Best Film Clips Of All Time: Part II

IT'S time for another instalment of our collection of the best film clips ever.As with those we mentioned last time, these music videos are stand-outs but for very different reasons. The common theme is that all of them match their respective songs perfectly, to the point where hearing these songs now conjures up images from the clip.It's hard to hear Sledgehammer and not think of the jittery animation, or listen to Coffee & TV and not picture the cute little milk carton.Anyway, it's on with the show for part two of the best music videos of all time.Freak On A Leash - Korn (1999)THERE are two parts to this clip and both are great. The bookends are animated by Todd McFarlane, the visual artist who created iconic comic book character Spawn and Pearl Jam's excellent Do The Evolution film clip (more on that in a future instalment). It opens in cartoon form with a group of children escaping a compound to play hopscotch in the middle of the night. A security guard investigates but trips and accidentally fires his gun. The bullet bursts out of the cartoon and into the real world as it makes a special effects-aided journey through rooms and various objects in explosive, slow-motion fashion. It's a simple idea but it's still fun watching the bullet tear through a coffee pot, a lava lamp, a can of whipped cream and more. And there's a nice animated ending to cap off this clip for one of the best tracks from influential nu-metal band Korn.Korn won't let us embed the video but you can watch it here.Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel (1986)GABRIEL's only US chart-topper ironically knocked his former band Genesis off the top spot. Part of that success can be attributed to this amazing film clip, which is still mind-bogglingly good more than two decades on. Gabriel lay under a sheet of glass for 16 hours to complete the shots necessary for his part of the stop animation provided in part by Nick Park and his Aardman Animations team, which would later go on to create Wallace & Gromit. The painstaking work that went into the clip not only got the song to number one in the US, but it made the video the most played on MTV and won a still-unbroken record of nine gongs at the MTV Video Music Awards of that year. And did I mention that this incredible clip features not one, but two dancing chickens?Coffee And TV - Blur (1999)A FANTASTIC Blur song featuring undoubtedly their best film clip. The much-loved video stars Milky, an intrepid milk carton designed by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. One of the few Blur tracks sung by guitarist Graham Coxon, the clip opens with Coxon listed as missing on the side of Milky, who sets off on an adventure to find Coxon and cheer up Coxon's parents. Milky, despite being less than a foot tall, hitches a ride on a motorbike, accidentally visits a prostitute and dodges all sorts of nasties in an alleyway scene that's soundtracked perfectly by Coxon's inventive noisy guitar solo. The brave milk cartoon finally tracks Coxon down in a rehearsal room, inspiring the wayward guitarist to return home. This uplifting and charming clip regularly rates highly on lists of the best music videos, won a stack of awards, and is a firm favourite on Rage.Svefn-g-englar - Sigur Ros (1999)ICELANDIC art-rock group Sigur Ros caught the attention of the alternative music world with this spine-tinglingly beautiful song which is backed by a spine-tinglingly beautiful clip. The haunting music is ideal for the accompanying performance by the Peltan Theatre Group, a dance and drama group from Reykjavik for people with disabilities (mostly Down's Syndrome). Watching them dance around on the fjords, dressed as angels, is a truly gorgeous sight as they're obviously enjoying themselves. It makes this one of the few clips that makes you smile so much you'll wanna cry. In a good way.Sabotage - The Beastie Boys (1994)BEFORE Spike Jonze directed the awesome Adaptation and Being John Malkovich, he was the hottest film clip director in town. Along with this killer '70s cop show parody for The Beastie Boys, he's also done Weezer's Buddy Holly, Ween's Freedom Of '76, Bjork's It's Oh So Quiet, and Fatboy Slim's Praise You, to name a few (more on these in coming installments). This is a spot-on send-up of such programs as Hawaii Five-0 and Starsky & Hutch, with the Beasties playing most of the roles in suitably bad wigs and moustaches, and plays like the opening credits to a police drama called Sabotage. It's great fun and has been a regular on MTV and Rage for the past 15 years. Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) said this clip inspired the opening sequences to his break-out film Trainspotting.