My Top 100 Favourite Music Videos: #67

#67: "Leave Before the Lights Come On" - Arctic Monkeys
Release Date: 2006
Director: John Hardwick
Fun Fact: The actress is Kate Ashfield, and the actor is Paddy Considine; Kate was in "Shaun of the Dead" and Paddy is in "Hot Fuzz" and "The World's End", so between the both of them they've appeared in the entire Simon Pegg/Edgar Wright film trilogy!

This song and video was/is easy to miss out of the entire Arctic Monkeys discography because it was a stand-alone single released between the first and second albums.

But I've never forgotten it and I never will. It's just an incredible video that highlights some of the issues with suicide. Are people who commit suicide doing it for attention or are they simply doing it to end a tragic life? It's a sensitive topic and I don't mean to step on any toes. What I will say is that each case is different and you can't say all people do it for attention, but at the same time you can't say each person is ending a truly tragic life.

This video demonstrates to great effect, a suicide attempt, and shows you the perspective of the person attempting the suicide, and someone trying to save a life. You can judge this case for yourself, bu either way, it's a fascinating video and the song is great too.

Here's the video for your enjoyment!

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My Top 100 Favourite Music Videos: #78

#78: "Psychosis Safari" - The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
Release Date: 2003
Director: Edgar Wright
Fun Fact: The video was directed by Edgar Wright, the director behind Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World's End and the TV show Spaced!

By the way, if you get the new album by The Prodigy, check out "Rise of the Eagles" - it's a cover version of this band!!

Anyways, yeah. I don't know if you've heard this band, but for me, this was the most underrated British band of the Noughties. Unfortunately, they've disbanded now but I loved them so much. Such a firecracker of a band.

This video, directed by the awesome Edgar Wright, plays on the old 3D glasses trick really well. When there's no wearing of the 3D glasses, the band look as "normal" as they can. Put the glasses on and you see massive skulls everywhere, beams coming out of the band member's eyes, lots of green screening and much more. In the end it gets so bad that their (amazing) car catches fire and turns into a phoenix! It's just a great video, one you really should see if you haven't before. And if you like the song, I beg of you, check out their other stuff!

Here's the video for your enjoyment!

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Noughtie: Best Music Videos - Part 2

Overall Favourite Artists | Best of 2000 | Overall Least Favourite Artists | Best of 2001

Where Are They Now? | Best of 2002 | Best New Artists | Best of 2003 | My Guilty Pleasures
Best of 2004 | My Favourite Riffs | Best of 2005 | Underrated Artists | Best of 2006
 My Favourite Albums | Best of 2007 | Best Videos | Best of 2008 | Most Important Artists
Best of 2009 | 100 Favourite Songs of the Decade | 100 Most Important Songs of the Decade

If you missed Part 1, click here.

So welcome to Part 2 of 4, counting down what I think the best 20 music videos of the last decade were. Let's just get straight in there, from #15 to #11!

15. "There There" - Radiohead (2003)

This video brings me to a time where I was so happy, I always maintain my favourite year in my life, personally, was 2003. But this video, regardless, is fantastic. It's my favourite Radiohead video, and I just love the message, the imagery, and the moral of the story thieves never prosper (apparently). Thom Yorke's facial expressions are fantastic, and his legs whilst running are just hilarious. I love all the forest animals too, especially the owls getting married. It's just a brilliant work of art.

14. "Links 2-3-4" - Rammstein (2001)

This video is just epic. I mean, ants in a disco is awesome enough, especially DJ Ant. Then the beetles just starting a war on the ants is awful. But the ants marching to start a war on the beetles is just fantastic. The video goes so well with Rammstein's brilliant marching industrial beat. The only snag in the video is the human hand at the end, suggesting the ants took over the world. If Bill Bailey says it isn't happening, it isn't happening!

13. "Seven Nation Army" - The White Stripes (2003)

This isn't that special a video when you strip it down, it's a very simple concept. Yet you just stare at this video when you watch it, all the triangles, all the red, black and white visuals, the seeing Jack, Meg, Jack, Meg, skull soliders, Jack, Meg, Jack, Meg, over and over again. It's just such a simple yet effective concept, it's just visually obsessive to watch.

12. "Here it Goes Again" - OK Go (2006)

The Treadmill video! It sucks that this video is labelled that because OK Go are a better band than that. I haven't heard a great amount by this band but I like what I've heard. Anyway, this video is self explanitory, it really shot them into superstardom really, otherwise they were just like any other indie band. The dance routine is brilliant, and it was done in one shot too, so kudos to them for that. The one question I always ask though, is how come it took until 2006 for someone to actually think of a dance routine on treadmills? I don't know...

11. "Psychosis Safari" - The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster (2003)

Edgar Wright, director of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, is a huge TEMBLD fan, and directed this video. It's a stunning piece of work, intentionally looking like a video made in the early eighties. Man, you'd have thought it was The Cramps that was on the telly when you saw this video back in '03. And the band look so cool, the 3-D glasses requests are fantastic, the TEMBLD car (RIP) turning into a flying firebird, it's just such a cool video. I love it.

Part three is found here.
Part four is found here. 

Part 2 done and dusted. Part 3 will be posted tomorrow, where we enter the Top 10 and count from #10 to #5. Take care.