What's your favorite music video?

[learnedax]

Sledgehammer? Right Now? Take on Me? Birdhouse in Your Soul? (Conveniently, everything's on YouTube to refresh your memory.)

Just please don't say Thriller. Billy Jean would be acceptable.

Comments

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

Thriller scared the crap out of me. Yes, I am a huge wuss.

We didn't have cable during the days when MTV played... well, music. So my knowledge of music videos is sadly related to Pop Up Video.

[herooftheage.livejournal.com]

Weird Al Yankovic's Beverly Hillbillies. Not actually my favorite song of his, but the blending of live footage and animation is pretty nifty.

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

I had remembered the animation being almost exactly the same as in the Money for Nothing video, but I went and watched them both again, and he does in fact play around with it a bit more.

I like both videos, and on rewatching the original I just noticed for the first time that when the head goes in the microwave it gets set on "Heavy Rotation".

[oakleaf-mirror.livejournal.com]

I really was impressed with Take on Me when it came out, and it became my all time favourite. In more recent years, I haven't seen nearly as many videos as I did in the 80s. So, while Take on Me is still my favourite, I'll concede there may be something newer out there I'd like better, if I saw it.

[antoniseb.livejournal.com]

I think "Sledgehammer" really impressed me simply knowing what was involved making it. Similarly "Money for Nothing" kind of got me when it came out, as did that Michael Jackson one with all the faces blending into the next (the song was unmemorable to me (Black or White?)

Yet for some reason the ones that stick in my mind are "Mexican Radio" by Wall of Voodoo, and the concert footage of "Paradise by the Dashboard Light".

[tpau]

i was a fan of "Black or white" and also the Take on Me one. Also liek the Whie and NErdy new one

[gyzki.livejournal.com]

You Can Call Me Al. Hands down, no question.

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's great. I've never seen the video before. It's full of funny little touches.

[mpgalvin.livejournal.com]

Run DMC - christmas in hollis

it's just a fun video.

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

You know, rap used to be a lot more fun...

[new-man.livejournal.com]

True. The Run DMC/Aerosmith version of "Walk This Way" includes the immortal line "I can't sing this hillbilly shit". ;-)

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

A-ha, "Take on Me." (Agreeing with oakleaf_mirror) The song isn't much, but the animation is brilliant.

[laurion]

Hmm. Thriller was actually pretty good when it came out, especially for a live action video. The animation greats in Take One Me, Sledgehammer were good too. I especially liked Dire Straits' Money For Nothing for animation though. For entertainment value, I like You Can Call Me Al. For tying in with the song itself, I like We Didn't Start The Fire.

I haven't really watched any music videos since the late 80's, maybe early 90's, so I can't comment on anything more recent, but the ones I've seen in the electronics stores do seem to be less avant-garde.

[laurion]

And now having read the comments I see a lot of those same selections pop up...

[doozer4200.livejournal.com]

My nostalgic favorite is definitely "Take On Me." I also had a great fondness for Janet Jackson's "Rythm Nation" videos (the title song, "Miss You Much." More recently, I love, love the video for Dave Matthew's Band "Everyday," because it has the greatest cameos.

But alas-- who gets to see videos anymore? @#!@ MTV doesn't play them, so you have to go online.

[baronessv.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Right now it's UNKLE - Rabbit in Your Headlights, mostly because I watched it for the first time yesterday and was captivated.
Pretty much all the videos that came out of the Beastie Boys Ill Communication are hilarious and awesome.
Madonna has also done some great ones, including "Frozen" and "Bedtime Story"
And of course I have to give a shout out to Madlife's "I Want War", even though the song makes me insane, because it's the only music video I've ever worked on :D (I made the funky goggles worn by the doctors and the weird "science helmet" that can't be seen very well.)

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Nifty - you're all showbizy.

That first video is way messed up - and yet the payoff is just about worth it.

[devoken.livejournal.com]

Buddy Holly by Weezer is a good one. They made the song into an episode of Happy Days. There are others in the top tier, of course, but I'm at work and really shouldn't spend lots of time going through my Launch ratings to remind myself of them.

The Good Life, also by Weezer, is great, too, but has less "hey! Check out this cool thing they did!" appeal. It just fits the song really well.

[devoken.livejournal.com]

P.S. Thanks for getting Take On Me stuck in my head, btw. I appreciate it so much.

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

... young'un.

They did a good job matching up the footage there.

[devoken.livejournal.com]

Glad you approve, ancient one.

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

"Don't Come Around Here No More" -- I've always been a fan of Alice-iana :-)

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, I remember watching that video many times. Hooray for giant teacups.

[new-man.livejournal.com]

"Weapon of Choice" with Christopher Walken. Fucking brilliant.
"Wild, Wild Life" by Talking Heads. Wonderful self-parody.
"Run Around" by Blues Traveler (a lovely Oz pastiche)
Anything with Robert Palmer's all-clone band
"You Can't Hurry Love" Phil Collins backing up Phil Collins.
and this one

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten how much I like the Run Around video. Cool stuff.

Robert Palmer, though? That boy ain't right.

[londo.livejournal.com]

Music comes in video form now?

[jducoeur]

Gut reaction (could be different in ten minutes): Missionary Man. But that's in large part because I am so fond of the song...

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

A Million Ways by OK Go, and War Photographer by Jason Forrest.

And if two videos could be any more different, I'd like to see them.