The Best Free Videos Online

It was a good year for music and it was a bad year for music.  All the cross pollination led to a sort of homogeneity that reflects the effects of globalization on the distinct cultures of the world.  Bad because musicians weren’t making nearly as much money as they should due in part to the glut of material released, the economy sucking, and people not having to really pay for anything in order to get the goods.

Good because there was so much of it that was fresh and alive and emerging from the obscurity of the shadows cast by the long-standing mega-labels that essentially toppled over at long last this year.  Good because the videos were audacious, colorful, innovative and edgy as ever.

Here are the five videos that, IMNSHO, rocked screens hardest  in 2008.

MGMT: Time To Pretend

This song/video restored my faith in pretty much everything, let alone indie music and making art and playing with mom’s video camera by pointing it right at the screen and freaking out on the feedback trails.

Metallica: All Nightmare Long

It just doesn’t really matter what you think of Metal, Metallica, Lars Ulrich or any of it.  Your opinion doesn’t matter, because this Godzilla / Anime / Grindhouse tribute rocks too hard for any opinion.

Justice: DVNO

Where the hell did these guys come from?  Al of a sudden Justice rules the roost.  Watch this amazafreaking video and you’ll have a better understanding why this is.

Radiohead: House of Cards

It is Radiohead’s world; we are all just living in it.  More innovation from the good old boys of Alternative.

Feist: I Feel It All

Just a beautiful, in-camera choreography that underlines how great the song is to begin with, which is what any self-respecting video should ever hope to do.

Honorable mentions:

Kanye West: Flashing Lights

Britney Spears: Break the Ice

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The majority of the time we here at BFV scout the globe to bring you the very best free videos out there.  But not this time. This time I am going to use a particular viral video to set an example; an example of just how desperate and lame some people are to get something viral going.

In this case: “Two Girls In A Shower”.  That is the BRAND.  It’s just two chicks, standing in a shower.  They might be naked, but probably aren’t.  And they talk about whatever is most likely the biggest topic of the week according to MyBlogLog.  This is, in my opinion, what I hope your attempts to make a video go viral, never become.

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‘Tis the holiday season and it’s time to warm up the cockles of your heart.  BFV brings you a now-classic clip from Britain’s Got Talent featuring six-year-old Connie Talbot in a clip that will melt even the most surly, jaded viewer.

Whether or not you disagree, 34,895,578 views make this one of the most viral videos online.

And whether or not you disagree, we wish you a happy and safe holiday season.

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Meet Toby Jones.  He’ll store ANYTHING you have for $10.99.

Ohh sneaky, sneaky.  This late-night commercial for Toby Jones’ Big Ass Truck Rental & Storage may not be quite what it seems, but it is definitely guaranteed to make you bust out laughing.

772,878 views at YouTube as of December 18th, 2008.

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Well this is just too easy.  Sometimes viral videos are like shooting fish in a barrel.  Check out this clip of an Iraqi reporter launching each of his shoes at President George W. Bush at a press conference Sunday with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

It had 452,523 views within a day!

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