Favourite Music Videos
Not on IMDb: The Roots: What they do / Cornelius: Fit Song / Sensorama: Star Escalator / Portishead: All Mine / Bright Eyes: First Day of My Life / Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow / Motorpsycho: The Slow Phaseout / Yoko Ono - Walking on Thin Ice / Badly Drawn Boy: Once Around The Block / God Lives Under Water: From Your Mouth
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- DirectorChris CunninghamStarsAphex TwinMarcus MorrisGary CruzTwo stereotypical gangster wannabes try to get lucky with two young women when the man himself, Aphex Twin, interrupts their crude discussion to show off his dancing skills. The women are entranced (as shown since their faces have become similar to Richard's) and follow him in his limousine to the beach. The two men watch as Aphex performs a huge dance (involving champagne and a very messed up female version of Richard) in front of them.My favourite music video of all time by Chris Cunningham
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- DirectorJohan RenckStarsKarin DreijerOlof DreijerRickard EngforsIt is the annual meeting for the local football club, yet the entertainment turns out to be not quite what was expected.
- DirectorSpike JonzeStarsBeastie BoysAdam YauchAdam HorovitzSet to the song, Sabotage, the Beastie Boys appear in a condensed parody of a 1970s cop show.
- DirectorSpike JonzeStarsThe PharcydeBooty BrownFatlip
- DirectorD.A. PennebakerStarsBob DylanAllen GinsbergBob NeuwirthOuttake of the famous opening of Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back (1967).
- DirectorStephen R. JohnsonStarsPeter GabrielAnna-Marie GabrielMelanie GabrielPeter Gabriel's video for his 1986 Billboard Hot 100 number-one single, a collaboration with Aardman Animations which set new standards for the industry and became one of the most awarded videos in history.
- DirectorSpike JonzeStarsChristopher WalkenA businessman, overhearing the song on the maid's radio, takes to dancing in the hotel lobby.
- DirectorMichel GondryStarsCibo MattoMiho HatoriYuka HondaCibo Matto performs in the music video "Sugar Water" from the album "Viva. La Woman" recorded for Warner Brothers Records. The music video features a split screen of Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda as they travel from their home and later meet. One screen plays forward while the other plays in reverse.
- DirectorBaillie WalshStarsRobert Del NajaGrant MarshallMassive AttackThe video begins with a shot of a street gang before moving to follow Nelson walking along the pavement unaware or uncaring of her surroundings, which include drunks, bikers, and disabled people. As the video progresses, first 3D (having finished making a call on a public phone booth) and then Daddy G (pushing a cart) can be seen walking several paces behind her, slightly out of focus. At the end of the video, Nelson walks past the camera and off down the road into the distance.
- DirectorChris CunninghamStarsBjörkThe accompanying music video for the single was directed by Chris Cunningham and depicts the assembling of a robot with Björk's features, and her passionately kissing another robot in front of an ethereal and sterile backdrop.
- DirectorAnton CorbijnStarsDepeche ModeAndrew FletcherDave Gahan"Enjoy the Silence" is a song by Depeche Mode, taken from their seventh studio album, Violator. The single is Gold certificated in the US and Germany. The song won Best British Single at the 1991 BRIT Awards.
- DirectorRob LeggattLeigh MarlingStarsSteve EliasThe video follows the story of two miners in a black-and-white world who find a passage into a dance studio situated in a colour world. The majority of the video consists of the miners dancing with two ballerinas, ending with one of the miners fading back into black-and-white. The video transforms the disparate and the out-of-place into something new and joyful, and it does that with the right blend of heart and surrealism.
- DirectorGarth JenningsStarsDamon AlbarnBlurPeter BurroughsA sentient milk carton searches for a missing person whose face appears on its side.
- DirectorJonathan GlazerStarsRichard FileCraig KellyDenis LavantA man wearing a heavy parka is walking along the middle of the road in a busy car tunnel. He appears to be disoriented, mumbling and shouting incoherences, only occasionally including intelligible words such as "Cristo", "Allahu Akbar", and "sinner!" Some of the cars honk at him and swerve out of his way. All of a sudden a car hits him from the side, and he is left on the ground. The car continues its course without stopping or slowing down. After a while, the man stands up and starts walking again as if nothing had happened. Then another car hits him; this time the hit occurs straight on and sends him flying a couple of feet. A passing motorist watches with contempt as the man rolls in the street. The man gets up again. A car swerves by and slows down alongside the man, occupied by three young men. The driver repeatedly inquires as to the man's destination, who for his part seems oblivious to their presence and continues along his way blurting, "Saint Christopher"; the driver soon tires of this and speeds off whilst calling out, "Nice coat, man!" Another car hits the man, and he gets up almost instantly. More accidents occur, some cars honk, some cars swerve out of the way -- but none stop. The man removes his parka and throws it on the ground. He is shirtless underneath, and we see his chest covered with bruises and cuts. He smiles and opens his arms in a crucifix-like position. A Vauxhall Cavalier MK2 is coming his way and has no intention of stopping. The car hits the man, but this time he stands unmoved, and the car is destroyed upon impact.
- DirectorSpike JonzeStarsAshley BarnettFatboy SlimMichael GierThe fictional "Torrance Community Dance Group" does improvisational dance in a mall to Fatboy Slim's "Praise You."
- DirectorMichel GondryStarsDaft PunkA promotional video for the Daft Punk's 1997 single "Around the World ."
- DirectorLol CremeGodley & CremeKevin GodleyStarsHerbie HancockRobots and sculptures move in time to the music as Herbie Hancock is seen on a television set playing a keyboard. Features bird sculptures, mannequins, dancing pants, robot legs and more.
- DirectorJohn LandisStarsMichael JacksonOla RayForrest J. AckermanA night at the movies turns into a nightmare when Michael and his date are attacked by a hoard of bloodthirsty zombies - only a "Thriller" can save them now.
- DirectorMary LambertStarsMadonnaDeke AndersonKaris K. ChristensenMadonna pays homage to Marilyn Monroe in the music video for the second single from her icon album 'Like A Virgin'.
- DirectorJulian DoyleStarsKate BushDonald SutherlandMusic video for Kate Bush's song Cloudbusting about Wilhelm Reich. In 1950s Oregon, Reich and his son Peter (played by Bush) are trying to make his rainmaking machine work before the government agents arrive to arrest him.
- DirectorSpike JonzeStarsWeezerTom BosleyTony MaxwellMusic video for the song "Buddy Holly" by the American rock band Weezer, written by Rivers Cuomo. It was released as the second single from the band's debut album Weezer (The Blue Album) in 1994.
- DirectorChris HopewellAn animated promotional video for Radiohead's 2016 single "Burn the Witch."
- DirectorChris CunninghamStarsKaren AndersonAphex TwinNikki BondThe video opens with an old woman walking a dog in a grimy, industrial setting. The dog urinates on an abandoned television lying on the pavement, causing it to sputter unexpectedly into life, and a distorted and warping headshot of Richard D. James chants the lyrics. This unleashes a spirit, accompanied by a gang of small children, all of whom bear James' grinning face and who appear to inhabit the abandoned buildings. The children go around wreaking havoc, trashing an alley and chasing a man into his car. The thin man emerges from the television, screams in the woman's face, then gathers the children around him.
- DirectorMichel GondryStarsThe White StripesThe music video is a Lego animation directed by Michel Gondry. Gondry's son was featured at the beginning of the video, building Lego blocks. It was shot frame by frame with each frame having the Lego bricks rebuilt, sometimes in a complex manner to seem as if it were an actual shot, and then formed together to give the illusion of motion. The video mostly consists of red, white, and black color. The White Stripes couldn't strike a deal with Lego, so they had to buy a large amount of Lego boxes for the video.
- DirectorJohan RenckStarsDavid BowieElke LuytenDavid Bowie's last music video released prior to his death depicts him on a death bed, entering a better world through a closet.
- DirectorDamian KulashOK GoTrish SieStarsOK GoDan KonopkaDamian KulashThe music video of the song is an elaborate performance of the band dancing on treadmills in a single continuous take. Choreographed by Trish Sie and directed by Sie and the band, it took a total of seventeen attempts to complete the video. As in the band's video for "A Million Ways", Tim Nordwind lip-syncs the lead vocals instead of Damian Kulash, following the format from the dance choreographed for the song "C-C-C-Cinnamon Lips", which Tim sings. The video debuted on YouTube on July 31, 2006. As of March 2010, it had been viewed over 50 million times, but the video was taken down and reposted and now currently has over 41 million views.
- DirectorMark RomanekStarsKim DealKim GordonSonic Youth
- DirectorRomain GavrasStarsM.I.A.Music video for Bad Girls by M.I.A.
- DirectorDavid MalletStarsDavid BowieSteve StrangeElise BrazierA promotional video for David Bowie 's 1980 hit single "Ashes to Ashes."
- DirectorStefan ArniSiggi KinskiStarsSigur Rós
- DirectorMary LambertStarsMadonnaTony WardLeonMusic video for Madonna's song Like a Prayer.
- DirectorSpike JonzeStarsSofia CoppolaJennifer GoodridgeKip WaldoA gymnast does her routine to The Chemical Brothers' "Elektrobank"
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsRafael EdholmGeorge MichaelScott BenoitFor George Michael's song Freedom '90, he does not appear in the music video. Instead, five female models and five male models lip sync the lyrics to the song.
- DirectorAndy DelaneyBig T.V.Monty WhitebloomStarsLauryn HillKathryn MooreJason ThomasPromotional music video of Lauryn Hill's single from the album 'The Miseducation of...'. She plays the song in a block party set in 1967 and 1998.
- DirectorBernard RoseStarsBronski BeatSteve BronskiJohn CollinOficial music video was shot and released later in 1984. The narrative video features band member Jimmy Somerville as the boy who has experienced the issues described in the lyrics. Seen on a train, he is contemplating his childhood through flashbacks and the events that have caused him to leave his parents' home. At a swimming pool, his friends dare him to approach a young man that he is attracted to, for which he is later attacked in an alley by a homophobic gang led by the man he had approached at the swimming pool. A police officer brings him back to his home. It is implied that the boy's parents learn of his homosexuality for the first time through this incident and are shocked, but only the father seems unsupportive. The boy then catches a train to London, on which he is reunited with his friends.
- DirectorHype WilliamsStarsMissy ElliottTimbalandAnn PeeblesMissy 'Misdemeanor' Elliott performs in the music video "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" from the album "Supa Dupa Fly" recorded for Elektra Records. Missy 'Misdemeanor' Elliott dances and sings on stage with a group of dancers. The video also features her singing into a fish-eye lens camera and dancing in a variety of unusual outfits including an inflated garbage bag.
- DirectorAnton CorbijnStarsNirvanaWilliam S. BurroughsKurt CobainA music video for Nirvana's song, 'Heart Shaped Box'.
- DirectorTim PopeStarsThe CureSimon GallupRobert SmithIt consists of the band all inside a wardrobe on the edge of a cliff at Beachy Head. Following the musical scheme of the song, which builds up instrumentally, all the band members are inside the wardrobe, but not playing instruments. Boris Williams is clapping to the beat, keyboardist Lol Tolhurst is playing a very small, handheld keyboard, and Porl Thompson on the top shelf is plucking a comb to represent the short high sounds in the song. Bassist Simon Gallup does not play, and instead appears to be tied up.
- DirectorJonas ÅkerlundStarsThe ProdigyTeresa MayThe video shows some rampant adventures on the night London from the first person view. In the full version of the clip, called the Most Controversial Version, there are all kinds of antisocial behaviors, such as drinking hard liquor and drunk driving, taking cocaine, attacking people, violence, vandalism, heroin use, a scene in which Car shoot down a man, a female striptease without censorship, and at the end of the clip the main character is engaged in sex with the same stripper.
- DirectorTerence DonovanStarsRobert PalmerJulie PankhurstPatty KellyMusic video to Robert Palmer's smash classic hit "Addicted to Love", one of the most iconic clips of the 1980's and also one of the most spoofed as well. It consists of Palmer performing the song with an all-female rock band, all wearing black dresses and with similar makeup and bright red-lipstick that seems to cause the effect we're seeing variations of the same girl.
- DirectorDavid MalletStarsJohn DeaconBrian MayFreddie MercuryQueen's video for "I Want to Break Free", which is considered a camp classic in the UK but effectively ended their career in the United States, where it received a negative reaction and was boycotted by MTV.
- DirectorBryan BarberStarsOutkastAndré 3000Big BoiA promotional video for Outkast's 2003 hit single "Hey Ya!"
- DirectorBrian GrantStarsABCMartin FryStephen HopkinsMusic video for ABC's 1982 single "The Look Of Love". It is influenced by old British music hall, the chalk pavement sequence in the film "Mary Poppins", carnival sideshows, and "Punch and Judy" puppet shows.
- DirectorHoward GreenhalghStarsSoundgardenMatt CameronChris CornellMusic video for the song Black Hole Sun, by the Seattle based band, Soundgarden.
- DirectorGeoffroy de CrécyStarsÉtienne de Crécy
- DirectorChris CunninghamStarsMadonnaA promotional video for Madonna's 1998 single "Frozen" in which she plays a shape-shifting sorceress who transforms into a flock of ravens and then an ominous-looking dog, and even replicates herself.
- DirectorJon SmallStarsAerosmithJam Master JayRoger LaneThe iconic promotional video for Run DMC's 1985 rap-rock collaboration remake of Aerosmith's early 1975 hit single "Walk This Way" featuring Steven Tyler and Joe Perry from Aerosmith.
- DirectorSpike JonzeStarsBjörkBryan AnthonyAnthony MarcionaBjörk sings "It's Oh So Quiet" in a musical number set in and around a tire store.
- DirectorHiroyuki NakanoStarsDeee-LiteDmitry BrillBootsy CollinsDeee-Lite performs in the music video "Groove Is in the Heart" from the album "World Clique" recorded for Elektra Records. The video begins with an introduction from Lady Miss Kier utilizing a French accident. The psychedelic video features the band and dancers against a multi-colored 60's background. Bootsy Collins and Q-Tip provide guest vocals.
- DirectorLol CremeGodley & CremeKevin GodleyStarsLol CremeGodley & CremeKevin GodleyGodley and Creme perform in the music video "Cry" from their album "The History Mix: Volume 1" recorded for Polydor Records. The black and white video features close-ups of human singers whose faces are blending together through the process of analogue cross-fading.
- DirectorChris CunninghamStarsCarl AntolinMichel ForbesSumire FujimotoA girl and her dog escaping from Osaka mental institution.
- DirectorRoman CoppolaStarsFranca CapanniSean MaharauMatt MyersMusic video for Daft Punk's 1998 single "Revolution 909" in which a rave, taking place in an alley, is shut down by undercover police officers suddenly arriving on scene.
- DirectorDaniel LeviA young schoolgirl locks her teacher in the bathroom during recess so that she can commandeer the school speaker system. The cassette tape she plays causes her schoolmates to become frenzied and possessed. They engage in a ritualistic dance in the schoolyard before turning on each other.
- DirectorZbigniew RybczynskiStarsThe Art of NoiseThe original version, featuring a little girl (reportedly named Sylwia) in punk garb leading three business suit-clad men in the destruction of various musical instruments.
- DirectorDavid ByrneStephen R. JohnsonStarsDavid ByrneChris FrantzJerry HarrisonMusic video for Talking Heads' classic "Road to Nowhere", presenting members of the band in several daily life routine situations where everything seems to be climbing to nowhere at the same time there's a meaning behind it all. Evolution, changes, growth...what's the point of life's process is what the band seems to ask and the video goes a similar way but in a funny manner.
- DirectorPhilippe DecoufléStarsThierry FournierGillian GilbertPeter HookMusic video for New Order: True Faith.
- DirectorJean-Baptiste MondinoStarsMadonnaAmanda CazaletWallis FrankenA distressed, tired woman becomes seduced into a sexual encounter with a mysterious man and woman.
- DirectorJean-Baptiste MondinoStarsNeneh CherryNeneh Cherry performs in the music video "I've Got You Under My Skin" from the album "Red Hot + Blue" recorded for Circa Records. The video opens with Neneh Cherry rapping the lyrics of the song as they appear next to lips as she speaks. Neneh Cherry sings while bathed in a blue light. The video also features close ups on speakers playing the beats of the song and a man dressed in silver dancing in front of speakers.
- DirectorGarth JenningsStarsR.E.M.Michael StipePromo video for R.E.M.: Imitation of Life.
- DirectorSpike JonzeStarsDinosaur Jr.Spike JonzeA golfer and his caddy recklessly play golf in the middle of New York city.
- DirectorAdam YauchStarsBeastie BoysJoey GarfieldAdam HorovitzMusic video for the Beastie Boys's 1998 single "Intergalactic". The music video begins with a large robotic craft headed to earth. The Beastie Boys perform while wearing white construction hats and white outfits and the robot dances.
- DirectorLeiji MatsumotoKazuhisa TakenouchiStarsDaft PunkMusic video for Daft Punk's song 'One More Time'.
- DirectorKristoffer BorgliStarsMarius Solem JohansenExcerpt from the film Whateverest.
- DirectorJulien TempleStarsNeil YoungNeil Young's music video bashes pop stars who do commercials and satirizes other commercials.
- DirectorChris CunninghamStarsCaspert HunteAfrika BambaataaWilliam BaraketAn African man disintegrates in a city.
- DirectorTim PopeStarsLee HarrisMark HollisTalk TalkOfficial music video for "Life's What You Make It " by Talk Talk.
- DirectorTim PopeStarsMatt JohnsonThe TheNeneh CherryMusic video for The The's "Slow Train to Dawn" from the album Infected.
- DirectorPeter GoldmannStarsThe BeatlesGeorge HarrisonJohn LennonThe Beatles' innovative music video for "Strawberry Fields Forever".
- DirectorMichel GondryStarsBjörkMusic video for Björk's song Jóga from Homogenic. Spectacular aerial footage of the Icelandic volcanic wilderness equates with the expansive spirit of Björk's most majestic song.
- DirectorTraktorStarsBasement JaxxPetr JanisDamian Samuels
- DirectorTom KuntzMike MaguireStarsBurr DeBenningMichelle WittonPromotional music video from the debut album of the Australian band The Avalanches, "Since I Left You" (2000), with a surreal staging for a more surreal song.
- DirectorMichael Sterling EatonStarsLos Skeleton CrewGil Scott-HeronA blues song by Robert Johnson (1911-1938). Johnson recorded it on Vocalion, June 19, 1937. It tells the story of the singer's waking up one morning to the devil knocking on the door, telling him that "it's time to go.
- DirectorPhil PoynterStarsKeisha BuchananMutya BuenaSiobhan DonaghyThe video has no plot and is known for its fresh and simplistic style, a theme that they would continue in their early videos. It features the group in a variety of ever-changing outfits, singing the song in front of a plain white background, either by themselves or together as a group.
- DirectorCharles Stone IIIStarsThe RootsMalik B.Erykah Badu
- DirectorEddie ArnoMarkus InnocentiStarsEurythmicsJames CameronAnnie LennoxOfficial music video for the single"There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" by British duo Eurythmics and released on their fifth album "Be Yourself Tonight". The video presents a French king entertained by a theatrical performance from a group of angels.
- DirectorMichel GondryOlivier GondryThe music video features a continuous shot filmed from the window of a speeding train passing through towns and countryside. However, the buildings and objects passing by appear exactly in time with the various beats and musical elements of the track.
- DirectorDave MeyersStarsKevin FederlineGeorvohn LambertLinda PerryIn the video Pink is getting ready to go out, trying on different outfits. One of her friends picks her up, and they drive in a car bobbing their heads to the music. However, the car runs out of fuel, so they get out and steal two skateboards from two boys. Pink falls off her skateboard because men in a car are whistling at her. The women arrive at the club but are refused entry, so to get in they use a scaffold to reach the top of the building. Inside the club Pink changes her clothes and starts to party; in the end Pink dances with two other dancers (Kevin Federline and Georvohn Lambert).
- DirectorPedro RomhanyiStarsDamon AlbarnBlurGraham CoxonIn this Blur music video two salesmen (Damon Albarn and Phil Daniels) are doing their routine job, knocking on doors to present their products and always getting rejected by everyone, in between odd and funny situations in which all the other members from the group also appear. That's Parklife.
- DirectorKim GordonSpike JonzeStarsThe BreedersKelley DealKim DealThe Breeders perform in the music video "Cannonball" from the album "Last Splash" recorded for 4AD and Elektra Records. The music video begins with a cannonball rolling down the street. The band perform in a room with brick walls and a large window. Kim Deal sings with her face submerged underwater.
- DirectorNigel DickStarsOasisPaul ArthursLiam GallagherOfficial music video of "Wonderwall" by Oasis.
- DirectorJes BenstockLuke LoseyStarsOrbitalTilda SwintonSimon KennettAn otherworldly traveler phases into existence and experiences the madness of modern urban life in this music video for Orbital's The Box.
- DirectorQuentin DupieuxPromotional music video of Mr. Oizo's hit from his debut album, "Analog Worms Attack".
- DirectorErykah BaduCoodieChike OzahStarsErykah BaduA promotional video for Erykah Badu's "Window Seat"