The best music video of all time

[PrincessHoneysuckle]

Aibu to say its "Crazy" by Aerosmith.Its a sexy mini film and imo the best.
Anyone want to suggest others?

[RobuxBriberyIsMyLifeNow]

Reviving as I have been reliving my youth and had no idea legend Joanie appeared in this video!

[AutumnRose1]

Small, I know what you mean about Crazy, but at the time it came out, life was like that, from the girls’ POV and it was fun to be like that.

I think I preferred the Cryin’ video but prob because I had my belly button pierced a week before I saw it or something!

[SmallChickBilly]

Can't say I love Crazy - too much creepy leering at teenage girls, too weird to think about Steven Tyler choosing his daughter to be the sexy minx in his videos, too weird the bit where the farmer is picking his nose in the back of their car, but mostly

INAPPROPRIATE APOSTROPHE ON THE 'GIRL'S' BATHROOM DOOR! (Assuming it was for all the girls, not just Alicia Silverstone).

I vote for This Too Shall Pass and I Won't Let You Down by OK GO

[AutumnRose1]

My favourite Avalanches video is definitely Frontier Psychiatrist

[AllTheseThingsThatIHaveNotDone]

Avalanches!

[AllTheseThingsThatIHaveNotDone]

I think that's fair enough FrOg - A lot of successful videos employ fans or actors dancing for the joy of it or crowds singing along - they work as that kind of joy is infectious.
I like Mando Diao's Dance with somebody for the same reason - as a plus size person, I relate to the bloke dancing like nobody's watching.

Avanchales' Since I left you employed a similar narrative - an underground miner gets to live out his dream.

Finally Big Flo and Ollie film fans on their tour

I love that kind of video - same as I like the crowd singing on George Ezra's Shotgun or Arcade Fire's Everything Now - just awesome if you were there being recorded.

[AllTheseThingsThatIHaveNotDone]

I like this one. Astronaut alien on run from authorities ends up at a fancy dress party where they are dressed as aliens etc then is reunited with his fellow astronaut and they blast off in a shower of pink.

Kygo - Stole the show

[Fr0g]

Happy by Pharrell Williams
Nothing amazingly technical - but it always cheers me up

[PearlyDewDrops]

LCD Sound System - Oh Baby. My DH shares this video with me and oh my goodness! I cried! It's so amazing. Directed by Rian Johnson (who directed Knives Out) and featuring Sissy Spacek and David Strathairn.

[DoctorTwo]

Thanks for posting that exhaustive list @PhoneTwattery, now to spoil it, soz.

David Bowie-Blackstar

The Streets-Blinded By The Lights

[PhoneTwattery]

I’m working my way through them now!

I invested in one of these for my Firestick to type them in more quickly! 😃

[AllTheseThingsThatIHaveNotDone]

phonetwattery Yass, someone who is as invested in this thread as me . Thank you - I am going to go down your list in a minute
In the meantime, and I am aware this is cheating as they are not music videos I am nonetheless going to post my favourite lip syncs which never fail to cheer me up.
Tom Holland
Dwayne Johnson
Anne Hathaway
Emma Stone

and Daniel Radcliffe rapping

[Runmybathforme]

Thriller every time.

[littleMillie]

I’m going to go with “where the streets have no name” U2 on a rooftop shooting the video, drawing in a huge excited crowd and the shoot being shut down.

[MonkeyToesOfDoom]

PhoneTwattery

Holy cow that's a long old list. Thanks for the compilation.

[littleMillie]

Hands up for that one but also for more selfish reasons as I love Springsteen

[ListeningQuietly]

Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams are made of this

[PhoneTwattery]

I hope this works! I've tried to put together all the videos from above for anyone self-isolating and bored.

Apologies for any inaccuracies.

1 3 Little Pigs - Green Jelly
2 50 Ways to Say Goodbye - Train
3 A Little Piece of Heaven - Avenged Sevenfold
4 Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer
5 Adore You - Harry Styles
6 All I Want is You - U2
7 All the Small Things - Blink 183
8 All the Songs - Will Young
9 All the Stars - Kendrick Lamar
10 All the Things She Said - Simple Minds
11 Always - Bon Jovi
12 Amazing - Aerosmith
13 Another Brick in the Wall - Pink Floyd
14 Around the World - Daft Punk
15 Ashes to Ashes - David Bowie
16 Auld Wives - Bear's Den
17 Automatic - Prince
18 Baby One More Time - Britney Spears
19 Bad Cover Version - Pulp
20 Bad Girl - Madonna
21 Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
22 Bakerman - Laidback
23 Ballad of Chasey Lane - The Bloodhound Gang
24 Basket Case - Green Day
25 Bedshaped - Keane
26 Big Coat - Wiretree
27 Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
28 Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
29 Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
30 Black Sweat - Prince
31 Blood for Poppies - Garbage
32 Bloodstream - Ed Sheeran
33 Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
34 Bones - The Killers
35 Boys - Charli XCX
36 Boys of Summer - Don Henley
37 Bring Me to Life - Evanescance
38 Buddy Holly - Weezer
39 Burn the Witch - Radiohead
40 Butterfly - Crazy Town
41 Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers
42 Can't Get You Out of My Head - Kylie Minogue
43 Chandelier - Sia
44 China Girl - David Bowie
45 Closer - Nine Inch Nails
46 Closing Time - Semisonic
47 Club Tropicana - Wham
48 Coffee and TV - Blur
49 Common People - Pulp
50 Conceived - Beth Orton
51 Confide in Me - Kylie Minogue
52 Country Girl - Primal Scream
53 Crazy - Aerosmith
54 Crucified - Army of Lovers
55 Cry - Godley and Crème
56 Cry me a River - Justin Timberlake
57 Cryin' - Aerosmith
58 Dancing in the Street - David Bowie and Mick Jagger
59 Danger! High Voltage - Electic Six
60 Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers
61 Deutschland - Rammstein
62 Diane - Therapy
63 Did it Again - Shakira
64 Dirrty - Christina Aguilera
65 Discotheque - U2
66 Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid
67 Do You Remember the First Time - Pulp
68 Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me - George Michael (Elton John)
69 Don't Tell Me - Madonna
70 Don't You Want Me Baby - Human League
71 Dope Show - Marilyn Manson
72 Down To Earth - Flight Facilities
73 Drive - The Cars
74 Duality - Slipknot
75 Easy - Faith No More
76 Emperor's New Clothes - Panic at the Disco
77 Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode
78 Epic - Faith No More
79 Everlong - Foo Fighters
80 Everybody (Backstreet's Back) - Backstreet Boys
81 Everybody Hurts - REM
82 Everything Else Has Gone Wrong - Bombay Bicycle Club
83 Everything I Do (I Do it for You) - Bryan Adams
84 Everytime - Britney Spears
85 Exceeder - Perfect
86 Express Yourself - Madonna
87 F**k All The Perfect People Part II - Uncle Chip
88 Fear - Ian Brown
89 Fortress Around Your Heart - Sting
90 Frankenstein - Editors
91 Freak On A Leash - Korn
92 Free as a Bird - The Beatles
93 Freedom - Beyonce
94 Freedom '90 - George Michael
95 Gangster Trippin' - Fatboy Slim
96 Get into the Groove - Madonna
97 Get Your Freak On - Missy Elliot
98 Give it Away - Red Hot Chili Peppers
99 Gossip Folks - Missy Elliot
100 Grace - Lewis Capaldi
101 Hammer Time - MC Hammer
102 Happiness - Goldfrapp
103 Hazard - Richard Marx
104 Heads with Roll - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
105 Here it Goes Again - OK GO
106 Hey Boy, Hey Girl - Chemical Brothers
107 Hold Up - Beyonce
108 Honey - Erykah Badu
109 Hopeless Wanderer - Mumford and Sons
110 House of Fun - Madness
111 How Soon is Now? - The Smiths
112 Human Nature - Madonna
113 Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran
114 Hurt - Johnny Cash
115 I Want Love - Elton John
116 I Want To Break Free - Queen
117 I Will Survive - Cake
118 I Write Sins not Tragedies - Panic at the Disco
119 Ich Will - Rammstein
120 I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't do That) - Meatloaf
121 I'm on Fire - Bruce Springsteen
122 Imitation of Life - REM
123 In This World - Moby
124 Intergalactic - Beastie Boys
125 Island in the Sun - Weezer
126 It Had to Be You - Harry Connick Jr
127 Jack Your Body - Steve 'Silk' Hurley
128 Jazzing for Blue Jean - David Bowie
129 Joga - Bjork
130 Just - Radiohead
131 Just a Day - Feeder
132 Just Dance - Lady Gaga
133 Keep Fishin' - Weezer
134 Kiss - Prince
135 Last Christmas - Wham
136 Learn to Fly - Foo Fighters
137 Leave the Door Wide Open - Black English
138 Lemon to a Knife Fight - Wombats
139 Let Forever Be - Chemical Brothers
140 Let the Day Begin - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
141 Let's Dance - David Bowie
142 Let's Go for Tonight - Foxes
143 Like a Prayer - Madonna
144 Like Sugar - Chaka Khan
145 Listen to the Man - George Ezra
146 Little Red Corvette - Prince
147 Live With Me - Massive Attack
148 Look What You Made me Do - Taylor Swift
149 Looks That Kill - Motley Crue
150 Lose my Breath - Destiny's Child
151 Lost in the Echo - Linkin Park
152 Love is a Battlefield - Pat Benetar
153 Love of My Life (Ode to Hiphop) - Erykah Badu
154 Love the Way You Lie - Eminem/Rihanna
155 Love Will Never Do - Janet Jackson
156 Love's Great Adventure - Ultravox
157 Low - Foo Fighters
158 Magazine - Editors
159 Mr Brightside - The Killers
160 My Favourite Game - The Cardigans
161 My Mistakes Were Made for You - The Last Shadow Puppets
162 My Name Is - Eminem
163 Nancy Boy - Placebo
164 National Express - The Divine Comedy
165 No Rain - Blind Melon
166 No Scrubs - TLC
167 No Surprises - Radiohead
168 Nobody Speak - Run the Jewels
169 Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
170 November Rain - Guns n Roses
171 Ode to My Family - The Cranberries
172 On a Night Like This - Kylie Minogue
173 On Top of the World - Imagine Dragons
174 Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads
175 One - Metallica
176 Ordinary World - Duran Duran
177 Our House - Madness
178 Outside - George Michael
179 Papa Gene's Blues - The Monkees
180 Papaoutai - Stromae
181 Patience - Guns n Roses
182 Picking Up the Pieces - Paloma Faith
183 Poison - Alice Cooper
184 Poker Face - Lady Gaga
185 Pop Goes My Heart - Hugh Grant
186 Pork and Beans - Weezer
187 Praise You - Fatboy Slim
188 Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) - The Offspring
189 Pump up the Volume - MARRS
190 Pure Morning - Placebo
191 Put Yourself in My Place - Kylie Minogue
192 Quand C'est - Stromae
193 Reet Petite - Jackie Wilson
194 Return to Innocence - Enigma
195 Rhythm Nation - Janet Jackson
196 Right Here Right Now - Fatboy Slim
197 Rio - Duran Duran
198 Romeo and Juliet - (Dire Straits?)
199 Runaway Train - Soul Asylum
200 Running Up that Hill - Kate Bush
201 Rush Rush - Paula Abdul
202 Sabotage - Beastie Boys
203 Sacrifice - Elton John
204 Sacrilege - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
205 Save a Prayer - Duran Duran
206 Scream - Michael and Janet Jackson
207 Seven Nation Army - White Stripes
208 Shiny Happy People - REM
209 Signal Fire - Snow Patrol
210 Single Ladies - Beyonce
211 Sit Down - James
212 Skip to the Good Bit - Rizzle Kicks
213 Slave for You - Britney Spears
214 Slave to Love - Roxy Music
215 Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
216 Smack My Bitch Up - The Prodigy
217 Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat
218 Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
219 Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson
220 Some Kind of Bliss - Kylie Minogue
221 Sometimes - Les Rythmes Digitales
222 Sonne - Rammstein
223 Sound of Silence - Disturbed
224 Stan - Eminem
225 Stand and Deliver - Adam and the Ants
226 Starfuckers - Nine Inch Nails
227 Stay - Shakespeare's Sister
228 Street Spirit - Radiohead
229 Stupid Girls - Pink
230 Sweet Dreams my LA Ex - Rachel Stevens
231 Sweetest Thing - U2
232 Tainted Love - Marilyn Manson
233 Take me to Church - Hozier
234 Take on Me - A-Ha
235 Tear Us Apart - INXS
236 Telephone - Lady Gaga
237 The Bad Touch - Bloodhound Gang
238 The Bitterest Pill - The Jam
239 The Darkness - Love is Only a Feeling
240 The End - DMA's
241 The Hardest Button to Button - White Stripes
242 The Humans are Dead - Flight of the Conchords
243 The Importance of Being Idle - Oasis
244 The Man - The Killers
245 The One - Foo Fighters
246 The Scientist - Coldplay
247 The View from the Afternoon - Arctic Monkeys
248 There Goes the Fear - Doves
249 This is America - Childish Gambino
250 This is America - Donald Glover
251 This is Hardcore - Pulp
252 Thriller - Michael Jackson
253 Thursday's Child - David Bowie
254 Ti Sento, No Fate - Scooter
255 Tonight - Smashing Pumpkins
256 Tous Les Memes - Stromae
257 Toxic - Britney Spears
258 Tribute - Tenacious D
259 Troy - Sinead O'Connor
260 Try - Pink
261 Turn the Page - Metallica
262 Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack
263 Up the Junction - Squeeze
264 Vienna - Ultravox
265 Walking After You - Foo Fighters
266 Wannabe - Spice Girls
267 Weapon of Choice - Fatboy Slim
268 Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
269 What I've Done - Linkin Park
270 What You Waiting For - Gwen Stefani
271 What's a Girl to Do? - Bat for Lashes
272 When Doves Cry - Prince
273 When I Think of You - Janet Jackson
274 When We Were Young - The Killers
275 Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? - Moby
276 Wicked Game - Chris Issak
277 Wide Open - Chemical Brothers
278 Wide Open Space - Mansun
279 Wild Boys - Duran Duran
280 Wild Wild West - Will Smith
281 Will You - Hazel O'Connor
282 Windowlicker - Aphex Twin
283 Witness the Fitness - Roots Manuva
284 Years and Years - King
285 You Could've Been a Lady - Smoove and Turrell

[notawittyname1954]

my favourite band so this
or this

Years and Years King and Shine

[NathanNathan]

I've not RFTFT but in case it's somehow been overlooked, Dancing in the Street - Bowie and Jagger!!

[DressesWithPocketsRockMyWorld]

Everything by OKGO!

I'm a teacher and have managed to shoe horn their videos into many a lesson plan!

[AutumnRose1]

In my teens, I’d have said anything but New Kids 😂

[AlliKaneSon]

In my teens I would have said any video by New Kids on the Block. Looking back now they really are some of the worst I’ve ever seen

[chilling19]

Some great videos mentioned up thread.

I have always liked this little oddity, very calming.

Directed by Lars Von Trier: Bakerman by Laidback.

[colouringinpro]

ladybird me too ❤