25 Best Music Videos: 18

18. Loser
Beck

Infusing his sense of vaguely folkish, alterna-rock to a video, Beck Hansen's most famous song gets a video matching the brilliant eccentricity of both the song and artist.

Full of images ranging from Death washing a car window to people dancing in a cemetary, the whole video gives an air of some strange experimental film. A Lynchian musical, as it were. But much like David Lynch, the maddest images can bear genius in them.

Beck went on to do a bunch of crazy shit like releasing a cool funk album (my favorite of his albums), releasing a heart-crushingly sad album (done post-breakup and one of the most depressing things I've ever heard), and a guest appearance on Futurama. Beck is a crazy ol motherfucker who constantly pushes his ability into other styles of music and is pretty awesome for it.