blissblogger said:
grace jones, 'slave to the rhythm'
Bit of a confession, but don't think I've ever seen that video....
Soft Cell, 'Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret'
Basement Jaxx, yeh the obvious 'Where's Your Head At' but also the fantastic 'Plug It In' (complete with fembots)
Moloko, 'Indigo' (odd and unsettling)
Japan, 'Visions of China' (did they make a video for 'Ghosts'?)
Visage - having trouble remembering them, but I do recall the 'Damned Don't Cry' and the 'Night Train' videos being what seemed at the time like stylish Euronoir
Daft Punk - 'Around the World' (simple idea, brilliant execution... most of Gondry's videos are really imaginative)
Although I must admit, I pretty much hate videos now, almost universally. That quick-cutting thing makes most of them like an unpleasant experience of clinical schizophrenia...
supplementary question:
what are the great videos that are better than the song itself/make you like the song despite yourself/push a pretty-good song into the great audiovisual pop moment?
can't think of any examples at the moment
Me neither... videos much more likely to have the opposite effect on me, especially if they're subject to constant rotation, which makes you hate more or less anything in the end...
supplementary question#2: what are the most over-rated videos?
#1: Beastie Boys, 'sabotage' -- never understood why peoploe thought this was clever or entertaining...
With you 100% on that... and watching MTV UK in the late 90s made that video unendurable even, presumably, for folk who liked it in the first place... (That other Beastie Boys one, with the Godzilla type stuff, I started off liking that but hated it in the end because of brute force of repetition)
Also... Godley and Creme 'Cry', the video that heralded a thousand commercials for 'compassionate' corporations.... (song is shit too)
Gabriel, 'Sledgehammer', fucking unbearable... and as ubiquitious in the mid-late 80s as 'Sabotage' was a decade later
'Praise You' --- don't you just want to punch Spike Jonze in the face? Repeatedly?
'Weapon of Choice' --- so smug
supplementary question#3: great audiovisual groups who don't have as massive a backlog of great promo-age as you'd perhaps think
#1: Roxy
Yes, do they have one memorable video really? The thing shot of them at the Royal College of Art doing 'Remake Remodel' is probably the only one...
Also in that genre: The Associates... don't remember any of their videos, but do obv remember the TOTP performances