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Top 12 Cheap Videos, continued
By Mike Doughty
on 02/25/2009
10. Beastie Boys - "Sabotage"
The absolute gold standard of cheap and entertaining. Who knows what those fake mustaches cost? The real source here is the boundless energy of the Beasties.
9. Pavement - "Gold Soundz"
Pavement were so preeminently groovy at the time that they could've asked Capitol for a big budget, but rather spent bupkis wearing Santa suits, wandering among palm trees, and playing cowboys and Indians.
8. Juvenile - "Ha"
It was the dawn of bling, but this video stands in contrast, with a slice-of-life view of ghetto New Orleans. Fascinating and stark.
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We need cheap videos, cheap films, cheap movies and cheap entertainment. I applaud your choice too. It's too bad that other countries have more respect for our "inexpensive" art than we do. That's why B-movies do so well in Western Europe. http://www.AngeloBell.com - filmmaker, blogger, idealist
Velouria by Pixies is possibly the cheapest professional video ever... though I'm not sure it's exactly good...
Very good choices Mike. What about your video for Fort Hood; didn't you say that was cheap to make? Fort Hood is a fun video. :)
Mobydickulous
Good choices for sure Mike. I remember watching that Coldplay video for the first time and being impressed with the dawn concept. I'd also like to submit Jason Mraz's "Geek in the Pink" clip which he purports to have made for the cost of the large pizza the "crew" had for lunch.
benjamin
Mike. i enjoyed soul coughing and you can also think of the expenxe of videos in different ways. i presume that much of the large budget for videos went to all the people working on them. cateres, set designers, grips, hair and makup, etc. lots of people put food on their table and gained experience working on those big budget videos.
Lisa
Street Spirit, Radiohead is worthy of mention. I have always been partial to black & white, and the simplicity of the effects that are used, I think, are quite effective.. and overall it is just a way cool video. In truth, I actually miss music video television, from an artists perspective I always had a love/hate opinion of it, because you always want to see the integrity of the music speak for itself. But, videos sometimes offer some insight into what makes an artist tic. Which is just dreamy for die-hard fan, "1 Lisa"
I've always had a soft spot for Pansy Division's hilariously low-budget "Bad Boyfriend": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juok0UHF7YM
Danielle
I forget the name of the band, but it was in England, a band performed their song in front of dozens of CCTV cameras and requested the footage from the people who owned the cameras, they got enough for the whole video/
I like to make cheap fun videos!
You don't need to spend mega bucks on a video - we made one for nothing (admittedly, you can tell it cost nothing) but it gets hits on youtube and is certainly more memorable than a bog standard band on a stage with a crowd watching them flick!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4lK5uHJxxA
Cheers
Jim
