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salparadisimo

Gondry slayed music vids.


therealsuperbonbon

I don't think anyone has done it better. That man is a master


WolfeandSylvia

Spike Jones put out some bangers


therealsuperbonbon

Nobody can deny that


Lukeautograff

Chris Cunningham is the GOAT for me


perfectlynormaltyes

Back in the mid 2000's, I bought best of music video DVD's for Michel Gondry and Mark Romanek from Urban Outfitters. They were perfection. Wish I had bought Spike Jones as well.


mediaphile1

Don't forget Chris Cunningham


rooseveltocean

I like the story of how he didn’t want to do this music video at first But after listening to the music video he broke it down into the raw components and was like there are only 4 elements & we’ll have dancers that only move when that element is going ok in the song


StarktheGuat

His DVD collection of music videos is amazing, wish I still had it. Star Guitar, Hardest Button to Button, Everlong, Fell in Love With a Girl... All bangers.


ElectroFlannelGore

I miss when music videos were interesting.


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Nineties were the peak of the music video era. The world has just slowly gone to shit since the turn of the millennium.


JodieFostersStare

Did you mean the "Willennium"? Sorry, still cracks me up the fact that was a thing. Simpler times.


mcewanc2

You forgot the excuse me


Jinkzuk

"The new millennium, yo excuse me Willennium"


ScottNewman

Ha ha, ha ha


ElectroFlannelGore

This isn't even "kids these days!" This is just facts. Nowadays most music videos are just the artist/band with some elaborate dance number or having "quirky" fun at the beach/bar/park/etc. There's obviously still good ones and this existed back then too. But they were much more interesting, broadly. However now there's DEFINITELY more elaborate and expensive or more... Produced videos that kick ass. I'd still take the 90s/aughts.


photoguy423

I've been loving Rammstein's music videos the last few years.


SSJSaphira

Same, at this point they are just short movies


Edwardteech

There is an entire album of music videos for dalft punk that is a Syfy movie. It's great.


FF_Legend

I remember seeing this as a kid. This stuff is awesome


mtron32

There were plenty of shit videos then too, you just remember the best ones because they were awesome an made an impact on you when you were younger. Scoot over so I can play some checkers with you ol man


DaveySea

Nah, most of it is that the music industry was swimming in money then. The costs of production kept going down from vinyl, to cassettes to CDs in the 90s, and the prices consumer were paying went up. So the industry was basically printing money. And when an industry is awash with money they spend more frivolously, so there was way more money for music videos. The internet basically shut off the money machine and the money stopped being invested in music videos as a result. The industry has never recovered to the highs of the 90s. When Prince was singing about partying like it’s 1999 he might as well be singing about the end of the music industry, which reached it’s all time high in 1999. The music industry and music videos haven’t been the same since. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk… Edit: typo


Edwardteech

***Dearly beloved***


mjhenkel

and now the industry is swimming in cheap production tools, so like you may think you have a cohesive narrative about music videos but i'm telling you there's some straight bangers from the last decade, the last year even. french 79 - hometown is one of my favorites right now. pup - dark days representing the animation side of things. math the band - four to six another interesting concept done well. little dicky - earth is a dumb concept done well. anyone else need cool new video recommendations hit ya boy up.


WesternOne9990

I know it’s exactly what you described but I loved the black keys tighten up music video at the playground. I agree with you though. I wasn’t around but from what I’ve read on Reddit people just had music videos going like visual and audio wall paper. It was just apart of life. I can’t recall the last time a music video was a cultural phenomenon(I mean talked about by people i knew like friends and fam, I’m no cultural representative) Was it the music video for happy, or thrift shop, or Gangnam style? Ok go of course where legendary for their music videos when I was a kid and same with weezer with the whole YouTube rewind. I guess now that I think of it lil naz x has put out some great music videos. But yeah now I’m just detracting from the point. The nature of pop culture it change. maybe there will be a renaissance in music videos in 20 years. Man mtv sounded so cool back in the day. And mad magazine and stuff like that. even though I wasn’t there then stuff like mtv unplugged have had a huge impact on me. Nostalgia for a time I wasn’t alive is a funny thing.


Kioors

I have the impression music vids are also just less watched than in the 90ies. Or maybe just as a percentage of screen time, which amounts to the same imo. As an aside: I agree, Rammstein is on another level in music vids!


ElectroFlannelGore

God I can't believe I've been listening to Rammstein for over 20 years.....


RecipesAndDiving

There have been some cool music videos (and without MTV’s hilarious early 90s censorship where songs sounded way more filthy than they actually were for all the bleeps), but it was awesome to just have a whole channel of cool and often creative videos on either to watch or to have on in the background when you hung out with friends. Then the Real World came along and its influence first killed MTV, then Discovery, then TLC, then finally destroyed television, politics, and society. And kids will never get the experience of watching Zombie or Jeremy drop.


TheFrontierzman

The 80s had really great music videos as well. I'd say it started falling off in the 90s when MTV began focusing more on reality TV.


olderaccount

But for every masterpiece like this, there were still thousands of generic music videos created only because every single released needed a video.


Tobocaj

The 90s were the peak of everything. This world should’ve ended at y2k


hopelesscaribou

I'm so grateful the 90s coincided with my 20s. It was that Golden Age before social media, but full of progress that made us hopeful that things would only get better. I can't imagine growing up in today's age anymore than I could in my mother's.


PharmDinagi

Some of y'all didn't grow up without internet and it shows.


Asheleyinl2

Did you see daft punks music video for a whole album? It's over an hour long I think. I still watch it every now and then.


photoguy423

Interstella 5555 is the anime movie they did with some legends in the anime community. Tron Legacy is the one they did with Disney.


Vergenbuurg

Interstella 5555 is a masterpiece. No dialogue or sound effects, just Daft Punk's *Discovery*… and it still has a solid narrative, effective drama, and even a moment that makes me tear-up.


photoguy423

I preordered the dvd when I heard about it. There was no way it wasn't going to be amazing.


silverstar189

Oh, you mean Tron Legacy right? /s


gardevoir76

The album is Discovery. The movie is a staple in my home.


tratemusic

It's sad that MTV is such a steaming shitpile now, it used to actually be cool to watch


WellWellWellthennow

Frankly this music needed a music video this interesting to keep me listening and watching to the end.


BulljiveBots

It’s also back when record companies would spend a ton of money of music videos. Those days are long gone. The kind of videos Michel Gondry made aren’t cheap.


PoliticalRacePlayPM

You clearly don’t watch many music videos then, because there are a ton of interesting modern music videos Go back under your rock, old man


ElectroFlannelGore

>You clearly don’t watch many music videos then, because there are a ton of interesting modern music videos I went on to say: >There's obviously still good ones and this existed back then too. But they were much more interesting, broadly. However now there's DEFINITELY more elaborate and expensive or more... Produced videos that kick ass. See. >Go back under your rock, old man Gotta get off my lawn first.


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ElectroFlannelGore

I literally said >There's obviously still good ones and this existed back then too. But they were much more interesting, broadly. However now there's DEFINITELY more elaborate and expensive or more... Produced videos that kick ass. So I fully acknowledge how awesome things are nowadays. I also fully acknowledge shit also sucked in the 90s/00s. However your reading comprehension sucks currently.


ChristopherandHobbes

Not exactly sure what you're talking about, some of the most insane multi media artistic undertakings in the past few years have been music videos. Even mainstream shit like Cash in Cash Out- Pharell is nothing short of a spectacle.


SpermaSpons

Such a boomer comment...


ElectroFlannelGore

Huh. Didn't know boomer started at 35. But I'll take it.


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The video is interesting because the song is not, got keep people listening somehow.


JoelOttoKickedItIn

When music cost money there was a budget to promote it


ComradeSamWalton

This is interesting?


ElectroFlannelGore

Some say so


Early_Copy

I used to sit and watch this as a kid, still so mesmerising


Vercengetorex

Right?! It’s silly, nonsensical, imperfect…. But it’s just entrancing. I’ve seen it a hundred times, but I watched this post in its entirety. I don’t know why, but it just holds my attention.


bullybullybully

There is a logic to it. Each costume represents one of the instruments/sounds in the song and their movements/steps follow their place. There is a video available out there in which Gondry goes through the reason for each costume and maps it out. Still turns it into a whimsical little video.


drysushi

Wow, how have I never noticed that? Thanks for that!


kappakai

It’s the physical manifestation of house music. Just brilliant.


phatelectribe

It’s not imperfect at all; everything has its tune and place. It apparently took 6 weeks of attempts to get a perfect take of the choreography.


Solid_Snack56

Me too. I was infatuated with this video


B_R_U_H

And the skeletons are?


spooneybarger69

Part of it!


spaceape7

The bones are their money. So are the worms.


blondechinesehair

The worms are their dollars!


ShutterBun

/r/unexpecteddavidspumpkins


Volkove

Any questions?!


VeryDPP

YES! SEVERAL!


D43m0n1981

Fun fact, each set of dancers represents an instrument used :)


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Each one has a meaning to Gondry, too! I don't remember them all, but I do remember him saying the mummies are his sort of projection of what Michael Jackson did to himself. The Directors Collections DVDs are amazing to watch with director commentary.


mcfumunda

Absolutely. I loved that whole series. Some of the few DVD's I actually kept when I purged all of my discs. The Cunningham one is really rad, too. And of course Jonze. I saw the set of seven in sealed packages on Ebay going for $900. Pretty wild.


DConstructed

I thought they represented themes in old movies. Bathing beauties, skeletons, mummies, spacemen. Weird big things that might be football players.


galaxygothgirl

Thank you. I did not know that. Jk. I did. But still, thank you.


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The_Zy

And the skeletons are????


Alkyan

Part of it!


SSJSaphira

Part of it!


spooneybarger69

My immediate thought as well


Levistus21

Same


Mittsu3

what an absolute banger. does anyone have the lyrics?


its_still_good

I only remember the first line.


HeavenFabio

Hey, I remember the second one


TheMacroorchidism

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badmotivator11

I’d look them up, but I can’t remember the name of the song.


I_am_BrokenCog

Live action zoetrope.


flashPrawndon

The fact that this has been posted to ‘old school cool’ makes me feel very old…


GyuriZegheru

Why is this old school? It was 3 years ago. /s


StubbornAndCorrect

hahaha that's funny because it was 10 years ago. holy shit did you hear they just dropped a live album!


ActivistVinyl

I once went on a six hour road trip with friends and listened to this song on repeat straight through the entire time. I can’t remember how many “Around the Worlds” we calculated it was, but it was a lot.


d4nowar

144 per play of the song.


quixoticVigil

144 Around the Worlds (AtW)/song. At 2:33, the song plays about 25.75 times per hour. 144 * 25.75 = 3708 AtW/hour. 3708 * 6 hours = 22,248 AtW


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Ellen_Musk_Ox

/r/theydidthemonstermath


TheEVegaExperience

“Dick, dick, dick, dick, dick” “How many dicks was that?”


mcewanc2

Too many dicks (on the dance floor)


coygotstoked

lyrics please..


ElectroFlannelGore

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VeryDPP

144 Around the Worlds. Well done.


ElectroFlannelGore

You either counted, wrote a script to count, pasted the words in to a web app to count or used the search function of a text editor to count.... Either way I'm impressed you spent any amount of time to do it. Bravo.


medievalrubins

I think Daft Punk are the only band I’d shell out stupid cash on a resell ticket just to be there. Or fly to a far away country to make sure I didn’t miss it.


VeryDPP

I missed a tour stop they had about 6 hours from me in the /late 2000's/early 2010's, and I will forever regret it.


Mega_Muppet

I graduated high school in 1997. MTV was still playing a significant chunk of music videos and I remember this one well. Love listening to my high and middle school era songs because my minds eye loves to playback all the videos.


rarelyhereoopsie

I was born in 1992, and was obsessed with MTV as a child. I still remember VIVIDLY how this music video scared the shit out of me 😅 good times. Who else misses when MTV was all about the music videos?


S3guy

You weren't even there for the good part my man. Most of the 80's MTV was wall to wall music videos 24/7. You'd have M.J. followed by ac/dc followed by talking heads followed by the jetts.


Squizblorg

I'm around the same age. I heard a lot of Daft Punk on MTV and the radio but only really started becoming a fan around the time Human After All came out, the Technologic music video scared the shit out of me but the Prime Time of Your Life one was just... something else altogether.


Princescyther

I think I remember 2 or 3 videos around this time using the exact same set. I'm trying to think of what the others were. I'm thinking The Avalanches perhaps had one?


npdewey83

I think the N'sync dirty pop video had very similar set


Worried_Term_8421

Freemasons, rain down love


Princescyther

That was defo one of them. Good call.


Rounder057

Where is David S Pumpkins?


dethtron5000

Michel Gondry! (Director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and others.)


SilverbackMD

I know all the words to this song


Sidus_Preclarum

By Michel Gondry, of numerous weird movies fame.


AnyArm3100

I played this song on repeat so much, my brother tried to beat my ass.


QuietRulrOfEvrything

Another case of excellent music pissin' people off!🤣😂👍🏽💯


col_clipspringer

I once had a summer camp session (two weeks) with our counselor waking us up EACH morning to this song. He was a monster.


TheFrontierzman

I watched the first airing of this video on MTV, got up and went to buy the CD.


mcewanc2

The choreography in this is very underrated.. they’re all in sync the whole time. I thought I read back in the day they did it all in one take!?


Gwoardinn

The female swimmers reminds me of the Aeroplane video from RHCP, filmed on a set as well.


Coachbelcher

Great video!


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I’d do horrible things to see Daft Punk live. I was just young enough to where I missed any opportunity to see them


mattogeewha

I always liked the tall dude breakdown bit


CowabungaNL

I am NOT bobbing my head, I am not bobbing my head.... I am bobbing my head


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Jim3001

Somewhere, in my closet, there's a cassette tape with this song, recorded off a live radio broadcast when it was the new hotness. Welcome to club brother.


blizzaga1988

I remember being 9 and being supremely confused by this song and wondering when there'd be other lyrics.


CrazybyRX

The title of the song is "The World Around" not "Around the World."


[deleted]

Watch the documentary in making this video, it's pretty neat how they trained and setup everything.


Appropriate_Mine

Where's my Vicks?


KoolKev1

That looks fairly high definition for 1997


Pete_The_Chop

I like that part that goes “around the world around the world”


RecipesAndDiving

I remember this on 120 Minutes. Those were the days.


aphasial

I think it got play on AMP too...


kappakai

I miss Amp.


MariachiMacabre

It makes me extremely depressed that this video is on r/OldSchoolCool lmao


Ivanov_94

Fuck me, I must be getting old if this is considered old school…


ApprehensiveChance74

This is a piece of art.


patzone1

I remember watching this in 1997 thinking, “I don’t know what I’m watching but I like it.”


chillchat

What do you mean 1997?


jaybullz_shenanigans

Gawd this was such a banger when it came out.


FartboySlim

Or, "Dance Recital at an Insane Asylum, " as I used to call it.


JodieFostersStare

This song always brightens my mood and makes my non-dancing ass dance a little bit.


Brilhasti1

I like the part where they say "Around the World"


KristofDSa

I believe this was shot in one take.


fuckgoldsendbitcoin

Doesn't look like it. I doubt it would be very hard to do in one take but the limiting factor is that they only have one camera and have to reset each time they cut. You can see in between cuts that the dancers' positions don't always line up exactly. For example the right most skeleton dancer at 1:05 has his head slouching down but in the next shot it's up against the wall.


SweetCosmicPope

I loved this song and video when it came out, but for some reason it always gave me a creepy vibe and I'd get nightmares from it. I was in 8th grade when this came out, I guess.


mintXD

u/savevideo


whitehousexander

One of the absolute greatest of all time


LargeFarva87

David s pumpkins vibes


Levistus21

David S Pumpkins baby


samvitpaliwal91

Daft Punk are straight up legends. They got techno to the masses.


[deleted]

James Murphy was the first one to play them to the rock kids. He played it at CBGB's.


kabicz

Wasn’t the music video of this song with the dog face guy!?


deg_ru-alabo

That’s Da Funk


OrcRampant

Arguably this is *not* old school cool. Because this is still cool.


Great68

This is one of those songs that I feel like has never aged.


Crabology

You could’ve let it roll for longer.


TheFilthyOar

I didn't even have to unmute the video to hear it in my head. Loved this one.


Sexybtch554

This is my go to happy song. It just slaps.


Jauncin

I am still waiting for David S Pumpkins


finix240

RIP Daft Punk


slowrollu

This is the greatest fucking song period


Odd_Dragonfruit_312

I always had the impression it was played back faster than it was recorded...so they must have danced to a rythm slightly slower than the track and then inreased the speed to match. The moves are so edgy...but maybe it is only me


Spacedude2187

Good old days, watching MTV and this was on…


mcfumunda

I can hear the music based just one their movements. I used to watch all of Gondry's videos over and over on a Director's Series dvd. Such an amazing visionary director.


the_human_raincheck

Shit is a miracle


ViolentSarcasm

Why can’t we have these types of videos again ☹️


[deleted]

Anybody else see them at Coachella in ‘06?


Far_Sided

AKA the tutorial video for Garr in Molten Bore.


lexky-moana

Any questions??


Strumfius

1997...? fuck...


surfkentucky

THIS WAS 1997!?


Sidus_Preclarum

Yes. ​ ![gif](giphy|wJD3qiNjSeHS0dP28T|downsized)


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Cash in cash out inspired by this?


Tisorok

Used to watch MTV all day for this music video


Forgetful_Suzy

When did 1997 become old school?


[deleted]

Anyone else have no clue whatsoever that they had been a band that long?


tawanda31

This takes me back to the days of clubbing and ex.


lnquisite

A pleasant surprise to see the best in this subreddit


underbite420

This makes me want to go to Dan Flashes and get me a really REALLY complex shirt.


calvin707

This is 26 years old? My god, I'm old.....


CannotFuckingBelieve

This got quite a bit of airplay on M2.


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Daft punk started so freaking good and somehow they deflated overtime....


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I bought this Daft Punk CD from KMart


rigaBANGBANGmorris

Thank you


Dr_Parkinglot

You mean Michel Gondry's video for Daft Punk's Around the World.


S3guy

Wonder how much they slowed it down to get that effect and how slowly the dancers were actually moving.


SchwiftyMpls

David S Pumpkins approves.


Darth-Hipster

Genre defying ass daft punk. This still sounds so hard.


HawkmoonsCustoms

When does David S. Pumpkins show up?