[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37w42Bfsv3E[/video]

Even Midge Ure himself now says “WTF was I thinking”

With their tongues planted so far in to their cheeks it doesn’t really count!

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ht5RZpzPqw[/video]

But, it’s this.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SbUC-UaAxE[/video]

I read the thread title and thought “Vienna” 🙂

November rain is the first thing I thought of.

CFH – that is brilliant pisstake of music vid clichés

I would say this offering for GnR, Axel communing with dolphins, Slash emerging from the sea like some kind of Poseidon character with an axe, preposterous nonsense 😆

[video]https://youtu.be/dpmAY059TTY[/video]

Can a video be pretentious if the thing you’re suggesting it is aiming to be is actually what it is?

I give you Exhibit A. November Rain

Overblown, self-indulgent rock video by overblown, self-indulgent rock band.

Ergo, not pretentious.

Some of the Tom Waits programme on BBC4 currently qualifies, the talking head bits are excruciating.

Some of the Tom Waits programme on BBC4 currently qualifies, the talking head bits are excruciating.

Hardly the same thing, that’s a documentary, we’re talking about video/film shot specifically to accompany a song.
This has to be on the list of most pretentious video:

[video]https://youtu.be/XAi3VTSdTxU [/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDZcqBgCS74[/video]

I leave it to others to decide if this is pretentious, or just a case of the video maker getting a bit carried away with new technology, but I’m edging towards the former:

[video]https://youtu.be/dMSFqXGZ5TQ [/video]

I only came across this a few days back, and then only because of the blonde girl acting as cameraman: she’s the wonderful Aimee Mann, at that point only just starting out as a solo artist, after leaving ‘Til Tuesday.

anything by U2.