Phil’s Faves: Videos, December 4, 2011

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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Coldplay leapfrogs into the top spot this week, Britney Spears drops fast, and there were some great live TV moments!
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Top 10 Videos for the week of December 4, 2011

1. Paradise–Coldplay
2. Sparks Fly—Taylor Swift
3. A Thousand Years–Christina Perri from “Breaking Dawn, Part One
4. The One That Got Away–Katy Perry
5. Red Solo Cup–Toby Keith
6. Criminal–Britney Spears
7. Reading Rainbow–Jimmy Fallon on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon”
8. Home—Dierks Bentley on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon”
9. Baggage Claim—Miranda Lambert live on “CMA Awards”
10. Taylor Swift Interview—“60 Minutes”

1) “Paradise”—How can you not like this video? The elephant reunion is so sweet!
2) “Sparks Fly”—All of the recent attention on Taylor Swift is keeping this video hot!
3) “A Thousand Years”—I watch this video every time it’s on! Bruno Mars’ “It Will Rain” shows up in the “Breaking Dawn” movie while people are still in the theater. Christina’s song plays after it when everyone’s in their car so no one really hears the song! I guess timing really is everything.
4) “The One That Got Away”—I like the drama in the video. This is one time when it works well!
5) “Red Solo Cup”—The parade of cameos start off with Craig Ferguson and Geoff and continue from there! It’s a good place to start! I probably saw this video more than any other video during the week!
6) “Criminal”—This one’s dropping fast. I don’t think it will be around much longer….
7) “Reading Rainbow”—This was the best thing I saw all week! Jimmy’s impersonation of Jim Morrison was so incredible, it amazed and confused anybody I showed it to. It was a recreation of The Doors performing “Light My Fire” on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” The Fallon performance kind of morphed into a combination “The End” and “When the Music’s Over.” It was so good, it almost wasn’t funny, but the ridiculous lyrics and the actual thought of Morrison singing “Good Night Moon” or “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” made a surreal moment side splittingly hilarious! This one is worth hunting down!
8) “Home”—Dierks’ live rendition of this song about war veterans returning home made it even more stirring than the very good studio version!
9) “Baggage Claim”—This live version also captured the song better than the studio version particularly as the stage catches fire! Miranda makes a better angry ex-lover than almost anyone else out there!
10) “Taylor Swift Interview”—Although this isn’t a music video, it showed some interesting behind the scenes footage of what happens at one of her concerts. A comment that I found particularly poignant was when a columnist at Billboard Magazine was asked about her ability as a songwriter because of her youth and beauty. He said that to the contrary, that if she wasn’t so young and pretty that she would be considered an even better songwriter! I wholeheartedly agree!

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One Response to Phil’s Faves: Videos, December 4, 2011

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