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Devo. Whip it. Aha. Take on me. Bugles. Video killed the radio star. Eddie Money. Take me home tonight.
Just one? Fuck, I guess NIN’s Wish. It made quite the impression on me as a kid and was a gateway into heavier music.
But since others can’t follow the prompts, here’s some others you should check out.
Motörhead - Hellraiser https://youtu.be/1M4FG1UXH5w
Monster Magnet - Space Lord https://youtu.be/dscfeQOMuGw
Nekrogoblin - No One Survives https://youtu.be/KsMKOx6fumc
Orgy - Blue Monday https://youtu.be/aJZTfl3DmCU
Pearl Jam - Do the Evolution https://youtu.be/aDaOgu2CQtI
Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King https://youtu.be/mOKoLiOkWWQ
The Black Satans - The Satan of Hell https://youtu.be/XOibIxl3dLo
GWAR - Meat Sandwich https://youtu.be/i3cMhAVHsxE
I don't even care for the band that much, but the video is still really cool.
Oh I also forgot about this one which I did like a lot.
Prodigy: Smack My Bitch Up 1997 uncensored.
Holy shit the 90s were wild
Ya... We had fun.
I've had that album on CD since it came out, yet I've never seen this video. That was mesmerizing.
I saw the premiere on MTV, it was late after Liquid Television if I remember right. I remember seeing a disclaimer, never saw one before or since on MTV. There it was. It's a ride for sure.
Elder pop girlie here.
Toxic by Britney Spears that crystal bodysuit was an awakening.
That’s What’s Up by Edward Sharp & the Magnetic Zeros I really thought this was an official video but I guess not? Or a reupload? Anyway it’s really cute and one of my favorite of all time.
I had never seen the 2nd video or heard the song, but it is beautiful.
Not sure why YT doesn’t have it under their account, but Apple Music shows that video under their page. So I guess it is an official burden that yt just doesn’t have as official. Weird.
The official video is here (under a Vevo account), but it's region-locked so doesn't even show up in search in other countries.
Peter Gabriel- Sledgehammer
I prefer Steam.
Everything by Bjork
Everything by Rammstein
My contribution is OK Go - Obssesion. Printers are actual deamons and that they managed to tame a whole murder of them is so damn impressive. Generally the OK Go videos are really unique and take a lot of actual effort.
Notable mentions are A$AP Rocky - Taylor Swif and although more an animation than a music video, Kaizo Trap.*
Edit: *No, it actually IS the official music video of the song. Neat.
There are a number of them:
"Do you Remember the Time" from Michael Jackson.
"Take on Me" from AHA.
"I would do Anything for Love" from Meatloaf
Take on me just might be the best music video i have ever seen. Truly a great pick!
Hard tie between three different ones.
Particle Man - They Might Be Giants
Experimental Film - They Might Be Giants
Those are tied for top three for me.
It's not a music video as much as it is an animation animated to match the song ( or vise versa, IDK ), but runner up would be Jason Honingford's Squirrel Funk.
EDIT:
Replaced the Squirrel Funk link with an older video because the one I originally linked was done poorly with AI enhancement.
If you're gonna say that, you might as well just count the entirety of Interstella 5555.
Anyway, along similar themes:
There's something about the video for Len's "Steal My Sunshine" that's just very comforting to me. I don't think it's just nostalgia, because this is how I felt when I first saw it back in the 90's, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1fzJ_AYajA
interesting trivia:
The song's music video—which uses the shorter "album edit" of the song, as featured on the single—was jointly directed by Marc Costanzo and Bradley Walsh under the respective stage names "The Burger Pimp" and "B-Rad".[30] When Len had signed to Work Records, one of its demands was to be able to direct its own videos.[7] The group used a $100,000 budget to make the video. They flew to Daytona Beach, Florida[5] with two dozen friends while the area was crowded with people on their spring vacations. They spent much of the budget on alcohol, buying so much that they broke their hotel's elevator trying to lift it.[5] They shot the video in the afternoon so that they could recover from hangovers in the morning and drink in the evening. The scenes were shot without a script or storyboard. In the video, Len and friends are shown relaxing together and riding on scooters, go-karts, and jet skis.
Motorrad, whose scooters were included in the music video, later held a promotion giving away scooters of the same model.[7] At the 1999 MuchMusic Video Awards, "Steal My Sunshine" won awards for Best Video, Best Pop Video, and Favourite Canadian Video.[32]
Star Guitar by the Chemical Brothers.
Since then I need to have perfect synchronization between sound and sight, I’d love to have the real world in sync with the music I’m listening to. It would be my own personal musical.
Fantastically captures mankind's eternal obsession with power and greed
Musically Pearl Jam didn’t quite scratch my itch even though I respected them as a band. Then this song and video dropped and has always been a favorite. The Spawn craze has died down a bit but this came out at the time McFarlane was huge and it was cool to see his style animated for the first time.
A powerful story telling music video.
While watching, I couldn't help think that the animation style seems familiar. I felt it to be very close to the animation style of Batman: The Animated Series. And I was right.
Michel Gondry made some amazing videos, and one of my absolute favorites was Cibo Matto's Sugar Water. Blew my mind the first time I saw it. https://youtu.be/EN9auBn6Jys
No Surprises by Radiohead, gets me every time.
Radiohead Paranoid Android
Animato – Fashionation by MIke Jittlov. Shot on 16mm film before music videos were a thing. Music: "I Know A Place" sung by Petula Clark. 3 minutes approx.
Terrible but watchable transfer with awful sound, especially near the beginning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1siHLicEYc
Also, a much fancier one, "Midichlorian Rhapsody", a Star Wars parody of Bohemian Rhapsody. Home studio music production with one guy playing almost all of the instruments, sync'd to video clips from Star Wars movies. Recaps the whole stupid prequel series in 6 minutes. Brilliant, absolutely pro level performances.
Powder's ‘New Tribe’ with animation by AC-bu. They have a bunch of other videos in a more flat style, mostly for Japanese pop artists, and some ads: e.g. ‘Sushi Tabetai’.
Run Wrake's videos, the most psychedelic stuff ever put on video: e.g. Howie B's ‘Music for Babies’ and ‘She Called Again’, or Future Sound of London's ‘We Have Explosive’.
Funki Porcini's ‘Incredible Thing’, ‘How Banking Works’, ‘Conservative Apocalypse’.
Music made to existing videos: Spastic Ink's ‘The Cereal Mouse’ and Blotted Science's ‘Cretaceous Chasm’.
Nadia Lee Cohen & Charlie Denis' video for AFX's ‘Korg Funk 5’.
Señor Coconut's ‘Tour de France’.
Almost anything by Michel Gondry, e.g. The Chemical Brothers's ‘Let Forever Be’; but also his early stuff like Oui-Oiu's ‘Bolide’ (in which band he also played drums).
And of course, Nekrogoblikon's ‘No One Survives’.