What are the best music videos of all time?
I haven't watched TV for about a year now, so I don't know the most recent ones... But here are some that aren't TOO old:

Satisfaction by Benny Benassi (the one with the girls in bikinis working with power tools).
Come to Daddy by Aphex Twin (freaky violent little kids and a demon coming out of a TV)
Weapon of Choice by Fatboy Slim (Christopher Walken does Fred Astair)
Sonne by Rammstein (Snow white and the seven Rammsteins)
Take your Mama by Scissor Sister (Denim dancin')
I Believe in a Thing Called Love by The Darkness (rock gods in space)

...Right now I can't remember any old classic ones, but that's a good list from the last few years anyway ^_^

Weird al "white and nerdy"

You ever seen The Rolling Stone's performance of Sympathy for The Devil at the Rock and Roll Circus? Even though it's just a performance it makes a great video.

For one, the greatest music video to me is that of Pink Floyd's The Wall. The entire movie qualifies as a music video, and it's a fucking good one.

As for real music videos, Jeremy by Pearl Jam (The one with the schoolkid that kills himself in class) and Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve (Richard Ashcroft walking down some sidewalk in London, bumping into people) are in the top. Honorable mentions go out to that Dire Straits video, Money for Nothing (Heh. Who could forget this video?) The Dave Matthews Band in Crash into Me (It still makes me wonder what the hell Dave Matthews was on), the Red Hot Chill Peppers in Californication (Video game themed music video about California, awesome), and Bone Thugs N Harmony in The Crossroads (A beautiful and powerful rap video about life and death).

I'd definitely agree with Bittersweet Symphony!
...never seen the Stones Rock and Roll cirucs... I have seen them do Sympathy live though, it was pretty cool.
Yeah Floyd. And Money for Nothing was good.

Hey, I remembered some more:
Stinkfist by Tool! (Sand people doing gross stuff)
Land Of Confusion by Genesis (Ronald Regun rubber puppet drowning in his own sweat)
-I think that was beaten out of the video awards by Gabriel's Sledghammer, which although it is a great song, it's a pretty lame stop motion video.
The Barry Williams Show by Peter Gabriel (Gerry Springer in hell, directed by Sean Penn)

ozoneocean
...never seen the Stones Rock and Roll cirucs... I have seen them do Sympathy live though, it was pretty cool.

The power of YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/waFOyhezIPA

zone
Land Of Confusion by Genesis (Ronald Regun rubber puppet drowning in his own sweat)

Man, that music video was awesome. Just plain awesome.

ozoneocean
I'd definitely agree with Bittersweet Symphony!
...never seen the Stones Rock and Roll cirucs... I have seen them do Sympathy live though, it was pretty cool.
Yeah Floyd. And Money for Nothing was good.

Hey, I remembered some more:
Stinkfist by Tool! (Sand people doing gross stuff)
Land Of Confusion by Genesis (Ronald Regun rubber puppet drowning in his own sweat)
-I think that was beaten out of the video awards by Gabriel's Sledghammer, which although it is a great song, it's a pretty lame stop motion video.
The Barry Williams Show by Peter Gabriel (Gerry Springer in hell, directed by Sean Penn)

Yes! God yes! Tool! Rock on man!

Stinkfist is one awesome music video, as are virtually all Tool music videos. Adam Jones is a visionary genius! A genius I say! Some of my other favorite Tool music videos are "Parabola" and "Schism". I don't know what the hell's going on, but I like it! (Man, I hope they get what they got cookin' for "10,000 Days" out soon...)

As for other classic music videos, lemme see...
Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At
A-Ha - Take on Me (I'm not particularly fond of the song, but the music video is killah!)
Daft Punk - Burnin'
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
Herbie Hancock - Rockit
Madvillain - All Caps
Musical Youth - Pass the Dutchie
Prince - 1999
Radiohead - Just
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It
Van Halen - Hot For Teacher
Beck - Cellphone's Dead
A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras

To name a few... ;)

This is definatly the best one: http://www.pleix.net/movies/Sometimes.mov [pleix.net]
It's Kid606 - Sometimes, made by the wonderpeople from Pleix

After that, I really like
Pearl Jam - Do the Evolution
Muse - Bliss
Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At?
Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy
Cassius - Sound of Violence
Tool - Parabola
Gorillaz - El Manana
Placebo - Pure Morning
Mindless Self Ingluence - Shut Me Up
Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
Peter Gabriel - Sledge Hammer

And Rammstein - Links 2 3 4 has a special place in my heart, simply because I just luuuuuv ants!

Anything done by OK Go.

Terminal
The power of YouTube.

Oh man, that was fantastic ^_^
That's what Rock stars SHOULD look like! As a perfectly straight man, I feel comfortable in saying that Jager there is sexier than Britney Spears and Jesica Simpson will ever be.

Hmm OK GO are ok... good in a quirky way.
Sabotage by the Beasti Boys is a genuine classic! -the uncensored version where the guy gets thrown of the bridge. Such a cool mockup of one of those shitty gritty 70's cop movies.
Around the World by Daft Punk. I love those dancing people in costumes.
Simply Irresistable by Robert Palmer. It was the culmination of all his sexy identicle chicks dancing in the background videos. He must have done atleast three with them, that one was the best of the lot.
Virtual Insanity by Jamiroquai. That dancing is so cool.
Lover tits by Peaches. Crappy looking clip of her and another gal sitting on bikes, but oh so, SO sexy!!!
I want to Break Free by Queen. Transvestite joy!
Love is a stranger by the Eurythmics. Almost every clip they did was brilliant, but that one is so cool and sophisticated. Annie Lenox tranfroms beatifully into different guises.

Hinder "lips of an angel"
-great impersenation of aerosmith's tyler
-that blonde girl's fit (why would you play around with that in the next room)
-great lyrics and a catchy song
http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/LXhIheAbd8Y


Ramstein "Du Hast"
-i like the way they shot this
-I like saying "du hast"
-Guns, classic car, white dress shirt and black pants (all things noireque)
http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/9YFRfMHAPVQ

Terminal
You ever seen The Rolling Stone's performance of Sympathy for The Devil at the Rock and Roll Circus? Even though it's just a performance it makes a great video.

Pure Rock and Roll power!
You know what might have been an even better performance from Rock and Roll Circus though? The Who- A Quick One While He's Away. This is my personal favorite video rock performance of all time, and Mick Jagger's least favorite. Rock and Roll Circus was supposed to be aired as a TV special and serve as a launching point for a Rolling Stones/The Who tour. But The Who had just been touring and were at the top of their game. The Rolling Stones had been doing drugs in England for months... guess who played better? The Who blew The Stones off the stage so bad that not only was the special never aired, but the entire tour was canceled. Here it is. The Stones are still great though... and tap into that animal energy that The Who never really got into. Warning: It's long.

http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/0hXB3DIF2Eo
Four guys at the absolute top of their game.

Wanna talk about Yoko Ono singing with Kieth Richards and John Lennon? Ugh!

I think this ones pretty wild. The song is about hide and seek with sexual innuendos. The video's all over the place.

I'd also like to nominate this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzqRHAl8phc

Its a wittle graphic, so if you're of weak constitutions don't enjoy it.

Wadabout Madonna - Frozen?

Muse - Knights of Cydonia: most pop-culture-ific video EVAR.

Here's my eclectic mix of personal all time fave videos:

Sabatoge- Beastie Boys
Enter Sandman- Metallica
Wait and Bleed- Slipknot
The Beautiful People- Marilyn Manson
Smack My Bitch Up- Prodigy
Losing My Religon- REM
One- Metallica
Where's Your Head At- Basement Jaxx
Crazy- Gnarls Barkley
The Scientist- Coldplay

Hmm, the video for "Take a Picture" by Filter does not match the song itself. I kinda like the video for "Standing Outside a Broken Payphone with Money in Your Hand" by the Primitive Radio Gods, it had a very dreamy feel to it. Other two good videos are "Champagne Supernova" and "The Masterplan" by Oasis. Supernova is the psychedelic one, and Masterplan was the animated one, both beautiful. The whole "I'm drawing myself singing" thing in "Drive" by Incubus was also good.

Again, let me mention the videos for the Sympathy remix. The "Sympathy for The Devil (Remix)" video by the Neptunes was very awesome.

Nightwish - Nemo *sigh* Love the song and the music video. Then again, I don't watch many music videos. ._.

I like this one because it makes you feel like a kid reading through his favorite superhero comic book! Picture it now: Sunday morning, nothing better to do, so you head down to your local comic book store and pick up a copy of the latest Spiderman epic. Don't you just get that vibe? Well I do... It's a good song too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/YlcgCK5Gtsw

I just found Beck's latest music video too and maaaaaaaan is it a piece of work. I've always loved those music videos that make you question what the hell is going on, and this one definitely falls into that category. Michel Gondry does good work, this definitely beats out Beck's other low-budget music videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/zL-lKik2cD0

Jeebus, do I even need to explain why Tool's "Parabola" is awesome?! I don't know... I think it speaks for itself. Tool is the master band of symbolism. No contest. I mean, watch this video and tell me what's going on. Go on, watch it! Adam Jones is an amazing artist with both the guitar and the pencil. He brings his magical and sometimes disturbing images to life, from paper to your TV screen. Before he joined up with Tool, he worked as a makeup artist for movies like "Jurassic Park" and "Nightmare on Elm Street". And even today, he still embodies that talent. Best of all, Tool doesn't care if their music videos hit number one on the "Much Music Countdown". They just care that their fans are seeing their work. Now THAT'S the spirit!

http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/RiV_ue-PbL4

eminem "lose yourself"
http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/SWkcxGg5wKc

I really like the Gorillaz music videos. I only like a few of the songs, but the videos are just so fun to watch! But I'm an animation junky.

If you're looking for some really fun music videos, I think you should rent the DVD compilation of Michel Gondry's music videos. If I wasn't on dialup right now I'd provide some links. But he did the previously mentioned "Around the World" video for Daft Punk. He also directed a pretty amazing music video for Kylie Minogue (I can't remember the name of the song). Also he did that White Stripes video for "The Hardest Button to Button" and I think also that Lego music video with that one song I hate.

Some other videos I enjoy:

Kenna - Hellbent
Korn - Freak on a Leash (was that the bullet one?)
Polysics - I My Me Mine
Polysics - Electric Surfing Go Go
Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat (not so much cool as it is just funny)
AFI - Girl's Not Grey
Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatry

Redman - I'll Be Dat. I think it's one of the funniest music videos . Atleast in my opinion.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6fGXaqU0o7c

Beastie Boys - Intergalactic/Sabatoge/Ch-Checkit Out/So Whatcha Want are all great videos by them... so yea they make great videos.

Aha - Take On Me. Creative.
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=Take+On+me+aha&search=Search

Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal. Just a fun video to watch.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tDO_DGg4Smk

Offspring - Hit that Nice computer animations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHGjhMUeZxA

Blink 182 - What's My Age Again Punk's usually not my cup of tea, but both the song and the video is pretty funny.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=y3VMHWhEGlY

Afroman - Because I got High funny
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DJx0lpOSgGs

Oh my...... I've seen the videoclip of 'Damian Rice - 9 Crimes' on tv yesterday.. Beautiful. And sad......

Hawk
Korn - Freak on a Leash (was that the bullet one?)

Yeah, that was the bullet one.

Other good videos would be:

Metallica: One
Pink Floyd: Another Brick In The Wall
The Darkness: All of em

Dude, Rhapsody of Fire's Rain of a Thousand Flames is the best clip ever lol!

ah nostalgia
http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/dJJew5ytCKo

No Doubt- Underneath it all


i just like the last part when she's in the bed with the sun diffused through the room. makes her more beautiful and carefree.
'specially with the moaning ^_-

Ah Gwen is love... Sometimes I think she looks a bit like a man though, which both confuses and disturbs me. I like that "What you waiting for" alice in wonderland thing she had going... Long legs in stockings grab me every time. Too bad it's not literally!

not a terrible fan of the song, its OK but its nothing amazing. The video, however, is beautiful.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=V3b5eSUbYjQ

pretty much any of the many directed by michel gondry floats my boat