Carp if you must, but there was a reason Rebecca Black got more than 167 million hits on Youtube in early 2011. The video not only functions as a how-to for making professional looking music videos on the cheap, but also as a parody on the whole pop-starlet scene itself. Whatever, fuck you.
9. "Walk" Foo Fighters
I stopped listening to the Foo Fighters right about the time Kurt Cobain blew his brains out, which is to say, never. Maybe I should've given them a chance. Dave Grohl's tribute to Michael Douglas in Falling Down is pretty entertaining. Especially if you haven't seen the goofy-ass movie itself.
8. "Lonely Boy" The Black Keys
Every song should have an interpretive dance from this guy.
7. "Tell Me Something I Don't Know" Herman Dune
I wish this was a series of clips from an upcoming buddy/road movie, but as a music video, it works just as well.
6. "Go Outside" Cults
I had never heard of of the band Cults before I saw this extremely creepy video. It features lots of stock footage from Jonestown. The inserts shots of the band are pretty flawless. Luckily for them, America has produced many wacko cults over the years so they should have plenty of chances to appear alongside whichever one loosely fits their next song.
5. "Bushman" Kool Keith
One of the most prolific and underappreciated voices in hip-hop, Keith once again shows us that...well...I'm not sure what he's doing here.
4. "Deathbound" Mastodon
If you can recall Mister Rogers, then you're probably over 30, suburban, and white. That being said, if you've imagined what the Land of Make Believe would be like during the Apocalypse, than this is the video for you.
3. "Yonkers" Tyler The Creator
There was one artist this year that brought liberals, conservatives, feminists, christians, and pretty much everyone else together in mutual dislike of him. That takes talent.
2. "Is Tropical" The Greeks
Some people found this video of young boys shooting each other repeatedly disturbing. I assume those people have never been a 8-year-old boy. They would know that playing "war" has been the favorite past time for young boys from now all the way back to the very first world war of 1978.
1. "Jack Sparrow" Lonely Island feat. Michael Bolton
I used to hate both Michael Bolton AND the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Not anymore.
