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[dno_1966]

Weezer - Buddy Holly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4


Beastie Boys - Sabotage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE

 

[Solemn_In_Berlin]

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.

Still believe that these guys are on a league of their own with regards to music videos. This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg is my favorite, but this is almost 1B for obvious reasons:

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

 

[Myriadis]

Good to see Rabbit in your Headlight covered.

Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar is also amazing, as it looks ordinary but every object that moves past represents an instrument, beat or sample.

Common - Black America Again is a 22 minute music video that actually never plays the entire song together - it always just plays the pieces the song of made of sometimes. For the rest, it gives us a view into the life of the black population in America, and the beauty of their people. I love that video, incredibly powerful.

 

[show me your skeleton]

chemical brothers - 'star guitar' by michel gondry is incredible.

 

[kitchenmotors]

Pretty much any video from iamamiwhoami, especially from her album BLUE.

 

[Lights and Waves]

Gaga's Bad Romance and Telephone.

 

[Negaduck]

Action bronson - Let me Breathe.

Bronson knows how to make a video. (NSFW lady butt in the video)

https://youtu.be/vbqCyrUQrlo

 

[Patrick S.]

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

Tenacious D - Tribute

 

[Juno]

Dire Straits - Money for Nothing

Pretty impressive for 1985.

The music video for the song featured early computer animation illustrating the lyrics. The video was one of the first uses of computer-animated human characters and was considered ground-breaking at the time of its release.

Originally, Mark Knopfler was not at all enthusiastic about the concept of the music video. MTV, however, was insistent on it...

 

[tearsofash]

Caravan Palace - Lone Digger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbQgXeY_zi4

 

[ZealousD]

Van Halen - Right Now

The video is probably more well known than the song.

 

[ImaLemming]

No love for Weird Al's Smells Like Nirvana?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FklUAoZ6KxY

 

[Casual Gamera]

Elevate the art?

Godley and Creme - Cry

Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer

I also love some 90s Hype Williams - Missy Elliott - The Rain [Supa Dupa Fly]

Busta Rhymes - Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See

That videography too!

 

[yagal]

Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence

Noir Désir - Le Vent Nous Portera

Alex Gaudino feat. Crystal Waters - Destination Calabria Even my dad love this one, kinda NSFW

Missy Elliott Missy Elliott Missy Elliott Missy Elliott Missy Elliott

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

A lot of Radiohead's videos are something else

Knives Out
Pyramid Song
Go to Sleep
There, There

and, of course, the beautiful video for Daydreaming by Paul Thomas Anderson.

Damn thats not even their most innovative ones...

House of Cards - https://youtu.be/8nTFjVm9sTQ -

No cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data.

No Surprises - https://youtu.be/u5CVsCnxyXg - Jesus I wonder how many takes it took them to do this
Just - https://youtu.be/oIFLtNYI3Ls - 90s goodness but the concept was pretty interesting/innovative for its time

 

[BetterThanNothing]

Max Cooper - "Order from Chaos"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7wKjTf_RlI

and "Origins"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM-EBZL881Q

The entire "Emergence" series is a study of various levels of abstractions of the metaphysical universe, from the mathematical foundations that allow existence to persist to the more condensed, less entropic state of modern society in the age of mass communication. Check it out. Great music, one song for each conceptual level, and a video to accompany it.

His main website does a better job of explaining it:

http://emergence.maxcooper.net/

In this case, emergence is defined as complexity arising from many simpler agencies working together. The guy did an entire EDM album on it and worked with some incredible artists to create an entire audiovisual show of it.

 

[Pyccko]

There are better examples, but these are sticking out to me right now.

Number 1: Fastball - Fire Escape This video has stuck with me for almost 20 years. Check it out

Fire Escape

It's a "One Take" video, with a weird/disturbing theme.

I can't find the director. I am curious if he's done anything else.

I'm sure I will be embarrassed at how easy this info is to find.

Can't think of any videos at the moment, but the director of that one is Francis Lawrence who's best known these days for directing some of the Hunger Games movies.

e:Actually, Killing Joke - Seeing Red is one of my all-time favorites. Wish there was a higher res copy of it available. Nothing groundbreaking, but the aesthetic is very striking to me.

 

[Interferon]

Royksopp - Remind me
A beautuful, isometric styled, infographic inspired video

 

[ErasureAcer]

OMD - Pandora's Box