Released in October 1997 this video was directed by Chris Cunningham and filmed on the same council estate where Stanley Kubrick shot many scenes in A Clockwork Orange. The acclaimed music video was voted 17th greatest music video ever by Q magazine readers. His video for Aphex Twin’s “Windowlicker” was nominated for the “Best Video” award at the Brit Awards 2000. He also directed Madonna’s “Frozen” video. His also directed the award-winning Björk’s - All Is Full of Love.
Bjork always find great talent to direct her videos, and as a sci-fi fan this may be my favorite.
This 1999 video was directed by Chris Cunningham. The video won multiple awards, including two MTV Video Music Awards for Breakthrough Video and Best Special Effects. It was also nominated for a Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video (it lost to Korn’s “Freak on a Leash”). It was also the first ever music video to win a Gold Pencil at the D&AD Awards. It is on permanent exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The video also placed in “MTV2’s 100 Best Videos Ever” coming in at number 1. After seeing Cunningham’s work on the 1994 film version Judge Dredd, Stanley Kubrick head hunted Cunningham to design and supervise animatronic tests of the central robot child character in his version of the film A.I. Cunningham also directed Aphex Twin’s Come to Daddy.
This is the song that introduced most of us to Cake. I loved this song and listened to it often, but for some unexplainable reason I always assumed they were a one-hit-wonder band. It wasn’t until years later I actually checked them out and learned I love all their songs. And I do mean all of them - that’s rare.
Directed in 1996 by Mark Kohr. Kohr is probably best known for the 9 Green Day videos he directed in the 1990s. He also directed Primus’ My Name Is Mud - which would have been on this site if Universal wasn’t forbidding embedding (can someone tell me what these Music companies are possibly thinking by doing that?)
The first of several Busta Rhymes videos directed by Harold “Hype” Williams, this style inspired many to follow. Williams introduces his now-trademark fisheye lens for this video. Williams has directed dozens of mostly hip-hop videos since his debut in 1992. Everyone from Ja Rule to Jay-Z to Jessica Simpson, Kobe Bryant.
One of the great mysteries in video music history - “What does the guy say at the end?” I guess we will never know why he did it.
Jamie Thraves directed this video in 1995 as one of his very first music videos. He directed a dozen videos from 200-2006 including two videos for Coldplay and one for Death Cab for Cutie.
If you can name any other Chris Isaak song than you are one of his biggest fans. I actually liked his tv show - but still this is the only song I can recall and it mostly because of Helena Christensen.
Director and famed photographer Herb Ritts hit big with this video in 1991, in the previous two years he directed Janet Jackson’s Love Will Never Do (Without You) and Madonna’s Cherish with the same sexy style cinematography.
An homage to “A Trip to the Moon”, the 1902 French black and white silent science fiction film.
Directed by Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Farris in 1996. This husband and wife directing team as worked with bands such as Oasis, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys, and R.E.M. They won six MTV Video Music Awards for this Smashing Pumpkins video and their first feature film, Little Miss Sunshine (2006), drew raving reviews from critics and won the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress for Abigail Breslin.
