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Friday, 30 December 2011

List: Top 75 Videos of 2011

If there was any justice in the world at all, these would've been the 75 music videos in heavy rotation on your TV screens this year...

75. Gem Club "252" (Hardly Art)

Director: Matthew Salton

74. Broken Social Scene "Sweetest Kill" (Arts & Crafts)

Director: Claire Edmondson

73. Deerhoof "Secret Mobilization" (Polyvinyl)

Director: Ewan MacLeod

72. Austra "Lose It" (Paper Bag)

Director: M Blash

71. Mayer Hawthorne "The Walk" (Universal Republic)

Director: Martin Weisz

70. Calvin Harris f. Kelis "Bounce" (Fly Eye/Columbia)

Directors: Vincent Haycock & AG Rojas

69. Rammstein "Mein Land" (Universal)

Director: Jonas Akerlund

68. The Rural Alberta Advantage "Tornado '87" (Paper Bag)

Director: Scott Cudmore

67. The Kills "Baby Says" (Domino)

Director: Ben Crook

66. Black Lips "Raw Meat" (Vice)

Director: Phil Pinto

65. Handsome Furs "What About Us?" (Sub Pop)

Director: Scott Coffey

64. Twin Sister "Kimmi In A Ricefield" (Domino)

Directors: Bryan Ujueta & Dan Devine

63. Cloud Nothings "Understand At All" (Carpark)

Director: Allen Cordell

62. Low "Try To Sleep" (Sub Pop)

Director: Travis Schneider

61. Wild Flag "Electric Band" (Merge)

Directors: Andrew Ellmaker & Lara Gallagher

60. Titus Andronicus "No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future" (XL)

Director: Tom Scharpling

59. Azealia Banks "212" (Independent)

Director: Vincent Tsang

58. Das Racist "Michael Jackson" (Greedhead)

Director: Weird Days

57. WU LYF "We Bros" (LYF)

Director: Sam Pilling

56. Cloud Nothings "Should Have" (Carpark)

Director: John Ryan Manning

55. Beyoncé "Countdown" (Columbia)

Directors: Adria Petty & Beyoncé

54. Autoerotique "Turn Up The Volume" (Dim Mak)

Directors: Miles Jay & Derek Blais

53. Best Coast "Crazy For You" (Mexican Summer)

Director: Bob Harlow

52. Arcade Fire "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)" (Merge)

Director: Vincent Morisset

51. Black Lips "Family Tree" (Vice)

Director: Kyle Safieh

50. Hercules and Love Affair "My House" (Moshi Moshi)

Director: Price James

49. Kasabian "Re-Wired" (Columbia)

Director: Thomas Carty

48. Real Estate "It's Real" (Domino)

Director: Weird Days

47. White Lies "Strangers" (Fiction)

Director: Stephen Agnew

46. Young Galaxy "Blown Minded" (Paper Bag)

Director: Carine Khalifé

45. Cut Copy "Need You Now" (Modular)

Director: Keith Schofield

44. Beirut "Santa Fe" (Pompeii)

Director: Sunset Television

43. Coldplay "Paradise" (Parlophone)

Director: Mat Whitecross

42. Lana Del Rey "Video Games" (Interscope)

Director: Lana Del Rey

41. Austra "Beat And The Pulse" (Paper Bag)

Director: Claire Edmondson

40. Canyons "My Rescue" (Modular)

Director: Kphu the Killer

39. Cults "Go Outside" (In The Name Of)

Director: Isaiah Seret

38. High Places "Sonora" (Thrill Jockey)

Director: Keith Musil

37. tUnE-yArDs "Bizness" (4AD)

Director: Mimi Cave

36. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart "Heart In Your Heartbreak" (Slumberland)

Director: Mike Luciano

35. The Black Keys "Lonely Boy" (Nonesuch)

Director: Jesse Dylan

34. Matt and Kim "Cameras" (Fader Label)

Director: Jonathan Del Gatto

33. The New Pornographers "Moves" (Matador)

Director: Tom Scharpling

32. Los Campesinos! "Hello Sadness" (Wichita)

Director: Casey Raymond & Ewan Jones Morris

31. Ke$ha "Blow" (RCA)

Director: Chris Marrs Piliero

30. Wild Flag "Romance" (Merge)

Director: Tom Scharpling

29. Cloud Nothings "Nothing's Wrong" (Carpark)

Director: Matthew Wells

28. Tyler, the Creator "Yonkers" (XL)

Director: Wolf Haley

27. Sleigh Bells "Rill Rill" (Mom and Pop)

Director: John Watts

26. Destroyer "Kaputt" (Merge)

Director: Dawn Garcia

25. Kanye West (ft. Bon Iver, Rick Ross, Jay-Z & Nicki Minaj) "Monster" (Island Def Jam)

Director: Jake Nava

24. Mastodon "Curl Of The Burl" (Reprise)

Director: Robert Schober

23. Duran Duran "Girl Panic" (Tape Modern)

Director: Jonas Akerlund

22. DJ Shadow ft. Little Dragon "Scale It Back" (Verve)

Director: Casey Raymond & Ewan Jones Morris

21. DyE "Fantasy" (Tigersushi)

Director: Jérémie Périn

20. Yelle "Safari Disco Club/ Que Veux-Tu" (Barclay)

Director: Jérémie Saindon

19. PS I Love You "Get Over" (Paper Bag)

Director: Mike Portoghese

18. Radiohead "Lotus Flower" (Independent)

Director: Garth Jennings

17. Robyn "Call Your Girlfriend" (Konichiwa)

Director: Max Vitali

16. Justice "Civilization" (Ed Banger)

Director: Edouard Salier

15. The Vaccines "All In White" (Columbia)

Director: Lope Serrano

14. Battles ft. Matias Aguayo "Ice Cream" (Warp)

Director: Luis Cervero (CANADA)

13. No Age "Fever Dreaming" (Sub Pop)

Director: Patrick Daughters

12. British Sea Power "Who's In Control?" (Rough Trade)

Directors: Bajir Cannon & Bridget Palardy

11. Lady Gaga "Born This Way" (Interscope)

Director: Nick Knight

10. St. Vincent "Cruel" (4AD)

Director: Terry Timely

9. M83 "Midnight City" (Naïve)

Director: Fleur & Manu

8. Beastie Boys "Make Some Noise" (Capitol)

Director: Adam Yauch

7. Fleet Foxes "The Shrine/An Argument" (Sub Pop)

Director: Sean Pecknold

6. SebastiAn "Total" (Ed Banger)

Director: Revenge

5. The Black Keys "Howlin' For You" (Nonesuch)

Director: Chris Marrs Piliero

4. Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris "We Found Love" (Island Def Jam)

Director: Melina Matsoukas

3. Battles ft. Gary Numan "My Machines" (Warp)

Director: Daniels

2. Is Tropical "The Greeks" (Kitsune)

Director: Megaforce

1. Duck Sauce "Big Bad Wolf" (Big Beat)

Director: Keith Schofield

Friday, 25 November 2011

Hey everybody, and welcome to Video Flow, Volume 12. This week, there's new clips from Akron/Family, Andrew WK, CSS, Fleet Foxes, Noah and the Whale, Paul Weller, Rammstein, The Roots, The Vaccines, Bedouin Soundclash featuring Coeur De Pirate, and tonnes more.

There's a clip of an art installation at the Guggenheim featuring previously unreleased music from Animal Collective, an alternate video for The Black Keys' "Lonely Boy" done specially for today's Record Store Day, and also a touching video montage tribute to the late Amy Winehouse.

Let's get things started this week with a couple of my favourites to appear online over the past seven days: the first official videos from The Weeknd and Charli XCX. Enjoy, and be sure to check in next Friday for Video Flow, Volume 13...

Charli XCX "Nuclear Seasons" (This Is Music)

The Weeknd "The Knowing" (self-released)

The Black Keys "Lonely Boy" (Nonesuch)

Porcelain Raft "Put Me To Sleep" (Secretly Canadian)

The Vaccines "Tiger Blood" (Columbia)

Fleet Foxes "The Shrine/An Argument" (Sub Pop)

Akron/Family "Cast A Net" (Dead Oceans)

Paul Weller "Around The Lake" (YepRoc)

Noah and the Whale "Give It All Back" (Vertigo)

Poolside "Take Me Home" (independent)

CSS "City Grrrl" (Cooperative)

Echo Lake "Buried At Sea" (No Pain In Pop)

Caveman "Easy Water" (Magic Man!/ORG)

Bruce Peninsula "Pull Me Under" (Hand Drawn Dracula)

Rammstein "Mein Land" (Universal)

Andrew WK "Go Go Go Go" (Universal)

Animal Collective "Transverse Temporal Gyrus" (Paw Tracks)

The Roots "Sleep" (Def Jam)

Bedouin Soundclash ft. Coeur De Pirate "Brutal Hearts" (Dine Alone)

Amy Winehouse "Our Day Will Come" (Island)

Friday, 28 October 2011

Wet Thud Video Flow, Volume Eight

Happy Friday, everybody. It's the end of another work week, and that means it's time to round up my favourite twenty videos from over the past seven days and assemble them here into a nice, neat little package for your viewing pleasure.

In this edition of Video Flow, you can check out new ones from The Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys, They Might Be Giants, and many more including not one, but two videos for R.E.M.'s soon-to-be-released farewell single. There's a very eye-catching (and probably NSFW) clip from Duck Sauce, the first solo effort from Stevie Jackson of Belle And Sebastian fame, some Johnny Depp/Ricki Lake-inspired retro nostalgia from indie favourites Man Man, and a new Cameron Crowe-directed video for Pearl Jam's 1995 single "Not For You," compiled from archival footage while producing his recent 'PJ20' documentary. All that, plus it's been about seven days since the last one, so that must mean there's another new Beyoncé video, too. (And you thought Rihanna was relentless...)

So, grab some snacks, plunk yourself down in front of your computer for the next couple of hours, and enjoy. Let's start things off with the lovely ladies of Wild Flag, who are about to encounter a baseball team made up of bears. Of course they are.

Wild Flag "Electric Band" (Merge)