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top ten music videos of 2013

12/17/2013

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Here is a collection of our favourite music videos from throughout the year. This list stands as a reminder that music videos can be more than mere promotional tools for shallow products, and that amongst a sea of twerking arses with pseudo shock value, there were some really thought provoking and genuinely moving videos in 2013.    Our choices are defined by videos that push and experiment artistically & narratively with the  format of music videos.    It is this freedom from structure that we really enjoy and sees Red Tape predominately work within the field of music videos. These are the videos of 2013 that inspired us,  blew us away and some that we wished we had made ourselves. 
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#10 Foals - Late night
Dir: Nabil Elderkin
Profound but incredibly pieced together with amazing cinematography. 




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#9 The Red Paintings - Your Not One of Them
Dir: Trash McSweeney
Ok some bias but this is actually the first TRP video that I didn’t have a whole lot to do with.  Well done to Richard Bell & Trash on set and Jarryd Hall, Adele Walker, Dallas Ashton, Moogie and the team in putting it together. A great video by anyone’s standards, And you can vote for it in Rage’s Top 50 along with our clip  ‘Loreli’

 


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#8 Queens of the Stone Age -I Appear Missing
Dir: Boneface 

I just like Animation and QOTSA



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#7  The Doppler Shift - The Man Who Was Forever Haunted by His Head
Dir:  Claudio Sichel
By complete fluke we found this video. A case of great visuals complementing the music and Vice Versa.

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#6 The Vein / Magma
Dir:  Dvein
Crazy, disturbing and beautiful. 

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#5 Steven Wilson -The Raven that Refused to Sing
Dir: Jessica Cope & Simon Cartwright
Very cool paper cut out animation and a really sad song and video  that compliment each other perfectly. The Drive Home clip is also pretty exceptional. 



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#4 BEHEMOTH - Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel
Dir: Dariusz Szermanowicz
Hats off to any director that makes me feel like I just witnessed a stuff film. Nothing filmed was particularly shocking but I still feel somewhat disturbed by it all.  

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#3 Atoms for Peace - Before Your Very Eyes
Dir: Andrew Thomas Huang
 A combination of stopmotion, CGI, greenscreen and kooky eyes have been assembled into this heavily textured music video. One where the making of is just as intriguing as the video itself.

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#2 Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
Yet another video that pushes the music video genre. Probably also the best interactive video this year too (QOTSA & Pharrell Williams also releasing interactive music videos). channel surf through a dozen  TV shows singing Dylan including The Price is Right,  

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#1 WoodKid - I Love You
Dir: Yoann Lemoine
Before you tell us to hold on Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time, hear me out. For the last three years now we have had one of Yoann Lemoine's (also the musician WoodKid) videos in our top ten, and that's not about to change with a new video for 2014 being announced.  Each video continues a stylistic look and a loose narrative that runs through the three videos released so far. It's the relentless beautiful work and dedication to tell an ongoing story over three or four videos that led to this being our number one for 2013. 

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Top 10 Music videos of 2010

12/17/2010

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Our top picks of 2010; Rangers, Ninjas, ET having sex and some seriously out there music videos from some big gun directors  including Spike Jones, John Hillcoat & Chris Cunningham.
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#10 Tobacco -Super Gum
Kicking off my Top Ten Music Videos of 2010 with Tobacco's 'Super Gum'. Have not been able to forget this clip since I saw it, features ET being taken advantage of. I think the footage comes from a real film. I’d love to know the name of the film if anyone knows or dares to admit they have seen it.

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#9 Kanye West - Power 
Inspired by Michelangelo's artwork in the Sistine Chapel, I’d say this is the slickest music video I’ve seen all year deserving of the #1 spot, but because Kanye  destroys  a classic ‘King Crimson’ song by sampling ‘21st century schizoid man’ it can’t be forgiven and gets a #9

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#8 Grinderman - Heathen Child 
Dir: John Hilcoat,
Makes 'The Road' look like a day at the beach.

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 #7 Plan B - Prayin
Dir: Daniel Wolfe
I don't know what it was but there where alot of music videos this year that felt more like watching a film than a music video.

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#6 Baths - Lovely Bloodflow 
Dir: Alex Takacs and Joe Nankinhttp
Beautifully shot, weird music, Samurai and purple gas must be my #6 Favorite Music Video or the year. 

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#5 Gil Scott-Heron - New York is Killing Me  
Dir: Chris Cunningham
Draw the blinds and turn the lamp down low, cos Chris Cunningham’s Music video / installation piece is the shit. 

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#4 UNKLE - The Answer 
Dir: John Hillcoat
Actor Ray Winstone talks about being hit by lightning as a child in yet another video directed by John Hillcoat in my top ten. 

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#3 Arcade Fire - The Suburbs  
Directed by Spike Jonze!

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#2 Die Antwoord -Ninja
Enter the Ninja & Evil Boy tie for second. If Die Antword had released ten music videos this year I think I would have included them all.   

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 #1MIA - Born Free
Dir: Romain Gavras
Gingercide 

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