Which rock video has the best sound, photography, song, words?

Opeth’s The Grand Conjuration video is pretty great.

Of course, as always I will avoid the word “best”. There is no “best”. ^_^

Seek, I watched half that video and I will have to admit it is FAR OUT.

It’s beyond my realm of listenability. My dog howled. It hurt her ears.

Tough choice

Bad Romance

Or maybe On Melancholy Hill

@john65pennington

Opeth is one of my favourite bands. They kind of pissed off a great chunk of their listening audience recently with the release of their newest album – which is completely mellow. I love their random shifts in artistic direction.

They did this once before, when they released the twin albums Deliverance – almost totally the coarse stuff of the video you just watched, and Damnation – completely acoustic with songs like Hope Leaves. I think you’ll probably appreciate that song much more than The Grand Conjuration. ^_^

Oh! And you should definitely hear their cover songs. Mikael Akerfeldt is a huge classic rock buff.

You’d probably most appreciate their cover of Deep Purple’s Soldier of Fortune

Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” was hypnotic, and set the standard for MTV videos, a standard that has rarely be touched.

It may be a bit lengthy, but I was always fond of Pink Floyd’s Live at Pompeii performance of Echoes. They sound great, and the hypnotic manner in which the performance was filmed just meshes with the song perfectly, in my opinion.