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The greatest video of all time in my opnion is Michael Jackson's "Thriller". A revolutionary music video and is still played on television today.



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What types of video are we talking about, here? Are we limited to just music videos? Or movies/tv shows?



I find this to be just as iconic.



@SamuelRSmith, any type of music video.



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For me it's this, it isn't even an original video but a mix of previous videos, but it's got a special something, the context (Freddie's death) makes it simply perfectly fitting

Queen - The Show Must Go On

 




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Dogs Rule posted a great one.

I don't listen to Tool as much as I used to, but they make some damn good music videos:



This is also one of my personal favorites. Very well done video by Bjork. THIS ONE IS NSFW towards the end:



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KvxbFWY2Hsc

 

This video, directed by Chris Cunningham, is one of pure brilliance, an absolutely fantastic music video. Chris Cunningham on a video's credit roll is a seal of quality.



I can't decide whether the greatest is "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel or "Ashes to Ashes" by David Bowie. Right now I recently fell in love with "Loving the Alien" by David Bowie too though. That one gets all freaky deaky at the end too.



Sledgehammer is a damn good video. This one is just plain awesome too. Go go 80's music videos:



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

Oh hell yeah. "Take On Me" is one of my favorite songs to sing on Karaoke Revolution Party. A friend and I used to sing it as a duet when we got really drunk, over and over until we could get a perfect score or the neighbors complained, whichever happened first.


Here, I'll embed my current favorite 3:

"Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel:



"Ashes to Ashes" by David Bowie:



"Loving the Alien" by David Bowie: