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Number Five: Metallica.

Number Four: The Smashing Pumpkins.

Number Three: Guns N? Roses. Guns N? Roses has created six studio albums over the course of their career. ?Welcome to the Jungle? is a track off of the band?s 1987 album, Appetite for Destruction. Most of the video depicts the band performing live, while being interlaced with scenes of Axel watching violent events on TV; Alan Niven (the band?s manager at the time,) said in a magazine interview that while making the video he was inspired by films like A Clockwork Orange and Midnight Cowboy. (A side note- While the video for ?Sweet Child O? Mine? features clips of the band rehearsing, Axel?s original idea was to depict drug trafficking.)

The band began to get more cinematic with their videos in the creation of albums Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II (both released in 1991.) Specifically there is an Illusions trilogy of videos, consisting of the songs ?Don?t Cry,? ?November Rain? and ?Estranged,? all of which deal with troubled relationships. ?Don?t Cry? portrays a troubled relationship between Axel and his then-current girlfriend Stephanie Seymour, along with images of Axel in a psych ward, Axel drowning and Axel?s grave site; these images signify the inner demons Axel was fighting. At the end of the video, a baby emerges from a black-water bathtub, representing rebirth (a side note- Blind Melon?s Shannon Hoon was featured on back-up vocals for ?Don?t Cry,? as well as being in the video.)

?November Rain,? popularly considered the second video in the Illusions trilogy, depicts Axel getting married, then at the wedding reception when it starts to rain, we see scenes of Axel?s wife?s funeral; images of a crucifix and a lone church in the middle of the desert could represent the idea that marriage is somehow related to death, while some speculate that Axel?s wife killed herself, as certain scenes in the video show her looking unsure of her decision to get married.

?Estranged,? off of Use Your Illusion II, is considered to be the third video in the trilogy. Running for almost ten minutes, the most prominent scene in the video is when Axel jumps off a ship and starts to drown, but is saved by dolphins; at the time Axel had broken up with his girlfriend, and the video does a good job of portraying these feelings of separation and loneliness. Perhaps most telling is that at the beginning of the video we see the definition for illusion, and at the end we see the definition for disillusionment; perhaps suggesting that we shouldn?t live in our lives in either state.

Number Two: Aerosmith.

Number One: Tom Petty (and the Heartbreakers).



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Well personally I would have GNR as number 1.   

i am a Tom petty fan.  But I would never think of him as a music video guy.   Marry james last dance is a great video.  But what else?   Free falling.  Ya I guess

Aerosmith ?   Ya I get it   They had that cryn video and jannies got a gun.   The more I think of it Aerosmith was actually pretty big durring the 90s

I would still have guns at number 1

With r e m at number two

Tom petty at n.1???
Come on!! O.o

All 5 are worthy, as well as Radiohead, NIN, Rob Zombie, Peter Gabriel, Queen, Beastie Boys, Billy Joel, Prince, Van Halen,  Depeche Mode, No Doubt, Phil Collins, Hole, REM, Bjork, Tori Amos, David Bowie, Tool, Eurythmics and Foo Fighters.

Some of those aren't really what I would consider "Rock"?

I love GNR's videos.  I think it shapes a big part of how I've always seen them.

And while I agree Tom Petty has had some clever videos, I'm not sure he deserves the top slot.