The hills are alive...
After watching the very lame video to Holiday Road that Rob posted on Facebook I got to thinkin'...what do I consider a good music video? Now my taste in, well, anything is pretty bad (except husbands, I think I did an a-okay job there) so I'm sure my criteria for a good vid may slightly differ from your opinion. So I thought to myself, how about I create a meme about your top five favorite music videos of all time? But here's the twist! You have to post all five from YouTube so we all can watch and discuss how way off base I am in choosing my five.
Personally, I think this is a fabulous idea and I am very glad I came up with it. At the end of this entry I will tag five (un)lucky BLOGgers (basically the only people on my BLOG roll) and then you tag and so on and so on.
My number five spot goes to:
Smells Like Nirvana by Weird Al Yankovic
I know what you're thinking already and I beg you not to click that small "X" up in the right hand corner. Hear me out, yo! First of all, Kurt Cobain himself called Yankovic "a musical genius" and I couldn't agree more. His lyrics flow so easily, I mean come on, White & Nerdy is so fast I think he does it better than Chamillianaire. Second, I've been a huge fan since UHF because that movie was one of the three we always made mom rent from the video store when we were kids (the other two were Willy Wonka and The Toy). The guy is hilarious; this video parodies Nirvana's video so well that he even gets some of the same actors for it! I remember mom bought me the single of this and I would make my friends watch me act it out in my room. I also kept a blow-up guitar just for the sole purpose of bending it like he does in the song. And yes, I also had a set of marbles handy (it's a wonder I never swallowed any).
Number Four:
Jeremy by Pearl Jam
Okay, so we all never really know what Eddie Vedder is saying but for some reason in this video we do and the message it has is very deep. It's a sensitive issue in this generation because kids are exposed to so much more than our parents were, especially now that we have grotesque sites beamed right into your child's bedroom without you even knowing. Kids these days are seriously out of control and are crying out but sometimes it's just too damn late once we all notice. The images in this video have embedded themselves into my head, those shocked and scared expressions of the students forever locked away in my brain. I think Pearl Jam made a video that speaks volumes and raises awareness to a growing problem here in the United States.
Number Three:
November Rain by Guns N' Roses
I seriously wore out my copy of this single (with Sweet Child O' Mine on the B side) and I think I was so drawn to this band because Kim was infatuated with them. I learned a lot about music from my two older siblings and Kim was the one who turned me onto MTV at a young age. She liked Dan Cortes, I liked Dan Cortes. She thought Steve Isaac was hot, I thought Steve Isaac was hot. Whoever topped Kim's list had to top mine as well...oh and that cutie frontman of Ugly Kid Joe, Whitfield Crane? Yeah I liked him too. So when the music video of November Rain debuted, I basked in all of its 8 minutes and 57 seconds of glory.
Two facts about this video:
1. I tried to get that wedding dress but they don’t make it in my size.
2. The church Slash is playing outside of is on The Movie Ranch in New Mexico that dad took me to when we drove from Phoenix to Boulder. There was a time when I really wanted to get married in that church but both Kim and Maeve said they refused to wear cowgirl outfits as bridesmaids.
3. Actually Fact One is crap but Fact Two is totally true, see?
Me on the Movie Ranch:
Dad on the Movie Ranch:
Number Two:
Thriller by Michael Jackson
Uh...how could this NOT make my list?! Not only is this a great song but the video is a mini horror film with a creepy yet fun plot and fabulous zombie dance moves (not to be confused with Maeve's fabulous zumba dance moves). Jan Martin did a reproduction of the song as their opening number one year and I remember sitting downstairs in the holding room during the recital, watching the older girls apply their scary make-up and tattered clothing. We then watched the dance take place on a soundless black and white screen as my mom got to witness the sheer brilliance of the piece live. She says it was really cool how they came down all the aisles and then up onto the stage, kind of like Broadway's Lion King.
Even Preston loves this video and has requested it on numerous occasions. The kid has good taste.
And what dance party is not complete unless we all break out into a staggered line formation to copy Michael Jackson's famous moves?
Number One:
We Didn’t Start The Fire by Billy Joel
Every time the song is mentioned dad has to say, “you know, if I were a teacher I would have the kids pick a part of the song and do a project on it.” And every time he says this I counter with, “if it weren’t for the lyrics being in chronological order, I would have failed the second part of my Global Regents.” Thank you Billy Joel for getting me an 88.
It really is quite brilliant, it flows nicely and rhymes, funny how my history text book does neither of these things. I love the whole video, how the home takes on each decade and we can visibly see the destruction of the modern family as time wears on. I like how Billy narrates our 20th century with burning disturbing images that haunt us and then plays the bongos on kitchen items.
Now for the tagging:
1. Kim
2. Emily
3. Cheryl
4. Michelle
5.
savannahjan
Personally, I think this is a fabulous idea and I am very glad I came up with it. At the end of this entry I will tag five (un)lucky BLOGgers (basically the only people on my BLOG roll) and then you tag and so on and so on.
My number five spot goes to:
Smells Like Nirvana by Weird Al Yankovic
I know what you're thinking already and I beg you not to click that small "X" up in the right hand corner. Hear me out, yo! First of all, Kurt Cobain himself called Yankovic "a musical genius" and I couldn't agree more. His lyrics flow so easily, I mean come on, White & Nerdy is so fast I think he does it better than Chamillianaire. Second, I've been a huge fan since UHF because that movie was one of the three we always made mom rent from the video store when we were kids (the other two were Willy Wonka and The Toy). The guy is hilarious; this video parodies Nirvana's video so well that he even gets some of the same actors for it! I remember mom bought me the single of this and I would make my friends watch me act it out in my room. I also kept a blow-up guitar just for the sole purpose of bending it like he does in the song. And yes, I also had a set of marbles handy (it's a wonder I never swallowed any).
Number Four:
Jeremy by Pearl Jam
Okay, so we all never really know what Eddie Vedder is saying but for some reason in this video we do and the message it has is very deep. It's a sensitive issue in this generation because kids are exposed to so much more than our parents were, especially now that we have grotesque sites beamed right into your child's bedroom without you even knowing. Kids these days are seriously out of control and are crying out but sometimes it's just too damn late once we all notice. The images in this video have embedded themselves into my head, those shocked and scared expressions of the students forever locked away in my brain. I think Pearl Jam made a video that speaks volumes and raises awareness to a growing problem here in the United States.
Number Three:
November Rain by Guns N' Roses
I seriously wore out my copy of this single (with Sweet Child O' Mine on the B side) and I think I was so drawn to this band because Kim was infatuated with them. I learned a lot about music from my two older siblings and Kim was the one who turned me onto MTV at a young age. She liked Dan Cortes, I liked Dan Cortes. She thought Steve Isaac was hot, I thought Steve Isaac was hot. Whoever topped Kim's list had to top mine as well...oh and that cutie frontman of Ugly Kid Joe, Whitfield Crane? Yeah I liked him too. So when the music video of November Rain debuted, I basked in all of its 8 minutes and 57 seconds of glory.
Two facts about this video:
1. I tried to get that wedding dress but they don’t make it in my size.
2. The church Slash is playing outside of is on The Movie Ranch in New Mexico that dad took me to when we drove from Phoenix to Boulder. There was a time when I really wanted to get married in that church but both Kim and Maeve said they refused to wear cowgirl outfits as bridesmaids.
3. Actually Fact One is crap but Fact Two is totally true, see?
Me on the Movie Ranch:
Dad on the Movie Ranch:
Number Two:
Thriller by Michael Jackson
Uh...how could this NOT make my list?! Not only is this a great song but the video is a mini horror film with a creepy yet fun plot and fabulous zombie dance moves (not to be confused with Maeve's fabulous zumba dance moves). Jan Martin did a reproduction of the song as their opening number one year and I remember sitting downstairs in the holding room during the recital, watching the older girls apply their scary make-up and tattered clothing. We then watched the dance take place on a soundless black and white screen as my mom got to witness the sheer brilliance of the piece live. She says it was really cool how they came down all the aisles and then up onto the stage, kind of like Broadway's Lion King.
Even Preston loves this video and has requested it on numerous occasions. The kid has good taste.
And what dance party is not complete unless we all break out into a staggered line formation to copy Michael Jackson's famous moves?
Number One:
We Didn’t Start The Fire by Billy Joel
Every time the song is mentioned dad has to say, “you know, if I were a teacher I would have the kids pick a part of the song and do a project on it.” And every time he says this I counter with, “if it weren’t for the lyrics being in chronological order, I would have failed the second part of my Global Regents.” Thank you Billy Joel for getting me an 88.
It really is quite brilliant, it flows nicely and rhymes, funny how my history text book does neither of these things. I love the whole video, how the home takes on each decade and we can visibly see the destruction of the modern family as time wears on. I like how Billy narrates our 20th century with burning disturbing images that haunt us and then plays the bongos on kitchen items.
Now for the tagging:
1. Kim
2. Emily
3. Cheryl
4. Michelle
5.
savannahjan