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.
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. For this category, I am also going to include any live performances on talk or variety shows that I see during the week.
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It was inevitable that it was going to happen eventually, but Taylor Swift ends Wally Pleasant’s three week stay at the top. There were some very interesting live performances that I watched this week, knocking out some deserving videos…
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Top 10 Videos for the week of September 25, 2011
1. Sparks Fly—Taylor Swift
2. Stupid Day Job–Wally Pleasant
3. Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)–Katy Perry
4. Brighter Than the Sun–Colbie Caillat
5. Barefoot Blue Jean Night–Jake Owen
6. Super Bass–Nicki Minaj
7. I Wanna Go–Britney Spears
8. Lotus Flower and Staircase–Radiohead from “Saturday Night Live”
9. Knee Deep-Zac Brown Band with Jimmy Buffett
10. Senator–Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks from “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon”
1) “Sparks Fly” —Gloss wins over computer graphics this week as the melody finally hits its target!
2) “Stupid Day Job” —Slipping to second this week, Wally Pleasant continues a very respectable run for a video that doesn’t have a major outlet! Check it out at wallypleasant.com!
3) “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” —Hey, I was pleasantly wrong about this seemingly innocent looking video where a lot of seamy stuff happens! (I thought it would have fallen off the VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown this week.) I enjoy the video game storyline every time I watch it!
4) “Brighter Than the Sun” —It seems like “sun’ is getting a second wind!
5) “Barefoot Blue Jean Night” —Summer continues to live on in this video!
6) “Super Bass” —The images continue to be visually stimulating to me!
7) “I Wanna Go” —Britney slips a little further after a great run!
8) “Lotus Flower” and “Staircase”—Two very good performances from a band that is rarely seen on any type of commercial television! The live music sounded warmer than their recent album “King of Limbs.” “Staircase” isn’t even released and that’s the kind of gutsy move that you would expect from Radiohead! The electronic “dance” music kept singer Thom Yorke acting as if he had a constant spasm, but one that was good for him—and us!
9) “Knee Deep” —I like the part where the woman takes a bottle of booze and a lit torch and blows a fireball at the monster to destroy him! The special effects are so 50’s sci-fi!
10) “Senator” —Stephen Malkmus and his current band came out smoking in this live version including a Jimi Hendrix behind the head guitar solo! The song, from their new “Mirror Traffic” album was no slouch either for this outing!
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