Comments on: What Makes a Great Video?

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:03:35 +0000

The bride died in November Rain?!!!

OMG, spoiler warning!

By: jabolo

jabolo — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:59:18 +0000

Any top ten video list that doesn’t include Devo (‘Whip It’, ‘Jocko Homo’), the Talking Heads (‘Once in a Lifetime’), or Peter Gabriel (‘Shock the Monkey’, ‘Games Without Frontiers’, the slightly overrated ‘Sledgehammer’) is full of crap. Where the heck is the early new wave, i.e. when music videos were minimalist pop art?

By: carpboy

carpboy — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:33:41 +0000

Voting for the song, and not the video, is what led to Smells Like Teen Spirit supplanting Thriller as Best Video in those MTV countdowns during the 90s. Urrgh.

By: Colleen

Colleen — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:06:49 +0000

I agree with Katherine – I think voters were choosing the songs (which explains GNR) and not the videos. My husband and I kept waiting for Madonna – I don’t know how you could skip “Like a Prayer” for any kind of best video list – but she never showed. That’s just voters dissing Madonna, plain and simple.

And no Prince???? How is that possible?

By: Ray Cornwall

Ray Cornwall — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:40:22 +0000

Where’s Prince’s Kiss, with Wendy mocking the hell out of Prince during the video? Bah.

Though November Rain is one hell of a good video. Can’t really argue with VH1 on that one.

By: Katherine F.

Katherine F. — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:41:35 +0000

It's remarkable how often awards for music videos aren't really awards for the videos at all -- as if people are incapable of separating the video from the song or the musician. (Anyone remember Not the Nine O'Clock News's "Nice Video, Shame About The Song"?)