Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Despair" (Patrick Daughters, dir.)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs and director Patrick Daughters have transcendently stopped time before — and the intro here proves they can easily repeat the same feat — but they have a different tool in mind to capture that spirit of release: The Empire State Building. It's not literally the top of the world, or even the tallest building in NYC, but it's close enough for rock 'n' roll and hasn't been this triumphantly conquered in a while*.

*Yes, I realize there was a remake.