More on Music Videos: Greats vs. Faves - Prue

More on Music Videos: Greats vs. Faves - Prue 11/11/2008

I'm not sure what I think about distinguishing between favorite and great videos. I'll agree that it's somewhat quixotic to look for a "best" video ever--especially when new ones are made all the time and it's hard to define a "best" anything. But I do think that trying to pick between favorite and great videos is a false choice. I don't think that a video that you really enjoy should necessarily take a second seat to one that you tolerate, but respect for historical/cultural reasons. It seems to invalidate the enjoyment factor, as though that's a secondary goal rather than the whole damned point of the thing. So, by my thinking, your #1 all-time-video should definitely be one of your favorites over something that you place up there because it was ground-breaking, even though you'd be fine with never seeing it again. (For this reason, "Gin N Juice" will always beat out "Sledgehammer" for me, no matter how revolutionary the anima