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I'll start: November Rain

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I... I think I just got Rickrolled by my own brain.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Another great one and very inventive for the time.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Money For Nothing - Dire Straits. All-time classic. 80s CGI knows no comparison. 😩👌

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I just remember the weird Al version from UHF and thinking that was the official version of that song and music video for the longest time as a kid. Lol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Genghis Khan by Miike Snow

I'm always impressed by a music video that can "yes, and" the song it was made for - one that feels like it was created as an extension or an exploration of the song, rather than an expression of the vibes (though, don't get me wrong, I'm all about the vibes too). I love that this video tells a clear story and puts a pretty fun twist on the lyrics while it does.

Bonus: The actors seem like they were having a blast during filming.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You made me rickroll myself. Never Gonna Give You Up is so iconic online, how could it not be the first thing that comes to mind?

Second one that came to mind was Somebody That I Used To Know.

Frankly, I don't watch music videos, so internet memes are the majority of my exposure to them.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OK Go - Here it goes again

There are many other more impressive and even more famous music videos, but this one is THE video I think of when anyone mentions music videos.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sober by Tool. Very cool video.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The video is great and creepy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I only read as far as "first music video" before my brain served up the first video on MTV, "Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thriller (Credits and everything...) - Michael Jackson

https://youtu.be/sOnqjkJTMaA

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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A-HA take on me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Turn Down for What - Lil Jon
Directed by (And starring one of) the directors of Everything Everywhere All At Once.
Which makes me feel vindicated for loving this video, so fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMUDVMiITOU

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably Thriller, even though my favorite is probably Californication

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Money for Nothing. (posted the less problematic edit)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Prodigy Smack my Bitch up (nsfw)
https://vimeo.com/144850907

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Radiohead - Paranoid Android

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Knights of Cydonia

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Way, by Fastball.

Why? Popup Video when I was younger, that's why lol. It was on a LOT.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love this song. It sounds upbeat and carefree but it really sad.

Wiki "Fastball frontman Tony Scalzo came up with the idea for the song after reading articles that described the June 1997 disappearance of an elderly married couple, Lela and Raymond Howard from Salado, Texas,[5] who left home to attend the Pioneer Day festival at nearby Temple, Texas, despite Lela's Alzheimer's and Raymond recently recovering from brain surgery. They were discovered two weeks later, dead, at the bottom of a ravine near Hot Springs, Arkansas, hundreds of miles off their intended route.[6][7] The authorities who investigated the accident believed that Lela, who was driving the car, was trying to locate a place where she had once vacationed.[8]"

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'd nominate Bjork: All is Full of Love.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Got Rickrolled without a link, good job.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Papa Don't Preach by Madonna. We didn't have cable/sat at home and my family went on vacation so I watched MTV as much as possible. They must have played it hundreds of times in a few days.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DyE - Fantasy

I wonder how many of us saw this video when we were too young for it?

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[–] unicron 4 points 1 year ago

[Salvatore Ganacci - Step-grandma

](https://youtu.be/StYkb5kbM3o)

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Take on Me - Aha

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want, I want a redo where my answer isn't Wannabe by the Spice Girls.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Probably gorillaz, either Clint Eastwood or Dirty Harry

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Do the Evolution by Pearl Jam

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aDaOgu2CQtI

Not even a fan of Pearl Jam, but the song's discordant guitar solo is perfect for its message, and captured brilliantly by the animation. I'm a sucker for late state American animation well-executed like this, too.

[–] piposaurus 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nicki Minaj - Anaconda.

I have no idea why, I haven't thought about the song in years. And I don't even like it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Booty on the mind?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Radiohead is great. Subterranean Homesick Alien is one of my favorite songs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Aphex Twin - Windowlicker

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We're no strangers to love

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

definitely Take On Me by a-h_a._
You want a music video? Any music video? One of the best of the 1980s? One of the best of all time? One of the catchiest songs ever? Something that will never go away?
Take On Me.

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