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THE 100 GREATEST POP VIDEOS
1-25 26-50 51-75 76-100 101-125
1. Abba - Knowing Me, Knowing You (1977)
AHA!!!! Swedish quartet adopt the classic 'standing at a ninety degree angle from each other' pose, while worried head-turns and wistful hugs suggest intriguing marital disharmony beneath the glitzy surface.
2. Adam and the Ants - Prince Charming (1981)
You shall go to the ball. The dandy highwayman reinvents himself as pantomime prince, complete with Diana Dors as fairy godmother.
3. Aerosmith - Crazy (1994)
Singer Steven Tyler's daughter Liv and her mate Alicia Silverstone hang out, act crazy, enter an amateur stripper night and steal a farmer's clothes.
4. Christina Aguilera - Dirrty (2002)
The Mickey Mouse club image is banished forever with this three minutes of mud wrestling, bondage and sado-masochism.
5. A-ha - Take on Me (1985)
Comic book hero comes to life in this groundbreaking animated video that made stars of the Norwegian synth-rockers.
6. Aphex Twin - Windowlicker (1999)
Following on from Come to Daddy (described as 'The Exorcist of pop videos'), Windowlicker transfers the disturbing central premise of lots of people in Aphex Twin beardy-bloke masks from a grim British estate to the Los Angeles world of the hip-hop video.
7. Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At? (2001)
Monkeys with human faces in a Czech laboratory demonstrate the 'next thing in pop music.'
8. The Beastie Boys - Sabotage (1994)
Sublime TV cop show parody that announced the arrival of director Spike Jonze.
9. The Beastie Boys - Intergalactic (1998)
Japanese monster B-movie spoof.
10. The Beatles - Strawberry Fields (1967)
Pioneering example of surreal music video from the days before anyone had even thought of the concept of a 'promo,' as the band are filmed (backwards) running up hills and jumping out of trees.
11. Beyoncé - Crazy in Love (2003)
Intricate group dancing, an exploding car and Beyoncé strutting her stuff in a vest.
12. Bjork - Human Behaviour (1993)
The story of Goldilocks reworked as magic realism when a stuffed bear turns the tables on his human hunter 'in the name of all animals'.
13. Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet (1995)
All-singing, all-dancing homage to the golden age of the Hollywood musical set in a tyre showroom.
14. Bjork - All is Full of Love (1999)
Two Bjork-faced white robots make love, not cars.
15. Blur - Parklife (1994)
Damon Albarn and Phil Daniels on the road as double-glazing salesmen.
16. Blur - Coffee & TV (1999)
Almost certainly the only video starring a walking milk carton.
17. The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays (1979)
Early 'story' video in which Bob Geldof and the band address a school assembly and Bob shows us his 'double take in an armchair' move.
18. David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes (1980)
What actually happened to Major Tom is finally revealed, plus Bowie drowns in a lake dressed as a clown and leads a pseudo-religious procession in front of a bulldozer.
19. Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy (1984)
Autobiographical tale of Jimmy Somerville's violence-filled teenage experiences at the hands (and fists) of small-town bigots.
20. The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star (1979)
Trevor Horn's 'fictitious band' in the first-ever video shown on MTV.
21. The Cardigans - My Favourite Game (1998)
Death-wish driving in the desert.
22. Johnny Cash - Hurt (2003)
Ageing country legend recalls his past and reflects on his own mortality.
23. Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun (1996)
Speeding point-of-view camera and dancing policemen.
24. Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be (1999)
Real life seamlessly segues into Busby Berkeley-type dance sequences for the video age.
25. Coldplay - The Scientist (2002)
Reversed action video that starts in apparent happy calm and ends on a carefree drive, but in-between features a horrific car crash.
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