I think Gypsy will always be my favorite FM video. It's just so majestic and beautiful. And the ending reminds me of those wonderful MGM musicals back in the day. And I love that the guys dancing in the rain kept to a very classic style of dancing rather than looking like the dancers in Stand Back but in suits. It's sort of timeless, in that it doesn't look like an 80's video at all. Even in the "modern" setting of the fantasy forest the band is wearing these folky outfits so that the appear to be in their own dimension rather than being in the 80's. And even the imperfections, like Stevie nearly being taken out by the big glop of glitter dropped on her head, is endearing. I love everything about it.
Hold Me, by contrast, is a great bit of 80's nostalgia with the breaking mirror in the desert and the artsy imagery.
I also really love Seven Wonders but that's probably just because I love the song so much. I'm not a fan of plain old performance clips but I do love how they tied the Seven Wonders theme into the song with the backdrop. And I have to agree with cantgoback, they all look so happy. Especially the way Stevie smiles at Lindsey's goofing around. One would never know that they were only a short period away from his smacking her around and leaving the band.
Big Love is cold and impersonal to me, but stunning nonetheless. I like it a lot.
As Long As You Follow is a song that always reminds me of Christmas because the Greatest Hits CD came out just before I left college for Holiday Vacation from college and I played that and No Questions Asked constantly. And I guess the snow falling outside the windows in the video ties that association together more. I don't remember, are there holiday decorations in the video at all? Or am I just mixing the images on the screen with the memores of being in my parents' house that Christmas. I'll have to pull up the video when I have a moment.
I so wish there had been an actual video for Sara. The full album version. Seeing how beautiful Gypsy was could you imagine what a good director could have done with Sara? I wish there was a trend for independent filmmakers to do new videos for older songs. I can just see a modern adaptation of visuals for it.
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