So, I was having a reminiscent moment yesterday, thinking about how much I liked the music video for "Everything I Do (I Do It for You)" when it came out. I would watch that music video over and over, and I'm not ashamed to say it (at least, not very much). And when I remembered the video, I remembered all those emotions that went along with being 13 or 14 and on the cusp of life and everything.
Anyway, it got me to thinking about the role that music videos (mostly, but not exclusively, romantic pop) played in my adolescence. I guess you'd call it nostalgia. Maybe I'm weird to be nostalgic about music videos, but there it is.
So which music videos make up the warp and weft of your adolescence? Which ones did you watch obsessively, and every time it meant so much to you. Or you associate with those feelings of wonder and discovery that go along with youth. Or, if your boring and unnostalgic, which are your favorites.
Bryan Adams - Everything I Do Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You Tom Petty - Free Fallin' Paula Abdul - Rush, Rush Janet Jackson - Escapade George Michael - Praying for Time Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U Aerosmith - Janie's Got a Gun Blind Melon - No Rain Lisa Loeb - Stay Guns 'n Roses - November Rain Tom Petty - Mary Jane's Last Dance Extreme - More than Words
I should probably just go find a site that lists the top music videos from 1988-1994, but I thought it would be interesting to see what other Hatrackers had to say.
Posted by Flaming Toad on a Stick (Member # 9302) on :
Radiohead - Just The Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings Rage Against The Machine - Guerrilla Radio
Posted by Eduardo St. Elmo (Member # 9566) on :
The Dandy Warhols - Not If You Were The Last Junkie.
Posted by The White Whale (Member # 6594) on :
There's some overlap (e.g. Bjork & Gondry work together a lot), but that's not an accident.
Posted by The White Whale (Member # 6594) on :
orlox, fantastic video.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Lisa, I loved "Oh Sherrie" too. That may be because Steve Perry is a cross between Wayne Campbell and Michael Nesmith, two of my favorite guys.
And my favorite music video is this parody on Right Now. Posted by The Flying Dracula Hair (Member # 10155) on :
Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere Talking Heads took my taste in music in a radically different direction in high school. The image of a cube spinning around David Byrne's head never left my mind since I first saw it.
but before that there was the trailer for Ultima Online 2 with Love is Hell by the Grim Faeries Which is probably THE music video when I was that age, I used to watch it ALL the time.
S'all I can remember.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
Do "Ultimate Showdown" and the SNL "More Cowbell" skit count?
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
They do if mine does.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I'd say that Ultimate Showdown does, and that More Cowbell doesn't. The first is a video and the second is, as you note, a skit.
I can't get to youtube to link it, but the OK Go video for Here it Goes Again is pretty great. I wouldn't imagine that it's in my top videos of all time list, but then I don't know what videos would be.
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
quote:I can't get to youtube to link it, but the OK Go video for Here it Goes Again is pretty great. I wouldn't imagine that it's in my top videos of all time list, but then I don't know what videos would be.
[ December 07, 2007, 08:03 PM: Message edited by: erosomniac ]
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
I can't believe I never went looking for the "Mad World" music video.
I'll post a list of my fave videos later, though I swear this is like the third time we've had a thread like this.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
I agree with a lot of the ones posted(Weapon of Choice, One, Sober, Sabatoge...)
edit - whoops, eros beat me to it.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
how bout this contribution?
Posted by Launchywiggin (Member # 9116) on :
Ben Folds Still Fighting It--love the shots with the piano on the beach
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood Incubus - Drive Korn - Freak on a Leash Radiohead - Just (seconded) Weezer - Keep Fishin' (seconded) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Aeroplane Weird Al - White and Nerdy Tool - Parabol/Parabola
Posted by The White Whale (Member # 6594) on :
Oh, and as far as simple and beautiful goes, this one tops the charts:
Quiet Riot -- Cum On Feel Da Noiz (or however they spell it)
Devo – Whip It Twisted Sister – We’re Not Gonna Take It (seconded) Radiohead – No Surprises Dire Straits – Money for Nothing
And that one with the guy standing in the room with all the furniture kind of sliding around him. I can’t think of the guy’s name. I don’t remember the song name. But it was a cool video.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
quote:And that one with the guy standing in the room with all the furniture kind of sliding around him. I can’t think of the guy’s name. I don’t remember the song name. But it was a cool video.
That'd be Jamiroquai, the video is for Virtual Insanity.
Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
Everything happens backwards in this video. It would be interesting to know how they shot this.
Posted by SenojRetep (Member # 8614) on :
quote:Originally posted by erosomniac:
quote:And that one with the guy standing in the room with all the furniture kind of sliding around him. I can’t think of the guy’s name. I don’t remember the song name. But it was a cool video.
When you say music video, that's what i think. Before my time, but my kind of music.
Posted by Eduardo St. Elmo (Member # 9566) on :
Oh I forgot to add one of my all time favourites;
Love Is All
The song was written by Roger Glover for the "Butterfly Ball" album, which was a musical adaption of a picture book. The voice for Froggy is done by Ronnie Dio. I'm sure some of you are familiar with it. If I had the means I would link to a Youtube file, but I'm hoping that somebody else will do that in my stead.
Posted by steven (Member # 8099) on :
[ December 09, 2007, 03:30 PM: Message edited by: Pegasus ]
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
Hurt: Johnny Cash
Shock the Monkey: Peter Gabriel
Once in a Lifetime: Talking heads
Twist in my Sobriety: Tanita Tikaram
Man in the Mirror: Michael Jackson
Sharkey's Day: Laurie Anderso
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Mute Math's Typical is another reversed video that's fun. Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
OK GO - A Million Ways to be Cruel OK GO - Here it Goes Again Evanescence - Good Enough Lacuna Coil - Our Truth Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple
Posted by Elmer's Glue (Member # 9313) on :
I'm Impressed -They Might be Giants
Posted by HollowEarth (Member # 2586) on :
Currently, Finger Eleven's Paralyzer is one of my favorites.
Posted by DevilDreamt (Member # 10242) on :
Jason Webley - 11 Saints Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Everything happens backwards in this video. It would be interesting to know how they shot this.
The backwards thing reminded me of Enigma's Return to Innocense, another of my favorites.
When I heard "everything happens backwards" I immediately thought of Mute Math's Typical. Awesome video, awesome song.
I sort of assumed they were like singing backwards or something, so when they play it backwards, they sing it forwards but the actual movements are all backwards. Otherwise I don't have a clue.
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