Favorite Music Videos

[Matty]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRtWInxI1pg

[KC]

Easily my favorite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd3zjozVSEg

[fyrenza]

I like this because she's a FAB belly dancer!


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

[IMPress Polly]

I prefer to be expressive and provide a lot of my favorite. I'm gonna go I think with my top 10 or 12 favorites (which are a kind of biased by the period in which I was really into new music I'll admit; I haven't really kept up very well in years now). These won't be measured strictly in terms of objective quality, but in terms of my personal taste and preference.

My top favorite is an example of personal bias because it's really not THAT great a video. It's about child abuse though, so I'm sure you'll recognize that that strikes a chord with me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s3iGpDqQpQ

My second-favorite is probably better by objective standards. I don't generally like heavy metal that much, but this song is an exception to that rule because it's about nightmares, which I have a lot of. Plus it's done by a band with talent. This is for those of us with an unhealthy fear of death.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-E-LDc384

Okay, my third-favorite is probably my best selection by objective standards. This video masterfully takes the viewer from 9/11 through much of the Iraq War by analogy of children playing. It does an excellent job of showing how war is a vicious cycle that needs to be broken.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CxKA1uETxE

This fourth song is more like the big picture in my mind. The song is mainly about the plundering of poor nations by rich nations. The video connects the dots between layers of exploitation, showing the Third World sweatshop workers who make the clothes that First World women in turn buy to please First World men. It presses on by casting our general existence under capitalism as plastic, mechanical, and fake, and wraps up with a rousing call for revolution.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0kJLW2EwMg

Next up, in contrast, we have a more pessimistic, cynical take on the class conflicts that characterize the world in which we live. Inspired by Nietzsche's writings, Marilyn Manson conveys what he sees as the controlling, fascistic attitudes of both the privileged and the underprivileged, cast here principally in terms of what he described as the "cult of beauty". I don't FULLY agree with this perspective (which is middle class in its orientation), but I think it's an interesting take nonetheless. On my worse days, I too can zero in on the more revenge-oriented aspects of proletarian class struggle, so I'm open to that criticism of my perspective.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypkv0HeUvTc

And that's my top five anyway. I'll see if I can find time to round out my top 10 selections soon.

[IMPress Polly]

Sixth on my top 10 list is this song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers about how you may never fully get over a break-up. I think it's true. That's why we tend to become progressively more jaded and selective in our intimate ventures as we age.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn_YodiJO6k

Sorry for all the pessimism, folks. Just part of who I am. Anyway, I'll give this video by Michael Moore seventh because it did an even better job than the song its attached to in making the case against the invasion of Iraq shortly before it happened. It's composed of scenes from the massive, 10-million-person pre-invasion protest around the world against the war. I was in attendance of the protest in New York City.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE2r7r7VVic

Number eight goes to Nirvana for a song about the stupidity of the youth culture that's even more applicable today than when it was written 20 years ago.

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

Anyway, next I gotta go with this one by the Gorillaz because 1) it features cartoon gorilla musicians and 2) pulls off the cute goth thing pretty well. :grin: Features something of a spiritual message as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoQYw49saqc

And now, to get us out of our mopey mood, something completely different gets number ten. :grin: (Yes, Japanese pop music often helps lift my spirits.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNL6jmnOvVs

[Matty]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU5pKS-roVk

[Matty]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFWKJ2FUiAQ

[Dangermouse]

The only vid that ever gave me vertigo!


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

Their first was so OTT it was brilliant!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRYNYb30nxU

[Dangermouse]

Chas and Dave (piano and bass) were a couple of chirpy cockney geezers who were big in the 70's/80's, had several hits, and a TV show. Their Christmas special was filmed in a real pub with a real audience, but nobody realised at the time that it was real beer too! The audience didn't talk over the act too much!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAuJ9jYE2m8

Things really livened up when a couple of pals joined in for a jam...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Puj5v-kjA

This is the only time you'll ever see Albert Lee playing rhythm guitar!