OK Go has a lot of great videos actually, they are famous for their crazy, intricate, one-long-take choreography. There's one performed entirely on moving treadmills that's very cool also (Here it Goes Again).
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Don't Come Around Here No More
This 80's Tom Petty jam had visuals that compliment the music, with a trippy Alice-in-Wonderland theme that perfectly fits the sitar riffs. Tom Petty as a menacing Mad Hatter is highly memorable, as is the rather disturbing ending in which the band slices Alice up and eats her alive.
I'm going with another Mark Romanek video of a Trent Reznor song. One of the most misunderstood lyrics in modern music history, Closer is not, in fact, about sex and it's not a "sexy" song, no matter how many "sexiest songs" lists it's on.
The video is bizarre, gross, disturbing, gorgeous, mesmerizing, and one I can't take my eyes off of. Basically, everything I want in a music video!
It's about a dozen years ago. I'm hiding in a movie theater in The People's Republic of Texas. My wife has run off with the Taliban and I'm afraid that if the Taliban find me, they'll try to give her back.
I'm watching a samurai movie; Zatoichi, in fact. We all know that in Samurai movies, sometimes singing and/or dancing breaks out. Think of the ending of Seven Samurai when Shino and all the village women are singing and planting rice. Or that Kurosawa flick about the princess in drag being escorted by Mifune when the whole peasant village has a square dance.
Well, the flick is over and the credits roll, and what breaks out other than Samurai Tap Dancing, featuring not only The Stripes, but the whole cast:
Phat Mack's picks:
Golden Earing - Twilight Zone
The Stripes - Samurai Tap Dancing
I like music videos that reference other works, and although there are plenty to choose from, I'm going to select this now because I'm afraid it might be on Dom's radar. I was hiding out in the Avon Theater in Providence when I had the chance to see Godard's Alphaville on the big screen. I was just a youth then. I love the song, too.
I like music videos that reference other works, and although there are plenty to choose from, I'm going to select this now because I'm afraid it might be on Dom's radar. I was hiding out in the Avon Theater in Providence when I had the chance to see Godard's Alphaville on the big screen. I was just a youth then. I love the song, too.
Okay another pre video revolution video. I promise I will get some actual 80's schlock in before the draft is over
But I just love this one! Good Vibrations is in my mind one of the top 3 songs ever written and that includes everything by Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Lennon, McCartney, Dylan, Gershwin, Porter etc.
If you have not seen the movie Love & Mercy you need to go watch it right now! The scenes in it where Brian Wilson is putting together Good Vibrations and the Pet Sounds album while working with the legendary Wrecking Crew are some of the best movie scenes ever. This video is a small real life snippet of that experience. All of Wilsons heart, soul, and genius pour out of him into this song which I believe was the most expensive song to produce at the time. this is a look at a pure musical genius in his natural habitat,
so far: Paperback Writer - The Beatles
The Making of Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
xander biscuits - Pick 2 - Coldplay - The Scientist
I've never been the biggest fan of Coldplay. Little bit middle of the road and safe within their genre, but certainly not bad. This video is amazing though.
Watch it if you want first, but here's what I think of it:
Spoiler:
[SPOILER]So the whole video is running backwards except that he's singing forwards. This isn't CGI or any video/editing trickery, he actually learnt the song backwards. He learnt it well too, it really looks like he's singing it. I mean how do you even do that? He actually played the song backwards a bunch and learned how to sing it that way. And then if that wasn't hard enough he had to do the rest of the video too at the same time.
Great video that will probably be shrugged off by today's generation, but it was really clever at the time and I think really clever now[/SPOILER]