The Music Video 125 Project: the whole shebang, because I surrender
A while back, in a typical fit of boredom I assembled a list (not for the first time) of my choices for the 125 greatest music videos ever created, with the intention of talking about them in detail online, one at a time. Thus followed a long period of brainstorming, shuffling around a few hundred index cards, transferring data to a spreadsheet,
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* I do have a rather serious Gondry fetish, which I'm prepared to defend. (In one of my write-ups, I even noticed the 10% thing). I'm a sucker for the specific sort of conceptual reality-bending that he dishes out, and am floored by his execution thereof. That said, I could have probably trimmed a few, notably "Star Guitar," which I tend to waffle on.
* Technically, "Praise You" is a .5 for Jonze; it was a co-direct with Roman Coppola. Talk about your whimsy overloads.
* Mea culpa on Mulcahy, who totally deserves more space than he got (at the very least "Wild Boys," which is a killer clip; disagreed, though, on "Total Eclipse of the Heart," which always struck me as silly). I think the real issue is my bias against early 80's videos, which for all intents and purposes WERE Russell Mulcahy. A lot of people call that period the Golden Age of Music Video, but I would put it solidly in the 90's, after MTV started including director's credits in their info flashes and put Marty Callner and his hair-metal hack brethren out of business. The early 80's stuff doesn't hold up for me as well, with a lot of excess and not a lot to back it up, it seems to me; even so, I gave it very short shrift, which is unfair and shortsighted.
* Huh, kind of weird that I didn't look at more U2, so you have a point. One more I'd add, and the other one I'd shortlisted, was "Where the Streets Have No Name."
* Yeah, shoulda had Al, and yep, that one.
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Ditto "Dear God". Eurgh.
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