Most music videos, especially modern ones, are pretty boring.
In college Xzibit’s What U See is What U Get blew my mind due to its faked one shot style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gddQhQnwZIY.
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Baraka or Koyaanisqatsi
Might be one of my favorite modern music videos (assuming you count a decade-old music video as “modern”).
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A$AP Rocky - A$AP Forever. It blew my mind the first time I saw it.
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It’s not the biggest or best, but I’ve always found the effect on “Always” by blink-182 to be pretty effective
Dire Straits Money for Nothing was amazing at the time. Turn Down for What is amazing in its own way. Smashing Pumpkins Tonight, Tonight. Michael Jackson had a few good ones.
And the extremely underrated “Swiss Army Man” featuring a fart-propelled Harry Potter raft.
One of the Daniels directed “The Death of Dick Long”, which might be the best mystery movie I’ve ever seen. Go in blind mister and, hands down, you won’t be disappointed if you like mystery movies.
Ssssnake - The War
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I think the MTV era from the 80s to early 90s had the most creative videos. Likely because there was a bit more of a demand for music videos back then. You really had to stand out when your only platform at the time was MTV. As far as favorite music videos, I’ve always been a fan of Tool’s weird-ness.
The original Genesis Land of Confusion was very ambitious puppetry and had a great evergreen message.
Thatcher was the only person uglier in person than their puppet in this video.
Porter Robinson - Dullscythe
Ok Go, just about any of their videos are worth watching, even if you don’t care about their music
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38 minutes later with NO CGI, this holds up as okie of the best references
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My personal vote is The One Moment.
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In it’s time? Early days of music videos: Sledgehammer, Peter Gabriel 2000s: The Hunter, Bjork Recently: The love in my heart, Jacob Collier
Easy mode: OK GO’s entire catalog of music videos.
I read that as repulsive instead of impressive imao
Poets of the Fall - Carnival of Rust
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Love this video so much.
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