10 Greatest Rock Music Videos Of The 1990s
1. Bjork - All Is Full Of Love
No one writes love songs as delicately and mysteriously as Bjork, and so it stands to reason that a tune as singular as “All Is Full Of Love” needs a video to reflect that vibe.
The Chris Cunningham-directed piece is simultaneously disorienting and swooningly romantic, just as Bjork’s track mixes a soaring, hopeful melody with an unusual soundscape.
The video takes place on a production line of sorts, as a robot is put together, sparks flying, oil dripping. Cunningham makes the romance between the Bjork-bot and another android as suggestive and alluring as he can. Keeping things PG, the juxtaposition of the robot participants, by their very nature sanitised, and the free flowing fluids and the mechanised grinding makes for uncomfortable but brilliant viewing.
There’s no humanity on show here, save for Bjork’s face plastered in an uncanny fashion onto one of the ‘bots, but the song’s majestic, romantic power overcomes this.
Bjork’s had some bizarre videos in her time to say the least, but this one tells a simple story in the most complicated manner imaginable, and somehow it works perfectly.