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I am gonna talk about some of my favorite music videos. And like I said, SOME because I've seen so many, obviously I am forgetting some others. I won't mention any CC videos because obviously that would be too biased.

Let's start with the Last Shadow Puppets "The Age of the Understatement"
I mean, how awesome is this?? Apart from actually capturing the motherland without too much irony, there are some characters in there that make this a masterpiece. The chorus of Russian soldiers, the little boy in the plush chair with his brooding parents, eating a cake of sorts, and of course Alex Turner and Miles Kane bathed in snow and tanks is just too good to be allowed. It would be a typical "welcome to Mother Russia where bears walk the streets and everyone wears those stupid hats" kind of video, if it wasn't for the brilliance of cinematography and only those two boys could ever pull off walking through a huge square with Russian soldiers singing their song, their song. That's what makes it brilliant, the little details, like the fat man smelling the fat woman's hair. This is possibly actually in my top five.

IAMX "Spit it out"
There is something very special about this video. I think it's the fact that Chris Corner's stage persona is captured here so incredibly well, better than any other video they ever made. It's just so visually pretty, the costumes, the makeup, the hair, the movements, the location. Loving it.

Patrick Wolf "Vulture"
This is a very sexual and tense video. The parts with Patrick in his aviator/bird/vulture costume are absolutely amazing, they are my favorites. I also just love all the cuts/repeats/slow motion/etc parts. Almost too awkward, but still not over the edge, and thats whats so good about it.

Hadouken "Mic Check"
Ahhhh so good. The cinematography and the lighting and the editing, everything just so fast paced and awesome.

Placebo "20 Years"
This song made me teary. When the video came out, I would cry full on because it's too emotional to handle.

Portishead "Only You"
Any Chris Cunningham video is pretty much perfect, but this is definitely one of his best. I mean this is not a music video, this is just a pure piece of video art. The last bit with the boy turning over and over, thats the kind of stuff I wish I could do, given the right resources and knowledge.

Peaches "Lose you"
Oh oh... I'm in love with both of you :P This video is so ridiculous, well like all of Peaches, but this one is special. She is not Peaches the glamorous sex-obsessed pink energy ball, she is an older Jewish-looking woman in a tiny apartment claiming she loves two people, both of which look very normal, and boring. Then she ends up in a white thing looking almost Madonna-ish and her two sidekicks are too much. Absolutely brilliant.

Justice vs. Simian "We are your friends"
Too good. No comment.

And speaking of Justice, their video for "D.A.N.C.E" is pretty cool too.

Well now I need to go do some work. There is probably going to be other parts to this post because as you might have noticed, all the videos I mentioned are not very recent. I was gonna do more recent ones but then realized I need to do work. So laters.