Great music videos

[Tradesonred]

Visually interesting, good music

Ill start, and continue if theres an interest

Bjork - Human Behavior

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCGveA39VYA

and

Plaid - Itsu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDDnuZAL9ps

[Tradesonred]

Last bump

The knife - Heartbeats

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrjwqXwyzNU

and

Pearl Jam - Do the evolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDaOgu2CQtI

[Uteunayr]

Awesome! I adore this topic, as there are just so many fantastic music videos out there.

1 - The Avalanches

A group of friends who decided they wanted to form a band went to a bunch of different shops, but couldn't find instruments they wanted. Instead, they found a bunch of boxes of vinyl albums (around 3000). So, they proceeded to take sound clips from the albums, the bass lines, the vocals, and manipulate them, and stack them atop each other to make entirely new music. Their album has been a pretty good success, with a new album having been on the way for a decade and a half now.

The single best music video ever is The Avalanches - Since I Left You. It is such a pretty song, and such a fantastic video, but ultimately very bittersweet at the end. This is definitely a video to watch twice. You can also find a video that has identified some of the audio files sampled for the making of the song.

Also see The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist sampling heavily from the comedy stylings of the legendary comedy duo, Wayne and Schuster. You can hear the samples here.

2- Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd is widely known, so no introduction is necessary to their incredibly powerful and bitchin' music video for Goodbye Blue Sky from The Wall, animated by Gerald Scarfe. And who can forget the notorious What Shall We Do Now? that featured music only in the film, that was not on the album itself.

3- Little Dragon

No biography that I could write would be sufficient. Those of you who are fans of The Gorillaz will know Little Dragon from her work with Gorillaz on their album Plastic Beach in the song Empire Ants.

Nevertheless, the music videos are fascinating. Crystalfilm is a peculiar video that comes across as a bit unsettling. Along with this, and a bit more depressing, Twice is a music video featuring shadow art to tell the story, rather than the lyrics.

4- Massive Attack

Massive Attack is a musical group to come out of Bristol, incorporating traditional psychadelic rock with some more new age styles, to create a music style often referred to as "trip hop" or "acid jazz", although the lead singer, Robert Del Naja ("3D" for short), dislikes the categorization. Their work covers a vast array. Awarded numerous times, they directly trace their earlier styles back to Pink Floyd, as well as numerous other great artists.

Perhaps their most famous individual song to date is Unfinished Sympathy, which features a music video which was ripped off of by The Verge for Bittersweet Symphony. Additionally, through the song, you can see the band members in the blurred background.

Their second album features a drastic change in musical style from the first, with the best in my view being the title track, Protection.

Their third album was the height of the band, and has plenty of songs you all will know. Teardrop was used as the introduction music to the TV show House, and the song Dissolved Girl can be heard in Neo's headphones at the beginning of the Matrix. The most interesting music video on this album likely goes to the first track, Angel, the music of which tragically was not used for the TV show Angel, but was used as the main title screen music for the popular video game Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines. The music video is fascinating to think about.

5- Gorillaz

Gorillaz is a widely popular, although currently former, animated band run by Damon Albarn (music) and Jamie Hewlett (art). Known for mixing electric style prog-rock styles with hip-hop traditional to artistic duos such as Deltron 3030, Gorillaz has numerous music videos that contain a story that goes behind the music into the chaotic and dangerous world that the band itself are surviving in while making their music.

Featuring the vocals of the great Bobby Womack who was convinced to come out of retirement by his daughter, who loved the Gorillaz, Stylo features a car chase as 2D (the lead singer of the band, named after Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack, aka 3D) is being brought by Murdoc (the bassist) and his mechanical copy of their guitarist, Noodle, to the Plastic Beach, the new home of the Gorillaz. However, they have a hit out on their lives.

Why a mechanical version of their guitarist? Because in their second album, Demon Days, Noodle was shot down and presumed dead in El Manana. Noodle was presumed dead until awoken upon a ship as Murdoc leads his army of musicians to the Plastic Beach. Adrift at sea, she encounters Russel, the band's drummer, who has become irradiated and made into a gargantuan.

Regardless if you like them or not, you should give them props for being interesting in regards to weaving a narrative through all their work to date.

6- Royksopp

Last, but in absolutely no way least, Royksopp is a musical duo from Sweden that has made a number of successful songs in the past, with as creative and interesting music videos as one can imagine. Compared to the other bands, Rokysopp is more party themed, based on being more groovy than unnerving.

Although many people know the music to their most famous song, Remind Me, it was earlier on that album that one of their most interesting music videos appeared, Poor Leno.

For all you old school gamers, this music video will be particularly attractive, Happy Up Here from their album, Junior. Don't know why at first glance? Watch it, and I assure you you'll see why.

And in conclusion for Royksopp, and in a sharp turn away in overall sound, What Else Is There displays a great deal of haunting, dark sounds relative to their other songs, with an equally dark music video. Interesting fact, the creepy Elizabethian lady in the music video is actually the singer, and the woman flying around as a ghost is just a model.

[Tradesonred]

I love discovering new music and visually interesting stuff, well have fun the 2 of us even if no one joins in! Posting some vids then getting on your links [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The vanishing - Cuckoo spit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PVmTCOcwbs

Woob - Paradigm flux (I like the music on this one, but the time lapse video of Tokyo is really beautiful and main reason why im posting it)

http://vimeo.com/14692378

Abiku - Fortune (harsh and abrasive, steer clear if you cant stand noise-heavy music)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXP2p7vMXtc

[Tradesonred]

Some guys running around in Bangkok at night with LED bodysuits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG-6HaAF6Cs

[Tradesonred]

Wow been so long since i heard Goodbye blue sky, such a good song. When i was 13 that video struck me more as trippy but looking at it older you see right away the post-/apocalyptic scifi vibe to it.

Still watching some of your links, enjoyed the Gorillaz ones and Royskopp space invader one.

J.G. Thirwell AKA Foetus does some great industrial-ish music often with lots of horns and the video for his songs are usually interesting too.

Foetus - The need machine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBCYJWHeuzs

Foetus - Here comes the rain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO6AQCJBvgA

Foetus - Verklemmt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlLDeqGIl5c

[Tradesonred]

Robots in disguise - The sex has made me stupid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbcrFG3ceZA

Im old enough to have played Space Invaders at the arcades, and Crystal castles.

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Crystal castles - Celestica

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuPrSqUsSpE

Crystal castles - Plague

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxVm2_ojQtk

[MrSparkle001]

Toby Keith - Red Solo Cup

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKZqGJONH68

yeah it's not all artsy alternative but everyone can relate to it.

[Tradesonred]

Nothings ever gonna please everyone, and thats allrite. Cant really relate to some guy spilling some other guys beer all over him in an alpha male manner [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ive had a guy grab my ass with both hands in a bar while i was almost catatonic drunk. That guy in the video would probably have decked him in the mouth. I just turned around and gave him a huge grin like not gonna happen buddy. That grin probably looked like your avatar lol

[Lojik]

Why do I feel like this could be the p99 forums official music video here... Queen - I want to break free