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also, after thinking about this for a while, I’m going to say “Around the World” is my favorite video of this group but I think “Sabotage” is going to win.
I was hoping Sabotage would win. But honestly I think Jamiroquoi's Virtual Insanity was a groundbreaking mind-blowing video when it first came out. Didn't it revolutionize the way we did videos or some shit?
It certainly singlehandedly revitalized the top hat industry.
The Rain, Virtual Insanity, Closer and Sober are the best.
Closer, Sober and Sabotage (not in that order) for me, I think.
After my Virtual Insanity rewatch, it's not even a top 10 on that list.
Really? I know I was kidding earlier but I think the idea for the practical effects (moving the walls around to make the furniture) is so simple but so well done.
Closer, Sober and Sabotage (not in that order) for me, I think.
After my Virtual Insanity rewatch, it's not even a top 10 on that list.
Really? I know I was kidding earlier but I think the idea for the practical effects (moving the walls around to make the furniture) is so simple but so well done.
It's cool, but we're talking about overall videos. There's so many better ones on the list. Also as cool as it was in the 90s, it's not so much now. It's like basically him avoiding furniture in a room. 🤷♀️
Post by Ambassador Of Fun on Sept 7, 2022 16:48:42 GMT -5
"November Rain" - both the song and the video - is a masterpiece. But did we ever figure out what the hell the video meant or how it supposedly tied together with the videos for "Don't Cry" and "Estranged"? This has bothered me for 30 years. Just not enough to google it.
Really? I know I was kidding earlier but I think the idea for the practical effects (moving the walls around to make the furniture) is so simple but so well done.
It's cool, but we're talking about overall videos. There's so many better ones on the list. Also as cool as it was in the 90s, it's not so much now. It's like basically him avoiding furniture in a room. 🤷♀️
i think at the time it was a combination of the video, the song, and the name of the band all hitting you at once. The first time i'd ever even heard of Jamiroquai was when I saw this video. The name sounds funny and that little piano lick kicks in, suddenly this motherfucker with a beautiful voice and a fuzzy soft top hat is floating on one foot towards me. before i can wrap my head around what is happening visually that chorus kicks in and it's hooky as fuck and it hasn't left my brain since.
plus it had "virtual" in the title which was a hot word at the time.
I just went through and rewatched. These are my random thoughts.
November Rain is gold.
In Bloom and Buddy Holly both did that throw back shit, should have done Smells like Teen Spirit, but then it and Loser would both have weird creepy cheerleaders. Which makes them all in the bottom for me. No originality. I'm changing my vote.
It's cool, but we're talking about overall videos. There's so many better ones on the list. Also as cool as it was in the 90s, it's not so much now. It's like basically him avoiding furniture in a room. 🤷♀️
i think at the time it was a combination of the video, the song, and the name of the band all hitting you at once. The first time i'd ever even heard of Jamiroquai was when I saw this video. The name sounds funny and that little piano lick kicks in, suddenly this motherfucker with a beautiful voice and a fuzzy soft top hat is floating on one foot towards me. before i can wrap my head around what is happening visually that chorus kicks in and it's hooky as fuck and it hasn't left my brain since.
plus it had "virtual" in the title which was a hot word at the time.
Post by 3post1jack1 on Sept 7, 2022 17:03:58 GMT -5
I know it's a common trope for a rock guy writing big pop party songs to decide to get super serious and write something "meaningful" and the end result is usually a bloated overproduced wanky mess. But every now and again that bloated overproduced wanky mess is something like November Rain. Song is unassailable.
I'm pulling for November Rain to win. It's so epically over the top. It's based on a short story which I'm sure also makes no sense. It's also the only video here with somebody diving through a wedding cake in a rainstorm for no explicable reason.
I was hoping Sabotage would win. But honestly I think Jamiroquoi's Virtual Insanity was a groundbreaking mind-blowing video when it first came out. Didn't it revolutionize the way we did videos or some shit?
It certainly singlehandedly revitalized the top hat industry.
I'm pulling for November Rain to win. It's so epically over the top. It's based on a short story which I'm sure also makes no sense. It's also the only video here with somebody diving through a wedding cake in a rainstorm for no explicable reason.
I'm pulling for November Rain to win. It's so epically over the top. It's based on a short story which I'm sure also makes no sense. It's also the only video here with somebody diving through a wedding cake in a rainstorm for no explicable reason.
I'm pulling for November Rain to win. It's so epically over the top. It's based on a short story which I'm sure also makes no sense. It's also the only video here with somebody diving through a wedding cake in a rainstorm for no explicable reason.
I'm pulling for November Rain to win. It's so epically over the top. It's based on a short story which I'm sure also makes no sense. It's also the only video here with somebody diving through a wedding cake in a rainstorm for no explicable reason.
Why’d she only have half a face in the casket??
Slash melted the other half off with THREE BITCHIN' GUITAR SOLOS!!!
Post by LoveLuckLaughter on Sept 7, 2022 22:15:02 GMT -5
I remember every heartbreak by the songs I've listened to in order to get through them. November Rain was my first real boyfriend, Steven Rice. We dated for 14 months when I was 14-15. He was older, 19-20 and went away to college. He met a college girl. He broke up with me via letter. Like old school shit. I would fall asleep outside on a lounge chair under the stars, crying and listening to November Rain and the P.M. Dawn cassette single with Set Adrift on Memory Bliss/I'd Die Without You OVER AND OVER AND OVER.
Edit: Come to think of it, I actually have entire scores for every time I've been in love or something adjacent. From beginning to end.
We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
after today's earlier votes I'm honestly shocked Baby One More Time is surviving this round. that's the power of honestly discussing the filmic merits of music videos!!
