Music Video Draft - Discussion and Vote

spejic · 25 Oct 2009, 04:32 AM

Selections by drafter:

Toon³:

1) Fat Boy Slim - Weapon of Choice
2) Beastie Boys - Intergalatic
3) White Stripes - Fell in Love with a Girl
4) The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
5) Blur - Coffee and TV
6) Röyksopp - Remind Me
7) The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
8) Outkast - B.O.B
9) Dr Dre - Nuthin’ But a “G” Thang
10) Justice - Stress

Ismitje:

1) Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
2) Walk This Way - Run DMC
3) Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
4) Express Yourself - Madonna
5) Reet Petite - Jackie Wilson
6) Furry Happy Monsters - REM
7) Bad Cover Version - Pulp
8) Sixteen Military Wives - The Decemberists
9) Cry - Godley and Creme
10) Fish Heads - Barnes and Barnes

GringoTex:

1) Yo La Tengo - From a Motel 6
2) All My Friends - LCD Soundsystem
3) Hank III - Long hauls an Close Calls
4) R. Kelley - Trapped in the Closet
5) Metallica - One
6) Pixies - Velouria
7) Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
8) Paran Maum - Linda Linda
9) Kathy McCarty - Rocket Ship
10) Cafe Tacuba - La Muerte Chiquita

YankHibee:

1) Boards Of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
2) David Lee Roth - Just a Gigolo
3) A ha - Take On Me
4) Tool - Sober
5) Dr Dre - Dre Day
6) Guns N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle
7) David Hasselhoff - Hooked on a Feeling
8) Grace Jones - Libertango
9) Robert Palmer - Addicted to Love
10) Lionel Davis - Candy Pants

Rafael Hernandez:

1) Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight
2) The Prodigy - Smack my Bitch Up
3) Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be
4) Placebo - A Song to Say Goodbye
5) Wax - California
6) Kashmir - Rocket Brothers
7) Kenna - Freetime
8) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control
9) The Walkmen - On the Water
10) Queens of the Stone Age - Go with the Flow

frasermc:

1) Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes
2) Beck - Loser
3) Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall
4) Radiohead - Just
5) New Order - True Faith
6) David Brent - If You Dont Know Me By Now
7) The Shins - So Says I
8) Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
9) Oasis - Stand By Me
10) Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage

spejic:

1) William Shatner - Rocketman
2) Muse - Knights Of Cydonia
3) MC Hammer - Too Legit To Quit
4) Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
5) Laibach - Geburt Einer Nation
6) Dirty Vegas - Days Go By
7) Mylène Farmer - Désenchantée
8) Brad Paisley - Whiskey Lullaby
9) Flobots - Handlebars
10) Billy Idol - Cradle Of Love

scaryice:

1) Michael Jackson - Thriller
2) Junior Senior - Move Your Feet
3) David Guetta vs The Egg - Love Don't Let Me Go (Walking Away)
4) Fiona Apple - Criminal
5) Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For?
6) Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
7) Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time
8) Laura Branigan - Self Control
9) Lady Gaga - Paparazzi
10) Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

Felixx219:

1) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Don't Come Around Here No More
2) Radiohead - Paranoid Android
3) Pearl Jam - Jeremy
4) Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug
5) Johnny Cash - Hurt
6) Bjork - Human Behaviour
7) Jay-Z - 99 Problems
8) Aerosmith - Crazy
9) Guns N' Roses - November Rain
10) REM - Everybody Hurts

SirManchester:

1) Isis - Holy Tears
2) Blur - To The End
3) Tv on the Radio - Wolf Like Me
4) Kanye West - Flashing Lights (2nd)
5) Bjork - All is full of Love
6) Queens of the Stone Age - 3's and 7's
7) M83 - Graveyard Girl
8) Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
9) Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent
10) ZU - Carbon

Uppa 90:

1) Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar
2) UNKLE - Rabbit in Your Headlights
3) The Pharcyde - Drop
4) Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy
5) Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
6) Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
7) R.E.M. - Imitation of Life
8) Jay-Z - Big Pimpin'
9) Aerosmith - Janie's Got a Gun
10) Kenna - Hell Bent

Matt in the Hat:

1) Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
2) Radiohead - Karma Police
3) Beastie Boys - Sabotage
4) Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity
5) Fantasia - Rhapsody in Blue
6) The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
7) Talking Heads - Burning Down the House
8) Daft Punk - Around the World
9) Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box
10) Manamana - Manamana

spejic · 25 Oct 2009, 04:46 AM

This is the video that made me question my 10th pick:

The Acorn - Flood Pt. 1

YouTube - The Acorn 'Flood Pt. 1' from the album 'Glory Hope Mountain'

It's amazingly inventive and complicated visually. It has the look of those paper cutout videos, but those are actually human size constructs. I just decided against it for the same reason I fell in love with some of director Christopher Mills's other videos (like Interpol's PDA) at first, and then after a few days fell out hard - it is just a visual flurry without a real story or demonstration of emotion that explains or expands the song, and that was my main criteria for selection in this draft.

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I see that others also had similar trouble with the 10th pick, but I feel that the 10th round benefited from it.

Matt in the Hat · 25 Oct 2009, 04:47 AM

Are we picking 5 or 3?

Here's my top 3

3rd - Scaryice
Near 100%. Would replace 'Teen Spirit' and 'Self Control' but was strong with the other 80%. I realize that others will punish this list for it's pop focus but I'm embracing it.

2nd - Spejic
A pair of balls like this needs to be recognized especially because it includes the greatest #1 in the history of drafts. Hail Grimes!

1st - Toon to the 3rd power
A perfect list. Nothing more to say.