• Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers
  I always remember this one because of the video game aspects to it. Surprised no one ever tried to make some sort of simple playable replica of the game in this video actually.
  
• The Kill (Bury Me) - Thirty Seconds To Mars
  Just a very good tribute to The Shining. I miss when this band would put out banger videos like this where the whole thing told a story, compared to whatever garbage they throw out now with their also now garbage music.
  
• Breaking the Habit - Linkin Park
  I think this might be the overall best animated music video I've seen period. Linkin Park have so many good music videos for stuff they released on their earlier albums but this one I think is possibly their best one.
  
• Duality - Slipknot
  Whenever I think of a video that feels like pure chaos, it's always this one. Love the part at 1:50 when the ceiling just gives out from all the people upstairs. XD
  
• Whiskey in the Jar - Metallica
  Nowhere close to the chaos going on in the Slipknot video above, but I normally think of this and that one together because they both involve the band inside a house of sorts and stuff just being trashed around them by all the other people.
  

• The Memory Remains - Metallica
  Probably one of the more simple music videos I'm gonna have in this list, but I remember when I first saw this as a young teen I thought it was sick how the platform rotates in the room and naively wondered how they stayed on the platform the whole time. Later I would see a "Making of" video for this that showed how it obviously just kept the platform still and moved the room instead.
  
• Freak on a Leash - Korn
  I forgot this one actually has animation at the start of it, so ended up watching the whole thing just now to refresh my memory of it better. I actually love how the animated part at the start has references to the album cover, but what I always do remember of this video is the bullet entering reality and going through things in slow motion. Highlights of that are the ancient looking cell phone at 2:25 and 2:35 when it goes into a poster of Korn and starts flying around the band until the lead singer sends it back out at 3:05 and back through some scenes from earlier in the video until it re-enters the animated world from the start. Now, you could think the video ends here, but Korn is one of the few bands I know of that does this awesome thing of having one video transition into another when you watch them back-to-back, which leads me to...
  
• Falling Away From Me - Korn
  Always like the way this video transitions from animation to reality at the start in such a seamless way, and re-watching it I like that the band once again finds a way to transition themselves into the video in a way that fits in with what else is going on, rather than it just perhaps cutting to them randomly or something. Best part though is the utter piece of shit of a father in this video being unable to get into the bedroom at the end until after his daughter has escaped, and I like to imagine he never hears from her again and gets to die alone in some shitty nursing home. Or he can just go overdose on pills or something, I genuinely wouldn't care what torture fills the end of that mans days.
  
• Dance, Dance - Fall Out Boy
  Speaking of music videos that continue into each other, Fall Out Boy also does this with some of theirs, and interestingly it's similar to how Korn does it where the songs that connect are from different albums. I really like how in this video the band members are not only playing on the stage at the prom but are also playing as separate geekier versions of themselves as students attending this prom as well. Something FOB does for their videos I find to be rather unique though is how even if the videos don't flow into each other, they try to have continuous characters or references across their videos as if it's all set in the same universe.
  
• This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race - Fall Out Boy
  Like the two Korn videos, this is the follow-up to Dance, Dance and starts off right where that video ended. I like how the whole prom was never real and also we once again get to see one of the cell phones of the time period at 0:10 for some extra nostalgia if you're old enough. While looking up the details of this video on Wikipedia to check no others connect into it, I learned that there's a lot of characters from other videos in the funeral scene at the end of the video, and also members of other bands are present in it too, so that was a neat thing to learn while I do this list. However, for all the cool stuff I think this video has, 3:25+ is what I love most. One of the rare instances of how a song is cut in the music video is actually better than how it is on the album, because I heckin' adore the way the song kicks back in at 3:40 and I wish the actual song had something like this. XD
  

(Jan 16th, 2023, 01:26 AM)Moonface Wrote:

@Mr EliteL: I forgot about that Disturbed video; always liked that one especially for how rare I'd see a music video showing a message about war and corruption back when I saw them more often from watching music channels on TV. I feel like the animation style is familiar to something else I've seen (maybe What's New Scooby Doo?) but I can't put my finger on it. Maybe if I can find out who animated that video I can see if they worked on something else I've seen.

(Dec 19th, 2022, 07:03 PM)Moonface Wrote:

To me, this will always be my most detested music video of all time -->> Sick Sick Sick - Queens of the Stone Age
I'm not even going to link to it because I genuinely don't want to subject anyone to it. I already dislike seeing a camera zoomed in on people eating on TV most of the time, but to me this video dials that up to a heckin' 12. I understand it's supposed to be that way, but it isn't for me.

(Dec 19th, 2022, 07:16 PM)Mr EliteL Wrote:

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Two words: The choreography.