Best Music Videos of the Aughts

Slant Magazine has an excellent round-up of the best music videos of the first decade of this, our new century. Sure, I don't agree with a lot of the choices, but as I see the music video as a direct linear descendant of the old-time musical movie, I thought I'd present their list for your perusal.

The 50 Best Music Videos of the Aughts
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The 29 Funniest Musical Numbers?

The Huffington Post has a round up of what they consider the 29 funniest musical numbers of all time. Not sure why they couldn't include even a single Tenacious D clip to make it an even 30, but there ya go. Enjoy.

The 29 Funniest Musical Sketches of All Time
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Idiots, Monsters and Peas at the Grammy Awards

I don't think they won anything, but here's the cast of American Idiot performing "21 Guns" with Green Day at the Grammy Awards. I would love to see this show!

I have no idea why the new blogger format won't allow full-sized YouTube videos...I could be the American Idiot here, but I can't figure out the new tools.  Oh well - you can always click "Watch On YouTube."



Lady GaGa and the Black Eyed Peas both gave stellar performances as well, with staging and concepts that turned their own numbers in to little mini-musicals of their own.