Volunteer sir sanders zingmore Posted September 16 Volunteer Share Posted September 16 https://www.avclub.com/50-greatest-music-videos-ranked-1850820669 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteer El Tel Posted September 17 Volunteer Share Posted September 17 I was flicking through and getting more and more incredulous that the one video that is always front-and-centre for me didn't get a mention. Until I saw the number one at the end. Great reminders of some classic tunes too; thanks for sharing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian McP Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sledgehammer_(Peter_Gabriel_song) < The "Sledgehammer" music video was commissioned by Tessa Watts at Virgin Records, directed by Stephen R. Johnson and produced by Adam Whittaker. Aardman Animations and the Brothers Quay provided claymation, pixilation, and stop motion animation that gave life to images in the song.[21] Many of these techniques had been employed in earlier music videos, such as Talking Heads's 1985 hit "Road to Nowhere", also directed by Johnson. The style was later used in the video for "Big Time", another single from So. Gabriel lay under a sheet of glass for 16 hours while filming the video one frame at a time.[22] "It took a lot of hard work," Gabriel recalled. "I was thinking at the time, 'If anyone wants to try and copy this video, good luck to them.'"[15] Two dead, headless, featherless chickens were animated using stop-motion and shown dancing along to the synthesised shakuhachi solo. This section was animated by Nick Park, of Aardman Animations, who was refining his work in plasticine animation at the time. The video ended with a large group of extras jerkily rotating around Gabriel, among them his daughters Anna-Marie and Melanie, the animators themselves and director Stephen Johnson's girlfriend. Also included were six women who posed as the backing vocalists of the song. A major hit on music television, "Sledgehammer" won nine MTV Video Music Awards in 1987,[4] the most awards a single video has won.[5] It ranked at number four on MTV's 100 Greatest Music Videos Ever Made (1999). "Sledgehammer" has also been declared MTV's number one animated video of all time.[23] The video was voted number seven on TMF's Ultimate 50 Videos You Must See, which first aired 24 June 2006. It ranked at number 2 on VH1's "Top 20 Videos of the '80s" and number one on "Amazing Moment in Music" on the Australian TV show 20 to 1 in 2007. It won Best British Video at the 1987 Brit Awards and was nominated for the Best Music Video category for the first annual Soul Train Music Awards in that same year. According to Time magazine, "Sledgehammer"'s music video is the all-time most played music video on MTV.[24] The music video was remastered into 4K resolution, and was released in 2018 through Apple Music. > Brothers Quay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Quay I've seen work by them at film festivals, very accomplished and decidedly strange Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbuzzardstubble Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 They left out Kenneth Bager - Fragment One. https://youtu.be/pMx4UIyF3t4?si=bHGdWxRe_BcCK3ou Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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