2nd Best Video Ever
I have reached the 2nd spot on my top 10 music video countdown. I have been showing the top 10 music videos over the last few weeks. You can go back and check the videos I have already listed under “Favorite Video” on my blog. Also you can check to see what video came right before this one and was my 3rd best video of all time.
The 2nd spot is a musican that has had many great videos. The artist is none other than Michael Jackson. Michael may not be cool now, but back in the 80’s he was the man! Michael wasn’t just the king of pop but he was also the king of videos. His Thriller video has worn many countdowns when it comes to these top music video countdowns. I decided not to put Thriller in my top ten music videos. Now he has a lot to choose from and some of his videos are more like a short movie. I decided to go with a video that really is Michael Jackson and this video is a classic. It’s really this video and the song that was above all of his other songs. At least for a time it was and when you heard the name Michael Jackson back in the 1980’s, this is usually the song that came to most people’s mind first. So turn up your speakers and listen to the 2nd greatest video ever!
2nd Best Video of All Time
Now that’s a classic video!
Michael had the world eating out of his hands back then. This song Beat It won a grammy for Michael Jackson back in 1982. The song was one of the leading songs on the multi-platinum album Thriller. The amazing guitar solo in this song was performed by the legendary Eddie Van Halen. The setting of this video shows 2 gangs getting ready to rumble and this was inspired by the West Side Story.
The song Beat It also got attention from Weird Al Yankovic and he redone the lyrics and the video to the song Eat It. You know you have made it big when Weird Al goes and remakes your song! Not only Weird Al, but Metallica created a lot of buzz at the 2003 MTV Music Awards and did a version of Beat It.
Michael Jackson did write this song, arranged it, and composed it. He also helped produce the song, along with another very famous producer in Quincy Jones. It’s been a long time since Beat It or Michael Jackson was popular (or at least in a good way), but you can’t deny when this video was appearing on MTV, it was just one of those videos you would have to stop and watch. No matter how many times you seen it, you just had to watch Michael get out of bed and head down to the rumble.
Michael Jackson belongs in any countdown and no matter which one of his videos you choose, you have to add a Michael Jackson video in the top 10! So Michael is on mine at number 2. So who’s left for the top spot? You will have to stick around and just see which video lands on the top notch of my top 10 music videos of all time.
