Asklemmy

Porter Robinson - Dullscythe

TMBG - Lake Monsters

I personally find the music video for Radioactive by Imagine Dragons to be absolutely hilarious. The juxtaposition of serious and nonsense is so good, it just gets me every time. Even though I think the actual song is way better as covered by Within Temptation. Seriously though, go watch that music video and tell me it's not hilarious.

How to Play the Lizardmen (Total War: Warhammer II) (Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra)

death grips and crumb have some great music videos

i also think always by blink 182 is amazing, love the idea and exectution

Klangkarussell - All Eyes On You - this is probably my favourite music video ever. I'm a sucker for one-takes, and the fact that this one is nine minutes long makes it so impressive on a technical level. But also, the video really feels like an experience. I feel like there are a lot of different ways the characters and situation, and what they represent, can be interpreted; it feels like everyone reads into the video in their own way (and I'm totally down to discuss anyone else's interpretations once they've watched it). Plus the atmosphere of the video really enhances that of the song - I like the song well enough, but combined with the video I find it so hypnotizing and engrossing. (Plus, it doesn't feel cheap by any means but you can see it was made on a shoestring budget, so it gets extra points for that as far as I'm concerned.)

All India Radio - Rippled - long-exposure light stop-motion is so damn cool. It's such a pretty video, and I love how authentic it feels - it obviously took a lot of time, energy and talent to make (over 6 months according to the description) but it has so much personality to it, and you can obviously see the people in the background moving the lights around which makes it feel far less "clinical".

Delta Heavy - Get By - musically, it's a slightly above-average 2012 dubstep track, but the video is so fun (and terrifying, I suppose...). Again, I love the stop motion, but it's also just really fun on a conceptual level.

Anyway, all of these are a decade old, so I guess maybe you're right about modern music videos. I can't say I watch many music videos, though, so there are probably some good ones I miss!

Björk have made some that are absolutely spectacular, she has a way of making you feel what she feels with her voice and the visual impressions, she pulls you into her world. She's one of those artists that are completely unique and deeply talented.

I always admired the concept for the video for Stone Sour’s “Through Glass.”

My 2 picks:

Afterlife - Flatbush Zombies

Deutschland - Rammstein

Highly Suspect - Lydia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev-bR9ii7Gs

Marina Kazankova (the freediver) filmed the entire thing in one take, no cuts or edits...bonkers.

In college Xzibit's What U See is What U Get blew my mind due to its faked one shot style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gddQhQnwZIY.

That damned apple ad music video with the dancer and the stretchy room.

I can't remember the band or the song, but I remember the VH1 pop-up version where they told you tidbits during the video. The whole thing was 1 take (shot on film in those days) and included a part where they passed the camera through a car. The camera operator had to hand the camera off to someone, run around to the other side of the car and then take it back without it looking like that happened, and while everyone was singing in time. I was a film student at the time and in awe about how well it was done. So much so that I can still see that part, but I cannot remember the song.

Death Grips - Beware because no man can run as fast in the desert as MC Ride can.

Ssssnake - The War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65V1H4HFEf8

Poets of the Fall - Carnival of Rust

https://youtu.be/MKk1u5RMTn4?si=4AT9oRx9wmqPoRLt

Love this video so much.