Ten Music Videos featuring Trees

1. James Blake - "Overgrown" 2013  *James Blake at the Neptune Theater was the best concert I have ever seen. He is a true genius.

2. The Beatles - "Strawberry Fields Forever" 1967  *This video was way ahead of its time.

3. DTMD feat. Godly MC and Kev Brown - "Raw"  2012  *This song is all about the beat for me, it is one of the better releases from the Mello Music Group.

 

4. Little Dragon - "Twice" 2007  *This is a very slow moving song, I feel like it never gets to where it is trying to go. Little Dragon definitely improved since 2007.

5. Bonobo feat. Andreya Triana - "Eyesdown" 2010  *This dancing girl has a skull on her skull.  The song is great too.

 

 

 

6. Split Prophets (Blanka, Paro, Datkid, feat. Dee Green and DJ Rogue) - "The High Life" 2013 (UK HIP HOP)  *I watched this video a lot to figure out if I liked it, this leads me to believe that it is interesting even though the rappers aren't that good.

 

 

 

7. The Black Opera feat. Mayer Hawthorne - "Queen Of Hearts" 2013  *This song needs work, I feel like they tried to distract us from the poor quality by showing us a bearded Mayer Hawthorne.

 

 

 

8. Cutta Chase - "Meditate and Maintain" 2013 (UK HIP HOP)  *This doesn't suck, but, it's really not that great either.

 

 

9. Quelle Chris - "Milky" 2012  *This instrumental is pretty interesting, but still needs something. I rarely contemplate what songs are actually about until I find myself singing them aloud. I will likely never listen to this enough to figure out why he decided to call the track "Milky".

 

 

 

10. Bonobo feat. Grey Reverend - "First Fires" 2013  *This is definitely not a party jam, one must be in a Bonobo kind of mood to enjoy this music.

 

Ten Music Videos featuring Statues

1. Janet Jackson - "The Pleasure Principle" 1986  *At first I was going to put this under Fierce Solo Dancing or Birds or even Dancing With Chairs; the statues won. All hail Queen Janet!

2. Drake - "Marvins Room" 2011  *This is a great late night headphone song, the album version is much longer. Drake's Take Care album made me like him even though he is affiliated with Lil Wayne.

3. Starship - "We Built This City" 1985  *This video has some intense 80s green screen action.

4. Madonna - "Vogue" 1990  *Small cat statues are so vogue. There is (or was) a whole Vogue dance scene in New York that started in New York before Madonna brought it to the mainstream.

5. Johnny Cash - "Hurt" 2002  *This video combines old footage with new Nine Inch Nails-type scenes to pay tribute to the song he is covering. The still life shots in the beginning remind me of the NIN "Closer" video.

6. The Pretenders - "Back On The Chain Gang" 1982  *I think Chrissie Hynde is the supervisor of the chain gang.

7. Sinead O'Connor - "Nothing Compares 2 U" 1990  *Oh come on, you know you liked it.

8. Special Ed - "I Got It Made" 1989  *This video is all about the 1989 dance moves. There is also great use of props from 1:46-1:54.

9. The Moody Blues - "Nights In White Satin" 1967  *A pre-MTV music video, it's all very civilized.

10. Cutta Chase - "Vanish" 2013  *I either love this song or I love that it is a British dude rapping over a good beat, it's hard to say.