Music video that means most to you.

koneguitarist

Driving to Cornwall with a mate today, we was talking music and videos, and I was saying how much the Johnny Cash video Hurt shocked me.

I had pretty much grown up with Johnny Cash in my household, my father sang his songs round the clubs, he had met him a few times etc, that I knew his songs so well it was part of me. 

Then the video came on TV when I was reading or something and I dropped my book, as at first I could not believe who it was. Then the look in Cash's eyes as he stared at the screen, you could see that he knew there was not much time let, yet he looked so defiant and strong willed despite his physical frailty. 

Anyway here's my selection. 

Phil_aka_Pip

poignant

RocknRollDave

Follow that!

lloyd

One of the best covers of a song ever. June had recently died when the song was released and after everything they'd been through, he couldn't have written more fitting lyrics himself.

Puts the hairs on the back of my neck to attention and a real lump in the throat.

Legend is a word thrown out quite often these days but he is right up there.

ICBM

ABBA - Knowing Me, Knowing You.

Probably...

It's a terrible cheesy video really, but it's a big part of my childhood. There's some real emotion in the look on Agnetha's face when she's singing lyrics written by her husband about their break-up, too.

xSkarloey

New Order- True Faith, 1987. An all time classic single, and a video that made me laugh as a kid because it was so silly, and still makes me laugh now because I still find it silly, and I can also see that they were just taking the mick out of 80's pop videos that were trying to be oh-so-grown up and portentous.  Funnily enough, it seems to draw more attention to the lyrics which are deadly serious by contrast.  

EricTheWeary

Made me think of this
I think it may have been the first video I took much notice of and I loved NTNO'ClockN.

FelineGuitars

Love this

equalsql

koneguitarist said:

Driving to Cornwall with a mate today, we was talking music and videos, and I was saying how much the Johnny Cash video Hurt shocked me.

I had pretty much grown up with Johnny Cash in my household, my father sang his songs round the clubs, he had met him a few times etc, that I knew his songs so well it was part of me. 

Then the video came on TV when I was reading or something and I dropped my book, as at first I could not believe who it was. Then the look in Cash's eyes as he stared at the screen, you could see that he knew there was not much time let, yet he looked so defiant and strong willed despite his physical frailty. 

Anyway here's my selection. 

Probably THE most profound music video ever made. It's incredibly moving and powerful. I always feel dazed after watching it. Amazing.

Moe_Zambeek

It's amazing that Johnny Cash managed to produce such powerful work in his latter years. There was some real gravitas and basic human experience in those songs.

Bob Dylan recently quoted someone who had said (I paraphrase) a voice didn't have to be beautiful to be a great singing voice, it just had to convince you it was singing the truth, which applies to Johnny Cash in spades.

In many ways I feel like he was a living expression of the more interesting parts of the human condition.

Moe_Zambeek

As far as most important videos goes, for me I can't narrow it down to a single song, but the AC/DC Let there be rock live in Paris film is imprinted in my brain from repeated listening since the age of about 12.

dogload

This

A brilliant song, what could be the greatest pop video and evocative of a particular time in my life. 

bloodandtears

odd one this but my father recorded the entire Freddie Mercury tribute concert onto a LP VHS back in 91.. that year I discovered guitar and rock music, and this vhs was watched over and over whilst I analysed it all..

spacecadet

2 for me. Both bring back incredible memories of happier times despite both being fairly dark. 

axisus

I always think of Freddie Mercury on the Days of our lives video. 

freakboy1610

Lionel Richie - Hello. Still brings a tear to my eye. X_X

Grunfeld

Skarloey said:

New Order- True Faith, 1987.  ...I can also see that they were just taking the mick out of 80's pop videos that were trying to be oh-so-grown up and portentous.  Funnily enough, it seems to draw more attention to the lyrics which are deadly serious by contrast.  

I'd never noticed that but I think you're right... and thanks for prompting me to listen to the lyrics because despite knowing the song fairly well I'd never bothered to listen to the words.

randomhandclaps

Kone starts thread and ends thread with initial post.

JAYJO

Peter Gabriel  Sledge Hammer amazed me.

Philly_Q

Not any one in particular, but the old Tool videos like Sober and Prison Sex. 

I love stop-motion animation in general, but it can be extraordinarily creepy, disturbing and powerful when done right.

scrumhalf

Maybe it's a generational thing, but I really couldn't give a rat's rear-end about any music video.