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Björk's All Is Full Of Love - directed by Chris Cunningham

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Fell In Love With A Girl by The White Stripes – directed by Michel Gondry
Michel Gondry is a clever-chap, and while it may seem like a simple idea at first, it takes visionary genius and daring to realise that Lego and raunchy garage-blues can fit together so perfectly. That said, it didn't take much to persuade The White Stripes themselves that a stop-motion Lego video was the right choice. Speaking to MTV, the band explained that Gondry simply brought a Lego model of Jack White's head to dinner. "You couldn't argue with that" said Jack.

Just by Radiohead – directed by Jamie Thraves
A man, walking to work and soundtracked by Radiohead playing in an apartment above, suddenly collapses on the pavement and refuses to get up. What's more, he won't tell anyone why he's lying down. Pressed, he eventually tells the surrounding crowd, at which point the subtitles, rather inconveniently, cut out. What he says has never been revealed by Thraves or the band, and it's a topic of some debate amongst fans. The best answer we've ever heard, though, is "Radiohead are rehearsing in that apartment block – let's all lie down and have a listen".

Here It Goes Again by OK Go – choreographed by Trish Sie
A subtitle at the start of this video announces 'OK Go, on treadmills' – and that's pretty much all there is to it. Four treadmills, four silly chaps in pink suits, some clever choreography and 17 takes is all it took to produce this ingenious video, which instantly became an internet smash. The most addictive quality of this video is, however, that no matter how many times you've watched it, you still catch yourself hoping that one of the power-popsters will fall flat on their face…

All Is Full Of Love by Björk – directed by Chris Cunningham
On this serene track, the closer to her 1997 album Homogenic, Björk sings that love is everywhere, even amongst the inert. Chris Cunningham's video, depicting robots in the midst of passion, illustrates this brilliantly, and MusicRadar for one didn't realise machines could be so sensual. Honda has missed an advertising trick here, we think: Rube Goldberg machines are all very well, but surely imbuing car-manufacturing robot arms with sexuality and filming them for a car ad is where it's at…

Windowlicker by Aphex Twin – directed by Chris Cunningham (explicit language from the start)
Maybe Chris Cunningham doesn't actually like Richard D. James, aka Aphex Twin. Poor-old James is regularly portrayed as a freakishly disturbing hell-beast in the Aphex Twin videos Cunningham directs – and this is certainly true of Windowlicker, in which James is depicted as a hideously wealthy superstar-freak as a parody of modern gansta-hip-hop videos. The sexual, brooding nature of the track is juxtaposed all too well by the video's disquieting images: possibly a further reference to the culture the video appears to lampoon.