As a teenager, I majorly missed out on music videos: I didn’t have MTV, and streaming video was a distant dream. So it’s only now that I am getting caught up on the great music video canon, especially Spike Jonze’s old videos. It’s entirely possible that I just don’t watch enough videos these days (I do have MTV but would never dream of sitting around and watching it — I mean, do they even play music videos anymore?), but it seems to me like they are so over produced and over reliant on sex appeal.

My favorite video that’s been made recently is definitely A Place to Bury Strangers video for “Keep Slipping Away,” off their most recent album, Exploding Head. I must’ve watched this video ten times in a row when it first came out. The atmosphere, the slow speed camera, the colors — it’s pitch perfect. And moreover, it’s a rare video that actually makes me think more deeply about what the song means.

I really wish that there was some online site that curated music videos, new and old. If there is already one, I don’t know it.