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Maybe you remember that show they had on MTV, where different celebreties picked twenty or so favorite music videos. I used to really like that show, because even untalented (according to me) musicians, sometimes picked good music. I dont watch MTV as I used to do anymore, I dont really know why. I hate to think that I've gotten to old for it. It's just that I feel the music used to be better in the old days, the videos too. Sometimes they did actually play Public Image videos and even black metal. It's not that I enjoy black metal so much, but it's that the music seemed to be more varied. They also had a lot less commercials before, at least it feels that way. I dont hate the modern MTV and I respect different tastes, but I just cant force myself to look at it for more that five minutes.
No matter what. I always used to dream that I could pick twenty music videos for MTV. I wondered who I would pick. I came to think of it the other day. So I try to put up a list here. My musical video choices. Do download them from the net if you get curious.
RAVEN'S MUSIC VIDEO PICKS FOR MTV
I picked these after music and video quality according to me *.
1. Hail Hail Rock 'N' Roll - Garland Jeffreys
2. Land of Confusion - Genesis
3. Back On Earth - Ozzy Osbourne
4. Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
5. She Makes Me Wanne Die - Tricky
6. Come To Daddy - Apex Twin
7. Dirt - Death in Vegas
8. Rise -Public Image
9. The Box - Orbital
10. Hyperballad - Bjork
11. Around The World - Daft Punk
12. Thriller - Michael Jackson
13. Prodigy - Firestarter
14. Close to Me - The Cure
15. Gett Off - Prince
16. Get Along With You - Kelis
17. The Perfect Drug -by Nine Inch Nails
18. Hurt -by Nine Inch Nails
19. Unfinished Symphony -by Massive Attack
20. Protection -by Massive Attack
If you have never seen the music video "Hail Hail Rock 'N' Roll" by Garland Jeffreys, then you have really missed out on something really great. I think they should at least send this video every month on MTV, but it's old and rare of course. It has a depth that few music videos can show. You can view it at the Garland Jeffreys site with Quicktime. If you dont have Quicktime I would recommend that you download it just to view this video and just uninstall it afterwards. You just have to see this video! I remember it as my number one favorite.
"Land of Confusion" by Genesis is just a really well made video. It's fun and satiric and I love that Prince puppet with the long tongue and the Madonna puppet with the mouth between her legs. And those birds you know. It's fun in a sad way.
"Back On Earth" by Ozzy Osbourne is the best thing from Osbourne ever, in my opinion. It's even better than Black Sabbath and that dusty old horror movie the video is inspired by.
I would pick Dire Straits with "Money For Nothing" not because I love it as a song or because I like Dire Straits, but because I remember it as a common MTV music video they used to play in the old days. Sting singing -"I want my MTV" in the end of the song rounds up that old MTV love perfectly of course.
Tricky have a few really good videos as well as tasty music to go with them. "She Makes Me Wanne Die" features the singing woman as Lilith with snakes in the bathtub. Wonderfully deppressing and dark. Another good video by them is called "Hell Is Around the Corner". You can hear some of their songs trough their website.
Apex Twin and Death in Vegas have made gloomy terrible videos you should have seen. Those industrial alike apartment buildings and dirty air in "Dirt" and "Come To Daddy" is more real that "the happy carefree dancing people videos" on MTV.
"Rise" by Public Image is my second favorite. It's John Lydon (from Sex Pistols) as that dirty red haired awful boy next door. I knew a boy like that, with the same anger. It's everything you wish a small boy would and wouldn't be. Lovely.
"The Box" is my favorite song from Orbital. I first heard them when I saw this video. It's all about that box in peoples living room. Emty, vivid and fragile.
"Hyperballad" by Bjork is creative and fresh like the rest of the Bjork videos. I like this the most because the song and lyrics appeal to me. In a personal way. I've always had that "running restless trough the skyscraper city at night, because I need to change things within me and around me" type of dreams. I feel the Bjork character in this video is me. The lyrics goes like this -"I go through all this, before you wake up, so I can feel happier, to be safe up here with you".
"Around The World" by Daft Punk has that great arty stage performance and I wish I had that wall.
Who doesn't like "Thriller" by Michael Jackson? He have so any brilliant videos, it's difficult to pick one, but I think this one stands out as one of the best. I like the way the dancing is perfectly shaped after the theme. It also features him being that charming innocent looking black guy that he used to be, before he turned white. The one I would love to go to the cinema with, giggle with. The young Michael was the best, in every way.
I would pick Prodigy with "Firestarter" because Keith Flint makes an extremely wild performance, just with his character alone. It took my breath away the first time I saw it.
I like closets, always have and The Cure has really good videos. "Close to Me" is not my favorite song by them, but of those I have seen, I think it's my favorite video. The guys in The Cure always seem childish in a mature way. No fast cars, female breasts or tons of expensive objects that's suppose to convince people that they are indeed men. Wealthy men. No, The Cure videos makes me think that this is men that dares to sometimes be themselves, in a music video.
I'm a big fan of Prince and I think "Gett Off" truly shows a lot his talents. Not a favorite song by him, but it is a great stage performance music video. There are others of those too of course.
"Get Along With You" by Kelis has that Nightmare Before Christmas gloomy animated look. A sad song that is put into a well designed music video. Just like the Nine Inch Nails "Perfect Drug" it has a very good color layout. It makes it more dramatic and a visually more pleasing experience.
Nine Inch Nails have a lot of good videos, the "The Perfect Drug" is as urban goth as a video can get and it also includes the Wednesday girl, my favorite Addams Family member.
"Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails is black and white and sad and the dead fox in the end rounds it all up.
"Unfinished Symphony" by Massive Attack shows you that depressing street. It's the first music video I saw with the singer walking the streets. This one is the best of those type of videos I think.
Another favorite is the atmospheric video by Massive Attack called "Protection". I love the way this video is made. You can peek into all these windows and the furnitures doesn't look real. It looks like a dollhouse with real people inside. Like closets, dollhouses have always been extremely interesting to me.
* I just know that I have forgotten a few really really good favorite videos. I will most likely remember one or two of them later and regret that I didn't put them in here. Just so you know.
Now what would your choices have been?
