[TheRaisin]

Three-way tie for me. In no particular order:

1. "Everybody Hurts" by R.E.M., wherein there's this traffic jam on a weekday morning and everybody's thinking these depressing thoughts and you can READ THEIR THOUGHTS 'cause there are little subtitles under everybody showing what they're thinking. And then suddenly everybody starts like climbing out of their cars and throwing away their papers and things and it ends with like a helicopter view of this happening and some reporter talking about it. Good song too.

2. "Do the Evolution" by Pearl Jam. Very cool animated music video. Highly stylized, very dark, violent, actiony, fast-paced. Very strange. Horrible stuff happening, wars and things, and there's this woman dancing whose face momentarily becomes a skull. The song, I think, is decent, but I don't really know because I don't even pay attention to the music. I just love the video.

3. "Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden. I shouldn't even have to explain this one. But in case geography has prevented you from seeing it (like, if you live under a rock), there are these guys playing music up on this hill, and there's like this happy sunny 50's town below them and this stormy sky behind them. And weird stuff starts happening. These people walk into town with a sign that says "The end is nigh", and then supernatural things start happening, like these two boys are frying a cockroach under a magnifying glass, then there's a flash of light, and suddenly they're on the ground squirming and there's an intense light shining on them. And some other stuff. Extremely cool. Excellent music as well.

Sorry for the long-winded explanations. You should have seen these already anyway. If you have any taste in music at all . . .

What are your favorites?