This will be a personal weekly Top Ten list of what I consider to be the best videos currently available on TV. I don’t, as a rule, go searching for old music videos, so that’s why it will focus mostly on current or recent videos.
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Wow! I haven’t seen this much open territory on the countdown since…since…the zoning laws were changed! And maybe it’s because it’s Labor Day Weekend that two songs about fishing and a song about a “stupid day job” shows up on my faves list this week, but I don’t think so. Well that’s true about the fishing videos…
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Top 10 Videos for the week of September 4, 2011
1. Stupid Day Job-Wally Pleasant
2. I Wanna Go-Britney Spears
3. Brighter Than the Sun-Colbie Caillat
4. Sparks Fly—Taylor Swift
5. Holdin’ on to Black Metal-My Morning Jacket
6. Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)-Katy Perry
7. Long Way to Go-Alan Jackson
8. Just Fishin’-Trace Adkins
9. Barefoot Blue Jean Night-Jake Owen
10. Fish-Craig Campbell
1) “Stupid Day Job”—A very funny relatively unknown song with a new video that visually resembles Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing!” It is astoundingly excellent!!!!
How can you not sing along to this song unless you’re one of the top 1% in the country who doesn’t have a “stupid day job?”
2) “I Wanna Go” —Britney surrenders the top spot to a song about something she’s never had!
3) “Brighter Than the Sun”—The words aren’t great, but the melody rules!
4) “Sparks Fly”—A great visual scrapbook of her summer tour!
5) “Holdin’ on to Black Metal”—The video reminds me of Neil Young’s “Rust Never Sleeps” Tour!
6) “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)”—This video was really popular before I started making the lists. And since it will probably disappear from the VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown in the next week or two, I thought it deserved recognition for the slick spoof of the movie “Weird Science” that it is! Having Hanson as the party band was an added bonus, and it includes the only time I haven’t found Kenny G annoying as a member of the band!
7) “Long Way to Go”—A bunch of bikini clad women and he’s “got a bug in his margarita.” What’s not to like?!
8) “Just Fishin”—One of those songs that only Trace Adkins can get away with singing. I mean, who else could rhyme “biggun” with fishin.’ His daughter’s pink fishing rod is really cute! How could you not like it?!
9) “Barefoot Blue Jean Night”—I like the chorus, and it’s another eye candy video—for both sides! Keep ‘em coming!
10) “Fish”—A song loaded with double entendres!!! Way to go Craig!!
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