Jim's Slightly Obscure Music Video List
Based on an e-mail conversation Adam and I have had recently, I thought I'd share my list of favorite music videos. Please note my taste in music may be pretty lame and there's hardly anything recent here, although there is a wide variety of stuff to choose from:
Ok, not necessarily the best videos ever, but the ones a) I like the most, and b) are pretty good videos.
In no particular order:
1. Vogue or Express Yourself: Madonna (OK, I've already cheated by being unable to select one. This'll happen again)
2. Sabotage: Beastie Boys (Although Intergalactic is cool...) Video Online.
3. Remind Me: Royksopp (All about infographics, worth viewing online. Saw this in a bar on the bigscreen, went out and bought the CD because of it, which doesn't happen often. Sadly, the song I heard was actually a remix and only part of the CD is good.) Video Online near the bottom of the page.
4. Jeremy: Pearl Jam. (I swear there are a couple versions of this,
there's one where there's a lot of kids spattered in red at the end.)
5. Mystic Rhythms: Rush (Their best video, but still could have been
better. If only they paid more attention to their visuals.)
6. Baby Got Back: Sir Mix-a-Lot (Hilarious.) Small clip online here.
7. Bastards of Young: Replacements (Very minimal.) Small clip online here.
8. Everybody Hurts or Losing my Religion: REM (Little art films from the last really good REM album, although I may be the only person who rather likes much of New Adventures in HiFi.) Small clips online here.
9. Around the World: Daft Punk (Because everything goes around in the video...skeletons, spacemen, bathing beauties, mummies, tiny-headed breakdancers) Video Online.
10. Brass in Pocket or Message of Love: Pretenders (Brass has the whole band in a video with a story, classic early music video. Message of Love has the band sitting around playing the song in a studio.) Small clips online here.
11. Talk to Ya Later: Tubes (Music video as press conference. Way ahead of its time, in retrospect.)
12. Music Nonstop: Kraftwerk. Wireframe robots! Computer animation! 1986! Video Online.
Hmmm...now if I could only find links to all of these videos.
Update: Found some links to clips and whole videos after a couple of minutes.
