A modern offering this week, but well worthy of inclusion in the pantheon of great pop vids: 'Love Is A Camera" by Sophie Ellis Bextor. Wonderfully shot ghost-story video directed by Sophie Muller, with Bextor giving some terrific evil vibes as a lovely photographer witch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmPM-LZ-6y8

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This week's pop video, "Jacob's Ladder" by the amazing Monochrome Set, is a stellar attempt to being medieval art weirdness into the 80s, a decade before XTC's 'The Disappointed'. I like the weird black animal and lugubrious jester in particular.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTiZh6BcauY

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This week's pop video is (along with the better-known "Mind of A Toy") my favourite offering from Visage, a highly visual band that also had a lot of great songs. This one was directed by Ultravox singer Midge Ure and channels Brief Encounter and a hundred years' worth of ghost stories set on trains, plus all the identity/mirror stuff that characterizes New Romantic pop video. And the styling is deathless, of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVsrcmW3Yc8

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This week's #VideoVednesday goes 90s with "Freaks" by Live. Their band name might be search engine kryptonite but I love this sombre, jaunty instance of the trend for darkly surreal videos in American rock of the era.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEUsJRVV-PE

Ed Kowalczyk looks (and is) incredible in this too.

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This week's #VideoVednesday is, for once, non-80s. "Filthy Mind" by #AmandaGhost arrived in 2000, and inverts the usual dreadful gender politics of the era's pop video, with an intense Ghost in shadow throughout. Directed by Sean Ellis, who also made the fancy horror film "The Broken", and featuring...well, a bunch of good stuff.

Content warning for people getting shot at in a kind of artsy, goreless but still quite shooty way. And goldfish jeopardy

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvEHVKQyQvc

It's time for another #VideoVednesday! As we approach the third birthday of Covid-19 what could be more comforting than looking back on one of the finest plague-themed videos ever made! Rough around the edges but full of charm, with Mur ON FIRE (not literally), FM Einheit, Alexander Hacke and someone who looks like they might be Nick Cave on piano.

I particularly enjoy the travelling shot from 3.35 to 3.46, (and the rat thing obv, I mean I'm not made of stone)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajtHSdAs99U