So it feels like spring has finally sprung.
To celebrate I’m giving away a precious Golden Discs voucher worth a blooming €25.
To enter simply tell me below what is your favourite music video and why?
Here’s one of mine.
The winner will be chosen by my AI cypher.
Lines close at 6am.
Please include video link where possible.
Nick says: Good luck.
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Oooh! Now that is a challenge! And a great choice, @Nick! I love that version.
(note to self: be nice this week, Slightly. Be nice!)
I am going to be very staid, but this video had a huge impact on me, way back when. Still a fantastic song, but the first time I encountered stereo in a video.
Bohemian Rhapsody.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ
Played the Muppets’ take on this this very morning as a pre-school Friday treat!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY
A man of discernment, I see :)
The Muppets are just effing brilliant, such consistency over many decades, I laughed when Beaker did his “Me,me,me, me” part!
Electric Six, Gay Bar
Hilarious & rocking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XNFokmDKrE
It’s Frontier Psychologist by The Avalanches. Because it’s plainly the most bonkers music video. Really really bonkers. I love it.
https://youtu.be/pajL2jFFX2Q
Psychiatrist. Dammit. Frontier Psychiatrist.
Great video
Ah, now, that can’t be beat.
I’ve listened to that song for years and only just now saw the video, unbelievable, thanks.
I mean most of their videos are mad. Check out Frank Sinatra for example. But this one is just so blooming entertaining…..
There’s an awful lot of weird vids out there that aren’t any good. I love an interesting vid and the Avalanches do that for me with this one!
This is weird- and good.
Little Big- representing Russia at Eurovision 2020 of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDFBTdToRmw
Beastie Boys – Sabotage
https://youtu.be/z5rRZdiu1UE
Great song, even better video.
My favourite character? Gotta be Vic Colfari as Bobby “The Rookie”
Slegehammer is the greatest music video of all time. No contest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJE0x7T4Q
Inclined to agree there!
I will put any Muppet video up against that claim :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnT7pT6zCcA
One of my favourite people, is Beaker.
Haven’t seen that before.
Excellent!
Ah tis catching
here a Phriday Phenomon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5Mc55P1i9g#action=share
Thanks V, brilliant.
Sandra Bullock, age 30 odd, wowsers, what a woman!
Don’t forget Sinatra!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HkDshJNIdSM
(if only he’d eaten bono)
Just last week I watched Practical Magic for the first time. And it has a great video, and a song I had never heard before.
Midnight Margaritas :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ihb6FLSh64&ab_channel=ThatMovieTrailerGuy
Stockard Channing and in this house it’s always chocolate cake for breakfast
Thanks Slightly
She’s one of my favourites
Ms Channing is one of the world’s great actresses that never got the recognition she deserved :)
Glad you enjoyed, V :)
Absolutely
Although in fairness she does own one of the best roles ever
Rizzo
No one else can be Rizzo!
I don’t steal and I don’t lie
But I can feel and I can cry
A fact I bet you never kneeeewww
But to cry in front of yooouuu
That’s the worst thing I could doooo
Some of the usual suspects will include a lot of Whacko Jacko efforts, Thriller being the most obvious.
Also, Fatboy Slim has had some brilliant videos, the best being Praise You and Weapon of Choice.
Recently, Childish Gambino has tore it all up. The shock factor in This Is America is outstanding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY
My choice is Tame Impala’s, The Less I Know The Better from a few years ago, really funny stuff and a cracking tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBzrzS1Ag_g
I would have to go with Coolio and Gangster’s Paradise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPO76Jlnz6c
Any video with Michelle Pfeiffer…
Beastie Boys – Sabotage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE
Great song, even better video.
My favourite character? Gotta be Vic Colfari as Bobby “The Rookie”
Fred Kelly as bunny
This phenomenal ditty entitled ‘Jesus Is A Junkie For Love’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URFEc7OYONM
Has to be done, given the time of year :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbuRA_D3KU
https://youtu.be/z5rRZdiu1UE
beastie boys- sabotage
Great shout.
Classic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914
A-Ha – Take on Me – the height of 80’s special effects!
Coffee and TV, a superb video. Well made and imaginitive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXRVX1AKAew
Oh yep. That’s a winner.
Massive Attack, Unfinished Sympathy. Utterly original at the time, and hugely influential since. A great idea brilliantly realised in one shot. Great song, with the fabulous Shara Nelson stealing the show. Vividly remember being blown away the first time I saw/heard it. Timeless.
I’ll see your Unfinished Sympathy and raise you a Teardrop.
Mesmerising stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7K72X4eo_s
Ooooh this’ll be a hard one to judge, almost all suggestions so far are great!!
But…
Fatboy Slim – Weapon of choice has THE coolest ‘Dad dancing’ in the universe EVER!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCDIYvFmgW8
(Sledgehammer gave me nightmares)
Special mention for Daft Punk – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKYPYj2XX80
Thanks for the reminder on Weapon of Choice.
+2 Weapon of choice and Around the World, both excellent.
Two Tribes by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. It was quite shocking at the time, still brilliant today. Godley and Creme made some great videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6-2b_3Dmxw
Cibo Matto – Sugar Water
I love the simplicity of it and the planning that must have gone into it… 1995/6 I think
https://youtu.be/EN9auBn6Jys
That’s a great one alright.
When first saw video for “Endless Art” by A House was mesmerised when saw it on the Beatbox.
https://youtu.be/cDo6Lgylsjg
+ Infinity for Endless art video
+1000 for the Beatbox reference!
https://youtu.be/dTAAsCNK7RA
Here We Go Again by OK Go. Synchronised treadmillised fun.
Wonderful commitment
Aphex Twin – Windowlicker
Because I love watching people’s faces when they see this for the first time- usually a mixture of awe and WTF.
IMO it is the best music video ever made- absolute genius.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZT3gTu4Sjw
Enjoyed that.
thanks SOQ
I think of the video when I hear this – simple, original, not without humour and relevant to the song – I always think of the wardrobe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjvfIJstWeg
The psychedelic animation that is Panda Bear – Boys Latin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prBaZzYmQrI
What’s it all about? Maybe something about how our bodies play host to countless microorganisms? Is it about sex? A metaphor about the interconnectedness of all living things? Someone joked in the comment section “and that’s how gay couples adopt children” (although I think the video is probably meant to depict a man and woman)
Its gotta be good auld Prodigy – Smack My Bitch Up
Bohemian, Like You – The Dandy Warhols.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU3mc0yvRNk
Reminds me of a gentrificaton feature in the Irish Times about millenials in Stoneybatter and how tough they have it.
On a darker note, The The’s Sweet Bird of Truth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za-6xr1zGeA
The wonderfully on-point and allusive verbal whirlwind of Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues. Oft imitated but never bettered.
https://youtu.be/MGxjIBEZvx0
The footage as taken from the brilliant DA Pennebaker documentary Don’t Look Back and subsequently recast as a video. Bonus marks for featuring beat poet Allen Ginsberg.
It is magnificent, I return to this every few months, cheers me up
And of course we’re forgetting Sinéad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-EF60neguk
I am not a fan of Sinead, but that has to rate as one of the most incredible performances of all time!
Check out Ane Brun, “Do you remember?”
https://youtu.be/1lI30Qw69AQ
Has to be Ian Brown-F.E.A.R
what a song-the lyrics are amazing in their simplicity and honetsy..and the video is perfect
Finding everything and realising
For everything a reason
Novocaine for the Soul – Eels
https://youtu.be/V2yy141q8HQ
Great question and I think you’ve probably chosen the best answer. So many from Radiohead or Massive Attack but…
I’ll go with George Michael’s Freedom ‘90, gorgeously shot, groundbreaking by not featuring the artist and single-handedly inventing the concept of the supermodel.
https://youtu.be/diYAc7gB-0A
A classic from the ’90s: ADAM & JOE: THE FOOTIE SONG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45NOP1OA-EQ
I’ll go with Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer, a classic 1980’s MTV video and a great song behind it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJE0x7T4Q&list=RDOJWJE0x7T4Q&start_radio=1&t=0
The Chemical Brothers – Star Guitar because it made an already great track ever better. At the time (2002) it was the cleverest video ever.
https://youtu.be/0S43IwBF0uM
November Rain, long and epic
Goodbye Earl by Dixie Chicks
Madonna: Vogue. Madge looking and sounding her absolute best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuJQSAiODqI
Strong contender in the “So bad it’s great” sub-category:
Village People – Sex Over the Phone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hYtUYiuzkw
I forgot my soul a few weeks back, and I am sorry for those it hurt.
But this week’s competition has helped me find it again. Thanks, Nick, and all you lovely posters!
My favourite video of my favourite band. I hope you enjoy :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HnOFwqpLRQ
An absolute cracker,
https://youtu.be/8Uee_mcxvrw
Don’t know if it’s the best music video, but it fits the song perfectly
https://youtu.be/Ir8xLSoz8VI
It’ll get stuck in your head…..
I don’t know why any one said
https://youtu.be/n6P0SitRwy8
Heart shaped box. Nirvana.
Nirvana Smells like Teen Spirit