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Favorite Music Videos
PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 3:45 pm
by Doubleshadow
I rarely watch music videos usually. I often find them to be terribly uninteresting, uninspired, vapid, artless, crude, and downright boring. But, I have run into some music videos that I really like for various reasons. Here are my top five.
1. Light Up Ahead - Further Seems Forever
I found the unique animation and visual style to be striking, and the storytelling narrative in the images to be very moving. I felt and thought the song and the video complemented each other perfectly.
2. Angelicus - Delerium
Isabella Bayrakdarian is one of my favorite vocalists, and the way her performance meshes with the music makes it very haunting and lonely. The video captures the feeling with a surreality that is deeply touching, especially at the end. For me, knowing that Isabella is ethnically Armenian and therefore from a group of people with such a history and who have faced genocide before, adds an even greater degree of solemnity to the message in the video.
3. World on Fire - Sarah McLachlan
A simple, straight-forward video with a powerful message. It's the only video that, while others have gripped me emotionally, has nearly made me cry. I watch it whenever I need a reality check.
4. Love Me Good - Michael W. Smith
This video won me over when it opened up with him eating ramen! This my favorite song by him, and it helps that he's a local boy. The video is zany, off-the-wall goodness the reflects the bizarre approach to the lyrics. It's a lot of fun to watch and the joy in the song is really captured by the video.
5. In the Rain - Enya
The background graphics for this video are just beautiful. Very well conceived and executed, with an understated quality that is powerful and demonstrates great artistic integrity.
Honorable Mentions:
Mouth Like a Magazine - Showbread
A nostalgic favorite of mine. My friends who've seen them live tell me the video looks like one of their concerts, and the clothing and hairstyles of the band in black and red on the plain white background gave the video a direct, clean, finished feel.
The Spy Hunter - Project 86
This video wasn't a standout until the end, when it left my jaw on the floor. That is definitely a surprise, and made the video distinctly memorable.
PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 6:48 pm
by HiddenWoodchuck
Doubleshadow (post: 1215655) wrote:1. Light Up Ahead - Further Seems Forever
I found the unique animation and visual style to be striking, and the storytelling narrative in the images to be very moving. I felt and thought the song and the video complemented each other perfectly.
I love that band, the song and video.
I love so many different styles of music... it would be impossible to list all my favorites, but I find myself watching "classic Christian rock/metal" a lot. I just really like the older stuff... so, here are just a FEW examples of my favorites.
Circle of Dust - Telltale Crime
http://youtube.com/watch?v=n8b6njGuehgNovella - Give Me Love
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hW_cMKAPF-IRansom - Lasting Love
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2qdeFYFed1oHoly Soldier - Last Train
http://youtube.com/watch?v=07oXtObbiaYWhitecross - You Will Find It There
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gpavVGtr5VUBride - Psychedelic Super Jesus
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qw0g4lXfC6ABarren Cross- Imaginary Music
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kAWYP64ip3YRez Band - Love Comes Down
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PzHr_cTXr88
PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 7:13 pm
by GhostontheNet
PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:26 pm
by GhostontheNet
Doubleshadow (post: 1215655) wrote:2. Angelicus - Delerium
Isabella Bayrakdarian is one of my favorite vocalists, and the way her performance meshes with the music makes it very haunting and lonely. The video captures the feeling with a surreality that is deeply touching, especially at the end. For me, knowing that Isabella is ethnically Armenian and therefore from a group of people with such a history and who have faced genocide before, adds an even greater degree of solemnity to the message in the video.
3. World on Fire - Sarah McLachlan....
I second the Angelicus video by Delerium, which I posted here myself. Its interesting you would come to be a fan of Delerium through some of the vocalists that have worked with the band. I was first introduced to Delerium when I learned that Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber supplied the electronics and masterminded the project. I knew Leeb and Fulber from their work on Front Line Assembly, an Industrial band that has spent the past 20 years making ingeneous electronic music designed to warn that the present system amounts to little more than a "cultured way of suicide". Throughout their career, they've tackled a number of controversial political issues including racism, economic exploitation, neocolonialism and globalization, political violence and oppression, nuclear and biological arms races, and environmentalism. Another part of Front Line Assembly I have always liked is that where most Industrial bands accept the old socialist line that if real change is to be made belief in God and the afterlife must be abolished, FLA has always emphasized the spiritual dimension of the struggles it describes and that heaven is real and one must prepare their soul to enter its glorious and righteous society. As a fan of Delerium, if you ever feel like checking out Leeb and Fulber's work with Front Line Assembly, I'd suggest you start with the following links.
Front Line Assembly - Civilization
Front Line Assembly - Epitaph
Front Line Assembly - Vanished (EP)
Front Line Assembly - Maniacal (EP)
Front Line Assembly - Everything Must Perish (EP)
PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:59 pm
by MomoAdachi
I'm not a huge music video fan either, but here are some I've enjoyed, by some of my fave artists, although I suppose the content of some of these is kinda iffy for a Christian site:
Hilary Duff-Beat Of My Heart, Come Clean, Play With Fire
Janet Jackson-Escapade, Rhythm Nation, The Pleasure Principle, What Have You Done For Me Lately?
Madonna-Like A Virgin, Lucky Star, True Blue, Cherish, Material Girl
No Doubt/Gwen Stefani-Don't Speak, What You Waiting For?, Just A Girl
PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 6:11 pm
by EricTheFred
I'm dating myself badly here, because this board has many members younger than these choices, but....
Enya - Orinoco Flow
Enya - Caribbean Blue
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
(I'm not sure quite why, I've just always thought of it as a perfect match of video to music.)
Yes - Leave It.
PostPosted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 7:26 am
by rocklobster
Sprinkles Phoenix Down!
Duran Duran made some strange ones. Check them out on youtube. I loved the ones they did for "Wild Boys", "Too Much Information", "Girls on Film" and "Hungry Like the Wolf".
PostPosted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 7:33 am
by Danderson
First off, just wanted to say I'm really not big on music vids because I feel like alot of them really don't capture the excitment or meaning of the song.......However, there are a few that I have found to exceptional to this:
Red - Already Over
Just the way they show the battle between us and what keeps us from God, especially on the last leg of the song, is really inspiring....
Relient K - Who I Am Hates Who I've Been
Just seeing the main character realise she controls time when she walks makes the song almost all the more meaningfull....
PostPosted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 7:25 am
by Kkun
I'm with rocklobster about Duran Duran. I was going to post "Hungry Like the Wolf" but seeing as he already got to it, I'll leave that one alone.
Also?
"The Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats. Best. Video. Ever.
I've also always enjoyed Blindside's
"King of the Closet" and Refused's "
New Noise." They are each cool in their own right, but what cracks me up is the similarity of the two: the costumes, the close camera angles. If you listen to their albums
A Thought Crushed My Mind and
The Shape of Punk to Come back to back, Blindside totally ripped Refused off in a lot of ways... but then again, so did a lot of bands.
PostPosted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 11:01 am
by KagayakiWashi
"Dare to be Stupid" - Weird Al Yankovic
I'm not a huge fan of music videos, but that's always been a fun one to watch.
PostPosted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:42 pm
by Warrior4Christ
Two that come to mind are:
Weezer - Pork and Beans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muP9eH2p2PI
Mutemath - Typical (it's amazing!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAtXKS9ZxvM
PostPosted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 10:37 pm
by Radical Dreamer
Kkun (post: 1258714) wrote:Also?
"The Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats. Best. Video. Ever.
100% Agree.
In addition to that...
Brand New -- The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aMJIc9USE2U
This video is so from my 9th/10th grade year at school. XD I love it, though.
Eisley -- Invasion
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z1zeQF07EK4
Epic song and the video fits it well.
Regina Spektor -- Us
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fczPlmz-Vug
I looove Regina Spektor's voice, and the artsy style of the video really matches her own style and makes it pop out.
Of Montreal -- Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5VeIL7juFE0
This video is on CRACK. SO FUNNY/BIZARRE though.
Edison Glass -- Let Go
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OQlHym874nc
Mirroring the stop-motion style of "Us," but I love the song and the way the video plays out.
A-Ha -- Take On Me
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CUod3jGQt0U
Clllllassic. XD I love this video. XD
Thrice -- Stare At the Sun
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IDzl6ZQpSOo
I love the song and the meaning it has. Plus, epic video.
There are a lot more, but I can't even remember them all (or post all of them here XD). Enjoy though!
PostPosted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 6:35 am
by Kkun
Radical Dreamer (post: 1258872) wrote:100% Agree.
In addition to that...
Brand New -- The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aMJIc9USE2UThis video is so from my 9th/10th grade year at school. XD I love it, though.
OH MAN. I forgot about that one (which is weird because Brand New is all I've been listening to lately). Also, the video for Sic Transit Gloria - Glory Fades is awesome, too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ecAyTL1psE
PostPosted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 6:40 pm
by Peanut
In no particular order:
From yesterday-30 Seconds to Mars
The Kill-30 Seconds to Mars
Going in Blind-P.O.D.
The Islander-Nightwish
Operation Ground and Pound-Dragonforce
White and Nerdy-Weird Al
Ich Will-Rammstein
And, even though it's been mentioned before...
The Safety Dance-Men Without Hats
PostPosted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 1:16 pm
by the_wolfs_howl