Best music videos you have seen?

Far from Beautiful, www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E4hCTrX7pw&feature=related&fmt=18

but Prodigy's Spitfire video is seriously thought out and must have taken quite a long time to create, most of the other music videos I've seen don't really work well but it's pretty cool... very angsty and aggressive, and kinda in your face and explosive, but think about it
granted, the song only has one set of lyrics in it, "If I was in world war two they'd call me spitfire" really, it makes me think they got bored, but the music videos is still kinda cool
I'll get back to you with more that are more what you're looking for though

OKGo's Here It Goes Again is pretty good, though a little overrated... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI

Well, there is Interstella 5555. Wherein Daft Punk's music and Leiji Matsumoto's character design are merged into one unruly beast of anime/music video aswesomeness.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9FbRN-w4Wk
Looks simple but its not.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI4iDM09oRE
It was because of this song and video that I got back into rap.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpPkGZ6zhzA
hahaha

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KutXyPEEbQs
Geto Boys

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRJu2mf8bew

www.youtube.com/watch?v=43pDBP9HgAw
best Chevelle video ever

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS69fuCOhTM
Death chick is hot.

I absolutely hate Korn but I love Freak on a Leash's video

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWFv5ZoVET8
APC - 3 libras

Basically anything by Busta Rhymes. In particular Dangerous.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTQ3MNPxyfA
Best Beastie Boys.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ck2ygpSUg8
monkey wrenched right from the beginning

That is probably the freakiest and coolest thing I've seen in a while Escafeld(Honestly, when I first heard it, I thought my computer was frying :P scared the shit out of me)

It asks what we think are the best, so I'm sticking with what I put... and adding Escafeld's to it,
but if you want other videos you find beautiful/awe/inspiring, we kinda need to know what exactly you're looking for(for example give a video, we can use that video and find others like it)

Dude, I can watch Thriller all day, and not get tired of it. I don't think even that is what you are looking for however. I think you may be underestimating the value of a story told in three minutes, which is what many music videos are. Atleast the ones worth watching over and over again. Although I suppose if you wanted that you'd just go watch a movie proper. Crystal Method got some trippy ass videos that often make no sense, but are a blast to watch.

I'm pretty sure I see what RB is looking for, I don't think it matters if the video matches the song, but it's gotta be artistic, poetic, effective, eyecatching, kinda the kind of video that you see once and are like... Woah...
But not the mindfuck kind of woah(Like spitfire's video is) the kind of woah, these dudes are poetic geniuses for coming up with that

Am I right RB? or still off?

you should also check out "The People Tree" and "Gifted"

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Aphex Twin's hilarious Windowlicker video:



EDIT: replaced previous video with higher quality version.

Speaking of artists making out with themselves, the video for Bjork's "All is Full of Love" (directed by the same guy as the Aphex Twin one above) is pretty cute:

Hm, well, I personally really like the video of "Bad Day" by Daniel Powter.

I don't watch a lot of them though. I don't have a TV and I'm not exactly the type who surfs Youtube unless I am looking for something.

I can't stop watching the music video for the song 'The Carnival Is Over' by Dead Can Dance (1993)...



'Parabola' by Tool...



and the video for the song 'Sowing The Seeds Of Love' by Tears For Fears (1989).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnPOBVDCkhs
This one maybe it isn't a masterpiece and it looks dated now, but I can watch it today with the same enthusiasm as I did twenty years ago.

Agreed with the Tool song, and any other video they have; but to keep it real I would have to say Michael Jackson's Thriller.

Anything by Frontline Assembly is pretty good but you should all check out Literal Videos on Youtube. They are mostly old videos but they are hilarious!

Memory Remains by Metallica. Sure, some say its plain but I like it.

Also Beautiful Tragedy by In This Moment.

I'll just list some of the best I've seen:

Michael Jackson - Thriller
Nirvana - In Bloom
Nirvana - Come As You Are
Queens of the Stone Age - Go With The Flow
OK GO - This Too Shall Pass
Stam1na - Pakkolasku
All music videos of Viikate
FM2000 - Veli Slobokki
Sonic Youth - Silver Rocket
CMX - Kivinen Kirja
CMX - Ruoste
Weird Al Yankovic - Smells Like Nirvana

Thriller. I mean, I know it isn't an original response, but no music video will match up to its iconic status, its epicness. Even in the 90s, this was everyone's favorite video in elementary school.

Nice vid Escafeld, Autechre is the bees-knees!

Venetian Snares - Szamár Madár


Watch out for the computer crash part ;)

Also, the director of "all is full of love" is Chris Cunningham who has done some of nice videos with Aphex Twin and Autechre.

Don't be embarrassed by Korean music, sadly that video is no different than 99% of material pumped out by US/UK boy bands.

Agree with "All Is Full of Love" by Bjork and add:

Ulver - It Is Not Sound


Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass

Only by Nine Inch Nails music video directed by David Fincher. Fincher's Fight Club covers similar ground as this song (You were never really real to begin with. / I just made you up to hurt myself... There is no you, there is only me), though it could well be unintentional. The director and Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor also worked together on Se7en's intro, and would later collaborated on The Social Network (this time Trent created music to complement David Fincher's movie).

Pardon the censoring - it's Vevo.



Come to Daddy by Aphex Twin. Kind of a slow intro but it's well worth it.

See also: Animusic | Animusic 2

Queen's I Want To Break Free, love it!

This is pretty good, as many of Pink's new-ish videos.

The only thing more fucked up than a point is a line.

Garbage - Push It