Ok, second try: I'm curious about your annual hierarchically ordered music video lists. ;) Post them!

         

1. Brian Borcherdt "Scout Leader" (Scott Cudmore)

2. Soap&Skin "Thanatos" (Benjamin & Stefan Ramirez Pérez)

3. Girls "Lust For Life" (Aaron Brown & Ben Chappell)

4. Charlotte Gainsbourg feat. Beck "Heaven Can Wait" (Director's Cut) (Keith Schofield)

5. Passion Pit "The Reeling" (Humble)

6. Exlovers "You Forget So Easily" (Jamie Chung)

7. The Hickey Underworld "Blonde Fire" (Joe Vanhoutteghem)

8. HEALTH "Die Slow" (John Famiglietti)

9. Chairlift "Evident Utensil" (Ray Tintori)

10. Monogrenade "Ce Soir" (Christophe Collette)

11. Fever Ray "When I Grow Up" (Martin de Thurah)

12. Japancakes "Behind The Mountains" (Ryan Berg)

13. Grizzly Bear "Ready, Able" (Allison Schulnik)

14. Manabe Takayuki "The TV Show" (Sugimoto Kousuke)

15. Nancy Elizabeth "Feet Of Courage" (Esther May Campbell & John Minton)

16. Joker's Daughter "Lucid" (Hayley Morris)

17. Land Of Talk "It's Okay" (WeWereMonkeys)

18. Tommy Sparks "She's Got Me Dancing" (Eric Wareheim)

19. Holy Fuck "Royal Gregory" (Mirrorshade)

20. Oren Lavie "Her Morning Elegance" (Oren Lavie, Yuval & Merav Nathan)

21. Moray McLaren "We Got Time" (David Wilson)

22. The Flaming Lips "Watching The Planets" (Wayne Coyne & George Salisbury)

23. Cate Le Bon "Hollow Trees House Hounds" (Ewan Jones Morris & Casey Raymond)

24. N.A.S.A. "Way Down" (Syd Garon and Sage Vaughn)

25. Birdy Nam Nam "The Parachute Ending" (Steve Scott)

26. Teenagersintokyo "Black Bones" (Rhett Dashwood)

27. Archangel "Do It Again" (Henry Scholfield)

28. Major Lazer "Hold The Line" (Ferry Gouw)

29. Vampire Weekend "Cousins" (Garth Jennings)

30. Grizzly Bear "Two Weeks" (Patrick Daughters)

31. High Places "I Was Born" (High Places)

32. Jason Lytle "I Am Lost (And the Moment Cannot Last)" (The General Assembly)

33. Bridez "Frenemies" (Aaron Brown & Ben Chappell)

34. Crocodiles "Summer Of Hate" (Christin Turner)

35. Jenny Lewis "See Fernando" (Alan Tanner)

36. The Fiery Furnaces "Charmaine Champagne" (Phillip Niemeyer)

37. WhoMadeWho "Keep Me In My Plane" (Good Boy! Creative)

38. La Roux "Bulletproof" (UFO)

39. Beardo "24 Hour Party" (Nicholaus Goossen)

40. Dinosaur Jr. "Over It" (Mark Locke)

         

this is a poor list.

         

In no particular order...

La Roux - Bulletproof (UFO) Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart (Andreas Nilsson) Fires Of Rome - Set In Stone (M83 Re-mix) - (Matthew Lessner) Bombay Bicycle Club - Dust On The Ground (Elisha Smith-Leverock) The Big Pink - "Dominos" (Timothy Saccenti) Dead Weather - Treat Me Like Your Mother (Jonathan Glazer) DeichKind - Luftbahn (Alex and Liane) Chairlift - Evident Utensil (Ray Tintori) Acid Girls - The Numbers Song (Taylor Cohen) Paloma Faith - Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful (Chris Sweeney) Coldplay - Strawberry Swing (Shynola) Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes (Danny Perez) Ladytron - Tomorrow (Neil Krug) Tiga - Shoes (Alex and Liane) Riton & Primary 1- Who's There (James Connolly) Kasabian - Vlad The Impaler (Richard Ayoade) Mum - Sing Along (Kevin Phillips) Drake - Best I Ever Had (Kanye West) Delphic - this momentary (Dave Ma) Bloc Party - One More Chance (Wendy Morgan)

There's more no doubt, but there's some. Can't really rank them. Will try to add more as they come to me, I like the list format. Thanks for asking.

         

Kansas, why bother even commenting then?

Now I think we'd all like to see your 'definitive' list, Please? Right everyone?

         

Mandy... who cares? Why did you bother commenting? I know I don't care to see your list.

         

That's a shame, Kansas, I'd written a list just for you for Xmas.

         

Oh you shouldn't have. I never knew you felt this way. What an ass I've made of myself.

         

And a Merry Christmas to all.

         

No order.

1. Justice Feat Lenny Kravitz "Let Love Rule" (K. Schofield)
2. Röyksopp "This Must Be It" (Andreas Nilsson & Flip Nilsson)
3. Charlotte Gainsbourg / Beck "Heaven can wait" (K. Schofield)
4. Tiga "Shoes" (Alex and Liane)
5. Vitalic "Poison Lips" (Julien Levy)
6. Jarvis Cocker "Further Complications" (Stéphanie DiGiusto)
7. Major Lazer "Pon De Floor" (E. Wareheim)
8. HEALTH "Die Slow" (John Famiglietti)
9. Birdy Nam Nam "The Parachute Ending" (Steve Scott)
10. Hecq vs Exillion "Spheres of fury" (Christopher Hewitt & Tim Brown)

Lists are geeky, and nobody cares. But what the heck put it out anyway. Am I the only one who hated that Depeche Mode video Patrick Daughters made and anything Fever Ray? on this site, most likely. Videos are back, in a big way.

         

^ Depeche: Found ALL of the recent crop turgid at best. Like Fever Ray although the only one of REAL note is IHAH. Liked the rest,but in particular thought WIGU has been over praised.

         

no ordering, but these are the magic crop of 09 i'd be most happy having on repeat:

Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses Dir. ThirtyTwo Bodies of Water - Under the Pines Dir. Andy Bruntel Rex the Dog - Bubblicious Dir. Geoffroy De Crecy Oren Lavie - Her Morning Elegance Dir. Oren Lavie Flogging Molly - Float Dir. Karni & Saul Beast - Mr. Hurricane Dir. Benjamin Steiger Levine Fleet Foxes - Mykonos Dir. Sean Pecknold Chairlift - Evident Utensil Dir. Ray Tintori Fever Ray - When I Grow Up Dir. Martin De Thurah Voxhaul Broadcast - Rotten apples Dir. Luke Asa Guidici Jack Penate - Tonight's today Dir. Alma Har'el Hauschka - Morgenrot Dir. Jeff Besom Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks Dir. Patrick Daughters Tiga - Shoes Dir. AlexandLiane
Avner - Bed för mig Dir. Marcus Söderlund
The Hickey Underworld - Blonde Fire Dir. Joe Vanhoutteghem Major Lazer - Pon de Floor Dir. Eric Wareheim Röyksopp - This Must Be It Dir. Andreas Nilsson & Filip Nilsson Mum - Sing Along Dir. Kevin Phillips Ciara ft. Missy Elliott - Work Dir. melina Two Door Cinema Club - I Can Talk Dir. Megaforce White Denim - I Start To Run Dir. Tom Haines Elvis Perkins - Chains, Chains, Chains Dir. Sean Pecknold Sour - Hibi No Neiro Dir. Masashi Kawamura & Hal Kirkland & Magico Nakamura & Masayoshi Nakamura Dinosaur Jr. - Over It Dir. Mark Locke Manchester Orchestra - Shake It Out Dir. Isaac Rentz Flairs - Truckers Delight Dir. Jérémie Perin Charlotte Gainsbourg feat. Beck - Heaven Can Wait Dir. Keith Schofield Ramona Falls - I Say Fever Dir. Stefan Nadelman

i'm also a sucker for re-edited material, whence: Roman Flügel - Stricher ex-opus Alexandre Alexeieff Coconut Records - Any Fun Dir. Mark Gonzales Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks Ed. JT Helms KiD CuDi - Simple As Ed. Ryan McNeill aka The General Assembly Radiohead vs Dave Brubeck - Five step Dir. Overdub Röyksopp - This Must Be It [Non-Musicvideo Edit] Ed. JM Daly with a special prize set aside for Kutiman - ThruYou Ed. Kutiman come to think of which: Best Re-edited Video for next year's?

         

1. Hickey Underworld 'Blonde Fire' Dir. Joe Vanhoutteghem
2. Beast - Mr. Hurricane Dir. Benjamin Steiger Levine
3. U2 "Crazy" Dir. David O' Reilly
4. The xx ''Basic Space'' Dir Anthony Dickenson (my fave performance vid of the year)
5. Fever Ray "When I Grow up" Dir. Martin De Thurah
6. Major Lazer - Pon de Floor Dir. Eric Wareheim
7. Oh No Ono – Swim Dir. Adam Hashemi
8. Lady Gaga "Paparazzi" dir: Jonas Akerlund
9. Chairlift - "Evident Utensil"
10. Ramona Falls- I Say Fever - dir. Stefan Nadelman
11. Miike Snow 'Animal' - dir. Anthony Dickenson
12. Lenny Kravitz & Justice - Let Love Rule Dir. Keith Schofield
13. Major Lazer "Keep It Goin' Louder" Dir. Eric Wareheim
14. White Lies - Farewell to the Fairground Dir. Andreas Nilsson

         

Thank you all! @kansas: Poor list? Why?