2011's Best Music Videos

The best music is visually evocative. Its soundscapes hold widescreen tracking shots or crystalline snapshots. I delight in conjuring up imagery for the music I'm listening to. So, a good music video to me either captures or betters what I can imagine. Sometimes this entails abstract crawls through dark streets or faded stumbling around a club. There are probably a good deal of videos I'm forgetting here, but these were certainly among the more memorable for me.

Because it's late and because I'm saving my writing for the Songs and Albums lists, I'll let the videos do the talking from here on out.

the Top 10 Music Videos of 2011

10 | "Alsatian Darn" - Panda Bear

09 | "Hinnom, TX" - Bon Iver

08 | "Better Off Alone" - Salem

07 | "Otis" - Jay-Z & Kanye West

06 | "We Found Love" - Rihanna

05 | "Countdown" - Beyonce

04 | "Super Bass" - Nicki Minaj

03 | "Marvins Room" - Drake

02 | "Witchhunt Suite For WWIII" - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti

01 | "Kaputt" - Destroyer

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Stay tuned for more of Listmas 2011:

> the Top 10 Concerts of 2011

> the Top 25 Songs of 2011 (tomorrow)

> the Top 50 Albums of 2011 (Tuesday-Thursday)

> the Top 10 Movies of 2011 (coming soon)