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.

  1. Duran Duran “Girl Panic” — Jonas Akerlund, dir. 
  2. OK Go “All Is Not Lost” — OK Go, Pilobulous, Trish Sie, dir. 
  3. Manchester Orch “Simple Math” — Daniels, dir.
  4. Duck Sauce “Big Bad Wolf” — Keith Schofield, dir.
  5. Beastie Boys “Make Some Noise” — Adam Yauch, dir.
  6. Rihanna “We Found Love” — Melina Matsoukas, dir.
  7. Kina Grannis “In Your Arms” — Greg Jardin, dir.
  8. Is Tropical “The Greeks” — Megaforce, dir.
  9. Tyler The Creator “Yonkers” — Tyler The Creator, dir.
  10. Black Keys “Lonely Boy” — Jesse Dylan, dir.
  11. Battles “Ice Cream” — Canada, dir.
  12. Radiohead “Lotus Flower” — Garth Jennings, dir.
  13. Woodkid “Iron” — Yoann Lemoine, dir.
  14. Memory Tapes “Yes I Know” — Eric Epstein, dir.
  15. Cults “Go Outside” — Isaiah Seret, dir.
  16. Jayz + Kanye West “Otis” — Spike Jonze, dir.
  17. Everlast “I Get By” — Martin Zenic, dir.
  18. Matt And Kim “Cameras” — Jonathan Del Gatto, dir.
  19. Foster The People “Call It What You Want” — Ace Norton, dir.
  20. Everlyn Evelyn “Have You Seen” — Hoku Uchiyama, dir.

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Comments

Diego's picture
Nice list, but where is The Black Keys "Howling For U"?
MuzVid's picture
Hi, Nice Writing on WATCH IT: Swedish House Mafia/Knife Party "Antidote" (BBGun, dir.) NSFW | Main | Merry Christmas (Kurt Nishimura & Kara Lindquist, dir.) Thanks
Bella's picture
Nice writing and nice video...Hope for the same in future.