Ridiculously Awesome Music Videos

Ridiculously “Bad” Music Videos: Frank Stallone’s “Far From Over”

By on January 6th, 2009

The Godfather Part II and The Dark Knight are two of the greatest sequels ever produced. Some would argue these films surpassed their predecessors, and I would be hard pressed to argue against such sentiments. But do these sequels have hit songs or (much more importantly) hit videos? Absolutely not. Imagine if The Godfather Part [...]

YouTube Live: Yo La Tengo feat. Redd Kross – “Who Loves the Sun?”

By on December 27th, 2008

Christmastime – that time of year where the entire service and retail industry – almost to a worker – are about to snap and massacre the entire holiday shopping rush if “Silver Bells” plays JUST ONE MORE TIME over the company stereo. Which usually leads to the ubiquitous holiday water-cooler conversation: “This Christmas music is [...]

Ridiculously Awesome Music Videos: NIN vs Star Trek – “Closer”

By on December 19th, 2008

We’re still five months away from the new Star Trek movie and already the fan videos are heating up. Homosexual tension and Star Trek aren’t exactly strangers (Mr. Sulu, anyone?) – but the particular video below is the definitive work on how Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk really wanted to boldy go where two men [...]

Ridiculously Awesome Music Videos: Röyksopp’s “Remind Me”

By on December 15th, 2008

This Ridiculously Awesome Music Video is presented by GEICO! It’s so easy, a caveman can do it. Annoying advertising campaigns aside, the music video for “Remind Me” by Norwegian band Röyksopp is one of the most hypnotic flowing videos released in this decade. Released in 2002, after the release of their debut album Melody A.M., [...]

Ridiculously Awesome Music Videos: New Edition’s “Showtime!”

By on December 12th, 2008

Bobby Brown is hardly the patron saint of pop music. His 1980′s boy band, New Edition is proof of that. However, no one can attest to their knack of the music video. Their 1987 video for “My Secret” is no exception, featuring various clips of one Magic Johnson taking his professional basketball-playing counterparts to school. [...]

Ridiculously Awesome Music Videos: Björk’s “Wanderlust”

By on December 3rd, 2008

With a world overloaded with computer images, something is to be said about those that stick to the old school methods of creating the fantastic. When you combine the two, the images that can be created are endless. Enter Björk. The Icelandic export has been blowing minds since 1992, and with the help of the [...]

Ridiculously Awesome Music Videos: The Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime”

By on November 25th, 2008

For this edition of Ridiculously Awesome Music Videos, I decided to flip on the way-back machine. That’s right, alllll the way back to 1980, an entire year before MTV even existed, let alone before it stopped actually showing music videos. The Talking Heads have had their share of great music videos (from the lamp-serenading of [...]

Ridiculously Awesome Music Videos: The Pumpkins’ “Tonight, Tonight”

By on November 20th, 2008

With The Smashing Pumpkins well into their massive four night set at the Windy City’s famed Chicago and Auditorium Theatres this weekend, looking back on their twenty year on and off again career is an emotional rollercoaster; euphoric, melodramatic, and exciting. And nothing screams these traits like their music video for “Tonight, Tonight”. The fourth [...]

Ridiculously Awesome Music Videos: The Cranberries’ “Salvation”

By on November 12th, 2008

“Salvation,” The Cranberries’ 1996 hit from their third album To The Faithful Departed, is the most obvious of anti-drug tunes. With bland, overly straightforward lyrics like “to all those people doin’ lines, don’t do it,” being sober never sounded so lame. Good thing the song had such a creepy video. Until last year, I had only [...]

Ridiculously Awesome Music Videos: Wax’s “California”

By on October 23rd, 2008

Fifteen years ago, the early 90′s was a time when four turtles with ninja skills and New York accents took on Shredder & the Foot Clan, Whoopi Goldberg had a career, and the United States economy was a little bit more stable, music videos were starting to come into their own. Music videos began to [...]

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