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Best Music Videos of All Time (That You May Have Never Seen)
One of my favorite subjects is and has always been music. I am a particular fan of good music videos. Good meaning they give me the feeling that it is 1982 again and I am watching MTV for the first time – MTV when it really WAS Music TeleVision.
1. Steppin Out – Joe Jackson (1982)
This is the very first MTV video I ever saw. It was 1982 and I didn’t even know what MTV was. I was a 13-year-old girl babysitting alone for sleeping children in a quiet, dark house in front of the TV. I had the remote and landed on this new channel “MTV” and there it was — “Steppin’ Out” by Joe Jackson. I watched this “picture story” and was so enticed and excited that I immediately reached over to the end table, picked up the monstrous cordless phone (I don’t remember the actual size, but based upon the time period, I’m sure it was sizable) and called my mom. I tried to explain to her in my excitement the true total awesomeness of it all — how I had just watched a “story” played to a song, on “pay tv”.
2. Black Coffee in Bed – Squeeze (1982)
Black Coffee in Bed – Squeeze
This has to be the second MTV video I ever saw, and as we didn’t have MTV at home yet, I watched it on one of HBO’s half-hour music video shows. My 33-year-old mom fell in love with it, and actually introduced me to it. You may know “Tempted” or “Something So Strong” by Squeeze, but if that’s all you know, you’re missing out on their greatest song, and one of the best videos ever.
3. I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues – Elton John (1983)
I fell in love with song because of the original video. It’s the story of a young couple separated during WWII because the young man is drafted. I have always been a vicarious time-traveler, and I especially love the music, clothing, and simpleness of that time period. My dear grandparents were separated during WWII and corresponded by letters for several years, marrying upon his return in 1946. When I watched this video as a young teen, I inserted myself into the video, into the most bittersweet, romantic scenario I could imagine. Today I can watch it and feel the way I felt then.
4. No Rain – Blind Melon (1992)
The 1990s were one of the best decades ever for music because of the “Seattle Sound” or Grunge. The first time I heard “No Rain”, my attraction to Blind Melon was immediate. Their music seemed familiar to me somehow; maybe it was because of their traditional rock sound, or maybe it was just because I felt right at home in all those fields of wildflowers and could relate to The Bee Girl.
5. Cars – Gary Numan (1979)
Gary Numan – Cars
Way before Emo, there was Gary Numan. Gary Numan was light years ahead of the groups of my childhood. He introduced synthpop and electronic, a new look, and a new era of music. He looked good in eyeliner, he looked good without a tan, and he was wearing the quilted, red, casket-lining jacket WAY before Michael Jackson. He sent messages out to the universe, “Your teenagers of the future WILL LOVE VAMPIRES.” What exactly was it that he had? I didn’t know the name for it then, and cannot find the words to describe it now. All I know is this: First I loved Dark Shadows and Barnabas Collins, then I loved Video Killed the Radio Star, and THEN I loved Gary Numan.
6. Waiting On A Friend – Mick Jagger (1981)
“Everything old is new again.” —Peter Allen
“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.” —Aldous Huxley
The Mick Jagger of this 1981 video would be completely at home in this day and age of laid-back, skinny jeans, long hair, pumped-up lips, and sweet, soulful jazz-rock. He wasn’t waiting on a lady; he was just waiting on a friend.
7. You Got Lucky – Tom Petty (1982)
You Got Lucky – Tom Petty
Back in the infamous ’80s, we never thought we would live to see 25. I can speak for myself anyway. It was the age of the Cold War, the Big Bomb, the Wall. This video seemed so realistic back then. I’m not quite sure, in reminiscence, what type of world disaster would have left the sky that strange shade of rose,
or just a chosen few males riding around in a dune buggy/go-cart, but I was a believer.
8. Gypsy – Fleetwood Mac (1982)
I’m a huge Stevie Nicks fan. She’s just magical, as are all her songs. When I used to watch this video, and when I watch it today, I get lost in the story. She goes up to the attic, looks into a mirror, and becomes “the gypsy that she was”. The way I always interpreted it was that when she looked into the mirror she started reliving her former life as a gypsy. But in reading what Stevie says now about how the song was created, I am a little disappointed to find that the “velvet underground” was but a memory of the “poor” days before Fleetwood Mac, when she and Lindsey lived in a room with just a mattress donned with vintage coverlets, and a lone lamp.
9. Crash Into Me (Dave Matthews Band) – 1996
I’ll never forget the first time I heard this song. I was rollerblading in Tampa, Florida in 1997, wearing a pair of bad headphones tuned into FM radio, and it came through garbled and distorted, and still I fell in love. The video is violins, medieval festivals, forests, the smell of rain, and raw romance.
10. Lay Lady Lay (Magnet and Gemma Hayes) – 2003
This is the best music video I have ever seen. I like everything about it, and it was a “love at first view”. Everything works together to touch some special place inside of me that I didn’t even know existed and could never find the way to myself — the trailer park, the windmills, the breakfast truck including overly-fried, brown eggs, the really good-looking-in-an-unassuming-way guy, the “white trash” girl with bleached blond hair and heavy black eyeliner and oh-so-obvious lip liner, the Jesus sticker in the window, the kid with acne, and all the people who pop out of the bed (especially the ones with musical instruments). When Magnet rides his bike through the trailer park I just want to ride with him. How can I explain it? This has got to be The Best Music Video of All Time.
Cool fact: In 1894, sheet music publishers Edward B. Marks and Joe Stern hired electrician George Thomas and various performers to promote sales of their song “The Little Lost Child”. Using a magic lantern, Thomas projected a series of still images on a screen simultaneous to live performances. This would become a popular form of entertainment known as the illustrated song, the first step toward music video (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)…
About the Author
Kristin McKenna is a full-time freelance writer and blogger, as well as a self-proclaimed “semi-southern belle” and published poet. She has worked as a tech writer and a corporate librarian, but has never fulfilled her life-long dream of becoming a forest ranger. Check out her ever-evolving blog at www.krystynbelle.com
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