Since a thread was started asking if animated music videos would make a full-on comeback (outside of The Gorillaz, that is), I thought it'd be a nice idea to look back at some classics from days gone by (videos using old toon clips set to pop hits---i.e. HB-TV from the mid-80's---don't count).
Perhaps the greatest of these was Tom Petty's "Running Down a Dream" (1989), from "Full Moon Fever". Tom paid homage to Windsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland (who knew?) with this clip, which is just flat wack still after nearly 20 years.
I think the same animation house (might've been England's Halas & Bachelor, I don't know) did Rod Stewart's "Motown Song" and Elton John's "Club at the End of the Street", and for a trifecta, perhaps also ABC's "How to be a Millionaire". "Club" made use of the dreaded rotoscoping (how else to explain the repeated moves of the backup singers), but otherwise it's a fun song.
Then, we turn to claymation and Stephen R. Johnson's two clips for Peter Gabriel, "Sledgehammer" & "Big Time" (1986-7) off "So". I believe Johnson took home a VMA or two for the former, not sure about the latter.
What about you? What's your favorites?
Perhaps the greatest of these was Tom Petty's "Running Down a Dream" (1989), from "Full Moon Fever". Tom paid homage to Windsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland (who knew?) with this clip, which is just flat wack still after nearly 20 years.
I think the same animation house (might've been England's Halas & Bachelor, I don't know) did Rod Stewart's "Motown Song" and Elton John's "Club at the End of the Street", and for a trifecta, perhaps also ABC's "How to be a Millionaire". "Club" made use of the dreaded rotoscoping (how else to explain the repeated moves of the backup singers), but otherwise it's a fun song.
Then, we turn to claymation and Stephen R. Johnson's two clips for Peter Gabriel, "Sledgehammer" & "Big Time" (1986-7) off "So". I believe Johnson took home a VMA or two for the former, not sure about the latter.
What about you? What's your favorites?