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Music videos more often than not end up ruining songs for me, so I often prefer not to watch them.

ProgrammingPro01 wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

Music videos more often than not end up ruining songs for me, so I often prefer not to watch them.

This, I prefer to just look up lyrics to a song and listen to that.

That's what I do 90% of the time, but still, in my opinion, there are music videos that are just awesome 

Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
It's A Sin and partly West End Girls by the Pet Shop Boys

ProgrammingPro01 wrote:

RoyalHi5 wrote:

ProgrammingPro01 wrote:

This, I prefer to just look up lyrics to a song and listen to that.

That's what I do 90% of the time, but still, in my opinion, there are music videos that are just awesome 

I guess that could be true, but Music videos just don't fit my tastes.

fair enough

OK Go's All Is Not Lost and Here It Goes Again music videos
Coldplay's The Scientist is kinda cool too

ProgrammingPro01 wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

Music videos more often than not end up ruining songs for me, so I often prefer not to watch them.

This, I prefer to just look up lyrics to a song and listen to that.

Listening to looked-up lyrics can be difficult.

Gangnam Style O_O

veggieman001 wrote:

Music videos more often than not end up ruining songs for me, so I often prefer not to watch them.

I often avoid videos until I get used enough to a song, or else a bad music video can really put an unpleasant taste in my mouth whenever I relisten to it.

For example, I used to like the Culture Club song "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me", but then I saw that awkward music video and...eeehhh...

As far as favorites go, the video to Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy" is pretty cool.

The 80's had some awesome videos, especially. I have to credit director Steve Barron in particular in creating two of the most classic music videos in history - Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" and a-ha's "Take on Me".

"No Surprises" by Radiohead is pretty good, along with "Creep". Oh yeah, and let's not forget the video to "Bohemian Rhapsody". Actually, Queen had a lot of pretty good videos. "The Miracle", "The Invisible Man", "Radio Ga Ga", "I Want to Break Free", "Who Wants to Live Forever".

And, say what you want about Coldplay, but their video for "The Scientist" is really creative. "Violet Hill" is good, too.

Then there are some early MTV ones I respect for their sheer cheesiness. "Sunglasses at Night" by Corey Hart, "Don't You Want Me" by the Human League, "The Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats.

You can't go wrong with "Smells Like Teen Spirit", either, and for that matter, "Black Hole Sun".

I also really enjoyed the video for Snow Patrol's "One Hundred Things You Should Have Done in Bed".

My absolute favorite video, though, is probably Guns N' Roses' "November Rain". It's cinematic perfection. My opinion on the song actually raised quite a lot when I saw it. Inside the eight minutes of the video, you have moments that make you smile, moments that make you jerk a tear, moments that make you uncomfortable, moments that make you drop your jaw. Absolutely timeless.

The Lotus Flower music video was just odd and not much of a video at all

Tommy by the Who and Pink Floyd's the Wall, if feature films count.

Do You Want To - Franz Ferdinand (it's kind of weird but I like their facial expressions in the beginning, they're funny  )

Anna Sun-Walk the Moon (Gotta love those one-take videos)

Miss Atomic Bomb-The Killers (Love how they made the characters cartoons)

Colours - Grouplove (yep, I'm still obsessed with that song, even after a year)

Last edited by fungirl123 (2013-03-01 22:40:58)