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Music Videos - April 2008

10. Aha - Take On Me - directed by Steve Barron

April 30th 2008 07:29


Irish director Steve Barron made one of the great music videos of all time for Norweigian pop outfit Aha. Their catchy little number "Take on me" becomes an epic story of a girl and her fantasy life in comics. Using the process of rotoscoping (painting frames of real film/video) the video is mesmerising, unique and very very cool



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9. RadioHead - Just - directed by Jamie Thraves

April 28th 2008 05:19


I just love this clip for Radiohead by Jamie Thraves. The band while playing are also observers to an interesting if not chilling drama unfolding on the pavement below. A man has just decided to lie on the footpath and attracts a variety on onlookers who want to know why he is there - he refuses to tell them much to there frustration and the crowd start hounding him as to why he is there. The narrative plays out with the help of subtitles. It all seems to fit just perfectly. What do you think???




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8. Massive Attack - Teardrop - directed by Walter Stern

April 24th 2008 05:31

This 1998 clip to Massive Attack's beautiful song teardrop - features a foetus in a womb who starts singing. The clip is mesmerising and matches the song for depth and beauty. I love the Walter Stern's attention to detail (you have to see the foetus through the amniotic goop). The song is amazing and carries so much emotion - it's one of my favrouties from the Bristol based trip hoppers. Inspiriational and fascinating (can you tell I'm about to become a father for the first time) please enjoy this great clip.



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7. Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity - Directed by Jonathan Glazer

April 20th 2008 14:32

This amazing video makes it look like the floor is moving. It's not. What is moving (apart from the band's gifted lead singer/dancer JK) is the whole room!!! British music video director Jonathan Glazer has built a room in a aircraft hangar - fixed a camera on one wall and put the whole room on wheels and got a team of people to push it around/ With the camera fixed it doesn't look like anything in the room is moving execpt the floor

Jamiroqui's funky grooves and the lead singers great dancing work with the 'moving floot" to create a truly memorable clip.

Enjoy



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6. Johnny Cash - Hurt directed by Mark Romanek

April 19th 2008 07:36

This clip is one of the most emotional I have come across - it's the late great Johnny Cash doing a cover of the Nine Inch Nails song Hurt. He makes it his own. And there is so much pain it really does hurt - probably more moving in five minutes than the whole film Walk The Line. Caash is 6 months away from his death and his wife June Carter Cash who is pictured in the video is a few weeks away from her death.

It features a mixture of Cash singing and playing the guitar and Piano in the run down House of Cash museum as well as archive footage from Johnny Cash's career. This is intercut with shots of Jesus on the Cross. The editing builds and the cutting gets quicker as the song reaches its big climax. The penultimate shot is an archive shot of cash with guitar as he looks up at the camera it feels like he is looking straight through you as you have just watched his entire life pass before you. The shot goes for half a second. It's brilliant, beautiful and really touching. Mark Romanek has made the final tibute video to a legend - Hurt by Johnny Cash - enjoy



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5. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Give it Away - directed by Stephane Sedanoui

April 18th 2008 05:11

French photographer Stephane Sedanoui loves black and white photography so he employed it on this clip for the Red Hot Chilli Peppers first big hit Give It Away. The metallic gold body paint on the naked bamd members puts the emphasis on the body and brings to life the playful sexuality that abounds in this clip. The editing is fast and frentic and works with the camera movement and crash zooms to create a second dance. This clip encapsulates what the Red Hot Chilli Peppers are about and was pivitol in setting up the bands style, name and brand. So get down and funky - it's the Red Hot Chilli Peppers with Give It Away



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4. Madonna - Frozen directed by Chris Cunningham

April 16th 2008 23:06

Chris CUnningham is a visual arts genius. Pure and simple he knows how to make unbelievable videos that stay with you long after you've seen them. This one for the madonna song frozen is almost like watching a good old fashioned magic show as the first lady of Pop seamlessly morphs into all manner of black animals - stylistically amazing and as original as you will ever find - he truly is one of the music video masters



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3. Joy Division - Atmosphere directed by Anton Corbijn

April 15th 2008 06:07

Anton Corbijn was a young photographer with a particular style and love for black and white. He thought his style sat perfectly with a new musical style coming from the UK in the late 70's early 1980's typified by the band Joy Division. So he left his native Holland and went to London to photograph the band. He took several memorable photographs. Then years after the lead singer Ian Curtis has died and the band had morphed into New Order he was asked by head of factory records Tony Wilson to do a clip for the song Atmosphere - with no lead singer he decided to make the clip into a tribute to Ian Curtis and used photographs blown up and carried by druids to create an eerie but perfect tibute to the lead singer of Joy Division - Corbijn has just made his first feature film - a biopic on the life of Ian Curtis called Control. So here it is - Atmosphere by Joy Division. Please enjoy this amazing clip.



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2 Weezer - Island In The Sun (green album) directed By Spike Jonze

April 14th 2008 06:56

Weezer have worked with Spike Jonze twice before this clip and obviously trust his artistic sensibility. This beautiful clip find the band members interacting with an array of animals. Beautifully shot and completely reflecting the meaning of the song Jonze has done his usual brilliant job (I have the pleasure of working with Spike on a feature film he shot in my home town of Melbourne Australia) he is the complete professional, a mad creative professor looking for every angle you can see and several you can't. So I hope you enoy this clip (it always brightens my day)



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1. Bjork - Bachelorette (homogenic) directed by Michel Gondry

April 13th 2008 14:50

I couldn't think of a better video to show what I am on about in this blog than this collaboration between Icelandic song maiden Bjork and french visual artiste extraordinaire Michel Gondry. They have collaborated seven times on music videos but this is my favourite - a story within a story within a story it just keeps going until the original story unravels leading to a chain of unravelling - why waste time explaining when I can show you - enjoy




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Welcome to the best place to get a great music video every day or two

April 13th 2008 14:44

I started looking at other music vido blogs and found them to be crap - how can you be promoting yourself as a showing great music videos when you only play crap by boy bands and pop idol show winners.

The music video was once a promotional tool for record companies but the creativity of some music artists and music video directors lifted the music video into an art form. This blog will put a brilliant music video up every few days - I promise they will challenge you and make you sit up and take note

You have been warned...
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