Emilymphocyte’s Top Videos of 2009
I know people don’t generally make lists of 36,
but I did because I couldn’t narrow down or add any more.
And, hey, I think 36 is a damn fine number, athankyou.
In no particular order, my top videos of 2009.
MGMT – “Kids” (features Joanna Newsom)
Directed by Ray Tintori
Animal Collective – “My Girls”
Animated by Jon Vermilyea, Edited by Chad Von Nau
Bat for Lashes – “Daniel”
Directed by Johan Renck
Royksopp – “This Must Be It” (ft. Karin Dreijer Andersson)
Directed by Filip Nilsson, Andreas Nilsson
Fever Ray - “If I Had a Heart”
Directed by Andreas Nilsson
Kanye West – “We Were Once A Fairytale”
Directed by Spike Jonze
Chairlift – “Evident Utensil”
Directed by Ray Tintori
Grizzly Bear – “Ready, Able”
Directed by Allison Schulnik
White Denim – “I Start To Run”
Directed by Tom Haines
Ramona Falls – “I Say Fever”
Directed by Sefan Nadelman
Washed Out – “Feel It All Around”
Directed by Chase Heavener
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Heads Will Roll”
Directed by Richard Ayoade
Kasabian – “Vlad the Impaler” [features Noel Fielding]
Directed by Richard Ayoade
No Age – “Losing Feeling”
Directed by Gil Kenan
Wild Beasts – “All The King’s Men”
Directed by OneInThree
The Dead Weather – “Treat Me Like Your Mother”
Directed by Jonathan Glazer
Rainbow Arabia – “Omar K”
Directed by Keith Musil
St. Vincent – “Marrow”
Directed by Terri Timely
Matt & Kim – “Lessons Learned”
Directed by Taylor Cohen, Otto Arsenault
Department of Eagles – “No One Does It Like You”
Directed by Patrick Daughters, Marcel Dzama
Grizzly Bear – “Two Weeks”
Directed by Patrick Daughters
Charlotte Gainsbourg with Beck – “Heaven Can Wait”
Directed by Keith Schofield
Fleet Foxes – “Mykonos”
Directed by Sean Pecknold
Marina and The Diamonds – “I Am Not a Robot”
Directed by Rankin, Chris Cottam
M83 – “We Own the Sky”
Directed by Alex Takacs and Joe Nankin of Young Replicants
Dan Deacon – “Paddling Ghost”
Directed by Natalie van den Dungen
Major Lazer – “Keep It Goin’ Louder”
Directed by Eric Wareheim
Modest Mouse – “Satellite Skin”
Directed by Kevin Willis
Passion Pit – “The Reeling”
Directed by John Hobbs, Ariel Danziger, Sam Stephens
Phoenix – “Lizstomania”
Directed by Antoine Wagner
Blitzen Trapper – “Black River Killer”
Directed by Daniel Elkayam
La Roux – “Bulletproof”
Directed by The Holograms@UFO
Royksopp – “The Girl and the Robot” (ft. Robyn)
Directed by Michael Baldwin
Land of Talk – “It’s Okay”
Directed by WeWereMonkeys
Lady GaGa – “Bad Romance”
Directed by Francis Lawrence
The Flaming Lips – “Watching the Plants”
Directed by Wayne Coyne, George Salisbury
[*NSFW*]
