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Yesterday we brought you the news that the Beastie Boys are re-teaming with director Spike Jonze for a new music video.
We’ll have to wait and see whether the new video will reach “Sabotage” levels of awesomeness. The director’s delivered more than his share of entertaining music videos in the past, so we’re confident that he and the Beasties have something good up their sleeves. In the meantime, tide yourself over with 15 of our favorite Spike Jonze-directed music videos.
15. Weezer, “Island in the Sun”
Rivers Cuomo serenades a bear cub. The band flies kites. A chimp flies through the air. We all go, “Aww…”
14. Sonic Youth, “100%”
We could make an entire list of Jonze’s skateboard videos. In addition to an awesomely ’90s sea of flannel shirts, this music video features a young Jason Lee cruising around on a skateboard.
13. The Chemical Brothers, “Elektrobank”
Sofia Coppola stars as a young gymnast who finds herself in a Kerri Strug-esque situation.
12. The Breeders, “Cannonball”
Kim Gordon co-directed this trippy video, which features Kim Deal singing underwater as a cannonball rolls down a suburban street.
11. Beck, Guess I’m Doing Fine
Beck – Guess I'm Doing Fine by mellow1_nate2
Leave it to Spike Jonze to get meta in a music video. Here, an angsty Beck gets interrupted by a kid with a soccer ball, telling him, “We’re shooting a video for a song I wrote.”
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I am pretty f*cking bummed out that one of my favorite bands is moving forward with releasing a video that is so clearly stealing from the work of outsider (not to mention disabled and broke!) artist Mark Hogancamp (not a “homage”, but a blatant theft). Hogancamp is a supremely gifted artist who only reluctantly decided to share his very personal work with the world ... only to have his thunder stolen and his distrust in the motives of “the outside world” confirmed. It may be true that “this is how things happen” in Hollywood but for f*cks sake couldn’t the powers that be scrape up SOME morals when it comes to the life of a person as rare, vulnerable and deeply in need of funds as Hogancamp? Watch the documentary “Marwencol” and realize that his living & financial situation has not changed too significantly since. I truly hope Jonez & the Beasties give this man the credit and compensation he deserves for whatever watered-down Marwencol impersonation they eventually release. Would be pretty disappointing if they didn’t.