MySpace Music’s 30 Videos We Couldn’t Stop Watching In 2009
This year, when listening to his emotionally vulnerable third album, it was easy to imagine Cage as sensitive artist wandering around New York with a dark cloud over his head. Turns out, he kind of was.
After having a surprise hit with Fantasies, this video served as the inevitable response to new fans wondering if there was anyone in Metric other than Emily Haines. Not that she didn’t make for a great bass player or anything.
The second best video of the year to prominently feature red Solo cups was a breakthrough moment for an artist whose breakthrough moment was long overdue. We couldn’t have been prouder.
This is what the most hyped band of 2007 looked like in 2009: Four guys, in an alley, working overtime to keep your attention. Which is precisely why we never looked away.
The conversation had to have gone like this: “Guys, for our next video we should act out scenes from that movie about arm wrestling. What’s it called? Over The Top? Yes, Over The Top! I mean, our singer already looks like a trucker.” And then this happened.
We’re happy for you and we’re gonna let you finish… but “Paranoid” was the fifteenth greatest video of 2009! It was Vertigo meets “Disturbia,” which even Kanye’s critics had to admit was a pretty classy move.
When the late Heath Ledger began turning up at Modest Mouse shows in 2007, longtime fans seemed puzzled. How could a Hollywood A-Lister love their beloved underground vets? Then this bizarre-yet-beautiful clip turned up and it all made sense: He was one of them.
Okay, we know this is going to sound crazy, but what if they did this… on a treadmill!?
With their second video off of Appeal To Reason, these brainy punks tried to point out that our last president might not have done the best job. Then came this third video and Rise Against managed to make that point in a way that could cause even the most stubborn warmonger to break down and cry.
When Dinosaur Jr. got back together, you scoffed to your friends. “Lou, J and Murph are all having a mid-life crisis,” you said. Well, guess what? You were right.
