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Here’s the music video for Fiona Apple’s cover of The Beatles “Across The Universe”. The song is part of the sound track for for the movie Pleasantville, and there is an interesting tie-in with the movie, the music video is a scene that was from the story, but not in the movie (the soda shop gets trashed, but you never see it happen in the movie). The movie it self was ok, but not great.

I have not really listened to much of Fiona Apple’s music, she falls in to the same category as Tori Amos and Alanis Morissette obviously talented, but most of their stuff is not for me. Having said that, this video is really well done, nice juxtaposition of the music and the images.
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I’ve never been a huge fan of The Smashing Pumpkins, there one of those bands that I cherry pick a songs from. Thirty-Three is one of their good ones though. They did a really nice job with the video.

I do not really know the band Sigur Ros really well. I have heard a lot of good things about them but I haven’t really taken the time to listen to them yet. However I did happen to see this video a couple years ago. An excellent example of “texture”, or at least what I think “texture” in film is.

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This a great looking video. The album the song is on is “Give Up” and is a great album. Plus there’s is an acoustic version of the song on the sound track for Garden State which is a pretty good movie that has an amazing sound track.

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This Beck video has been one of my favorite music videos since the first time I saw it back when I was in high school when I was in college. It represents why I watched way too much MTV and VH1 late at night (when they actually played music videos) looking for little gems among so much tripe.

Every time I see it I wonder about the symbolism, but it’s probably just something the director thought would be cool.
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