It's really cool, and I am probably mixing/inventing memories, but I do seem to remember hearing "Just" at the end of the movie. Come to think of it, that is entirely impossible. But, I do remember enjoying the closing song.