10 Best Hard Rock Music Videos Of The 2010s
1. Smoko – The Chats (2017)
This video should have won a Grammy, an MTV Music Award and every other accolade available for this type of medium. Australian punk rockers The Chats were skyrocketed to international fame with the release of this home movie-style video. For whatever reason, this shaky, poorly exposed and outrageously low-fi assortment of footage was a beauty.
It's hard to pinpoint exactly what makes this an enduring source of entertainment. Is it the ginger mullet? The 1990s skiing shades? The general lack of care given to the camera framing? All of those aspects certainly help with the overall charm, but it's the unwavering Aussie confidence of the band that really strikes a chord.
The subject matter of the song was another component that sparked people's interest. When that sweet hit of tobacco is the the only thing making the tedium of a 9-5 bearable, cursed is anyone who tries to get in the way of it - The Chats captured that sentiment so eloquently with this high intensity punk song.
Rock isn't dead, it was just on Smoko.