Monday 17 September 2012

100 Greatest Music Videos

This is a list of the top 100 Music Videos ever made.



98# Bronski Beats / Small Town Boy / 1984
This video is about the personal and universal story about young men's isolation in the early 1980's of being a homosexual. The video portrays blatantly obvious scenes about homosexuality. A man goes to a swimming to stair men dividing and getting out of the pool,  






96# So Solid Crew / 21 seconds / 2001 
Clever debut, each artist has 21 seconds to introduce themselves to audience. Each artist that appears is london rapper. There was some controversy about this video which did cause a stir within the audience. People in the video including artist have had a violent past as well as criminal offences and were thought of as a bad example for kids. 





95 # The Cardigans / My favourite Game / 1998
The video was shot in L.A. It is about a failing love affair. There were a variety of shots taken for the ending, however only one was used.  





92 # Herbie Hancock / Rock it / 1985 
This myusic video had to be done differently due to MTV banning music videos by black people. Therefore, Herbie appeared in the video but as someone in a TV. 

                                     


88 # Elton John / I Want Love / 2001
Elton john did not like appearing in his own videos, therefore someone else was used. This person lips sang on the behalf of elton making him sound like elton john. The video was all done in one take, no edits whatsoever. 16 shots had to be taken for it to be complete. 
        
                                             



87 #  Talking Heads / Once in a lifetime / 1981 

This video is mainly improvised by the dancer as well as it being very simple.  

  
                                




79 # New Order / True Faith / 1987

This video has absolutely nothing to do with the music.

                              


78 # Godley and Creme / Cry / 1985
This video uses a variety of different faces which lip sing the song as well as doing the facial expression which go with the songs lyrics. 



                             


73 # Basement Jack / Wheres your head at / 2001 
Filmed in a monkey mental institution.



                                               



63 # George Michael / Outside / 1998
Video is set up in  a 'public toilet' which is then turned into a disco toilet and George michael performing as a dancer dressed in a policeman suit. This is video 

                              



49 # Jamiroqui / Virtual Insanity / 1996

Wears a silly hat, very boring song, however it is a great music video dominated 197 music video awards.



                               

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