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"Windowlicker" - Because it's mightily disturbing. Because of the way Chris Cunningham edits to the beat. "Come to Daddy" is cooler, but "Windowlicker" is creepier.

Tim DiGravina, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i haven't seen 6 videos in the last 6 years, but this question takes me back to when watching 120 Minutes on Sunday night in the late '80s/early 90s was a thrill. I'm remembering Lush, Pixies, Throwing Muses, JAMC, Galaxie 500, Mazzy Star, MBV etc.

Oh yeah, pick one... I'll take "Just Like Honey" by JAMC. Cool personified, especially when you're in junior high.

Aaron A., Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

120 Minutes used to be great. Kevin Seal & Dave Kendall, where'd you guys go?

Tim DiGravina, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kevin Seal ended up in a Fed Ex ad. Bizarre.

Remember when Tim Sommer did some hosting on weekdays? Before signing Hootie to Atlantic? Garg.

Coil's "Tainted Love," for the outrageously evil moment when one Mr. M. Almond saunters in, smirks at John Balance in his sickbed, eats a grape and then leaves.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Sweat It Out" by Little Stevie McCabe

unknown or illegal user, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's got to be 'Ashes To Ashes' by David Bowie hasn't it

clotion, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yo La Tengo's "Sugarcube", the funniest video EVAR. "ARE YOU SCARED OF MAKING MONEY?! ... Young band - YOU are going to ROCK SCHOOL!" Any video where a Gene Simmons-esque '70s rocker puffs on a pipe and acts like a college prof is AOK in my book.

Nate Patrin, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Elastica's "Stutter" or perhaps MBV's "You Made Me Realise"

electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Hard to Explain"

Kris, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"It's a Beautiful World" by Devo.

Tim Sommer will be spared when the revolution comes because he was in Hugo Largo.

Colin Meeder, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Loser" by Beck. It just seems like a long list of dumb ideas someone had when drunk, put together for the cost of about seven dollars, and yet it still looks amazing. The keep-fit class in the graveyard is one of the great pop images.

Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i second "sugarcube" by yo la tengo - being caught sneaking out to a beck concert, how to trash a bed, being read the sleevenotes to rush albums, sneaking a clarinet into the toilets. actually i think yo la tengo created ALL the best videos i have ever seen - "tom courtenay" where they open for the reformed beatles and the bass player sulks because he wants to wear a cloak and the one whose name i can't remember directed by hal hartley where they spend ages setting up their instruments play one note and then spend the rest of the video packing them up again...

but i'll go for the tall dwarf's "phil's disease"

commonswings, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Grace Jones' Slave to the Rhythm. Has anyone seen that Basement Jaxx vid in the animal lab...bloody terrifying

Jez, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Free range" by The Fall. "Rhinestone cowboy" by Glen Campbell.

Both feature the artist/s looking uncomfortable on a mode of transport.

Kris England, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Romeo", by Basement Jaxx. It is good that they are not afraid to confront the Bollywood craze that's affecting (or has affected, since it must be on its way out) hip-hop/dance.

Dan I., Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Loser" by Beck. It just seems like a long list of dumb ideas someone had when drunk, put together for the cost of about seven dollars, and yet it still looks amazing.

The same can be said about "Hurdy Gurdy Man" as covered by Butthole Surfers - if only that whole album (_Pioughd_) was as fun as that video...

My pick is "Can't Go Wrong Without You" by His Name Is Alive. The video was made by the Brothers Quay with stop-motion animation and features the devil trying to steal an egg from a humanoid bunny and a doll who appears to be menstruating on a scale. This video not only introduced me to HNIA but also to the Brothers Quay, and needless to say, it blew my mind. Also, kudos to HNIA for picking the weirdest, least-accessible track on the album for their video.

Oh, 120 Minutes...they played some good stuff back in the day. That, and IRS's The Cutting Edge. Pine, pine...I felt sad for annoying Dave Kendall after his stint on 120 Minutes when I saw him host some really awful music show called Music Scoupe. I also felt sad when I saw _The Year Punk Broke_ and the audience erupted into groans when he appeared on the screen.

Ernest, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I second to Ashes to Ashes! made an everlasting impression when I saw it for the first time, what was this? it was weird...I had nightmares.

erik, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Estranegment - Guns N Roses - Axl swan diving from the ship = best video moment evah!

Queen of the Porches Leaving Their Men Club G, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the problem with Dave Kendall is that while he was clearly a tool, we didn't understand then how equally obnoxious the later horrors would be as well. Time for Kennedy nostalgia!

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hal hartley where they spend ages setting up their instruments play one note and then spend the rest of the video packing them up again...

That's From a Motel 6. It's on the first Matador VDO Comp.

JM, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Along those lines, The Replacements video with the speaker.

Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pat Benatar-"Love Is a Battlefield". It's just preposterous, Pat as a runaway teen hooker. That sleazy pimp picking his teeth is a big queen in real life. And that choreography-my oh my!

Remember the Awake on the Wildside duo? Lisa Edelstein and that guy? I actually enjoyed watching them. What was I doing up that early back then, though?

I knew a guy who used to go out with the "He said! Shut up! Oh God can't you keep it down!" fella from the Til Tuesday "Voices Carry" video. He was a violent creep in real life, too, apparently.

Martha Quinn used to work at the front desk of my dorm at NYU. I used to have to ask her for toilet paper. I loved her. I can't believe she dated both Stiv Bators and Paul Schaeffer.

Arthur, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Cliche answer: "Big Time" by Peter Gabriel (with "Sledgehammer" a close second.) You can watch these videos a hundred times each and STILL not catch all the goofy little nuances.

Lord Custos III, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Journey's "Separate Ways" IS THE ONLY ANSWER!

gygax! (i forgot my blog password), Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw "The Wall" at the age of ten. It freaked me. I was staying awake at night anyway as I had just come back from the US and a ten- hour time difference; this did not help.

Anna Rose, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey, Dave Kendall was cool! As was Kevin Seal. And the videos they played were fabulous. Kendall's lust for Killing Joke was quite endearing. He never seemed anything less than 100% genuine, and it had to take some confidence to wear the funny clothes he wore. And the neat video effects they played behind Kevin Seal were ace. If only MTV played those old episodes again... alas.

Tim DiGravina, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No one's mentioned 'Sabotage'? I think I mentioned on some other thread once that I wished my life was more like 'Sabotage'. God, that was the video to end all videos. I used to watch it obsessively (the slick editing combined with low-rent production! the wigs! those CARS!!)

geeta, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, it's gotta be "Safety Dance." Every video should have dwarfs and dancing serfs, dontcha's think?

Tadeusz Suchodolski, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh yeah ... i used to think that Kevin Seals was unbearable. then came Pauly Shore.

Tadeusz Suchodolski, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)


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