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Fight The Power

Extended, uncensored version of Public Enemy's great song.

Sympathy for the Devil

The Rolling Stones performing in their film "Rock n Roll Circus."

Freeze Frame

In the pre-Cambrian soup of music videos, the J. Geils Band used parachutes, paint, simple animation, some silent movie clips and basic video tricks to capture the energy of a fun R&B song.

Here it Goes Again

OK Go's athletic choreography makes this the probably the most popular straight-to-YouTube video.

Planet Caravan (Pantera)

Pantera's cover of the Black Sabbath song. The excellent imagery is from an innovative animation by Karl Sims called "Panspermia." While Sims himself does not believe in panspermia as a theory of life's origins, he uses it as a rich theme for the use of fractal geometry to simulate living organisms.

Money for Nothing

In it's time, the flat-surface animation against the corrosive guitar were so original and riveting, this video became a classic on people's first-viewings. What's to talk about that you don't already know?...

Theme: The Avengers

The Avengers was wry, intelligent, slick, stylish and exceedingly British. The show also inspired two very charming videos.

Don't Get Me Wrong
This Pretenders tune may have gone well with any imagery, but it works unusually well here -- the underlying sexual tension from the Avengers suits the lyrics quite well.




The Mayor of Simpleton
XTC riff on the Avengers in the style of a title sequence. This too is very appropriate as the lyrics confess stupidity with great cleverness: "...I don't know how many pounds make up a ton of all the Nobel prizes that I've never won..." For all it's affectations, it is clear Andy, Colin, Dave and a beautiful model are playing with props and horsing around.

Lucas with the Lid Off

This remarkable (if underrated) video was shot in one take on a figure-eight set. Mirrors, screens and mini-sets provide countless visual slights-of-hand. Directed by (of course) Michel Gondry.

Ana Ng

A love song to a stranger on the other side of world, a video set at an architecturally beautiful industrial site, cold war iconography used only as visual punctuation marks, text populating the screen like jumbled thoughts -- all these come together into a music video wonderfully conceived, filmed and edited. This is one of the best of They Might Be Giants.

Know Your Chicken

Cibo Mato tell a tale of domestic maturation/anarchy in the iconography of sitcoms. One of a kind.

Walk This Way (Run DMC and Aerosmith)

Brilliant at every level of conception. Rappers doing hard rock. Aerosmith reviving their career for good. This video predicts its own legend. It literally bridged the divide of Rap and Rock back when Casey Kasem was introducing us to the idea of "cross-over hit."

Electronic Behavior Control System

Video activists and culture-jammers, EBN (Emergency Broadcast Network) designed many angry collages from broadcast tele-visuals. While they have done numerous excellent pieces, this is probably their most provocative. They are one of the musical acts profiled in the documentary, "Sonic Outlaws."

Our House

Madness' classic. This video mixes performance with Monty-Python-like gadding. Somehow it captures a true sentiment without being trite. Pure fun.

The Act of Being Polite

The Residents wrote this for their "Commercial Album." The album is a collection of 40 1-minute songs. The video for "The Act of Being Polite" is now featured at the Museum of Modern Art.

Express Yourself

Madonna hit with stunning production values -- drawing from art deco and other early 20th Century art techniques. Gorgeous.