14. Guns N' Roses - "November Rain" (1991)
In the bygone days of the early 90's, videos still had the marketing clout to be of the utmost importance to record companies (remember those?), and they thought nothing of spending millions and millions of dollars to promote their artists, and G'n'R were the top priority of Geffen in 1991. Thus we get this amazing glittering pile of clumsy metaphors and overblown cliche, (complete with over-the-top guitar solo from Slash) spread across three videos. As the follow up album "The Spaghetti Incident?" was largely ignored, this was the last time G'N'R were seen as an actual band and not Axl and a collection of whatever hangers-on were surrounding him at the time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SbUC-UaAxE
13. Beastie Boys - "Sabotage" (1994)
Bearing the all-important seal of Beavis and Butthead approval, this immortal video by hip-hop pioneers the B-Boys remains their most iconic and also most hilarious video to date, a note-perfect parody on 70's cop shows such as "Starsky and Hutch" ("Featuring Nathan Wind as Cochese!") that received massive airplay in the summer of '94. The B-Boys were never this tightly funky or this effortlessly fun again. Sadly, Ad Rock's death ensured that we will never see a sequel to this masterpiece, but every time you watch this video it's like 1994 all over again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE