The greatest music video in the world

The greatest music video in the world is The Perfect Kiss by New Order. There's no question about it. That's because I have absolute taste in music (as opposed to absolute pitch), and I'm telling you. Here's a YouTube link to it.

The video is revolutionary in an astonishingly simple way. In it the musicians actually play the song live in the studio, and that's it. Seeing the musicians actually playing, instead of pretending to play, as is usual in music videos, is really exciting and refreshing. They're really concentrating on the performance, and as they aren't actually virtuous players/singers, it's not obvious that they're going to make it through the song without major errors. But they do. And the few bum notes just make it more interesting, in my opinion.

The video is great also because it includes possibly the greatest bass player ever, Peter Hook, wearing a biker jacket and some kind of funny looking sweater pants, playing kick-ass bass. The main riff of the song is a high bass line. The line goes so high it must be played on a bass that has more frets than usual. Now that's kick-ass. And the bass part in the end of the song is just so... ass-kicky. (Appreciate the kick-ass range of my vocabulary. This review might end up resembling the one Homer's dog wrote.)

Other groin-grabbingly great moments in the video:
- The boyish haircut of Bernard Sumner. I love it.
- The 80's-style businesswoman look of Gillian Gilbert. I love it.
- Unusual instruments: synth drums, cowbell, weird synthesizer sounds (including frog samples).
- The Joy Division references: the Joy Division poster visible behind Bernard Sumner in the end of the video and the out of focus person watching the band perform (reference to Joy Division singer Ian Curtis put there by director Jonathan Demme according to speculations).
- The bored facial expressions of the band members in the very end of the video. They seem to say "Ok, it's done, now let's go get pie". They're musicians at work, not clowns prancing around for the camera. You just can't get any cooler than that.

Ok, I think this post is done. Now let's go get pie.