100 Great Videos ♫

In today's lesson we watched the 100 Great Videos of all time on MTV, so that we can find out what makes these videos the 'Greatest'. We found out a lot of interesting facts about each video which we may be able to use in our music videos. Each video was different and unusual in it's own way and I think that this is something that we need to be in our video!


On the 100th Position it was the 'Musical Youth' with Pass the Dutchie.

• Musical Youth was the first black british 'teenagers'' band to be shown on MTV in 1982.
• It was a successful hit winning Grammy awards.
• It's about Poverty 
• They Changed the lyrics from 'Kutchie' to 'Dutchie' which changed the meaning from weed to a 'Jamaican cooking pot'.

99th/'Super Grass' with 'Pumping on a Stereo'.

• The use of puppets/cartoon is very interesting
• Catchy/Unusual
• Creativity

98th/Bronski Beat/Small Town Boy/1998

• Gay men who came to London
• Very first band to openly say they're gay
• Conveying a personal story
• telling the world about how it felt being abused on streets for being gay
• Elton John married a woman to cover the fact he was gay.

97th/Cornershop/Brimful of Asha

• about girl whose passion is music and loves dancing
• Numerous views of 'Cornershop' withing this video - Interesting
• MTV was forced to remove corner shop. 

96th/So Solid Crew/21 Seconds

• Significant Video
• Clever of how each artist was given 21 seconds to do their bit
• Good use of lyrics
• Consists of More than 20 south London Rappers

95th/ The Cardigans/My Favourite Game

• Jonas Akerdund
• About Love affairs/ falling in love
• Car carshes - violent yet appealing.

94th/Bonnie Taylor/ Totally Eclipse of the Heart

• Made by the first welsh artist

93rd/Bonnie Taylor/We Love you

• Almost like a film
• Drug Related problems

92nd/ Herbie Hancock/ Rockit/ 1983

• The use of mechanism is unusual but very interesting
• Video Adds Value 
• Banned in the U.K

91st/The Specials/Ghost Town


90th/The Pet Shop Boys/ Go west

• Gay Anthem
• How Russia looked west after the Cold war 
• "Great Art Form"
• "Commercial Art that allows directors the freedom to be creative with technologies"