Top 50 Music Videos of 2007

**origami_mustache** · 12-13-2007, 06:36 AM

See Pitchfork's selections here.

As stereotypical as it may be these days, Pitchfork is still a great place for music information and their year end special features are always entertaining. Perhaps this thread belongs in the music forum, however music videos are an interesting and exciting genre of filmmaking and often a canvas for innovation, experimentation, and up and coming directors. If enough interest generates, perhaps it will spawn a thread dedicated entirely to music video posts and discussion.

**Spinal** · 12-13-2007, 06:44 AM

Quoting origami_mustache (view post)

If enough interest generates, perhaps it will spawn a thread dedicated entirely to music video posts and discussion.

Heh. I had something like that in mind that I was going to start up after the holidays. If someone gets to it before me though, that's OK.

**origami_mustache** · 12-13-2007, 06:50 AM

My favorites: (pages 1-2)

Animal Collective - "Peacebone"
Directed by Timothy Saccenti

Bat for Lashes - "What's a Girl To Do"
Directed by Dougal Wilson

Battles - "Atlas"
Directed by Timothy Saccenti

Dizzee Rascal - "Sirens"
Directed by W.I.Z.

El-P - "Smithereens (Stop Crying)"
Directed by Cassidy Gearhart

**origami_mustache** · 12-13-2007, 06:51 AM

Quoting Spinal (view post)

Heh. I had something like that in mind that I was going to start up after the holidays. If someone gets to it before me though, that's OK.

go for it...less effort for me haha.

**Ivan Drago** · 12-13-2007, 06:54 AM

The inclusion of Daft Punk = awesomeness

**Spinal** · 12-13-2007, 06:55 AM

Just glancing over the list, I've only seen a few, but I love the videos for Bat for Lashes, Bjork and Feist.

**origami_mustache** · 12-13-2007, 06:59 AM

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Just glancing over the list, I've only seen a few, but I love the videos for Bat for Lashes, Bjork and Feist.

The Feist video is like Busby Berkeley gone "indie."

**Spinal** · 12-13-2007, 07:04 AM

Quoting origami_mustache (view post)

The Feist video is like Busby Berkeley gone "indie."

Ha! Yes. The moment where they're holding her up as she runs around in a circle is golden. Still a damn good video even though it's become an Ipod commercial.

**origami_mustache** · 12-13-2007, 07:12 AM

more favorites: (pages 3 - 5)

Familjen - "Det Snurrar I Min Skalle"
Directed by Johan Söderberg
(footage taken from religious meeting in Sweden in the 1960s)

LCD Soundsystem - "All My Friends"
Directed by Tom Kuntz

Menomena - "Evil Bee"
Directed by Stefan Nadelman

Fionn Regan - "Be Good or Be Gone"
Directed by Si and Ad
(fun with soundscapes rather than opting for studio recording...so simple, yet so great)

Kanye West - "Can't Tell Me Nothing" (alt. video ft. Will Oldham and Zach Galifianakis)
Directed by Michael Blieden
(absolutely hilarious)

**Ezee E** · 12-13-2007, 01:48 PM

I haven't seen a good music video in years.

**Mysterious Dude** · 12-13-2007, 02:07 PM

They still make music videos?

**D_Davis** · 12-13-2007, 02:20 PM

I can't remember what the last new music video I watched was. It must have been Now here is No Where, by the Secret Machines, or Take Me Out, by Franz Ferdinand. Yeah, it's been a long time!

I do miss the old days though, when some indie band would just take some crappy 8mm camera and shoot a video. Say, for instance, Camper Van Beethoven's video for Take the Skinheads Bowling. I would like to see something like this now.

**Sven** · 12-13-2007, 02:38 PM

Quoting Spinal (view post)

Ha! Yes. The moment where they're holding her up as she runs around in a circle is golden. Still a damn good video even though it's become an Ipod commercial.

My favorite of hers is that one-take on the airport escalator walkway. So awesome.

**origami_mustache** · 12-13-2007, 02:45 PM

Quoting Daniel Davis (view post)

I can't remember what the last new music video I watched was. It must have been Now here is No Where, by the Secret Machines, or Take Me Out, by Franz Ferdinand. Yeah, it's been a long time!

I do miss the old days though, when some indie band would just take some crappy 8mm camera and shoot a video. Say, for instance, Camper Van Beethoven's video for Take the Skinheads Bowling. I would like to see something like this now.

Beirut had an amazing video for "Nantes" all done in one take with a standard retail camera. Pitchfork chose the video for "Elephant Gun" which is pretty solid, but I think this one is more creative and moving, and appropriate for the list considering they picked a Jens Lekman video produced by La Blogotheque.

view it here

If you enjoy this there is actually a single take video shot in different locations in Brooklyn for each track on the album:
http://flyingclubcup.com/spip.php?rubrique1

**Spinal** · 12-13-2007, 02:57 PM

Quoting Ezee E (view post)

I haven't seen a good music video in years.

Dose of your own medicine.

**Ezee E** · 12-13-2007, 04:20 PM

Quoting Spinal (view post)

Dose of your own medicine.

Don't even know what that's suppose to mean.

**D_Davis** · 12-13-2007, 04:44 PM

Quoting origami_mustache (view post)

Beirut had an amazing video for "Nantes" all done in one take with a standard retail camera. Pitchfork chose the video for "Elephant Gun" which is pretty solid, but I think this one is more creative and moving, and appropriate for the list considering they picked a Jens Lekman video produced by La Blogotheque.

view it here

If you enjoy this there is actually a single take video shot in different locations in Brooklyn for each track on the album:
http://flyingclubcup.com/spip.php?rubrique1

Hey, that's pretty cool. Very creative, and the music kind of reminds me of Dexy's Midnight Runners, which is always a good thing.

**D_Davis** · 12-13-2007, 04:49 PM

Quoting Ezee E (view post)

Don't even know what that's suppose to mean.

It means, "in your face dweeb!"

**origami_mustache** · 12-13-2007, 05:00 PM

Quoting Daniel Davis (view post)

Hey, that's pretty cool. Very creative, and the music kind of reminds me of Dexy's Midnight Runners, which is always a good thing.

Yeah, I wish I could pull off playing percussion with a conch shell as well as Zach Condon does.

**Kurosawa Fan** · 12-13-2007, 05:21 PM

Quoting iosos (view post)

My favorite of hers is that one-take on the airport escalator walkway. So awesome.

My Moon My Man

Great song, great video.

**Sven** · 12-13-2007, 05:53 PM

Quoting Kurosawa Fan (view post)

My Moon My Man

Great song, great video.

Watching it again, I can notice a few hidden cuts, but that's okay. Even though the opening shot of Snake Eyes is actually something like 13 shots masked together, makes it no less impressive.

I dig that Gondry's popularity has influenced the one-take music video. I dig that kind of thing.

**origami_mustache** · 12-13-2007, 06:32 PM

Quoting iosos (view post)

I dig that Gondry's popularity has influenced the one-take music video. I dig that kind of thing.

Speaking on Michel Gondry, he directed a couple of videos this year that are not on the Pitchfork list:

Paul McCartney - "Dance Tonight"

Bjork - "Declare Independence"

**Spinal** · 12-13-2007, 09:15 PM

Quoting Ezee E (view post)

Don't even know what that's suppose to mean.

Don't pretend that you aren't the foremost Match Cut user of the rolling eyes emoticon. I will not stand for this. My monkey will not stand for this. He will glare at you with arms akimbo.

**Ezee E** · 12-13-2007, 09:26 PM

Your monkey needs to liven up. I present him a friend.

**MadMan** · 12-13-2007, 10:27 PM

Quoting Ezee E (view post)

I haven't seen a good music video in years.

You must not watch enough then :| Hell good music videos can even be found on the mainstream networks like MTV (when they actually show 'em which is almost never) and VH1 (a channel in danger of becoming MTV).

I shall go through that list and watch the videos listed when I'm not running around packing for my trip back to my home town. I love music videos. I worry that they'll stop making them.

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