30 Best Music Video Of 2009
30 Best music video of 2009 that are creative, original, or appealing to watch. The music ranges from indie rock to pop to electronic to hip-hop. The ranking goes from 1 to 30 with no. 1 being my best video of the year. |
| 1 | Moray Mclaren - We Got Time (Indie / Alternative)
Best music video of the year with very inventive camera technique used in the video (Praxinoscope matching frame rate of spinning record). The end result? Epic.
youtube.com/watch?v=j9e38cuhnaU |
| 2 | Cinnamon Chasers - Luv Deluxe (Electronica / Progressive)
Insane story-telling visuals that shows good, bad, and the ugly side of a person. The video was shot in first person view (remind me of Prodigy?s video) that starts off cute and ends with a bang.
youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Y1MalRrDc |
| 3 | Miike Snow - Burial (Pop / Electronica)
Incredible video that fits perfectly with the voice and tune. The director succeeds to catch the essence of the song with a showcase of natural beauty and people of India.
youtube.com/watch?v=lOXnSdXV-0I |
| 4 | Passion Pit - The Reeling (Electronica / Indie)
A Visually enhanced video with unique ripped-paper effect. What more can I say? An incredible and fun video
youtube.com/watch?v=qVstHPhaJ6M |
| 5 | Vampire Weekend - Cousins (Indie)
An original video that was shot in the alley with moving platform. It is quirky and shows a sense of humor from the band. Love the contrast in the video as well.
youtube.com/watch?v=1e0u11rgd9Q |
| 6 | Pill - Glass (Hip-Hop / Rap)
Possibly the best hip-hop video this year. The video captures the sound and life on the street. It goes along beautifully with black and white images signifying the weight of the situation. It is powerful.
youtube.com/watch?v=o-nX_j4pjUo |
| 7 | Valley Lodge - All Of My Loving (Rock / Alternative)
Brilliant and very creative. Naked furniture anyone?
youtube.com/watch?v=GyrHm9C46tE |
| 8 | MGMT - Kids (Electronica / Indie)
Yes, this video is controversial and disturbing but it gets the message across, a child enters the messy world created by adults and becomes a monster himself. Love the televised puppet video as well as animation near the end.
youtube.com/watch?v=otjSmlAeBb4 |
| 9 | The Big Pink - Velvet (Alternative / Shoegaze)
Haunting shoegazing melody blends in brilliantly with this black and white, mirror-like, distorted, and flashing images. The result is mesmerizing.
youtube.com/watch?v=OA3twi3iSNQ |
| 10 | Depeche Mode - Wrong (Electronica)
Original and creative video as we see a man struggles for help inside a car not knowing his demise. The editing and shots are well done.
youtube.com/watch?v=5bsXOcK9_Cw |
| 11 | Rise Against - Savior (Punk / Alternative)
Political undertone, environmental implication, exploitation and forgiveness, animal mosh pit, band rocking out?and there you have it, a perfect punk rock video.
youtube.com/watch?v=701fXItIbvU |
| 12 | MSTRKRFT ft. John Legend - Heartbreaker (Electronica)
This stylish video is about a group of kids who find a moment of fun and romance in L.A. Oriental-type store, as every heartbreak invariably begins with a beautiful moment.
youtube.com/watch?v=Uv0Z_Q9CLEM |
| 13 | Oi Va Voi - Everytime (Pop / Indie)
Another creative video, this time with shredding machine. Every third frame of the footage was printed, shredded and blended with adjacent frames by different stripes configuration.
youtube.com/watch?v=WjaRmVimXK8 |
| 14 | N.A.S.A. - Gifted (Electronica)
The band has several animation videos but this is definitely my favorite. A trippy journey to outer space.
youtube.com/watch?v=WZB7yswo6a0 |
| 15 | Juliette Lewis - Fantasy Bar (Psychedelic Rock)
Trippy and dreamy. This video is like an acid trip without taking an acid. Raw, fearless, and energetic as expected from rock n roll video..
youtube.com/watch?v=Z0oN_lDJfT8 |
| 16 | Oren Lavie - Her Morning Elegance (Pop / Folk)
A magical dreamscape of a woman who sleepwalks her way to morning elegance, and thus the song the title. Thousands of still photos were taken for this beautiful video.
youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY |
| 17 | White Lies - Farewell to The Fairground (Indie Rock)
Great cinematography. The video features Harry hitchhiking in a snow and empty landscape as he tries to escape hopelessness.
youtube.com/watch?v=LQ0AFriC7ZM |
| 18 | Mark Knight & D. Ramirez - Downpipe (Electronica)
Amazing video with light screens wired up to a building in Dublin.
The best part is it moves with the beat of the song.
youtube.com/watch?v=NbghaUtVfJg |
| 19 | Bus Driver - Me-Time (Hip-hop)
A rapping robo-puppet goes berserk at kid?s birthday party. It can?t get better than this.
youtube.com/watch?v=1a0Y-CRx4nE |
| 20 | Blitzen Trapper - Black River Killer (Folk / Indie)
Dark and yet spectacular cinematic work of storytelling from a killer?s viewpoint.
youtube.com/watch?v=n7zyfArxibk |
| 21 | Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself (Electronica)
A graphic and creepy video that could not be any more perfect with its hypnotizing tune.
youtube.com/watch?v=E5JumWq0Nv8 |
| 22 | Major Lazer - Hold The Line (Reggae)
A trippy video featuring GI Joe alike action hero named Major Lazer. This is pure awesomeness.
youtube.com/watch?v=558F1EaxH8c |
| 23 | Metric - Sick Muse (Indie)
A brilliant and fresh yet simple video showing the band having fun and rocking out.
youtube.com/watch?v=BEz8N8AT-yo |
| 24 | Donkeyboy - Ambitions (Pop)
An interesting video about a fatal disease which is caused by giving up on your ambitions. Oh and it?s called Abicere Leprous.
youtube.com/watch?v=V_WQ6u9os50 |
| 25 | Grizzly Bear - Ready, Able (Indie)
Artistic and trippy. The video uses clay to show surreal mix of repulsion, sadness, and beauty.
youtube.com/watch?v=Puph1hejMQE |
| 26 | The Presets - If I Know You (Electronica)
Dark and melancholy video showing youth group wandering and dancing through the city of Angels searching for hope, not knowing what future will be like.
youtube.com/watch?v=4zkjDBQwalw |
| 27 | Five (Oh) - Boo Hoo
Who says children can?t do things that adults do?
youtube.com/watch?v=UXs5PeIUUUM |
| 28 | Say Hi - One, Two... One (Indie / Pop)
Eric Elbogen?s first music video ever from former ?Say Hi To Your Mom? as he is being hunted by beautiful goddess
youtube.com/watch?v=Ry6dBOsiwAQ |
| 29 | Peter Bjorn and John - Nothing To Worry About (Pop / Indie)
The video features Japanese biker gang with defying hairstyle dancing on the street. It?s like they?ve got nothing to worry about.
youtube.com/watch?v=GwcaQ3qJ88U |
| 30 | Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart (Electronica)
Very atmospheric, eerie, and nightmarish video. It shows an aftermath of deadly party with a decadence caused by technology. An amazing metaphorical video package.
youtube.com/watch?v=EBAzlNJonO8 |
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