Music videos are not taken advantage of as the opportunities to create great cinematographic art as frequently as they once were. I want this thread to be a haven for unique, artistic, iconic and influential music videos. The old thread has been lost so feel free to repost the videos that were already here. Please try to limit the amount of videos to no more than 4 per post, for aesthetic and ergonomic reasons. Also, please make sure to write the name of the song underneath so people know what theyre listening to.
All Caps
Here It Goes Again (aka The Treadmill Song)
Billie Jean
July 30, 2007, 02:23 PM
Niccolo Machiavelli
Re: Music Videos: A Dying Artform?
I assume everyone knows this classic
Beastie Boys - Sabotage
Fatboy Slim - Praise you
Tool - Stinkfist
July 30, 2007, 03:06 PM
Hattori
Re: Music Videos: A Dying Artform?
meh... too bad so many posts are missing.
Yet more Rob Dougan.
Rob Dougan - Furious Angels
July 30, 2007, 03:27 PM
RZZZA
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:thumbsup2 That fatboy slim video is great, lol @ his "b-boy" moves.
Gimme Some Mo (uncensored)
Triumph (uncensored) This video cost millions to make
Chi Kung. Homage to kung fu movies
July 30, 2007, 03:45 PM
Niccolo Machiavelli
Re: Music Videos: A Dying Artform?
I'm not much into rap, but Busta Rhymes is just great - anyway some more:
Takes two minutes until the music starts, but a great vid:
Aphex Twin - Rubber Johnny
Christopher Walken:
Fatboy Slim - Weapon of choice
Some reconstruction work of the lost thread:
Chemical brothers - get yourself high
And the video I made my current sig from: NIN - closer
July 30, 2007, 04:07 PM
Kiljan Arslan
Re: Music Videos: A Dying Artform?
How did Music Videos originate?
July 30, 2007, 04:15 PM
RZZZA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kiljan
How did Music Videos originate?
Video Killed the Radio Star. The first music video played on the (once) iconic and culturally significant network dedicated to nothing but music....MTV.
When Thriller came out, it was considered the maturation point of the art of music videos
July 30, 2007, 04:19 PM
Kiljan Arslan
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Plenty of Peolpe on Youtube create them and some are actually preety good.
I remember Video Killed in Vice City.
July 30, 2007, 04:23 PM
Niccolo Machiavelli
Re: Music Videos: A Dying Artform?
Actually, "Music videos" as an artform date back to 1920 - the term is around since 1959...
July 30, 2007, 04:43 PM
RZZZA
Re: Music Videos: A Dying Artform?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Niccolo Machiavelli
Actually, "Music videos" as an artform date back to 1920 - the term is around since 1959...
yeah...well technically music videos have been around since way before MTV, but I dont consider them to have reached mainstream recognition until that point.
They certainly didnt attain legitimate recognition as an artistic medium until Thriller...
July 30, 2007, 05:37 PM
Niccolo Machiavelli
Re: Music Videos: A Dying Artform?
Of course you're right on the mainstream recognition, but I doubt that mainstream recognition has anything to do with legitimate recognition of artistic media.
Anyway - some more reconstruction:
Laibach - Sympathy for the devil
Einstürzende Neubauten - Sabrina
UNKLE - rabbit in your headlights
July 30, 2007, 06:47 PM
RZZZA
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Puttin' on the Ritz. Black face tap dancers? A mouse playing an organ? sure, why not!
Du Hast
July 30, 2007, 06:59 PM
Libertine
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Sitting on the Curb by a Hawaiian Ska-Punk band called Pepper, they kick ass. That vid kicks ass :)
July 31, 2007, 11:54 AM
Niccolo Machiavelli
Re: Music Videos: A Dying Artform?
Ah yes - Rammstein has a bunch of great videos as Cuchulainn pointed out in the old thread:
Another one:
keine Lust
I just love the ending of this one:
Prodigy - Smack my ***** up
July 31, 2007, 01:26 PM
Mathius
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Don't believe it was all good in the 'old days'. We used to think this was ace...
Still do in fact :)
July 31, 2007, 03:44 PM
Saxon Huscarl
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Fatboy Slim- Right Here, Right Now
Rammstein- Amerika
Jamiroquai- Virtual Insanity
July 31, 2007, 03:53 PM
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Hey - I was considering posting these two :disgust:
No seriously - both great - especially right here, right now...
August 01, 2007, 01:32 PM
Saxon Huscarl
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Peter Gabriel- Sledgehammer
a-ha- Take On Me
August 01, 2007, 01:40 PM
RZZZA
Re: Music Videos: A Dying Artform?
please post the names of the songs underneath the videos
August 01, 2007, 04:51 PM
Mathius
Re: Music Videos: A Dying Artform?
To debunk this thread further, the lovely world of YouTube has given us the marvellous variant on the music video: the film of a turntable playing a 'choon'. I defy you not to do some 1991-style faststep bigfishsmallfishbox tomfoolery to this...
Edit: For those under 30 Charly (alley cat remix) by the prodigy
...or some "yes I really have drunk the whole bottle of scotch. Are you a west brom fan or just a ****?" skanking to: