These music videos speak to the heart of the music in the most basic way possible, synchronization. I mean, that's really all music is: a synchronization, or a pattern, of sound. Organization. The visuals in these videos are treated the same way, linked to the rhythm of the music. And it works so beautifully.
Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar
dir. Michel Gondry
This star guitar video is an absolute classic and attests to the genius of Michel Gondry, who we would all come to love first through the "Fell In Love With A Girl" White Stripes video, and then with his movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. We're sent on a trip in Star Guitar, one that we buy completely, even though we know these landscapes and buildings couldn't be real. Still, you sit back and shut up and enjoy the view.
Autechre - Gantz Graf
dir. Alex Rutterford
This video for gave Autechre their widest attention ever, or probably ever will receive and achieved cult status in underground computer-generated imagery art circles. Autechre's music is of course abrasive, and hard to follow avant-garde electronica, but you cant deny the beauty of it all; knowing that there's a rhythm in there somewhere, floating ambiguously between the spiny cinematic. Supposedly each frequency in the song is linked to a specific animation and object. However they did it, it's one of the most amazing things i've ever seen. Stick around till the end.
Röyksopp - Remind Me
dir. H5
Graphic Design-gasm. INFOGRAPHICS! I'm curious how long it takes you to realize where you've heard this before.
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
dir. D. A. Pennebaker
The original synchronized video. An absolute classic taken from the Bob Dylan documentary Don't Look Back, this video has had too many copy-cats to even mention, and is often hilarious. From the accidental (i'm guessing) misspellings to Bob Dylan's complete and utter ambivalence about the whole ordeal, to the Ginsberg cameo. Not a perfect way to learn the lyrics to the song, but it's a start.
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