Most music videos, especially modern ones, are pretty boring.
Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity is pretty impressive when you find out how they filmed it.
DANCING 🕺💃 WALKING 🚶🚷 REARRANGING FURNITURE 🪑🛋️ BABS IS 👵 SHOPPING 🛍️ I LET THE BIRD OUT OF THE CAGE 🦅🐓
Was the first one that came to mind for me.
Ok Go, just about any of their videos are worth watching, even if you don’t care about their music
My personal vote is The One Moment.
Aha - Take On Me …such a mesmerizing video. A girl reading a comic is sucked into a world in between the two realities. Really cool artistically and you can’t help but wish you could see more of the story.
Impressive, maybe!? Crazy? Absolutely! The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
Labyrinth.
Sure, they call it a movie, but it’s really just an hour and a half long David Bowie video.
That cod piece. What the literal fuck was going on with 80s kids movies?
The totally unnecessary tiddies in neverending story come to mind.
That’s not even their most impressive one, imo:
I don’t think anyone has appreciated what Coldplay did with their MV for The Scientist. In which Chris Martin really had to learn to sing the song backwards for the MV.
Here’s what Director Jamie Thraves said on his interview with MTV way back on 2003
“I had this idea that I wanted to do a story that’s tragic but starts off happy and ends happy, and the video is about rewinding to that happy ending,”
Thraves needed to find a new way to tell a narrative story that moved forward even as the action moved backward.
“The original idea was a straight narrative without the lead singer in the video,” said Thraves. “But Chris wanted to be in the video and he was really excited to learn how to sing the song backward.”
“He got a tape of the song recorded backward and he listened to it over and over. He’s a very passionate guy, so he got really into it. What we learned later on is about the problems with phonetics, because you have to be very careful with the lip movement so that when you end on a sound your mouth is formed in the right way.”
I think this would be always the most impressive music video in my book, ALWAYS. The dedication Chris Martin put man, I cant even think how he learned all of that.
R.E.M. - Imitation of Life. The entire song happens in a few seconds, with all parts at the same time. The video keeps rewinding, each time showing one of the parts.
Fuck yes dude. Such a good song.
Porter Robinson & Madeon - shelter
https://youtu.be/fzQ6gRAEoy0?si=5tH9QomRfDje2QbR
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They got a pro anime studio to make it. You can feel the caring of the father even though he’s only in it a few seconds.
Johnny Cash’s cover of Hurt by NiN
The video is beautiful, but the story, and timeline of cash’s later life, is heartbreaking.
It’s not flashy, it’s not in your face, but it evokes feelings in most people, and tells a story.
Everytime, I forget that I’m watching a video clip for a song and not a movie.
Impressive?
An Unkindness - Anything EASILY.
Why? Shot by one dude, all the instruments and vocals are one dude, shot through multiple seasons, and then you realize the lines on different season are keys on a piano/keyboard, playing the song.
Fuckin masterpiece.
Runner up: Turn Down for What, directed by the directors of Everything Everywhere All At Once.
A$AP Rocky - A$AP Forever. It blew my mind the first time I saw it.
