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#Videos6Music – What Must Be In Our Music Video inspired playlist?

Manish Doolabh

Content Producer

This Sunday (16 November, 6-8pm), we’re after your musical inspirations for the greatest music videos ever.

With a back-catalogue of engaging and often obsessive one-take videos, each getting more and more complicated with every new release, OK Go are the current kings of creative music videos. It all started with 2006’s ‘Here It Goes Again’, a video that featured the four band members dancing on treadmills, notching up over 52 million views before removing it from their YouTube channel.

I Won’t Let You Down’ is an altogether more epic production, featuring a cast of hundreds (possibly thousands) and some rather nifty personal transporters.

So we require your help to compile the ultimate music video-inspired playlist. The best, the boldest, the weirdest, the beautiful and maybe most underrated music ever committed to video. Any genre, any era, any budget. What should be on it?

You could pick:

* Classic videos from the heyday of 1980s MTV (Peter ‘Sledgehammer’ Gabriel we’re looking at you)

* Brand new innovative videos from contemporary artists (this is where OK Go comes in)

* Controversial videos (The Prodigy, M.I.A., Erykah Badu, Justice, Pearl Jam step forward)

* Cliched videos (Slash playing a Les Paul outside a church in the desert for Guns n’ Roses’ ‘November Rain’)

* Epic mega-budget mini-movies (remember when Top of the Pops would dedicate half an episode to a single Michael Jackson video?)

Get your music video-inspired song suggestions – including the reasons WHY - into us by tweeting #Videos6Music, comment on the Now Playing Facebook page, here on the blog, email nowplaying@6music.co.uk or drag tracks onto our Spotify and Rdio playlists.