Maybe a favourite song, maybe not...but something that's visually exciting and special to you..maybe a 'wow moment'....we've probably seen a lot of them..who knows?
Possibly nice to have them catalogued in one place?...aesthetics, the look, image right up there with sound.
Sound and Vision!
Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop
Ronnie Bird - Les filles en sucre d’orge
Yoshinao Satoh - Papers
Unit 4 + 2 - Concrete And Clay
Killing Joke - In Cythera
Babes In Toyland - Sweet ‘69
Does this hold up after all these years?
Aztec Camera - Oblivious
ANDREAS DORAU & DIE MARINAS - FRED VOM JUPITER
Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure
...One of my favourite ever songs
St. Etienne - You’re In A Bad Way
Wet Leg - CPR (Official Video)
Mahi - Jungale Cha Raja
Yma Súmac - Chuncho
NASHVILLE PUSSY - Go Motherfucker Go (Original Video) 1998
Public Image Ltd - (This is Not a) Love Song
NASHVILLE PUSSY ~ Go Motherfucker Go (Original Video) 1998
Hey! Elastica - This Town
This is a band whose name I used to constantly hear circa ‘83-‘84 on my local station in Edinburgh - it seemed that barely a night went past where Hey! Elastica weren’t playing live somewhere in the area. Yet in all that time, I never had any idea what the band sounded like. They only ever released four singles and an album (first single produced by Tony Visconti, everything else produced by Martin Rushent). Then last year, all of them turned up on Qobuz and the streaming services.
Most of what they did was rather underwhelming, but their final single really did deserve more success. It is, I’ll admit, very much of its time, but the song is a total earworm, and the video is a lot of fun, a mix of very bold, abstract white, black and red coloring, the obligatory 80s “story”, it even had a “quirky” video interruption.
In retrospect, it’s not really surprising they vanished without trace, but they deserved a little more - “This Town” should have at least got them one-hit wonder status.
Tanukichan - Don’t Give Up
The Sugarhill Gang - 8th Wonder
They Might Be Giants - Don’t Let’s Start
Cibo Matto - Sugar Water
Carl Perkins - Glad All Over
Stereolab - The Noise Of Carpet
Turbonegro - Hot For Nietzsche
Grossstadtgeflüster - Weil das morgen noch so ist
Turbonegro - You Give Me Worms
Confidence Man - SICKO (Official Video)
Yep, an absolute banger...They keep on releasing great music
Public Service Broadcasting - People, Let's Dance
...😎
Interpol - Obstacle 1
Great band, great album, great video, great song...........Well, that's great then.
Turbonegro - Sell Your Body (To The Night)
...Hank was a great frontman. Check out Apocalypse Dudes, it totally rocks.
and Euroboy truly is such an underrated guitarist.
Great video great tune, funny as hell.
A Tribe Called Quest - Award Tour
Icehouse - We Can Get Together
The Banana Splits - Two Ton Tessie
One that I never thought I’d post to a BN forum, and that may not work everywhere, but it’s a rather clever approach to a music video.
It’s 1991, you’re a moderately selling Canadian band in a fairly small musical niche, and you need a spectacular video. What to do? Hey, how about acquiring the Canadian rights to a recent Japanese giant robot movie that hadn’t been licensed by anybody else, then shoot the band running around in a disused factory and on some fairly basic sets, get someone to do lots of computer graphics overlays, and mix them all together with very rapid jump cuts to music video length. The end result is a video that’s still impressive even now, and that at the time looked as though its budget was waaay more than the band could afford. This is the end result, Front Line Assembly’s “Mindphaser”:
Type O Negative ~ I Don't Wanna Be Me [official video]
Win’s “Super Popoid Groove” from spring ‘87. Great song, and I thought the readers might like the numerous guitars, even if it’s all being mimed. Win should have been huge, but the single before this, whose sales should have pushed it into the top 20 on its week of release, drew the suspicions of the UK chart compilers because the sales in Scotland were huge there were barely any elsewhere. Since their manager was Alan Horne, shenanigans were suspected, but it was really just that the single really was huge in Scotland, due to use in an ad. This follow-up single made it into the 50s.
Roberto Carlos - Quando
Charles Bradley "Good To Be Back Home" (official video)
St. Etienne - Avenue
John Foxx And The Maths - Howl
The Tourists - I Only Want To Be With You
Yard Act - 100% Endurance
I've put this one up before. But it's so good, it just keeps coming back. Here it is again.
If this doesn't make you smile, you're pretty much fucked.😁
Ride - Vapour Trial
Editors - Bones
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Ballad Of The Mighty I (Official Video)
...A simply stunning song...Put the headphones on, and see what I mean.
Zabrecky - Our Magic
Suburban Lawns - Janitor
The Spinanes - Noel, Jonah, and Me
ELIZA - ALONE & UNAFRAID
The SoapGirls - She Don't Wanna - Official Music Video - Censored
Raffaella Carrà - Wagon Love, Wagon Lit
Blondie - The Hardest Part
Las Ketchup - Asereje (The Ketchup Song) (Official Video)
Alison Moyet ~ Such Small Ale (Lyric Video)
I'm definitely a fan and have quite a few of her solo album releases. Hometime is a favourite.
I really like this new song, one of two new offerings on the new album Key, which mainly features reworkings of older songs. Not got this one yet, but think I will in the new year.
Looking forward to more new songs like this one, excellent stuff.
Hajime Tachhibana “MA TICARICA (2025 Remix)” Official music video
Bomb The Bass - Beat Dis
M.I.A. - Galang
The Records - Starry Eyes
Rondò Veneziano - La Serenissima
KENICHI & THE SUN - If Loved
Vam Cyborg “Radioactividad”
CAN - Vitamin C (music video)
Doris Norton - Psychoraptus (Music Video)
(1976). Elisabetta Vidgili canta “Primo amore” (sigla quiz “Chi?” condotto da Pippo Baudo).
TRAVEL PLANS FEAT. KENDRA MORRIS - FADE OUT
Fun Boy Three - The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum
PIZZICATO FIVE / IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY
The Rhythm Sisters - Infotainment
Pierre Barouh - Samba Saravah
Supercasanova’s “Mein Ballen”
John Cale - Shark-Shark (Official Video)
The Rattles - The Witch (1970)
Shop Assistants - I Don’t Wanna Be Friends With You
Amyl and The Sniffers - "Big Dreams" (Official Video)
...Love the color grade on the video..😎
John Foxx / Karborn / Barnbrook - B-Movie (Ballardian Video Neuronica)
WaqWaq Kingdom - Hado
Birdie - Let Her Go
2 UNLIMITED - Get Ready For This (Official Music Video)
Royal Trux - Waterpark
Amyl and The Sniffers "Chewing Gum" (Official Music Video)
...It's a brand spanker and it's a good un!
ELO - Showdown
Fess Parker Sings “The Ballad of Davy Crockett”
Cannibal Animal - Karen Skladany
The Capybara Song - Alexy Pluzhnikov
Sparks - La Dolce Vita
Faerybabyy - orange soda
“Busy Doing Nothing” Music Video from the Movie Christopher Robin
Holy sh*t! This one is intense. Even if you don't like the (prog-death) music, it is well worth spending the 5 minutes just to see the animation.
Jonathan Bree - Until We’re Done