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Music Videos that elevate the art..

Lucas - Lucas with the lid off

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The video is known for its technical achievement in that it was shot in one long continuous single take with no edits, cuts or digital enhancement. In an RES magazine interview, Gondry explained:

"Michel called this video 'a big turn for me, because it was so challenging. Nobody really believed - even me - that we could pull that off when we made it after 17 takes, because it was really done all in-camera in one shot. There is no post-production at all. I think this one really gave me a lot of attention."
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Can't speak on the medium in general cuz I have the barest of minimum of knowledge of it, but enough to deduce the OP is presenting examples more about technical craft over boundary pushing (mostly cuz of the second example).

But PUP's "Sleep in the Heat," made me cry. And I don't like music videos in general.

EDIT: And Video Killed the Radio Star is uh, important.
 
Enigma - Beyond The Invisible

Enigma - Push The Limits

Enigma - T.N.T For The Brain

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CitizenCope said:
Something about the original video for One by U2 gets me. Perhaps it's the appreciation of it not being just a lip sync to the studio version but mostly it's those lyrics to 2 bison/buffalo in stride in slow mo. So beautiful to me.
https://youtu.be/BgZ4ammawyI
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This aint the original video for One though, it's some fan edit. The audio is from the Slane DVD.

This is the original Anton Corbijn version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFWPeVfWB9o

Where they are in Berlin, where they are in drag and where also Bono's dad is featured (the old man in the beginning)

The video that is falsely advertised as the Corbijn version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftjEcrrf7r0

This is art:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0fkNdPiIL4
 
alt-J (∆) - Breezeblocks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVeMiVU77wo

alt-J - Every Other Freckle (Official Video - Girl) (NSFW):

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

alt-J - Every Other Freckle (Official Video - Boy) (NSFW):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axTSc3e6wu8

London Grammar - Strong:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6drfp_3823I

Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe-XNav5mWU

Rubber Johnny - Chris Cunningham + Aphex Twin (NSFW):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJr-SYQ559Y
 
I'm going to do a megapost of Queen videos which I think were each important in their own ways, both in elevating the art and challenging the status quo.(Someone already covered Bohemian Rhapsody~)

(NSFW)Body Language
First video to be banned by MTV for it's excessive skin showing(Despite no nudity) and homoerotic undertones.
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I Want to Break Free
Banned in the US by MTV and other stations for being considered a controversial video.
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A Kind of Magic
The Walt Disney Combination provided the animation for this video.
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Innuendo
The first half uses a combination of rotoscoping and drawn images to represent the members, the second half uses stop motion, and for the finale it becomes an orgy of images.
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These are the Days of Our Lives
The last video of Freddie Mercury, and the last recorded with Queen.
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Draper said:
Look what you made me do
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It's not groundbreaking or anything, but Tay-Tay's new video is an awesome roguish shadefest with some damn fine visuals and a lot of cool costume changes.

However, if you're looking for a simple and timeless video that doesn't have to dazzle you with a barrage of ultra-vivid imagery, you can do no better than Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend.
 
Public Enemy made great music videos. It's a shame they don't get much recognition anymore. It's no accident that gangster rap with it's messages of violence and consumerism came about at the height of their popularity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WHe5fxS3dA

My friend got me listening to Spiritualized when Ladies and Gentlemen came out. I forgot about them until recently when I saw this video they made about a transvestite father and an obsessive stalker. It's a bit graphic but it has a great story. It would be good if other bands were this ambitious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U_EqgBWnmc
 
I wasn't a big fan of Rihanna's We Found Love when it was released, but the music video changed the whole meaning of the song for me, and it just "clicked" with me.

I still consider it to be one of her best songs to this day.
 
Another Smashing Pumpkins one from me. Tonight Tonight is their most famous video and is definitely art as far as I'm concerned but Ava Adore from a technical standpoint is truly groundbreaking and definitely deserves a mention.

https://youtu.be/9uWwvQKGjLI

The video, filmed in one long take, is notable for its use of slow and fast motion while the speed of the camera is apparently static, and the band continues to lip sync to the song in perfect rhythm. The calculations required to work out the speed changes caused massive delays on set, causing the band to nearly call off the entire plan.
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I saw some dope shit a while back with some dead cheerleaders. I can't remember the name of the song. I didn't care for the song, but that video was dope.
 
Icolin said:
David Bowie - Blackstar
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The release of this album, out of nowhere, and his subsequent, almost immediate death, is one of the most haunting series of events I can think of. Every single song, and the videos takes us on the journey he himself was going on, all the way through to his passing. And it was an amazing album. Like up there with the rest of his work. Nobody does that at his age. Even Johnny Cash who hits some similar notes, had to rely on other songwriters to do it.
 
AlteredBeast said:
Wow...no OK Go in here? I know their music ranges from ehhh to pretty good, but their videos are a work of art.

Its almost as if the songs are written for the videos, rather than the videos for the songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvW61K2s0tA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWGJA9i18Co

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZB_rGFyeU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

Etc, etc, etc.

No trickery, no fakery. Just awesome stuff.
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Was going to say this. Not huge on their music, but I love their videos.
 
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