What does everyone think is the best or
hottest music video?

I absolutely love "Wild Wild West" by
Will Smith. That music video is awesome!

Here are my favorite music videos of all time in random order......

Foo Fighters - Big Me
Weezer - Buddy Holly
Weezer - Island On The Sun
Beastie Boys - Sabotage
Mariah Carey - Honey
Reel Big Fish - Sell Out
Mack 10 - Fo Life
No Doubt - Don't Speak
A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario
3rd Bass - Pop Goes The Weasal
Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
Madonna - Ray Of Light
Jeru The Damaja - Ya Playin Yaself

This really has nothing to do with the "hottest" videos, but these are the videos that I think are purely innovative and/or eye candy.

It's kind of a long list, so bear with me.

Aerosmith - Pink (1997)
The Beastie Boys - So What'cha Want (1992)
The Beastie Boys - Sabotage (1994)
The Beatles - Paperback Writer (1966)
The Beatles - Rain (1966)
The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever (1967)
The Beatles - Hey Jude (1968)
The Beatles - Revolution (1968)
The Beatles - Free As A Bird (1995)
The Beatles - Real Love (1995/1996)
Foo Fighters - Big Me (1996)
Foo Fighters - My Hero (1997)
Foo Fighters - Everlong (1997)
Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly (1999)
Foo Fighters - Breakout (2000)
George Harrison - This Song (1976)
George Harrison - When We Was Fab (1988)
George Harrison - This Is Love (1988)
Guns 'N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle (1987)
Guns 'N' Roses - November Rain (1992)
Billy Joel - Allentown (1982)
Billy Joel - A Matter Of Trust (1986)
Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire (1989)
Billy Joel - The River Of Dreams (1993)
John Lennon - Imagine (1971)
John Lennon - I'm Losing You (1998)
The Dave Matthews Band - Everyday (2001)
Paul McCartney - Coming Up (1980)
Nirvana - Come As You Are (1992)
Nirvana - In Bloom (1992)
Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box (1993)
Pearl Jam - Jeremy (1992)
Pearl Jam - Do The Evolution (1998)
Stone Temple Pilots - Big Bang Baby (1996)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Don't Come Around Here No More (1985)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Mary Jane's Last Dance (1993)
Tom Petty - You Don't Know How It Feels (1995)
Radiohead - Karma Police (1997)
Radiohead - No Surprises (1997)
R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts (1993)
R.E.M. - Imitation Of Life (2001)
U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name (1987)
U2 - Numb (1993)
Van Halen - Hot For Teacher (1984)
Van Halen - Right Now (1992)
Weezer - Buddy Holly (1995)
Weezer - Hash Pipe (2001)

There's probably a ****load I'm forgetting, but que sera sera.

Originally posted by DJM77


Foo Fighters - Big Me


I love Foo Fighter videos. They are all really good. Learn to Fly is my fave, though. I don't really see a lot of music videos........:(

My favorite videos:

A-ha - "Take On Me"
De La Soul - "Me, Myself and I"
Duran Duran - "Hungry Like The Wolf"
Genesis - "Land Of Confusion"
Billy Joel - "We Didn't Start The Fire"
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - "Don't Come Around Here No More"
U2 - "One"
Van Halen - "Right Now"
Weezer - "Buddy Holly"
And most of Weird Al's videos :D

Mmmm... Irresistable by Jessica Simpson :D

Originally posted by QueenOfTheGypsies
My favorite videos:


De La Soul - "Me, Myself and I"

Yes, that was a good one. It was a great concept.

Originally posted by QueenOfTheGypsies
U2 - "One"


Which version of One? They made three videos for it. Pretty ironic, eh?

Shakira- Whenever Wherever
Shakira- Underneath Your Clothes
No Doubt- Hey Baby
Alanis Morissette- Hands Clean

I don't know the name of the song but it's by The Calling.
Breakdown by Mariah Carey
The whole world by Outcast

Pink-Get the Party Started
No Doubt-Hey Baby
Caramel-City High
Gone When It's Gone-Janet Jackson
Lonely-Janet Jackson
Oops! I did it Again-Britney Spears
Slave For U-Britney Spears
Family Affair-Mary J.Blidge
I Still Believe-Mariah Carey
Candy-Mandy Moore
Frozen-Madonna
Beautiful Stranger-Madonna
Bye Bye Bye-NSync
Bootylicious-Destiny's Child
More Than A Woman-Aaliyah
Straight Up-Paula Abdul
Batter Up-Nelly
Whenever, wherever-Shakira
What About Us-Brandy

My favorite videos are usually ones that are interesting or unigue, not simply a band performing live or something boring like that.

Ones that come immediately to mind are:

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Mary Jane's Last Dance and Don't Come Around Here No More

A-Ha: Take On Me

U2: Elevation Ok, so I just like the floating elephant!

OutKast: Ms. Jackson

Aerosmith: Janie's Got a Gun (probably their best video), Pink, Jaded, Fly Away From Here (I just like Steven painted all silver in this one ;) )

Gorillaz: Clint Eastwood (I just like it when the gorillas get down.)

Van Halen: Right Now

Madonna: Like a Prayer (Ok so this wasn't visually stunning but it was pure "let's ruffle some feathers" Madonna....my fave Madonna video EVER), Ray of Light

NIN: The Perfect Drug

I'm drawing a blank right now and can't think of any more. But I love music videos, so I'm sure I'll be back to add to this list.

Originally posted by Bootsy Whoosh
OutKast: Ms. Jackson


I like that video too. Almost every music video with a lot of animals in it is good in my opinion.

Originally posted by DJM77
I like that video too. Almost every music video with a lot of animals in it is good in my opinion.

:lol: I agree totally. But I just loved how the animals were so syncronized in that video, so it looked like they were singing (the owl) or playing piano, and how they covered their heads when sparks flew and such. I just looove that video, it's one of my favs ever, and it's pretty much all because of the animals...

Originally posted by AKA


Which version of One? They made three videos for it. Pretty ironic, eh?

The one that features Bono sitting in a restaurant, lip-synching into the camera. A simple but beautiful video.

The whole world ~ outkast
Smooth criminal ~ alien ant farm
In the end ~ linkin park
I'm real ~ J.lo

Ok I have a bunch so bear with me:
Creed - My sacrifice
Michael Jackson- Thriller & You rock my world
Janet Jackson- All for you & Go deep
Garth Brooks - Thunder rolls & We shall be free
Dixie Chicks- Goodbye Earl
Sheryl Crow - Every day is a winding road
Areosmith- Hole in my soul
Mary J. Blidge- No more drama
Dire Straits- Money for nothin
Eve & Gwen - Let me blow your mind
Fastball- Your an ocean
Brandy- the boy is mine & What about us
John Couger Mallencamp- Pink houses
O Brother where art thou - I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow - The Soggy Bottom Boys
Brad Pasiley- Rapped around your finger
Brooks and Dunn- Only in America & My Maria
Paul Macartney- Freedom
Tom Petty- Don't come around here no more
Shariie Austin - Jolean
REM- Man on the moon & Loosing my relgion
Huey Lewis- Hip to be square
Sugar Ray- Runaway & Fly
Will Smith- W2K, Just Crusin, Wild Wild West & Miami
Eric Clapton- Pretending
U2- Where the streets have no name
Guns & Roses- Sweet child o' mine
Van Helen - Right now
Shania Twain- (If You're Not In It For Love) I'm Outta Here & That Don't Impress Me Much
Lee Ann Womack- I hope you dance
Clint Black- like the rain
Lonestar- All ready there
Reba- And still & If you see him if you see her
Mark Wills - loving every minute
John Michael Montgomery - Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)

I cannot stand them!

Originally posted by Babalu
I cannot stand them!

You can't stand music videos?! That's a bit odd. Admittedly some of them can be rank but some are actually pretty stylish.
And what would you be watching on MTV if there were no music videos? Before music videos, people in Britain had to endure Pans People on 'Top of the Pops'!! God, that was awful!!!! :eek:

Originally posted by Babalu
I cannot stand them!
:eek2: WHY?!

oh yeah and "Family Affair" by Mary J Blige :D

Originally posted by Babalu
I cannot stand them!

Do you hate Christmas and pizza, too?

Originally posted by Mossopp

And what would you be watching on MTV if there were no music videos?

There are no music videos on MTV.

Originally posted by AKA


There are no music videos on MTV.

There is on MTV-UK.....occasionally.

Originally posted by AKA


There are no music videos on MTV.

Um... then what do they show on TRL?

Oh yeah, forgot these:D
Contagious-Isley Brothers featuring R.Kelly and Chante Moore(I so love that video!! Has anyone even seen it?)
Can't Get You Out Of My Head-Kylie Minogue (I love that song!)
Drops of Jupiter-Train
South Side-Moby and Gwen Stefani
Let me Blow Ya Mind-Eve and Gwen Stefani
What's It Gonna Be-Busta Rhymes and Janet Jackson
Every Morning-Sugar Ray
I Hate You-Kelis
How You Remind Me-Nickelback

Originally posted by AKA


There are no music videos on MTV.
Ya there are.

Aah, children, children, children. So young. So cute.

Gather 'round. Grandpa AKA is going to tell you a story. It takes place in a magical time called the '80s.

Back then, MTV showed videos twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Hence the name, "Music Television." But starting in the late '80s with shows like Remote Control, MTV began to stray away from its all videos, all the time concept.

The final nail in MTV's coffin was mercilessly hammered in when the words "This is the true story..." were first uttered on the network in 1992. Since then, the network has shown less and less videos.

Now, the only time you can catch videos on MTV during the day is during the crapfest known as "Total Request Live" hosted by Satan... er, Carson Daly. On this show, millions of teenage girls everywhere are subjected to "countdowns" they think are voted on by them, when in actuality, placement on the countdown is determined by record company executives who give MTV large sums of money in order for their boyband to be number one that week.

Which brings me to the sad state of music today, but that's another topic and another day.

Oh, and they all lived happily ever after.

"Feels good do it" - Sloan

I'm not really into all that teenybopper stuff, but any Canadians out there. If you like Weezer, then you'll like Sloan. The music video is awesome, and the song rocks my socks!


http://www.murderecords.com/gallery/pt/feelsgood11.jpg

Originally posted by AKA
This really has nothing to do with the "hottest" videos, but these are the videos that I think are purely innovative and/or eye candy.

It's kind of a long list, so bear with me.

Aerosmith - Pink (1997)
The Beastie Boys - So What'cha Want (1992)
The Beastie Boys - Sabotage (1994)
The Beatles - Paperback Writer (1966)
The Beatles - Rain (1966)
The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever (1967)
The Beatles - Hey Jude (1968)
The Beatles - Revolution (1968)
The Beatles - Free As A Bird (1995)
The Beatles - Real Love (1995/1996)
Foo Fighters - Big Me (1996)
Foo Fighters - My Hero (1997)
Foo Fighters - Everlong (1997)
Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly (1999)
Foo Fighters - Breakout (2000)
George Harrison - This Song (1976)
George Harrison - When We Was Fab (1988)
George Harrison - This Is Love (1988)
Guns 'N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle (1987)
Guns 'N' Roses - November Rain (1992)
Billy Joel - Allentown (1982)
Billy Joel - A Matter Of Trust (1986)
Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire (1989)
Billy Joel - The River Of Dreams (1993)
John Lennon - Imagine (1971)
John Lennon - I'm Losing You (1998)
The Dave Matthews Band - Everyday (2001)
Paul McCartney - Coming Up (1980)
Nirvana - Come As You Are (1992)
Nirvana - In Bloom (1992)
Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box (1993)
Pearl Jam - Jeremy (1992)
Pearl Jam - Do The Evolution (1998)
Stone Temple Pilots - Big Bang Baby (1996)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Don't Come Around Here No More (1985)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Mary Jane's Last Dance (1993)
Tom Petty - You Don't Know How It Feels (1995)
Radiohead - Karma Police (1997)
Radiohead - No Surprises (1997)
R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts (1993)
R.E.M. - Imitation Of Life (2001)
U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name (1987)
U2 - Numb (1993)
Van Halen - Hot For Teacher (1984)
Van Halen - Right Now (1992)
Weezer - Buddy Holly (1995)
Weezer - Hash Pipe (2001)

There's probably a ****load I'm forgetting, but que sera sera.


The Beatles...............Tom Petty!.......... Doesn't get any better than that!:) :guitar: "sigh"...........

I must add the video "Handle With Care" by the Traveling Wilbury's.George Harrison, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Jeffrey Lynn and Roy Orbison.What a group!:guitar:

Originally posted by AKA


There are no music videos on MTV.

You've got that right!:lol:

Originally posted by NEWHART FAN
I must add the video "Handle With Care" by the Traveling Wilbury's.George Harrison, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Jeffrey Lynn and Roy Orbison.What a group!:guitar:

I look forward to the day when the entire George Harrison catalog will be available again. Most of his stuff (including both Wilburys albums) have been out of print-for-years.

The only albums you can find are All Things Must Pass (2001 reissue), The Concert For Bangla Desh, and The Best Of George Harrison (which isn't worth the price on the sticker). Everything else has been out-of-print for quite awhile.

This is mostly George's fault, though, because he owned all his music and would only license the record companies (Apple/Capitol and Dark Horse/Warner Bros.) to release the albums. This causes quite a bit of problems, because since the record company doesn't own the recordings, they can only have the albums out for a certain amount of time before they have to pull them off the shelf. Hopefully, his estate will do better with the business aspect of things.

Before George died, a remastered "The Concert For Bangla Desh" was supposed to be issued on November 20, 2001, but about a month before the released date, Capitol and EMI pushed that date back with no explanation.

Late April or early May is the rumor right now.

Originally posted by AKA


I look forward to the day when the entire George Harrison catalog will be available again. Most of his stuff (including both Wilburys albums) have been out of print-for-years.

The only albums you can find are All Things Must Pass (2001 reissue), The Concert For Bangla Desh, and The Best Of George Harrison (which isn't worth the price on the sticker). Everything else has been out-of-print for quite awhile.

This is mostly George's fault, though, because he owned all his music and would only license the record companies (Apple/Capitol and Dark Horse/Warner Bros.) to release the albums. This causes quite a bit of problems, because since the record company doesn't own the recordings, they can only have the albums out for a certain amount of time before they have to pull them off the shelf. Hopefully, his estate will do better with the business aspect of things.

Before George died, a remastered "The Concert For Bangla Desh" was supposed to be issued on November 20, 2001, but about a month before the released date, Capitol and EMI pushed that date back with no explanation.

Late April or early May is the rumor right now.

Thanks for the info! I was wondering why I couldn't find a Traveling Wilbury's CD! By the way, I still have an 8 TRACK of The Concert for Bangladesh!:lol:

Originally posted by NEWHART FAN


Thanks for the info! I was wondering why I couldn't find a Traveling Wilbury's CD! By the way, I still have an 8 TRACK of The Concert for Bangladesh!:lol:

My dad has a Double Fantasy 8-track somewhere in his attic.

8-track?! Ha ha - you old geezers are really showing your age now!! :lol:

Originally posted by Mossopp
8-track?! Ha ha - you old geezers are really showing your age now!! :lol:

Now, now, Mossopp! Let's be nice! Respect your elders, please!:lol:

I love the Traveling Wilburys. I was looking everywhere for the CD. Now I know why I couldn't find it. Bummer.

Baby Ima Do it Right ~ 3LW
Im a slave 4 u ~ Britney Spears
Lucky ~ Britney Spears


And I about the whole MTV not showing videos thing... I like how they dont show music videos all day. That is my least favorite part of MTV when they are just showing music videos except for TRL, I like that show.

Originally posted by Mossopp
8-track?! Ha ha - you old geezers are really showing your age now!! :lol:

According to your profile, I'm less than two years older than you, young'un.

So are MTV and VH1 the only music channels in America? Here we have loads of music channels which are nothing but videos 24/7 - The Box, VH1 Classic, Kiss, Kerrang!, Smash Hits, MTV Dance, Magic, Q...
A lot of you seem to have very short memory spans - few of you have listed videos which were made more than 12 months ago!
I don't think I could pick one specific favorite video although I have always liked the video for 'Cherish' by Madonna. I also loved 'There You Go' by Pink - nothing says 'revenge' quite like driving a motorbike through your ex-boyfriends living room window! :D

Mossopp,

We have more than just MTV and VH1. We also have MTV2, MTVX, VH1 Classic, VH1 Soul, and MuchMusic USA (MuchMusic originates from Canada).

We used to have The Box, but MTV bought them out.

Originally posted by AKA
Mossopp,

We have more than just MTV and VH1. We also have MTV2, MTVX, VH1 Classic, VH1 Soul, and MuchMusic USA (MuchMusic originates from Canada).

We used to have The Box, but MTV bought them out.

We have all of those.....sort of....

Most cable companies only have MTV and VH1, and if they're really cutting edge they may have MTV2 or MuchMusic USA.

If you have a satellite you don't necessarily get all those, though you probably could if you paid extra to subscribe to them.

So while we have all those available to us, I would wager (and really, this is a total guess based on my experience and everyone I know) that about 60% of Americans have only MTV and VH1.

Originally posted by Bootsy Whoosh


We have all of those.....sort of....

Most cable companies only have MTV and VH1, and if they're really cutting edge they may have MTV2 or MuchMusic USA.

If you have a satellite you don't necessarily get all those, though you probably could if you paid extra to subscribe to them.

So while we have all those available to us, I would wager (and really, this is a total guess based on my experience and everyone I know) that about 60% of Americans have only MTV and VH1.

Right. All but MTV and VH1 usually come in a satellite or digital cable package.

Mossopp,

We have more than just MTV and VH1. We also have MTV2, MTVX, VH1 Classic, VH1 Soul, and MuchMusic USA (MuchMusic originates from Canada).

We used to have The Box, but MTV bought them out.

http://www.avclub.com/article/former-vj-mtvs-videos-only-era-and-wearing-stevie--241113

When MTV launched a second, all-videos channel called M2 on August 1, 1996, it had lofty ambitions for the new endeavor. “This is a channel like MTV was in 1981,” Tom Freston, the chairman of MTV Networks, told The New York Times. “The audience we’re going for with M2 doesn’t watch a lot of MTV. They find it a bit too mainstream.” Accordingly, the videos aired on the channel weren’t predictable or overplayed. At times, M2 felt like MTV’s niche shows (e.g., 120 Minutes, MTV Jams) jumbled together; at others—especially when artists such as Moby or Veruca Salt programmed an hour—it was like thumbing through someone’s record collection. Best of all, M2 was always fresh and surprising: At a time when radio formats felt stagnant and “alternative” was meaningless and antithetical to rebellion, the idea that disparate eras, genres, and artists could coexist peacefully was downright radical.

But M2 also aimed to be as cutting-edge as MTV was in 1981. At its launch, for example, it harnessed a little-remembered, Intel-created technology called Intercast to add complementary online information such as tour dates or artist bios as each video played. Actually making Intercast work was complicated—but, years before home-based high-speed internet made such synchronicity a snap, M2 recognized that the mediums were distinct but related. “The forward-thinking view is to make sure we are on both the TV and PC… and creating a true multimedia experience, rather than recreating the same experience that one would see separately on the TV and PC,” Matt Farber, senior VP of programming/new business for MTV, told Billboard then. “We don’t see that the computer screen will replace the TV set, just as the computer has not replaced radio or the CD player.”

Its nonchalant approach to music discovery also felt ahead of its time and redolent of the way marketing has evolved in the last two decades. M2 intuitively understood that obvious, pushy promotion was a turnoff. “If you’re an MTV fan, you like all the stuff that’s on MTV,” Judy McGrath, the then-president of MTV Music Television told The New York Times.

You like all the junk pop cultural stuff. That’s how you know who you are and what to wear and what you’re like. But there’s another MTV viewer who says you don’t need to tell me what’s cool. Just put it in front of me.

That method of promoting music also extended to the trio of inaugural VJs: Kris Kosach, Matt Pinfield, and Jancee Dunn. They were music fans—proud music geeks, even—who conveyed video intros and info in down-to-earth, relatable ways.

Lightning unfortunately didn’t strike twice for MTV, however. Despite simulcasts on its main channel in the afternoons to try to drum up interest—and Freston’s optimistic assertion that “word of mouth is what sold us 15 years ago”—M2’s music-only approach didn’t resonate with larger audiences. As Spin detailed in a recent exhaustive oral history of the channel, M2 eventually had to add commercials and morphed into MTV2—a symbolic change that eventually signaled programming shifts as well.

There are no easy answers as to why M2 didn’t take off. One plausible theory was its lack of availability. At first, viewers could only watch the channel on satellite TV, not regular cable systems. Unrealistic expectations—to some, M2 wasn’t diverse enough; to others, it was too out there—may have also played a part. Still, fans were devoted: When MTV2 kicked off 2000 with a stunt where it would air every video in the MTV/MTV2 vaults, in alphabetical order, more obsessive viewers soon angrily realized that major clips were being skipped. The omissions merited a Billboard blurb, complete with an apology from MTV2 general manager David Cohn, and (much later) rankled blog screeds.

Still, anyone who experienced M2’s early days likely fondly remembers how weird and wonderful the channel’s programming could be—a secret oasis of cool during a time when letting your freak flag fly was a totally mainstream move. Former VJ Jancee Dunn—who has since co-written Cyndi Lauper’s 2012 autobiography and whose book How Not To Hate Your Husband After Kids will be published in March 2017—talked to The A.V. Club about M2, from how the channel changed her life to its legacy.

AVC: Why do you think M2 didn’t catch on?

JD: We were all baffled, because the second it went on the air, we thought, “Oh, my God,” because this is the thing I would have died [for]. We were the ultimate consumers of the thing, and we thought, “Every college kid is going to go berserk. High school kids—it will introduce them to music they didn’t know about. This is going to be a phenomenon.” Plus, it seemed like it was insider-y, yet it was available to everyone. I thought, “Cable companies are going to be snatching this up.” You think about the dreck that is on so many cable companies, of course they’re going to love this. And we were just crushed that nobody cared.

We were pandering to all these cable companies. We would have to say, “Hey, a big shout-out to Comcast Phoenix. Thanks for adding us to your playlist.” Then we started getting real big names, and we thought, “Well, surely they’ll tune in to see U2.” But it just wouldn’t happen. We went after cable companies, we were very specific in our shout-outs, and no one cared. We did all these stunts that got a lot of press, you know, playing “1999,” that Prince video, for 24 hours when the millennium changed. Funny stuff and weird stuff. Even the promos were really strange.

To this day, I don’t have a satisfactory answer as to why. The years would go by, and we would think, “God, still nobody cares.”

AVC: The strategies you talk about worked for MTV when the channel launched, in terms of encouraging people to call in. That actually did move the needle, and it’s weird that nearly 20 years later, it didn’t. I don’t know if that shows how much culture had changed.

JD: Even personalizing things—which predates how everyone is today—we would read peoples’ letters aloud. Any letter that came in, basically, that wasn’t hideously offensive, we would just read it. People had a lot of contact with us. They would email us, and we were very responsive. We had viewers program an hour: If they had a good idea we would program it. How cool would that have been for people?

Madonna - Ray Of Light


What was I thinking? :confused:

I love every video that was made for what my late beautiful precious Billy Joe Royal decided to sing.

"Tell It Like It Is"
"I'll Pin A Note On Your Pillow"
"Out Of Sight And On My Mind"
"Till I Can't Take It Anymore"
"Love Has No Right"
"A Ring Where A Ring Used To Be"
"Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away"

God bless you and his family always!!!

Holly

"Steve McQueen" - Sheryl Crow (this music video made me a Sheryl Crow fan instantly!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlywcuw-1TU

"Hazy Shade Of Winter" - The Bangles

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

"Get the Party Started" - Pink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW1dbiD_zDk

"Dreams" - The Cranberries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yam5uK6e-bQ