Videos that made the song better

[TexasSports22]

Any music videos that you know of that actually enhanced the song?

First one that comes to mind is Can't Stop by the Chili Peppers. How can you not love the randomness of it?

[TylerDurden]

Miss Jackson - Outkast. What the hell? A rap video with no hos in sight? I'm intrigued.

Another Brick in the Wall - Pink Floyd - faceless schoolkids literally being turned into sausage. Memorable to say the least.

[Grandstander]

Without the hilarious cartoon physics video which accompanied Twisted Sister's "Leader of the Pack" cover, it would have been just an undistinguished rehash of a not so especially distinguished original.

[TheAJx]

Franco UnAmerican - NOFX

[TexasSports22]

Where have you been hiding AJx?

[nanwynnfan]

The two Robert Palmer hits:

"Simply Irresistible"

"Addicted to Love"

... audio-visual classical simplicity

[DiamondDave]

Whitesnake's 'Here I Go Again'... possibly one of their worst songs, but when Tawny was writhing all over the hood of the Jag, suddenly the song did not seem so bad

[LaxD]

Originally Posted by TylerDurden

Miss Jackson - Outkast. What the hell? A rap video with no hos in sight? I'm intrigued.

Another Brick in the Wall - Pink Floyd - faceless schoolkids literally being turned into sausage. Memorable to say the least.

Outkast isn't rap, their hip-hop. There is a big difference and I have been in countless arguments over this online.

I'm going to have to go with OK GO-Here it goes again.

[TylerDurden]

OK GO-Here it goes again.

How'd I miss that one? Incidentally, it is a great song to run to, treadmill or no.

[skrable]

"I Touch Myself," Divynals (sp?)

[TheAJx]

How could I forget

Back dat azz up - Juvenile
Ms New Booty - Bubba Sparxx

Stacy's Mom - Fountains of Wayne

[SpartacusII]

Originally Posted by LaxD

Outkast isn't rap, their hip-hop. There is a big difference and I have been in countless arguments over this online.

A ridiculous stance and argument ... almost as vapid as DiamondDave's stance that rap isn't music, based concurrently on a misunderstanding of rap itself and the definition of "music". There IS no set difference between the terms "hip-hop" and "rap" - even purveyors of the genre will have different explanations if given the chance. Once of the better ones, and it pains me to say this because I believe him to be a long-winded, anti-intellectual blowhard, comes from KRS-One, who stated that (paraphrasing) rap is a form of music, while hip-hop is a lifestyle. Outkast is rap. They are hip-hop. And they are one of the closest ties, in terms of form and quality, we have to the "Golden Age" of rap ... certainly a truth since the "Dirty South" took over and we were left with commercial options of deliquent quality and diversity. If I see one more anorexic, strangly braid-wearing, grilled-out "rapper" trying to flow over yet another tired kick drum, I may actually long for a KRS-One production.

[SpartacusII]

On topic ... "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits. What a poor song, only saved by its parodying of itself on screen.

Funny that a song such as "Video Killed the Radio Star" lamented the demise of radio, at the hand of the video format ... yet, here we are, 25+ years later, and I have 7 allegedly "music video" channels on my satellite, and only one - IMF - actually has a video playing at the moment (a German band who is terrible and makes me feel bad that I studied the language for years and can't understand a single word they are singing). In fact, I have not actually viewed a music video, except by accident, in ... jeez, has it been 5 years now? Part of it is growing up and out of caring about that sort of thing, part of it is not having time to waste watching them, and a bigger part is that videos are no longer actually shown on TV.

[perfectstormhits]

Van Halen - Hot For Teacher

[LaxD]

Originally Posted by SpartacusII

A ridiculous stance and argument ... almost as vapid as DiamondDave's stance that rap isn't music, based concurrently on a misunderstanding of rap itself and the definition of "music". There IS no set difference between the terms "hip-hop" and "rap" - even purveyors of the genre will have different explanations if given the chance. Once of the better ones, and it pains me to say this because I believe him to be a long-winded, anti-intellectual blowhard, comes from KRS-One, who stated that (paraphrasing) rap is a form of music, while hip-hop is a lifestyle. Outkast is rap. They are hip-hop. And they are one of the closest ties, in terms of form and quality, we have to the "Golden Age" of rap ... certainly a truth since the "Dirty South" took over and we were left with commercial options of deliquent quality and diversity. If I see one more anorexic, strangly braid-wearing, grilled-out "rapper" trying to flow over yet another tired kick drum, I may actually long for a KRS-One production.

Outkast is one of the closest things we have back to the golden days, I can't disagree more.


Hip-hop is a culture, a music, and a way of life.

Forgot rap, forget anybody who has to do it, they steal something from a culture that they never know and never will understand.

Hip-hop is music made by the hip-hop culture, which, many of todays artist don't fall into. They robbed the culture and took it away.

Read these
This Hiphop Declaration of Peace
Temple of Hip Hop - Home d=39
The Temple of Hip Hop
Temple of Hip Hop - Home


1979
~Hilltop Hoods~
Intro:
Know what I'm sayin'…In 1979...
I was a 2 year old kid from Adelaide...
I wasn't a performer...
It seems to me that in 1999 Hip Hop's a business...
In 1979 it was a culture... And I miss it…

Verse 1:
Suffa:
You're so fake its plain to see who you truly are,
looking less like a b-boy, more like a movie star,
forget the funk and go hook up those disco breaks,
sit down punk and take a look at what you make,
it's not hip-hop, it's something more sad, sick and seedy,
what's Popping that Coochie got to do with graffiti?
And your R & B dance-steps what about finger-popping?
b-boy electric shocking, windmills, body rocking,
so body-body rock, body-body rock, I'll take ya back,
break your back, realize b-boys aren't faking that
funk that you've forgotten hoe,
how could you have gotten so
far gone, that you could never stop and go,
back to the roots, nineteen seventy nine,
birthplace of the scratch, birthplace of the rhyme,
you'll feel it in your spine like your first taste of wine,
we'll make it back; it'll just take some time

Chorus:
Suffa:
Remember Kangol hats, fat laces and lino mats,
kids spinning on their backs to the sugar hill wax,
now the sugar hills collapsed and the sweets turned sour,
moneys walking my culture through its darkest hour,
now I wanna take you back, walk on through time,
I was two years old in nineteen seventy nine,
but it's a time that I miss; you ask what's the difference,
Hip-hop was then a culture, now hip-hop's a business

Verse 2:
Suffa:
You started b-boying as a form of expression,
to channel youths stress and their aggression,
now through the suggestion of record companies
MC's are pumping these,
problems back into ya section, and isn't it ironic?
but not the sort to make you laugh,
cuz MC's are building futures by raping the past,
taking a glass of Chardonnay and putting it to your lips,
I'd rather take a razor blade and put it to my wrist
than sell records on the basis that I have to promote
sniffing and selling coke, toting guns and smoking dope,
you're all weaving the rope that you'll hang yourself with
my only consolation is within the hip hop nation is
b-boy elements that can still get me open,
like Graff mags from Berlin, mix tapes from Oakland,
breakers from Whitsetty, plus anything from Tribe
and old school New York that's still got the vibe

Also check out the song Rap vs. Hip-Hop.