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Internet Saved the Video Star: The Best Music Videos That You Can Watch on YouTube
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- August 26, 2008
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I love music videos. Once upon a time, you could watch them on TV. No longer, sadly, but you can still find oodles of fantastic videos on this here interweb. Chiggity check them out.
Wax: Southern California
Growing up, I wasn’t allowed to watch much MTV. During the summers, my friends and I would walk the five minutes to one of the four strip malls that surrounded our block to drink Jolt Cola and loiter. One day we were being rowdy and buying candy when this video came on the convenience store’s TV and all conversation stopped. Five adolescent boys were hypnotized by a man running down the street on fire. It was the first time that I saw music videos as something bigger than something for Bevis and Butthead to laugh over.
OK Go: Here it Goes Again
I know this one was all over the web awhile back, but I still get quite the kick out of it.
Kylie Minogue: Come Into My World
The tiny Youtube quality doesn’t do this video justice. The first time I saw this video it blew my mind and I had to watch it again right away. The most impressive thing is that he timed each revolution to match the start of the chorus. Impressive.
Los Campesinos: Death to Los Campesinos!
Besides being a beautiful song by a fantastic band, this video rocks my face off. Sometimes too cute can be hazardous to your health.
A-Ha: Take On Me
To this day, if something doesn’t seem quite right to me, I’ll call it “Sketchier than an A-Ha video.”
Fastball: Fire Escape
Shocking and twisted. A great example of a long take that builds on its creepy premise. Also, I have no doubt that if Fastball went missing for 72 hours someone would bust out that terrible pun.
Sixpence None the Richer: Kiss Me
I’ve never liked this song, but I respect the though process behind this music video. Someone in the band had to have realized that they just wrote a song that will be in every romantic comedy for the next twenty years. So the music video features the band sitting down and watching a movie. When a new movie comes out with Kiss Me on the soundtrack…YOU JUST CHANGE THE MOVIE ON THE SCREEN! Genus!
Meat Loaf: I Would Do Anything for Love (But I Wont Do That)
This visual Tour De Force was directed by non other than Michael Bay himself, and boy does it show. There are helicopters and vampires and motorcycles. They just don’t make music videos like this any more.
Brand New: Sic Transit Gloria ... Glory Fades
The song itself doesn’t interest me too too much, but I really dig the visual aesthetic. Plus, it works really well with the whole “boo to peer pressure” motif that the song has going on.
Beastie Boys: Sabotage
I know I already have Spike Jonze on this list (For “Southern California”), but it’s hard to skip this one over.
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This guide is kind of like pop-up video. That is, I saw some of these videos on that show about a thousand times. That is, I saw that Meatloaf video on Pop-Up Video about a thousand times. God, I miss that show!
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