Best tune and video...

26-12-2016 8:51pm #1

...we all have a favourite track, or possibly many, and a favourite video, or again possibly many. But what was the best example of both arts combined? Say you had to award 5 marks to the song itself, and 5 for the video?

Oh and it has to be a top 40 hit. Otherwise I'd go for Plaid "Itsu" or LFO "Freak" and it'd get too obscure.

I'll start with a catchy No. 1 that put Shaun Ryder and his teeth front and centre of a rather strange video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAOR6ib95kQ

me_irl · 26-12-2016 8:52pm

Beastie Boys - Sabotage

Icaras · 26-12-2016 8:53pm

This one (just saw the top 40 bit but Im leaving it in):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_SlAzsXa7E

Goya · 26-12-2016 8:56pm

Radiohead - Just

26-12-2016 8:57pm

me_irl wrote: »

Beastie Boys - Sabotage

Think the video beats the song. Not sure I'd listen to it on its own too often...but WHAT a video! Similar to their "Intergalactic" in that regard, eminently watchable.

SEPT 23 1989 · 26-12-2016 9:19pm

Aphex Twin Windowlicker

Olishi4 · 26-12-2016 9:27pm

Probably considered a bit cheesy now and im sure they are not the best videos but I always liked a lot of The Pet Shop Boys videos.

This one, I think was also a Christmas no.1

I liked the one with Dusty Springfield too.

NapoleonInRags · 26-12-2016 9:28pm

Flimpson wrote: »

Radiohead - Just

Was going to post that.

Arghus · 26-12-2016 9:31pm

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Aphex Twin Windowlicker

Good call. And there's always this -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-9UvrLyj3k

Cortina_MK_IV · 26-12-2016 9:35pm

The Killers - Mr. Brightside. Izabella Miko has a very striking face.

26-12-2016 9:41pm

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Aphex Twin Windowlicker

Actually, hard to beat that alright. I'd give the track itself a 4 out of 5, but the video is just flawless. The opening scene of the official and sanitised version, where he pulls up, gets out and dances with the umbrella in the setting sun in LA is a work of art.

Jaime faire des croquettes au chiens...

Cienciano · 26-12-2016 9:45pm

Sabotage is already mentioned. So this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914

RobertKK · 26-12-2016 9:47pm

The video that beat Beyonce and which really upset Kanye...love the song.

peasant · 26-12-2016 9:48pm

And another pre-computer graphics music video
Hard to tell what was more of a hit ..the tune or the video

26-12-2016 9:59pm

peasant wrote: »

And another pre-computer graphics music video
Hard to tell what was more of a hit ..the tune or the video

I preferred the similar concept video but better pop of this effort...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1isRH9E9WAE

FanadMan · 26-12-2016 10:06pm

One by Metallica. Based on the novel and film Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. Great film - there was a 2008 remake but still haven't seen it.

Olishi4 · 26-12-2016 10:18pm

FanadMan wrote: »

One by Metallica. Based on the novel and film Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. Great film - there was a 2008 remake but still haven't seen it.

My dad, although he was not a fan of Metallica, would always stop and watch that video and tell me the story of it. Must take the time myself to watch the movie or read the book.