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Red's Best of 2011: The YECA
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TOTGA
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Rihanna
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Adele, Bjork & Death Cab! Those are the ones I enjoyed watching the most from the list (though I wasn't really fond of DCFC's song). BTW is okay, haven't seen the other one...
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Rihanna and Lights.
Great list. I love that you're open to so many genres.
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The One That Got Away
Love that song so much
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Loving the list so far
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5/5
Helena Beat + TOTGA + CotB <3
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Born This Way & Rolling In The Deep!
Edit: Wait! We Found Love and The One That Got Away too!?!?!
I'm greatly regretting not signing up to getting a layout from Athens
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4.5/5
Great start!
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Helena Beat, We Found Love and TOTGA
Really looking forward to the next set!
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The banner and the title
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TOTGA
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Katy's videos are always great
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Aplausos!!!
Excellent, Forster the People
The layout is amazing
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Born This Way, We Found Love, The One That Got Away
Helena Beat
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Rihanna, Foster and Katy
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SLICK graphics! Really love them and they fit really well.
3/5 for both lists.
Helena Beat has to be my favorite video of this year, I even watched the Lord Of The Flies for it.
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Another good set of videos, Ryan! Any list that has Mastodon is an automatic great one.
I love the tease for the next set. A video that could inspire hatred and joy HMMMMMMMMM. I will have to think about that one. Or rather, I can just wait for your next set. **** thinking!
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YECA Countdown #1: Top 20 Music Videos (10-6)
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Originally posted by ManDown
Great list. I love that you're open to so many genres.
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Oh, this is nothing. Wait until we get to the albums and songs lists, especially the albums. You are not going to BELIEVE who #1 is. It's going to blow EVERYONE away.
Now, I need to address one more thing before we get to the actual list. As we've established earlier, it's become apparent that some people are having trouble seeing the entire YECA layout. Is there any chance that you guys are using Internet Explorer? Because jesus, the layout just looks AWFUL on IE. On Firefox, the layout looks just fine for me. I'm trying to deal with this situation as best as I can for those having problems, so just let me know what internet browser you're using and we'll see if that may be the problem. Otherwise...
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Originally posted by Dr. Spaceman
I love the tease for the next set. A video that could inspire hatred and joy HMMMMMMMMM. I will have to think about that one. Or rather, I can just wait for your next set. **** thinking!
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Wait no longer!
The List So Far
20) Adele - Rolling in the Deep
19) Bjork - Crystalline
18) The Joy Formidable - Whirring
17) Death Cab For Cutie - You Are A Tourist
16) Lady Gaga - Born This Way
15) Lights - Toes
14) Foster the People - Helena Beat
13) Mastodon - Curl of the Burl
12) Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris - We Found Love
11) Katy Perry - The One That Got Away
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In the Dark
She may be a mother now, but Devin Tailes is still a total freak of nature at heart. Don't believe me? Watch this video for "In the Dark". You mean to tell me that a video with rapidly moving hands on arms not connected to any bodies is not a LITTLE freaky? You're damn right, it is. But those hands, those...god damn hands give this video a different feel to it than any other video this year. They are one of the single most iconic images in any music video in 2011, and it's how those hands are utilized that make this video so memorable. |
| Hail the Villain
My Reward
Here lies the other "mini-horror film". Unlike Mastodon's "Curl of the Burl", however, where the band plays up the more comedic and funny aspects of the genre, Hail the Villain took the opposite approach and created one of the most legitimately terrifying music videos I have ever seen. Bloody limbs, a decapitated head singing to us, a woman with an inhumanly long tongue, a frantic visual style that only heightens the terror, all of these aspects and more come together to create a horrific (and yet quite entertaining) experience unlike any other in the world of music videos in 2011. |
| Gotye ft. Kimbra
Somebody That I Used to Know
You've seen me throw the word "iconic" around quite a few times during this list alone, I know, but I have to say it here, because this video, in and of itself, is the kind of video that creates icons. Or, at the very least, it would have created an icon in the 1980's. Now? Probably not. Regardless, this is a wonderfully shot video full of stop motion (a personal favorite effect of mine in music videos) that also showcases how fragile a relationship can be. The way that this message is conveyed is so simple, yet so entrancing and so fulfilling. Really, that's a summary of this video in a nutshell: So simple, yet so entrancing and so fulfilling. |
| Ellie Goulding
Lights
Okay, remember when I included "Toes" simply because I have a huge crush on Lights? Well, #7 was originally included for that very same reason. Yes, I was about to include TWO videos among my top 20 of the year simply because I have a crush on the artists involved. Thankfully, I have a legit reason to love this video beyond simply having a crush on Ellie Goulding. Unlike with "Toes", this video has a legitimately exciting visual style. I mean, yes, Ellie Goulding looks absolutely gorgeous here, and that beauty can be incredibly distracting, but it's hard to be distracted by that when you have special effects flying at you and various forms of lights being used at great effect. As much of a crush as I have on Lights, the video for the song "Lights" trumps the video of the singer Lights in every way. |
| LMFAO ft. Lauren Bennett and GoonRock
Party Rock Anthem
I know that there are many of you that cannot STAND LMFAO. And, really, you have good reason to hate them. They're stupid, they're silly, they're obnoxious, they're incredibly annoying, and they CANNOT stop singing about partying. Despite all of this, how can you not enjoy the video for "Party Rock Anthem"? It is one of the most randomly wonderful music videos in quite some time. Unlike LMFAO most of the time, this video is rather charming in its own silly way, and that's before you get into the real reason that this video is so high on this very list: the dancing. Good god, the dancing. This video is an homage to the art of dancing, and it shows in the quality of the dancing and the dancing sequences. Most of the dancing is off the cuff and plays off of various styles, but the best moment of the video is also the most choreographed of the dancing sequences. If you don't know which one I'm talking about (and I don't know how you wouldn't, but okay), just stop what you're doing and watch the video for that one sequence. I can wait. |
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Thankfully, the last set of the Music Videos list will not be nearly as controversial. Or I hope not, anyway. Be sure to come back tomorrow (or later today, if you wish to be technical) for the final set of videos, 5-1, which includes virtual reality romance, a "Hall of Fame-worthy" video, the most random pairing in a music video in 2011, a video consisting entirely of one long take, and, quite simply, a video about blowing **** up. Oh yeah, it's (about to be) top five time.
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