I remember listening to Foo Fighters(Everlong, Learn to Fly,…) and enjoying some music and having a laught at the video. Recently i discovered this:
Salvatore Ganacci - Step-Grandma
Which music video you, for the music or video production, would like to share ?
I’m not sure it’s possible to describe as much of the technology, digital culture and design of 1999 as well as this song and video did. I had long forgotten about it and many of the references it makes, thanks for reminding me!
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It’s all about the Pentiums, baby.
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Miike Snow - Genghis Khan
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The henchman carrying the ladder in the background stopping for 1 sec to go “aaah” is the best part. The next best part is whatever that dance move is called when the James Bond guy turns around from the wall and starts shaking his hand in time to the music.
Thank you for reminding me of this amazing video! Such a great track too.
Haha true, “My Trigger” from them is also nice.
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Weezer - Pork and Beans is a really interesting snapshot of YouTube in the late 2000s; you see all the big people of the day doing trends of the day while singing with the members of Weezer. If that doesn’t sound awesome, I don’t know what is. Plus Hero by the same band is a really interesting pandemic video that is one of the few “artist tries to relate to normal people during lockdown” things which actually work.
If you couldn’t tell, Weezer is my favorite band.
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I love the one that has Christopher Walken zooming around the room
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This one comes from an era where music video’s where still important. Apex Twin - Come to daddy
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I like a video that turns the camera around and features real people, and these were extra-special in the time before stuff like easy video production and streaming.
But I especially like what the band Cake did with Short Skirt/Long Jacket, where they went around letting people preview the song and give their reactions on camera. And the reactions were… actually pretty mixed.
You could watch every video that OK go ever made. They’re all stunning.
This one blew my mind. OK go - The one moment
Holly poops that was cool. If there truly was no editing after the fact, the lip-syncing on the flipbooks is impressive as hell, along with all of the effects going on in time with the beat. These guys are great.
Good one. One of the best on this thread.
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Basically anything Venjent. Some of the best non-mainstream music I have heard in decades.
Hmmm, I kinda like it. Ty.
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Touhou 4 arrange ~ BAD APPLE!!
Just because I can, LOL.
Lots of the Lost - Reset the Preset
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Just my favourite German Industrial Glam Metal band being nutso.
Thank you for introducing me to the fact that there is such a thing as glam metal. The world is noticeably brighter with this knowledge in it.
Admittedly I only got into them because of Eurovision, but man I have been listening to so much Lord of the Lost. Somehow hadn’t thought to look at any of their videos though! This was…eye opening 😆
Same here but their back catalog is immense!
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This is my favourite I can’t believe someone actually did this
Shaka Ponk - Gung Ho
Edit - I should add, this was one of the biggest bands in France, not some amateur thing, which makes it even funnier
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Love the boombox robot. This looks like something Robert Rodriguez shat out in between Spy Kids movies.
Where there’s a whip, there’s a way: https://youtu.be/VoAfb3f04mo
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I enjoy Clamavi De Profundis’s cover.
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Anything done by Michel Gondry, but this is a favorite: https://youtu.be/gLESpHrtvxs?si=zdeITwz-fe29LJlU
I just can’t imagine how much time was spent making that.
The source of one of my favorite Simpsons gags ever: https://youtu.be/dUx3kDnT-p8?si=e2jvjZKkU30mFvfp
That is a band that i didnt listen for a long time, remember that The White Stripes - I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself caused a stir in mtv at release.
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Imagine this. It’s 1993. 3d computer images are extremely expensive to make and rare, and 3d animations are so time consuming that even the biggest budget movies only use tiny amounts of it. Even 2D computer generated stuff is rare.
The music videos are all just people with greenscreens set against backgrounds of hand-cut film with hand-drawn effects and special lighting and physical effects like smoke-machines. Songs are played with physical instruments, with maybe some electrical processing. And they’re about love and tell stories, or they focus on the melodies and combinations of instruments.
And then one day you see this, without warning on saturday morning TV, in between those other music videos:
Hocus Pocus - Here’s Johnny (1993)
It was a total mindfuck at the time. Now it’s just an adorably quaint and slow-paced historical example of a music video.
How about this gem, from 8 years earlier (1985). I couldn’t believer that some of the best computer animation I’d ever seen was on a music video.
The dire straits video was definitely one of the big “whoa i have never seen this before” moments for animation, but I only saw it long after the release, so i unfortunately did not get to experience the novelty properly. Bless the Quantel Paintbox and the creative possibilities it unlocked though. Era-defining stuff.
Job kuiren Enthavo
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