Most music videos, especially modern ones, are pretty boring.
- Artemis ( @Artemis@lemmy.ml ) 51•1 year ago
Aha - Take On Me …such a mesmerizing video. A girl reading a comic is sucked into a world in between the two realities. Really cool artistically and you can’t help but wish you could see more of the story.
- Otter ( @otter@lemmy.ca ) English11•1 year ago
Heard the song so many times, never watched the music video
That was great :)
- FarraigePlaisteach ( @FarraigePlaisteach@kbin.social ) 46•1 year ago
Christopher Walken is so good in Weapon of Choice that he made me like the song https://yewtu.be/watch?v=wCDIYvFmgW8
- Tyfud ( @Tyfud@lemmy.one ) 6•1 year ago
This was the first one I thought of too.
Did you know that Christopher Walken used to be a professional tap dancer? The parts of the video where he’s doing that are 100% him.
- tech_nickl ( @tech_nickl@discuss.tchncs.de ) 19•1 year ago
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.
- usualsuspect191 ( @usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ) 15•1 year ago
From Yesterday by 30 Seconds to Mars is like a whole short film and they went to China to film it. I remember it being a bit of a deal at the time.
Basically every OK Go music video, This Too Shall Pass is particularly impressive.
Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel is pretty impressive the amount of work that must’ve gone into it.
The face morphing at the end of Black and White by Michael Jackson was cutting edge special effects at the time and it holds up well today (better than the rap verse breakdown in the song itself…)
- virtualfiber ( @virtualfiber@lemmy.ml ) 15•1 year ago
I don’t think anyone has appreciated what Coldplay did with their MV for The Scientist. In which Chris Martin really had to learn to sing the song backwards for the MV.
Here’s what Director Jamie Thraves said on his interview with MTV way back on 2003
“I had this idea that I wanted to do a story that’s tragic but starts off happy and ends happy, and the video is about rewinding to that happy ending,”
Thraves needed to find a new way to tell a narrative story that moved forward even as the action moved backward.
“The original idea was a straight narrative without the lead singer in the video,” said Thraves. “But Chris wanted to be in the video and he was really excited to learn how to sing the song backward.”
“He got a tape of the song recorded backward and he listened to it over and over. He’s a very passionate guy, so he got really into it. What we learned later on is about the problems with phonetics, because you have to be very careful with the lip movement so that when you end on a sound your mouth is formed in the right way.”
I think this would be always the most impressive music video in my book, ALWAYS. The dedication Chris Martin put man, I cant even think how he learned all of that.
- spauldo ( @spauldo@lemmy.ml ) English13•1 year ago
Labyrinth.
Sure, they call it a movie, but it’s really just an hour and a half long David Bowie video.
- sapo ( @sapo@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
Same goes for Tron Legacy.
- erogenouswarzone ( @erogenouswarzone@lemmy.ml ) English2•1 year ago
That cod piece. What the literal fuck was going on with 80s kids movies?
The totally unnecessary tiddies in neverending story come to mind.
- 🐈🐈🐈 ( @Lena@lemm.ee ) 12•1 year ago
R.E.M. - Imitation of Life. The entire song happens in a few seconds, with all parts at the same time. The video keeps rewinding, each time showing one of the parts.
- addmen ( @addmen@lemm.ee ) 9•1 year ago
Turn Down For What?
Same directors as Everything everywhere all at Once.
- yumcake ( @yumcake@lemmy.one ) 2•1 year ago
Came here to post this one. I saw that movie on the airplane without knowing anything about it, and immediately thought, “This movie was made by the guys who filmed the ‘Turn Down for What’ music video.” I didn’t even know their names, had to confirm my guess after landing.
Because the music video and their directorial style are that distinctive and memorable. It was not surprising at all that they got showered in awards, those guys are creative AF.
- brenstar ( @brenstar@midwest.social ) English9•1 year ago
Blockhead - The Music Scene is just incredible
- Brkdncr ( @Brkdncr@artemis.camp ) 8•1 year ago
I’m convinced Ok,Go is a music video band that made music to go with their videos.
- ChojinDSL ( @ChojinDSL@discuss.tchncs.de ) 8•1 year ago
A few directed by Ritchie Cunningham, he often collaborates with Aphex Twin and Björk.
Prodigy’s “Smack my bitch up” That video just had excellent camera work and a surprise twist at the end.
Pretty much all videos of Daft Punk’s “Discovery” Album.
Jamiroquai “Virtual Insanity” Simple setup, but great execution.
A few from Peter Gabriel come to mind as well.
- bl4kers ( @bl4kers@lemmy.ml ) English7•1 year ago
I quite like Around The World by Daft Punk (directed by Michel Gondry of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind fame). I guess “impressive” isn’t the primary word I’d use to describe it but thought it was worth a mention
- treadful ( @treadful@lemmy.zip ) English7•1 year ago
First thing to come to mind is Childish Gambino - This is America. It’s fairly simple on its face. Some people and a few props in a large empty warehouse. It mostly relies on Donald’s presence but the filmography and post FX is pretty impressive.
Honorable mention to Radiohead - Paranoid Android just because it’s cool.
- Brasidas ( @Brasidas@feddit.uk ) 2•1 year ago
This was on my mind immediately! Such good work from Michel Gondry.