December 2011

20 Best Music Videos of 2011

These are my Top 20 Videos of 2011. Listed in order (somewhat).

Since this is culled from a shortlist of about 50 deserving videos, taken from the well over 500 posts this past year of Videostatic.com, I'll be spotlighting some other great clips from 2011 over the remainder of 2011, in addition to updating with the occastional news item.

All the videos can be found in a Best of 2011 YouTube playlist embedded below so you can pretend that I program my very own music video channel.

WATCH IT: F'cked Up "Turn The Season" (Scott Cudmore, dir.)

Director Scott Cudmore gets meta with this latest F'cked Up video, recreating the photoshoot from the band's David Comes To Life album, while also having the cast and crew from their "Queen Of Hearts" video in it, so it's a look at a band looking at themselves preparing to document themselves while being documented. Or something equally enigmatic. --> watch "Turn The Season"

WATCH IT: Arcade Fire "Sprawl II" (Vincent Morisset, dir.)

Two options:

  1. Watch the embed below like the computer-savvy couch potato you've surely become, although don't feel too bad: The video works well as Arcade Fire's Régine Chassagne brings some joy to the suburbs.
  2. Go to sprawl2.com and try the interactive version, which requires you to have a webcam and the lack of inhibition to get up and propel the video forward though your movements. It's not Dance Dance Revolution, thankfully, but the faster you move, the more the video moves with you. Don't have a webcam or the ability to move? There's a clickable version as well.

--> watch "Sprawl 2"

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