With the TV season beginning in earnest this week, the Popblerd staff began tossing around ideas for our next bLISTerd list. We knew it had to be TV related, but what specifically did we want to discuss? Well-being that we’re all pop culture fans of a certain age range, sitcom families seemed like the right thing to do. So…each of us (well, most of us, anyway) contributed lists of our favorite sitcom families. The families represented ran the gamut from […]
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bLISTerd: Happy Birthday, MTV!: The Top 10 Videos of the ’00s
Missy Elliott works it, Isaac Brock and Modest Mouse try on funny mustaches, and Fiddy parties like it’s yo’ berf day (AKA #20-#11) here . 10. Here it Goes Again | OK Go (2006) It all started with some treadmills. Add in a synchronized choreography routine (not very easy to do on treadmills, mind you) and a C-list power-pop band turns into those guys! Do you think the members of OK Go are pissed because they’ve turned into something of a […]
bLISTerd: Happy Anniversary, MTV!: The 50 Best Videos of the ’00s (30-21)
Dave Grohl stars in a telenovela, D’Angelo gets butt nekkid, and facial hair gets set on fire (AKA, the previous ten entries on this list) here . On with the show! 30. “Jesus Walks (Chris Milk version)” | Kanye West (2004) Packed with powerful images, the second of three separate videos for Kanye West’s “Jesus Walks” is one of those videos that you can’t turn away from for a second. While the other two versions are a bit on the tame side, the Chris Milk-directed version is a somewhat […]
bLISTerd: Happy Anniversary, MTV: The 50 Best Videos of the ’00s (50-41)
Generally speaking, the Popblerd crew has been able to come to a consensus when it comes to the best videos of the Eighties and Nineties. When it came to counting down the best videos of the past 11 1/2 years, though, we were all over the damn place. It makes sense: MTV became less of a cultural signpost as they shifted towards reality programming (buoyed by the success of “The Real World”), the music industry witnessed a severe decline in […]
bLISTerd: Happy Anniversary, MTV!: The Top 50 Videos of the ’90s (10-1)
10. “Closer” Nine Inch Nails (1994) A truly terrifying parade of grotesqueries unsuitable for late-night viewing, NIN’s clip for “Closer” is brilliant in both sheer depravity and the innovative choice to use worn film stock, contributing to the video’s house-of-horrors atmosphere. Even the “frame missing” slides insinuate something horrifying, although what’s present – beating hearts, pig’s heads, horned skulls, and, perhaps most disturbingly, a silhouetted Trent Reznor seducing a decidedly breast-shaped microphone – should certainly do the trick. – Drew […]
bLISTerd: Happy Anniversary, MTV!: The Top 50 Videos of the ’90s (20-11)
#21-#30 , #31-#40 , and 41-50 can be found by clicking on the links, silly! 20) “Nuthin’ But a G Thang” Dr. Dre (featuring Snoop Doggy Dogg) (1992) Snoop Dogg was first introduced to the world by Dr. Dre via the “Deep Cover” single from the film and soundtrack of the same name, but this song and video was a re-introduction that assured no one would forget his name. The video takes us through a day in the life of Dre and Snoop […]
bLISTerd: Happy Anniversary, MTV!: The Top 50 Videos of the ’90s (40-31)
Check out the first ten entries in our list here , and let’s move on… 40. Slayer “Seasons in the Abyss” (1990) I don’t know exactly why, but it makes absolutely perfect sense to set Slayer up in a desert with temples looming behind them while they perform this song. One can practically see Karl Sanders from Nile sitting on a couch, guitar in hand, writing riffs for songs that would eventually appear on “Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka” while watching […]
bLISTerd: Happy Anniversary MTV-The Top 50 Videos of the ’90s (Part 1)
We’re celebrating the 30th anniversary of MTV all month on Popblerd! Did you check out our list of the Top 50 videos of the ’80s ? While the ’80s marked the genesis of the music video revolution, the ’90s found videos in full flower. It was almost a prerequisite that any song released as a single had a video to accompany it (seriously–name one hit song from the Nineties that didn’t have a video). By the Nineties, music had changed as well. While MTV stuck to […]
bLISTerd: Happy Anniversary, MTV!: The Best Videos of the ’80s (Top Ten)
10. “Money for Nothing” Dire Straits (1985) “Money for Nothing” is probably the video most synonymous with MTV that wasn’t by Michael Jackson. Spotlighting very early computer animation, the clip combines live footage of the band performing with a loosely defined narrative in computer world (cue Kraftwerk). To folks who weren’t around in MTV’s first decade, watching this video today might be like the same person trying to play Calicovision. But again, in the context of the time, the video […]
bLISTerd: Happy Anniversary, MTV!: The Top 50 Videos of the Eighties (30-21)
30. “Shock the Monkey” Peter Gabriel (1983) Peter Gabriel is often lauded for his video work, although most of his innovative music videos are overshadowed by his greatest video achievement (which we’ll get to later). Frankly, I still have no idea what the hell 1982’s “Shock the Monkey” is about, but it has everything – monkeys, midgets, dot matrix printouts… The song is apparently about lovers’ jealousy, but the video looks a lot more like paranoid schizophrenia to me. Whatever […]
bLISTERd: Happy Anniversary MTV! The Top 50 Videos of The Eighties! (40-31)
40. “New Sensation”-INXS (1988) INXS were not new when the reemerged with Kick in 1987, but they were certainly a sensation. The album was an international success and went 6x Platinum, in large part due to the series of videos that accompanied the four of the album’s hit singles. “New Sensation” was the third video from the album, featuring the band’s performance intercut with neon stop action animation to match the driving energy of the song. Among other things, […]
