You're right, bri. Music videos, at least on television, seem to be declining in popularity. Muchmusic and MTV rarely play them, opting instead to air reality shows starring incredibly dull d-grade former celebrities scratching their asses and engaging in contrived arguments with various asshat members of their immediate families. Or boring manga-like cartoon series that don't even attempt a tangential relationship to music. Or the aching-to-be-meta-aware-and-hip video judgement shows, featuring an assortment of obese, unattractive "comics" who spout their unfunny commentary on different videos with an arrogance and self-importance that belies the relative ease of their 'shooting fish in a barrel' assignment. Or...well, you get the picture. One almost pines for reruns of 'The Monkees'.

To be fair to The Arcade Fire, I'm pretty sure this is the work of a fan and not an official video. This is probably the direction of the music video...online, produced by fans or those with time on their hands and the wherewithal to work with the right software tools, with the best spreading virally through our email, websites, and blogposts. Which is probably a good thing. Bands these days don't seem to have the same enthusiasm as they did even a decade ago.

As I sound the death toll for the lavishly produced music video, does anybody want to chime in with their favourites of the past 25 years (don't think there were any real videos before then)?
Worst? Or are you indifferent to this topic entirely? If the latter, please allow a week of silence before beginning another topic, preferably one which references an obscure jazz/classical release.