You young whippersnappers may find it hard to believe, but once upon a time, MTV showed actual music videos, and a few (a very few) of them were truly creative. Don’t bother turning on your television; no one has shown a video on TV since 1997. YouTube, however, is full of them, and some are actually pretty good.

If you’re a movie geek, as I am, you’ll get a kick out of Knights of Cydonia by Muse. I count references to Westworld, Planet of the Apes, The Matrix, Star Wars, Mad Max, Heavy Metal magazine, Logan’s Run, and Clint Eastwood’s spaghetti westerns, among others.

The Killers’ All These Things That I’ve Done pays tribute to Russ Meyer’s Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, and the song’s not bad, either.

You can also find a ton of rare old clips, like The Pogues doing London Calling with Joe Strummer in 1988. That’s good stuff right there.

More to come…