Sunday, November 23, 2008

Great Moments in Music Video

PHUTATORIUS



Start the video, now wait for it . . . wait for it . . .

THERE.

RIGHT THERE.

At 3:38.

Best Moment in the History of Music Video? I'm open to persuasion, but right now I can't think of any better.

It's this sort of thing that justifies MTV's existence. The rest of it — all the crap: Singled Out, Road Rules, Adam Curry, TRL, whatever they're doing nowadays instead of playing videos — it's well worth it, just to have moments like this.

2 comments:

Mithridates said...

By the way. What's with the hair? Part of the new image?

Best moment ever might be the end of Bad to the Bone . I mean who hasn't tried to make that eight ball drop with a stomp on the floor? And he did it with cigarette ashes!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYPcY15JaWY

Phutatorius said...

A worthy nominee, surely. George Thorogood had some wicked incisors, didn't he?

And for the record, I would rule out any moment in which dramatic tension builds between two opposing parties, we find ourselves on the edge of great violence . . . and they dance.

This was a recurring motif in the 1980s — I'm thinking Beat It, I'm thinking Love Is a Battlefield — and it just doesn't work. Sorry. Thought it was crap then, and I won't be changing my mind.

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