So what's your all time favorite music video?  Here's mine - it never fails to crack me up.

Bill, tgo

All time favorite music video?  My first thought was that I couldn't possibly have a favorite; but then this one came to mind.  This is the only copy I could find on youtube, and the quality isn't great; but it's from the 2004 Songs From Tsongas DVD.

Yes - And You And I

Wow... I'll have to think about it for a while. 

This one's easy. The first time I saw Kate Bush back in 1978 I was in love and have been ever since.
Add in Andy Powell's sublime bass and you have a perfect song...

This was the first I thought of (before echoes of MTV flooded my mind).



Adding this too (sorry, not sorry  )

I don't know if I can name one - but Elwood's second vid is one of the ones that immediately popped into my mind.

Peter

Any given moment my favorite could change.   
Mountain Music was a surprise. 

First I thought this:


But that is based on this: (which is a full movie and amazing if you're into that sort of thing)
 
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Then I remembered this:


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One of my favorites was the National Audubon Society/Grateful Dead collaboration on the "We Can Run" video for Earth Day, 19XX, but I searched the web and unfortunately could not find it.

I'm still working on it. Unbelieveably, I grew up right at the dawn of the MTV age, (mid-late 1980's)... and I never really watched it. Once I started playing music, I got less interested in watching it in any format, and that lasted another few years. So this is hard.


Maybe instead of 'favorite', here's one music video that made a very powerful impression on 20 year-old me:

I doubt if I could choose an all time favourite but this is one I saw last year  and really enjoyed the whole experience of it.

"You can listen to a song a hundred times and get something new every time.  How many times can you watch a video?  3? 4?  Maybe a dozen, if you're a total veg?"
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Frank Zappa

Peter

Gotta love Frank!

One of my favorite groups:

For no other reason than it's just fun, I get a big grin out of it every time (because remember kids, serious music is serious, and THIS ain't):



. . . . and another fave from the MTV days, Robert at home back in The Black Country, with a favorite bass line, big fun in low D with the five-string . . . .



Always loved Toto (Georgy Porgy !), and I see this one and I think how much we lost with Jeff and Mike.  Of course I never met them, but somehow felt like I knew something of them thru their playing, crazy . . . . . to me this is one of those songs that the groove was so strong it felt like some giant ship engine.  Now for next week, practice your 16-th note minor scales, OK ?



I really like the way they added the Latin coda on this live version of 'Mexico', but I keep imagining Jimmie with an Ampeg Baby Bass (required for that sort of thing) stuffed with Alembic guts . . . . .