Some videos to watch before they’re removed due to copyright violations.
5. Nine Inch Nails: The Perfect Drug
The colors, children! Mark Romanek’s deep, vivid palette of blacks, purples and greens make this video absolutely gorgeous.
Highlight: The vulture. It’s shocking, scary and kinda pretty all at once.
4. Bjork: It’s Oh So Quiet
Bjork’s most approachable video in her bizarre catalog. Director Spike Jonze reigns in the pop star’s taste for the outlandish and instead recreates the fun and spontaneity of an old movie musical. One of the most purely joyful videos ever made.
Highlight: A mailbox, overcome with exuberance, sprouts arms and dances with Bjork.
3. The Darkness: I Believe in a Thing Called Love
Was this band a joke? They couldn’t have been serious, with the jumpsuits and the piercing falsetto and the hairstyles that went out of fashion decades ago. Whether they were serious or not, the video for this one hit wonder is absolutely hysterical. Everything that happens is an inspired send-up of glamour rockstar overkill.
Highlight: The band destroys the space monster with the power of ROCK.
2. Johnny Cash: Hurt
From the gut-wrenching, heartbreaking file comes Johnny Cash’s Hurt, a cover of a Nine Inch Nails song. Recorded less than a year before Cash’s death, Mark Romanek’s video basically serves as a flashback of the tortured crooner’s mountainous career. Cash’s regrets, nostalgia and mortality shine through the sepia-toned images.
Highlight: Wondering what June Carter Cash is thinking as she looks upon her dying husband.
1. UNKLE: Rabbit in Your Headlights
I don’t know what it means, or why it’s so powerful. But it is.
A mumbling, incoherent man in a large coat stumbles through a tunnel. Some cars swerve around him, others hit him head on. Repeatedly. He keeps getting back up, and he keeps getting knocked down. Until the end, when something incredible happens.
Highlight: The jawdropping conclusion, then trying to figure out what it means.
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