The lead single from Nirvana's final studio album, In Utero, saw the band's trademark quiet-loud dynamic hit a visceral new level. Stark biological imagery, documentaries about children with terminal cancer and Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love's rollercoaster media ride all inform a lyric that is still as black a love letter as the rock mainstream has ever witnessed.
The video treatment began life as a storyboard sketched out in Cobain's journal, with Dutch photographer and director Corbijn enlisted to add vivid flesh to the bones, dragging The Wizard Of Oz through the darkest of looking glasses.
9.) Foo Fighters - Everlong
Director: Michael Gondry, 1997
You've got axe- and chainsaw-wielding crazies, a party gone seriously awry, danger at a cabin in the woods and Dave Grohl dressed up like Sid Vicious - all the essential elements of a can't-miss vid.
Reportedly, director Michael Gondry used to dream about having a giant hand like the kind Grohl uses to fend off his attackers (played by Foo members Pat Smear and Nate Mendel) in this surreal tribute to the horror classic Evil Dead. But how to explain Taylor Hawkins in drag?
8.) Beastie Boys - Sabotage
Director: Spike Jonze, 1994
Spike Jonze, director of no fewer than four of your top 30 videos (that's a massive 13%, percentage fans), pays loving homage to '70s US cop shows, with the B-boys shamelessly hamming it up as Cochese, Bobby "The Rookie", The Chief and, best of all, Sir Stewart Wallace.
7.) The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up
Director: Jonas Åkerlund, 1997
Nothing makes for a good music video like a nice bit of controversy, and with a song titled like this, the controversy wasn't going to be difficult to create. The clip follows someone on a typical English city night out and is shot in the first person.
The excellent twist at the end is slightly softened if you happen to have been out in Cardiff on a Saturday night or seen the video before, but regardless, it's still one of the most rip-roaringly, edge-of-your-seat promos we've ever seen.
6.) Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
Director: Chris Cunningham, 1999
Director Chris Cunningham - also responsible for Bjork's All Is Full of Love, which you'll find at number 14 in this list - corrupts everything he touches in Windowlicker's deeply unsettling promo.
Wannabe gangsta bluster is comprehensively out-spooked by leering Aphex-faced bikini babes, Jacko-esque moves and, finally, Windowlicker herself, a hideous buck-toothed creature based on a sketch by HR Giger.
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