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Here now are the 11 best animated music videos of all time. (In our opinion.) These videos span 3 decades and cover the spectrum of animation including techniques like stop motion, claymation, and computer graphics. Why 11? Because 11 is a wonderful number. (And we didn’t want to leave any of them off.)
Let us know your favorites and any that we missed. Here’s a couple more cool videos:
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
This animation for Kraftwerk’s “Autobahn” was done long before the days of MTV and might not technically be considered a music video. At any rate, it’s pretty cool and a bit trippy.
Gorillaz - 19-2000
The Gorillaz were not considered for this list because well… they’re an animated band so all their videos are animated. “19-2000″ has a nice blend of 2D and 3D animation.
And see Paula Abdul interact with the distinguished MC Skat Kat in Opposites Attract. (If you must.)
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Radiohead. Paranoid Android. Seriously.
How could you not include “Only in dreams” By Weezer???? http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=1355592019
Or “Land of Confusion” By Genesis? http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=1361593888
No Alice in Chains?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rMOU7qZVwJs
I am pleased with your number one, but agree that Paranoid Android was slighted.
No Paranoid Android? Fail.
Ya left out Mathew Sweets’ “Girlfriend”
The Faint - Agenda Suicide!
You should check out the video for “Go With The Flow” by Queens Of The Stone Age.
That and your Pearl Jam pick are my two favorite videos of all time, animated or otherwise.
or Madvillain’s All Caps
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WYtn63Y-J8g
I kept scrolling down for Paranoid Android and it never came! ???
CALIFORNICATION - red hot chili peppers
come on.
I know its not in the same musical style, but 2pac, Do for Love.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yre5nBXAxyk
The best animated music video of all-time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDeLjOiBFeI
Black Dahlia Murder - Elder Misanthropy
KMFDM
“A Drug Against War”
RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS CALIFORNICATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where’s Californication by the Red Hot Chili Peppers?
although not a huge hit, the sad little stars had a killer video called ‘don’t fuck with love’ that took nearly a year to make.
http://www.dontfuckwithlove.com/highres.html
great vid.
kp
No “Fuck Her Gently” by Tenacious D?!
What about Sunny Day Real Estate??? This list is a farce!
The fuck? Do the Evolution by Pearl Jam? All the other videos got heavy rotation, but I have not seen DTE since the day it came out since. Not even the next day had DTE on the TV. As for Land Of Confusion, its less of an attack on world leaders than it is a cliched fest around naive notions of power. I mean, come on, he hits the fat guy and money comes out. I guess Pearl Jam likes treating their fans as children with such simplicity.
Yeah, those are all great and stuff, but check this out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owS1coeoWEc
How to be a Millionaire, by ABC.
Running down a dream, by Tom Petty.
Motown Song by Rod Stewart.
You left out Incubus- Drive and Linkinpark. GRRR
Hey, a what about Frank Zappa’s “Baby Snakes” ?
Damn straight Do the evolution is “THE” best animated video ever and is in my top ten videos of all time animated or other wise
Can’t believe A-Ha made it in ahead of ANY of the Gorillaz vids. How this list could overlook and animated band is beyond me?!?
Can’t believe A-Ha made it in ahead of ANY of the Gorillaz vids. How this list could overlook and animated band is beyond me?!? I agree with the Number one and am glad to a Gondry vid represented.
Hmm… No Disturbed - Land of Confusion or Korn - Freak on a Leash?
I see one MacFarlane video, but how can you leave out the others?
Freak was not bad, but Land of Confusion deserved to be in as it’s on nearly the same plane as Do the Evolution.
What is the animated music video called where the kids are hangin out in their garage. then the kids dad yells at him for not doing good in school he enters the army and gets hurt but becomes a war hero. Does this ring any bells i remember it being an ok song.
Mmmh?
Ken-ishi “extra”
Aphex twins “on”
Etienne de crazy “scratched”
i forgot
“Living in the fridge” by
Weird Al Yankovic
;)
Great list! I have been teaching animation history here in Vancouver for 12 years and I’ve decided to include 3 hours of classtime just on music videos. Your site is a great primer on today’s animated music videos. Considering the history of animation the earliest films were all musically driven, think of Disney’s “Silly Symphonies” Warner’s “Merry Melodies” and all the Betty Boop’s with it’s Cab Calloway & Louis Armstrong soundtracks. Fantasia, Yellow Submarine, Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”, The Rolling Stones’ “Harlem Shuffle”, etc. etc. Your site really highlights the best the in today’s history of animation. Thanks for the research.
Its been bugging me forever there was a music video i used to love a few years ago it was animated and about a fastfood restaurant. a guy walks in a back room and finds a live cow being sliced up and served as hamburger the cow then goes crazy and eats everybody. its really annoying i cant remember the name of the video or the song, can anybody help?
HI EVERYBODY, I AM DESPERATELY LOOKING FOR AN ANIMATED MUSIC VIDEO..IT WAS ON AIR TIME AND AGAIN ON MTV, KINDA POP WITH A FEMALE VOICE.
THE WHOLE ANIMATION WAS MADE OF PAPERBOARD, A LITTLE CAR , DRIVING THROUGH A PAPERBOARD CITY SCAPE.
AROUND 2000-2002?
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT ?
PLEASE DROP AN EMAIL IF YES.
THANKS
HUGO (SWITZERLAND)
also looking for a animated video
1)french group
2)electronica/dance/tecnho genre
3)1990’s
4)For those in Canada, was always played a lot on Muchmusic’s Clip trip
Someone please help me
Hugo… I know the song you are thinking of but i cant seem to remember the name or the artist. I remember watching it on much music in canada around early 2000. Its Dance/Pop ish and im quite sure it is european.
Aaron, I’ve been looking for that same video! Did you ever find it?
Hugo - the video you were thinking of is Point of View by DB Boulevard
Kat!!!.. Thank you soo much .. i searched soo long for that song.. ! Now i finally have it!..
xx kim
and im also looking for a song… dont remember the name.. but there’s something i remember.. something like .. “And it feels like chocolate lalalaa”.. thats everything i know about the song .. GHeghe!..
Xx
i’ve been searching for a song/music video. electronica genre, the video was done in cutout animation style (has a girl and a guy with a french beret, i think). the song was in French or some French phrases being repeated over and over again between a female and male voice(i think the guy’s asking something, but the girl says “no”). has a nice beat. it’s been years, i saw it on muchmusic around the turn of the century. help please
Hi Aaron. I know the animated video that you are looking for. Artist Name: Etienne De Crecy, song name: Am I wrong. Enjoy! :)
HOLY BOJANGELES !! Thanks you have noidea how long ive been looking. ;)
I think i found your song Kimmay.
Sweet like chocolate from Shanks and Bigfoot .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHFFol-8REI
I´m looking for an animated music video. This is my recollection of it.
The setting is a hamburger restaurant. Upp front the kids are flipping burgers and the boss is around flashing either a gold ring or a gold tooth. Down in the basement there are cows hooked up to television system that makes them believe that they are gracing around on a field. But really they are just walking on a treadmill and are being sliced up into hamburgers as alive. Eventually something happens to the television system and the cows becomes aware of whats going on, and attacks the owner.
I can´t really recall the music but i believe it was something electronic.
If someone can help me with this video I would be very grateful
I’m looking for a simailar music video as Lasse. It’s an electronic, quite dancy but laid back track possibly released around 2001 by french DJ. Not sure …
i recall the cow behind the burger joint was being forced feed while meat was being minced from part it. Excellent music to match an excellent creative animated 3D video with a massage on animal rights.
I just looked thru the thread - the song is by Etienne De Crecy, song name: Am I wrong. Yipppee now i can go get it :) Thxxx
Hey Guys…since everyone is looking for animated music videos- i thought i might ask if anyone could help me with mine:
I’ll try my best to describe it:
-It’s a house/electronica track and was released around 2001-2002 or 2003 even.
-It’s a black and white 2-d animation.
-The video has this miniature man with a big head that looks like a hypnosis spiral dial or an eye.
-He’s running away from the edge of the screen or some monster (can’t really remember what it was..but he was running)
-The song itself has these Bruce Lee’s Game of Death/James Bond theme-like trumpets and flutes that cut into the beats rapidly and frequently (that’s what attracted me to the song itself).
-While the music plays, there’s some mumbling that goes along with the instrumentals. It sounds like someone inhaled helium, says something twice and then says a complete sentence (with the helium voice).
-at the end of the video, the mini-man falls into something and gets stuck and he struggles to get free.
I’d really appreciate it if anyone could help me get the name of this track. I have every other one from that time period that i liked. Apart from this one- i had no idea of the name or artist of the track. This video was the only clue and i’ve been searching for years…thanks
It’s been driving me crazy. I’m looking for a music video they had a long time ago on MTV in the night time. It’s a cartoon video where a secretary woman is being sexually harrassed by her boss and then she sleeps with him and I’m pretty sure she gets promoted. ANyways at the end she blows up the whole builing that her and her boss are in. I think she does this also because the boss started sexually harrassing the new secretary. PLEASE if any one has any information on it!
Does anyone remember the song with the video of the woman who was riding a scooter through town in the summer? looked like GTA graphics and was out a couple of years ago??? really starting to bug me…
has anyone seen a clip of an animated cube that transforms and breaks it down old skool to MJ’s “dont stop till you get enough”
iam looking for a song. i saw it awhile ago. maybe 2003 or so. its animated. saw it on mtv i think. kinda sad song. has a guy who takes to pills and kills himself. later in the video he walks to his car in this parking lot and when he goes to put the key in the lock disappears. i really love the song. been looking forever for it. please help me out. its driving me nuts
I’m looking for a music video that was shown often on Music Television in the 90’s. The song reminds All Rise by Blue. Video is an animation with cley and shows a car race in a small coast village road that has many hills. The competitors are trying to drop each others by any means. The group in head role have an vintage car. What’s the name of the song and artist?
Jay!? it’s not “don’t stop till you get enough” If i remember correctly the beat had a MJ thing about it though. The name of the song is “Number One” but i don’t know who did it. i just remember the name. Now can someone pleeeease help me with my song, jeeez…..
Hey Jay! the song itself is not “don’t stop till you get enough” even though it sounds like it. The name of the track is “number one”, i don’t know the name of the artist though. Now could someone please someone help me out with mine lol….
Hi, I’m looking for a song. From around the 2000s or a little before. Male singer. In the animation, he’s a blue haired guy, and he’s singing about a girl he likes, but who I think doesn’t like him. If someone could let me know who sings this, that’d be great. this has been driving me crazy.
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