89 - Smashing Pumpkins/Tonight Tonight/1996
Shows the post modernism stage and was based on the film from 1902, A trip to the moon by George Melies.
88 - Elton John/I Want Love/2001
Elton started to get fed up of appearing in his own videos so after about 30 years he decided to paid actors and people to lip sync to his songs. He used Robert Downey Jr. as he was famous for struggling with a drug addiction just as elton had before. Other videos had stared from Justin Timberlake to Liz Taylor.
87 - Talking Heads/Once In A Lifetime/1981
Very abstract video and seen as a massive breakthrough in music videos. David Byrne improvised a lot in front of the camera and came up with moves that he liked the look of. He looks like a puppet at times and is compleatly out of control which suites as the song is all about your life being out of control. He visited UCLA to view footage of people in trances and used this as inspiration for his moves. The New York Museum of Art exibited the video as an art form.
86 - The Streets/Fit But You Know It/2004
The video was about the fun in the summer time and it showed in the video as postcards with photos of them on it filmed in Gran Canaria. Lead singer Mike Skinner was enjoying himself so much that he managed to hurt his back creating the footage of having fun jumping into a swimming pool.
85 - Sid Vicious/My Way/1979
Sid Vicious was part of the Sex Pistols and aparently he didnt do a lot he just looked the part in the band. Some would say that he was not always a very nice man, not very kind. He was accused of killing his girlfriend and by the age of twenty one not even a year after the makingof this music video he was dead due to a drugs overdose. He was a 'Live fast, die young' icon. The director of this video Temple had to pursuade him to even make the video, a very tough artist to work with.
84 - The Boomtown Rats/I Don't Like Mondays/1979
This was a song about a girl from California called Brenda Spencer. She came to school and decided to shot a few people at school, when she was later questioned about it her reply was i dont liek mondays which inspired this song. It was directed by David Mallet and was a narrative type of story.
83 - Shakespears Sister/Stay/1992
It was a very good video due to the emotion being expressed through the video matching the song. It was based on a spaceship, where the main singer is taking care of an injured man singing to him. Siobhan confussed to actually being drunk when filming as she had been waiting all day to film. There was a very rocky relationship between the two girls shown in the video. It spent 8 weeks at number one in the charts. French and Saunders made a comedy spoof of the video.
80 - Radiohead/Just/1995
A much talked about video as the director and the band have vowed never to tell of what the man lying on the floor says to make the other people lie on the street with him.
79 - New Order/True Faith/1987
A very abstract video, the video shows not much of a link to the song. A french coreographer did the visuals but it was then brought to attention that it wouldn't be shown on MTV if New Order wern't show in it aswell. The video divides opinion.
78 - Godley and Creme/Cry/1985
Very clever witht he editing, they had loads of faces morphing into eachother, they came up with this concept themselves. The pair also made about 50 promo video's with eachother.
