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  1. 1.TV on the Radio – Second Song★ favorite

    10K Likes

    4:22

    Best comments

    1.“This video was made with the following ingredients: white chocolate, coffee, salt, red food dye, painted glass, paper shards, green food dye, cut-out paper rings... and space stuff.”

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    1. 2.“How is nobody talking about how amazing this animation is? Props to whoever did this!”

  2. 2.Lesley Gore – You Don't Own Me★ favorite

    409K Likes

    2:04

    Best comments

    1.“She was only 18...”

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    1. 2.“I feel like she's TELLING people rather than singing to them.”
    2. 3.“You can really see how she feels: she starts off a little nervous, then brave, then confident and happy.”

  3. 3.Matt Berry – Take My Hand★ favorite

    14K Likes

    4:21

    Best comments

    1.“This video always makes me a bit weepy... I wish I had a better relationship with my robot son.”

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    1. 2.“Matt Berry, national fucking treasure. There's nothing I wouldn't watch him in. Even my wife!”
    2. 3.“When I first heard this, I thought it must be a classic from the 1970s. It's astonishing to find it's a wonderful, wistful original.”

  4. 4.Grace Jones – Slave to the Rhythm★ favorite

    48K Likes

    4:48

    Best comments

    1.“She was the internet before the internet knew what it wanted to be... except the cat things.”

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    1. 2.“I remember this album cover when I was little. This woman scared the SHIT out of me.”
    2. 3.“During a recent show she hula-hooped for 6 minutes straight while singing this live. She's 75!”

  5. 5.The Dazz Band – Let It Whip★ favorite

    49K Likes

    2:20

    Best comments

    1.“We were whiter than white, but Dad never missed watching Soul Train.”

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    1. 2.“Message to the millennials... these are your grandparents!!”
    2. 3.“Jheri curl juice flying everywhere, lol.”

  6. 6.Dennis Edwards – Don't Look Any Further★ favorite

    780K Likes

    3:59

    Best comments

    1.“Dennis was higher than a summer electric bill.”

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    1. 2.“Dennis' jaw has a personality of its own.”
    2. 3.“Nobody said anything to Dennis because they were all just as high. This is a masterpiece.”

  7. 7.Amii Stewart – Knock on Wood★ favorite

    411K Likes

    3:31

    Best comments

    1.“When you're on mushrooms and the gods begin singing to you.”

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    1. 2.“According to my mother, this is the best roller-skating song in existence.”
    2. 3.“If you don't feel like dancing when you hear this song, there's something wrong with you.”

  8. 8.John Legend – Made to Love★ favorite

    203K Likes

    4:02

    Best comments

    1.“Am I weird if I think this music video was sort of beautiful?”

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    1. 2.“Can't believe Kimbra isn't credited. That is definitely Kimbra!”
    2. 3.“Songs like this just reaffirm my belief that Kanye West is a genius.”

  9. 9.Michael Kiwanuka – Cold Little Heart★ favorite

    1.7M Likes

    6:21

    Best comments

    1.“This is my neighbor's favorite song, whether they like it or not.”

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    1. 2.“Big Little Lies has such a beautiful soundtrack, and it all starts with this gem.”
    2. 3.“Sometimes you have to go to the coldest, darkest part of your soul to find the light switch.”

  10. 10.Rhye – Black Rain★ favorite

    90K Likes

    4:19

    Sam Taylor-Johnson directed this homemade one-take video of her husband, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, dancing shirtless for four minutes under fairy lights, with Rhye's Mike Milosh behind the camera. Milosh called the song an eighties take on disco. It was the lead single from Rhye's 2021 album Home.

  11. 11.John Legend – You & I (Nobody in the World)★ favorite

    827K Likes

    4:16

    Best comments

    1.“My new wife (1st wife, lol) walked down the aisle to this. My tears flowed.”

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    1. 2.“I can NEVER watch this video properly, because my tears always cloud my eyeballs.”
    2. 3.“As the father of a newborn baby girl, all I can think about is how do I empower my little girl so she's not self-conscious... constantly worrying how she'll be judged.”

  12. 12.James Blake – Can't Believe the Way We Flow★ favorite

    32K Likes

    4:43

    Best comments

    1.“The fact they took that long to flush that toilet stressed me out, lmao.”

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    1. 2.“Can't believe the way we flush.”
    2. 3.“Weird to think how great life would be with the right companion.”

  13. 13.Masego – Mystery Lady (Sego's Remix)★ favorite

    76K Likes

    3:58

    Best comments

    1.“Masego's voice is like that cup of water in the AMs... always refreshing.”

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    1. 2.“Who else feels frisky after listening to Masego??”
    2. 3.“Just when you think Masego has no more aces up his sleeve, he tosses the whole damn deck of cards in your face.”

  14. 14.Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears – Mustang Ranch

    2.4K Likes

    3:46

    Best comments

    1.“I saw this video and lost it. Then I actually lost this video and spent about half an hour scouring Google: 'music video brothel animated band van bouncer.' Then I found it, and I was like, OOOOOHHHH!!”

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    1. 2.“I work security at the Mustang Ranch, and this was fucking hilarious, guys.”
    2. 3.“Got mine glazed at the Kit Kat (just outside Virginia City, NV)... Christmas Eve, 1978.”

  15. 15.THEESatisfaction – Sweat

    9 Likes

    3:02

    Sweat is a track from awE naturalE, the 2012 Sub Pop debut by Seattle duo THEESatisfaction (Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White), who first turned heads on Shabazz Palaces' Black Up. This uncredited video went up in 2015 on a channel called ЮR.

  16. 16.The Avalanches – Subways

    47K Likes

    3:51

    Best comments

    1.“That station's on the corner of Lysergic Avenue and Sesame Street!”

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    1. 2.“This reminds me of that time I accidentally took the subway in NYC while I was on acid.”
    2. 3.“Yes, Mr. Avalanches, I too have tripped on a train – and it's exactly like the two-minute mark of this documentary.”

  17. 17.Caught a Ghost – Human Nature

    906 Likes

    3:37

    Best comments

    1.“I came here for the music, but the video amazed me... so funny!”

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    1. 2.“That dog has some amazing board skills.”

  18. 18.Chaka Khan – Like Sugar

    660K Likes

    4:01

    Best comments

    1.“The editor: 'I'm almost done editing. I'm almost done editing. I'm almost done editing. I'm done editing. I'm almost done editing. I'm almost done editing.'”

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    1. 2.“I foresee this song being in the next mainstream commercial for an electronic device.”
    2. 3.“This is the sickest Apple product ad yet.”

  19. 19.The Gap Band – You Dropped a Bomb on Me

    682K Likes

    4:04

    Best comments

    1.“WARNING: Listening to even 30 seconds of this song will make roller skates magically appear on your feet.”

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    1. 2.“I went to a high school football game last Friday, and the cheerleaders performed a routine to this. I thought it was great, because at least one of their parents had to have been conceived while their grandparents were listening to this.”
    2. 3.“GAP stands for Greenwood, Archer and Pine – the streets where bombs were dropped on the Black community of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921. The band members grew up in Tulsa and paid homage to them in this song... although they had to camouflage it.”

  20. 20.Jon Batiste – I NEED YOU

    586K Likes

    3:51

    Best comments

    1.“Find you a man who randomly starts dancing in an art museum, and never let him go.”

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    1. 2.“The security guard stole the show with that one two-step.”
    2. 3.“I listened halfway through and clicked on another video. All of a sudden I hear: 'DADDY, TURN THAT SONG BACK ON!! I was dancing to it!!' Ten 'play it again!'s and the most euphoric dancing I've ever witnessed later, my 5-year-old daughter finally fell to the floor with the biggest smile. She didn't even see the video!”

  21. 21.Earth, Wind & Fire – Let's Groove

    3.1M Likes

    3:56

    Best comments

    1.“The dislikes are from Water.”

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    1. 2.“They look like funky Power Rangers. Funk Rangers. Epic.”
    2. 3.“*Kid gets brutally killed when he falls into a chocolate mixing tank* The Oompa-Loompas:”

  22. 22.Estelle – American Boy

    2.9M Likes

    4:02

    Best comments

    1.“Why is nobody talking about John Legend? He just appears like a Pokémon.”

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    1. 2.“11 years and I never noticed her shadow was doing a whole different dance than her.”
    2. 3.“I will never get over the fact that they cut Kanye's parts out when they play this song at the grocery store I work at.”

  23. 23.Michael Jackson – Rock With You

    3.5M Likes

    3:22

    Best comments

    1.“Only Michael could dress like a disco ball and still be the coolest person in the room...”

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    1. 2.“Michael Jackson is the only person who could make a great music video just standing in one place!”
    2. 3.“My battery: 1%. Me: *plays this song*. My battery: I'll wait.”

  24. 24.Al Jarreau – Mornin'

    109K Likes

    4:22

    Best comments

    1.“During the '80s, every dentist's office in America had this playing!”

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    1. 2.“Wow, this really does sound like a four-minute hug.”
    2. 3.“My son was singing this at age 3, his little voice rising on the big high note. Next month he turns 44, and I'm going to send him this video – it will mean so much to him, as it does to me.”

  25. 25.Rhye – Song for You

    67K Likes

    6:08

    Rhye's Valentine's Day 2018 video, directed by Milosh and Geneviève Medow Jenkins. Nathalie Kelley and Chris Brochu run a whole relationship in six minutes: dancing in underwear, fights in the car, a creep-up in a dark parking garage. Joy and pain, in that order and then back again.

  26. 26.Bosley – Neon Magazine

    449 Likes

    5:25

    Best comments

    1.“Tom Waits Jr., baby!”

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    1. 2.“It's criminally unrecognized. I've been a radio host for 5 years, every week looking for new artists with a jazzy-funk-eclectic feel... and Bosley has no competition.”
    2. 3.“Bosley, I'm 61, and all I can say is you are one cool cat!”

  27. 27.KNOWER – I'm The President

    60K Likes

    4:23

    Best comments

    1.“We put the lyrics in the description. Also, stop being pussies about the snare drum mix.”

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    1. 2.“Bassist came out of the womb with bass face.”
    2. 3.“The neighbors called the cops with a noise complaint. Genevieve called an airstrike with a neighbor complaint.”

  28. 28.Jungle – Back On 74

    1M Likes

    4:01

    Best comments

    1.“This dance is like one big mating call. I love every second of it.”

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    1. 2.“I can't get over how TONED everyone's arms are. Like... damn.”
    2. 3.“One shot. The camera operator deserves all the awards.”

  29. 29.Gystere & esperanza spalding – Another Story

    1.1K Likes

    5:56

    Best comments

    1.“The summer blockbuster we didn't know we needed: Esperanza 'Foxy Brown' Spalding slaying Nazis with an afro pick.”

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    1. 2.“I can't believe how high it's appropriate to be watching this.”

  30. 30.Flanafi & Ape School – Gjuijar

    201 Likes

    4:43

    Best comments

    1.“Watching this evokes a hazy, psychedelic-tinged memory of staying up late in the summertime as a teenager in the late 2000s, watching bizarre internet Flash animations and Adult Swim cartoons.”

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    1. 2.“Hahaha, I'm on 🍄 right now, and this song + music video is great on 'em.”

  31. 31.Michael Kiwanuka – Light

    25K Likes

    3:07

    Best comments

    1.“I'll be honest: I thought this was a 1970s, Bill Withers-ish song. I was surprised to find out this masterpiece is from 2019... it gives me hope that real music isn't dead.”

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    1. 2.“This should have been the soundtrack for the new 007.”
    2. 3.“I'm 83 years old, a classical/jazz buff, and relieved to hear something genuinely new – something kind, something not canned!”

  32. 32.Roberta Flack – The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

    463 Likes

    3:25

    Best comments

    1.“One of the greatest pairings of song to voice ever. Probably on God's playlist.”

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    1. 2.“Thank you, Ewan MacColl, for writing this song – which you had to sing over a transatlantic phone call to your beloved, because she was in the US, a country McCarthyite bigotry barred you from entering.”
    2. 3.“This is my number one song for my wife. Excuse me while I go dance with her, as we have since 1978.”

  33. 33.Johnny Blue Skies & The Dark Clouds – Situation

    20K Likes

    6:20

    Best comments

    1.“This album fucks so hard I wanna leave it money on the nightstand.”

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    1. 2.“The world may be going to hell in a handbasket, but someone's getting pregnant to this song.”
    2. 3.“I went to 3 record stores and finally broke down and bought the vinyl. Now I'm pregnant.”

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