Courtesy of Stylus - their top 100 videos of all time! That should keep you busy.
This is a surprisingly cool list in that it includes an unusually large variety of music (Judas Priest to Snoop Dogg to Britney to Johnny Cash to Duran Duran to Lisa Loeb to Busta Rhymes etc etc etc), it features great songs with odd videos (Hounds of Love, which maybe shouldn't be on here but I love that song, Move Your Feet, True Faith), great videos for not-so-great songs (Closer), stuff you love, stuff you couldn't possibly miss given the level at which it dominated the music video stations in years gone by (November Rain, Wicked Games, Wild Wild Life, Virtual Insanity, and many more), classics of the 80's (Take on Me, Don't You Want Me, Girls on Film), more modern classics (Heart-Shaped Box, Fell in Love With a Girl), and things you never thought you'd see on a list like this, but that make a certain kind of sense (This is Hardcore, even Popular).
Anyway, there's lots and lots worth watching there if you want to take a break from your day.
Posted by armand at July 27, 2006 09:59 AM | TrackBack | Posted to MusicSo I watched some of these this morning - some stand up as good as I remembered(for example, Johnny Cash's Hurt), and some better (Nada Surf's Popular, #49) - but the one that is sticking in my head is #51, Pulp's This is Hardcore. I've long loved that song - and I kind of remembered the basic idea of the video, but - but that's really a fascinating video. It looks so good.
Posted by: Armand at July 29, 2006 10:49 AM | PERMALINK[ snark ]Sabotage should have been higher. [ /snark ]
Posted by: binky at July 29, 2006 12:00 PM | PERMALINKsnark snark? huh? does that mean you'd really like it higher?
to me, the actual rankings on a list like this are often kind of pointless - often more interesting is simply what does and doesn't make the cut
Posted by: Armand at July 29, 2006 04:51 PM | PERMALINK