Music videos as picked by me! (Top 10 Videos)

Member Name: iamasadlittleboy

Product:	Top 10 Videos
Date:	20/12/07 (128 review reads)
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Advantages: Some that people wont like

Disadvantages: Some that people will like

After having done favourite albums and favourite artists, the next options were favourite songs, singles and videos, so here come my favourite 10 music videos. As with everything I seem to pick their'll be a few weird choices, but reasons will be shared with you as will the band. Although their is some missed as with every top 10 list, you can't have every one you would like put into your top 10 so despite this being subject to change on an almost daily basis, at the time of writing it's the 10 that stand out. Of copurse some obvious choices have been made, for iconic video's which are going to be on 80%+ of these sorts of list's, sorry for being predictable with them, but that merely shows how awesome the videos are, though I'll admit most of the video's aren't in this category.

10-Smells like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
I'm not sure whether I'm allowed to include this video due to the iconic status of the song, but I have done anyway, with the huge following the song has got, the video merely adds to the whole grunge feel, of the band. The dirty, dank basement like studio, the barren revellers and of cours the band on a musty badly lit stage all add up to not only tell us what the band were about, but just exactly what grunge was about. Taking the band, and more exactly Cobain from troubled and scruffy kid to huge megastars almost overnight. If Teen spirit was the song that launched grunge, this video is the video that launched Kurt Cobain into the mainstream.

9-Smack my Bitch up (Prodigy)
First person music video, one of very few, and with it being this good I'm hugely suprised that it hasn't caught on, despite it some what a violent, drug based video it's still brilliant. Looking through the eyes of 90's clubber (likely male) as they go to a club, a bad, get drunk and basically keep going through the night from when they get up to them getting in a fight. Despite the video being one of the all time greats it'll never really be remembered for the filmographic details but more for the satire and darkness of the whole thing, which is a rather large shame considering just how brilliantly done it is.

8-Learn to fly (Foo Fighters)
Now anything that mixes brilliant music, an airplane, the guys from Tenacious D and Dave Grohl in womens clothes is brilliant as far as I'm concerned. The video does mix both live stage footage with the daft airplane short in which Grohl seems to play everyone but the tea boys (Tenacious D's roles), which include the passengers, pilot, musicians on the TV screen (the live footage) and of course the stewardess'. As with everything linked to Jack Black the humour is second to none, with the "storyline" of it being that the tea boys drug the tea, leading to everyone falling to sleep and the plane nearly crashing before..."Pilot Grohl" wakes up and saves everyone.

7-Clint Eastwood (Gorrillaz)
The first animated video on this list is the brilliantly wonderful "Clint Eastwood" which has a place in my heart due to the fact I liked the song and I loved those zombie's! As with the previous video it has the ingredients that make something fun to watch, in this case, carttons and zombies...if they threw pirates and ninjas in it'd be orgasmic. The video actually stands out in my head better than the song (despite me having the album it's off somewhere), which is maybe why it's in the list, as any video that beats the song is rather damn good. Damon Alburn's brilliance is evident right throughout and god knows why the idea popped into his head, but I'm not complaining, lets have more of this animated brilliance.

6-Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)
The iconic Queen video features quite lowly on this list despite it's technical brilliance and it's ageless wonder, it is hugely over-rated and not one of the best 3 of all time. The effects, the lighting, the sounds and everything else is brilliant and has possibly been able to transcend the generations of musical videos since, despite this it's not got a storyline or anything else that will still catch your attention and has suffered (like a lot of great things) due to over exposure, which counts heavily against it. Sadly this description of the magical video which features several wonderfully inventive features has been pretty negative rather than positive, sorry for this.

5-So Real (Jeff Buckley)
Buckley is a guy I could spend all week talking about and still have stuff to tell you afterwards, but rather than trawl on, I'll give you some trivia. This song replaced "Forget her" from the original release of "Grace" back in 1994, due to reasons cited as "personal" by Buckley, this song was formed over a riff that Michael Tighe (Buckley's Bassist) had been playing, and the song was just completed in time for the album (apparently the song was finished just a week before the album's EPK). The song then had a musical video (as did "Grace", "Forget her" and another song which I've forgotten the title to), what stands out about this one though, is the ape suit. Thats right an ape suit, Buckley dresses as an ape, that my dear friends, is how you make a great music video, get your vocally brilliant lead to wear an ape suit and ride a biclycle, easy enough.

4-Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel)
Another iconic video, this time from the former Genesis leader and complete musical genious (yeah another contreversial statement), in a video that brought stop-time animation to the public attention (yeah a second animated video) and was regularly on the top of MTV's most played list. The video that helped establish Peter Gabriel's solo career as something to take seriously (despite his onstage antics) and the song even managed to knock Genesis off the top spot in the charts, which shows it wasn't just the video that was popular. For those fans of Tim Allen's "Home Improvement" the video was parodied for the intro of the show. at one point.

3-Jesus He Knows Me (Genesis)
Talking about Genesis, who during the 80's had a string of fantastic videos which had me ooh'ing and aaah'ing over which should be included, either this satirical look at TV Evangalists or the Talking Heads inspired video (which some how, I've forgotten the name of, embarrassing really). This won over in the end (mainly due to the fact I could actually remember the title), a video in which Phil Collins plays the evangalist priest encouraging viewersw to pledge their money to buy a place in heaven (and help him buy whatever he wants), a brilliantly colourful and fun video which helps us understand...nothing at all, but hey it's fun to watch.

2-Experimental Film (They Might Be Giants)
I had to get one really obscure choice in here somewhere, so here we are, at #2 TMBG's brilliantly animated video which has no point to it other than a bit of fun and as the title suggests a bit of an experimental film. The video may not have the filmographic brilliance of Sledgehammer of Bohemian Rhapsody, or the humour of Jesus he knows me and Learn to fly but I like it, and this is my list. One of the few videos you can find online through the makers own website which also features an excellent comedy commentary (I was goint to merge them words but felt "commendary" was silly) as an easter egg.

1-Thriller (Michael Jackson)
Is there anything at all I can say about this video? Of course it was going to be #1 no matter what was going to be said by anyone. A video where not only do we get Jackson dancing (which is always fun) but we getting him turning into a zombie, we get dancing Zombie's and we even get a video which seems to have it's own story which is always a plus. Now remember if you stick Zombies in there, it'll please me, I like to be pleased...ok that sounds wrong but you get the idea. We need more zombie video's damnit it! A technically brilliant video that has yet to be surpassed.

Just missed out...
Genesis' talking head's video (which I still can't remember the name of..lil help?)
Superman's dead by Our Lady Peace
96 Quite Bitter Beings by Camp Kill yourself
November Rain by Guns 'n' Roses

Summary: Can I only have 10?