I've never been the biggest fan of music videos. Mostly because they seemed so empty in comparison to the music. Rarely do they move me the way the music does and don't really add much to me, just keep ones eyes busy. There are plenty of exceptions. One of my favorites is Blockhead's The Music Scene. The video is art by itself, and pulses to the music. The video really adds to the song. It fits at every point and continues to explore the same themes and metaphors as the song. It talks about the commercialization of art, the appreciation, the over analysis, and the copying of art and music and how things can build something impressive and loud and shiny, but will ultimately fail under it own inertia and lack of rejuvenation and how the true spirit of music is not found in the perception or repackaging of it.
Also, the video is really trippy.
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