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    Battle of the Music Videos: (Nominations closed)

    Oh yes. Oh yes. It's happening.

    This thread will pit all of your very favorite music videos against each other in a totally pointless, but hopefully entertaining battle royale! Instrospective indie artists will take on outlandish hair bands! Will you choose your current favorite? Or will nostalgia win the day as you vote with your inner 12-year old?

    After a nomination process, the top videos will be placed in a tournament style bracket and face off against each other one-on-one. And then ... votes will be cast, tears will be shed, profanity will be uttered ...

    How to nominate a music video:
    For these battles, I would like all voters to have the opportunity to quickly watch both videos before casting their vote. Therefore, if you are the first person to nominate a particular video, it must be accompanied by some sort of link where we can watch it. All subsequent nominations for a video that has already been linked can simply occur by listing the title. Again, you only need to provide a link for a first nomination. However, if you think you have a better link for a nominated song, by all means, include it. If you cannot find any such link, the video will NOT be eligible.

    The primary focus in your decision making should be the video. You should not simply vote for the best overall song, although the appeal of the music will certainly be a factor. I will ask voters to keep an open mind to new videos they have not previously seen.

    All other issues will be resolved by me as we go.

    To start with, I will allow 30 nominations from each person, so choose wisely. Ranking will be determined by number of nominations, so yes, it does matter if you mention a video that has already been mentioned. Go ahead whenever you're ready.
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    Sure why not?

    STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson) - 9
    STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
    THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
    THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
    LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8


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    Cool idea.

    Does this one count?:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbYtqAWDF2U

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    Prodigy "Smack My Bitch Up"
    Pharcyde "Drop"
    Michael Jackson "Scream"
    Bjork "All Is Full Of Love"

    What's the Radiohead video with the guy on the ground, wanting to say something, and then.....

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    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    Quote Quoting Ezee E (view post)

    What's the Radiohead video with the guy on the ground, wanting to say something, and then.....
    Just
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    The video for 1234 is delightful

    Bjork - Big Time Sensuality
    David Brent - If You Don't Know Me By Now
    Eels - Last Stop: This Town
    Flight Of The Concords - Carol Brown
    Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!
    Low - Breaker
    Pavement - Shady Lane
    Pulp - Common People
    Pulp - Babies
    A Tribe Called Quest - I Left My Wallet In El Segundo

    Actually, I am nominating the Once In A Lifetime video. It's great

    Three more for my ballot and then I'm done...

    Blur - Coffee & TV
    Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
    Violent Femmes - American Music

    Two more

    Nick Cave - The Weeping Song
    XTC - Dear God

    all right, and I'm echoing these 15

    Animal Collective - My Girls
    The dbs - Amplifier
    Feist - 1234
    Feist - My Moon My Man
    Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
    Kate Bush - Babooshka
    The Knife - Heartbeats
    MGMT - Time To Pretend
    Outkast - Hey Ya
    Pulp - This Is Hardcore
    Radiohead - Karma Police
    REM - Losing My Religion
    Talking Heads - And She Was
    TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me
    Wolf Parade - I'll Believe In Anything

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    Man, I had never seen that Smack My Bitch Up before. Terrible. Just terrible.

    And She Was, however, as another completely inexplicable blind spot, was incredible. Just incredible.

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    Quote Quoting Sven (view post)
    Man, I had never seen that Smack My Bitch Up before. Terrible. Just terrible.
    But it's basically just like Crank! :lol:
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    The And She Was video is pretty great, but it's no Once In A Lifetime

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    Quote Quoting Spinal (view post)
    But it's basically just like Crank! :lol:
    Hmmmmmm... no.

    But that Madonna video and song are both wow-good, to my surprise. Thanks!

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    Quote Quoting Adam (view post)
    The And She Was video is pretty great, but it's no Once In A Lifetime
    To be clear, are you adding this to your ballot?

    Also, do you think, Spinal, that you are going to include at all entries with only a single nomination?

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    Oh, I dunno

    Not really a great video, I guess, it's just a complete tour de force by Byrne

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    Post reserved for my entries (watch for announced additions or alterations):

    Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal (technically a clip from the film Moonwalker, but was directed by a separate individual and is by all accounts given an identity of its own... look at those shapes, check out those moves, one of the best directed videos ever)

    The Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar (there's probably a better quality version out there of this one-of-a-kind actualization of that which we all imagine)

    Daft Punk - Around the World (One of the best things is synchronicity, and here you have a perfect meld of music, dance, film, and narrative... it's enough to make me quiver, and I do)

    Morrissey - November Spawned a Monster (I just saw this on the big screen. It was... religious. If you can look me square in the whatever and tell me you do not like this, you will force me to question you - let's save ourselves some grief)

    NASA - A Volta (Horrifying crime saga played out in nightmarimation... absolutely fascinating)

    The Smiths - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (Technically the middle part of Derek Jarman's The Queen is Dead, but stands on its own as one of the most evocative and graceful pieces of film ever compiled... the vertical water surface gets me, Morrissey obscured in light, a ghostly car on fire)

    Kate Bush - Babooshka (chainmail bikini)

    Elton John - This Train Don't Stop Here Anymore (I'm not huge on LaChapelle's party kitsch, but I am huge on one-shot wonders, replete with tableaus and a free-form approach to identifiers)

    R. Kelly - Trapped in the Closet (for whatever reason, people don't like this, but I guess it's their loss, choosing to overlook the ebullient tongue-in-cheeky wit and expert delivery. For whatever reason.)

    m83 - Kim & Jessie (this video makes me feel like a teenage girl. So there's that. I also like choreography and happiness. It all feels very transient somehow, no?)

    UNKLE w/Yorke - Rabbit in Your Headlights (amazing, elating use of CG at the end... rarely happens this beautifully)

    The Monkees - Goin' Down (with Micky Dolenz's fantastic dance moves and a simmering, slow-burning furor, this is a mesmerizing experience.)

    The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize (My God, thank you Antoine! I love how this one sets itself up to be a Justice Stress type gritty docu-truth OMG children sensationalist pieces, but instead turns out to be this awesomely evocative tale of the quest for individuality and strength and is ultimately very cathartic. Adore, adore, adore.)

    The Cure - Boys Don't Cry (Another nod to 'toine, who apparently, Sigur Ros aside, has excellent taste. I love the lo-fi, low key creepiness here. Those eyes, the dance, the why...?)

    Queen - I Want to Break Free (A very inspiring thing, showcasing Freddie at his most amazing. Hilarious and weird and kinda moving.)

    The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back & ABC, performed on Ed Sullivan (Spinal, tell me if this qualifies. I think it should. It is as well directed in demonstrating the appeal of both the songs and the group as any number of things nominated already. Plus, it's too infectious to deny anything. Come on!)

    Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside (normally I don't spring for the deliberate movie spin-off videos, but this one is different enough in form and content from Caligari that it is worthy, and boy is it good.)

    Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing) (I like continuous action, and I especially like it when continuous lines span time.)

    Depeche Mode - Wrong (I like that it takes you a while to figure out. I also like that it is just flat out terrifying.)

    Stephen & the Colberts - Charlene (I'm Right Behind You) (Hilarious)

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    Quote Quoting Sven (view post)

    Also, do you think, Spinal, that you are going to include at all entries with only a single nomination?
    I'm not exactly sure yet. It seems likely that there will be a ton of them. On the other hand, I like to be generous, so odds are they'll have a good shot.
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    Hmm... Kylie Minogue Come Into My World

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    Please put all of your nominations in a single post. Adam, I merged your two posts. Thanks.
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    I suppose it is worth asking whether or not sequences from musicals should count. Or, like, concert footage. Or internet features. And stuff.

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    Quote Quoting Sven (view post)
    I suppose it is worth asking whether or not sequences from musicals should count. Or, like, concert footage. Or internet features. And stuff.
    Ehhhhh ... out-of-the-box entries are ok. But they should be fairly iconic in that case.

    Dick in a Box would be ok. The video with Bowie and Bing singing Little Drummer Boy would be ok. If it's concert footage, I'm probably not going to include unless it is a widely accepted classic moment, or if there is some other exceptional quality. But you are free to make an argument.
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    Everybody to the Limit will win the whole thing.
    Sure why not?

    STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson) - 9
    STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
    THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
    THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
    LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8


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    This competition begins and ends with Apache.

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    Quote Quoting Derek (view post)
    This competition begins and ends with Apache.
    Way to make the whole thread obsolete, dude.
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    Why would you choose these two over this one?

    "Hey, I went to college once but all they found was rats in my head."

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    Quote Quoting Derek (view post)
    This competition begins and ends with Apache.
    I'll call your Apache and raise you this

    Arrebato (Zulueta - '80) 89
    Elegia (Huszarik - '65) 95
    Szinbad (Huszarik - '71) 77
    Temptation of St. Tony (Ounpuu - '09) 80
    Marguriete of the Night (Autant-Lara - '55)62
    Kadin Hamlet (Erksan - '77) 52
    Passion of a Darkly Noon (Ridley - '94) 79
    Endangered Species (Rudolph - '82) 65
    Made in Heaven (Rudolph -'87) 20
    High Hopes (Leigh - '88) 74

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    i was coming in here to nominate kylie minogue and daft punk. i've been beaten to the punch. and nobody has nominated the best music video of all time, OF ALL TIME!

    Grizzly Bear - The Knife
    Kanye West - Can't Tell Me Nothin'
    Beastie Boys - Sabotage
    Fatboy Slim - Praise You
    R Kelly - Trapped in the Closet
    The White Stripes - The Denial Twist
    Bjork - Human Behavior
    Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
    Jay Z - 99 Problems
    Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
    AHA - Take on Me
    Weezer - Buddy Holly
    St Vincent - Marrow
    Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
    Beyonce & Shakira - Beautiful Liar (you know why)
    Blind Melon - No Rain
    Kylie Minogue - Come Into My World
    Daft Punk - Around the World
    Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar
    Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice
    Feist - 1,2,3,4
    Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet
    Michael Jackson - Thriller

    may add more later.

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