Ragged Words videos of 2010

Ragged Words videos of 2010
Ragged Words videos of 2010
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23 Dec 2010

From Peter Gabriel homages to attempted Christmas number one hijackings, here are our top 10 videos of 2010: 

1. Lone Wolf - Keep Your Eyes On The Road (Director - Ashley Dean)
Paying homage to Peter Gabriel's 'Sledgehammer' isn't a move made by the feint hearted but on Lone Wolf's debut single/video 'Keep Your Eyes On The Road', Ashley Dean does a staggeringly good job. We spoke to Lone Wolf about it earlier in the year but first, watch this one again and again and again...  

2. DELS - Trumpalump (Director - us)
The first of two entries from Big Dada-signed rapper DELS and fellow Londoners, directorial duo us (design studio), 'Trumpalump' is incredibly clever. Just wait 'til that penny drops...  

3. Rafter - No Fucking Around (Director - Matt Wells)
Who said you should never work with kids?!? Funniest video of the year, hands down.

4. El Guincho - Bombay (Director - Nicolas Mendez)
So so so so so bonkers that it somehow, well, makes sense.

5. The Ambience Affair - Devil In The Detail (Director - Souljacker)
Just looks like a bloke walking through the woods, right? But there's something not quite right... Oh, no video cameras were used, you say? It was instead created entirely from over 15000 still photographs??? Oh, okay. That's AMAZING then.

6. Foals - Spanish Sahara (Director - Dave Ma)
This is exactly how a decent sized video budget should be spent. Long-time foals collaborator Dave Ma delivers the goods yet again:

7. Liars - Scissor (Director - Andy Bruntel)
Powerful, if slightly odd but definitely brilliant.

8. DELS - Shapeshift (Director - us)
Them two again. 

9. Rubberbandits - Horse Outside (Director - Peter Foott)
3,517,404 views later and the novelty is showing no sign of wearing off. Actually make that 3,517, 405.

10. Duck Sauce - Barbra Streisand (Director - SoMe)
If you're going to call in favours from all of your famous mates, you may as well make a very cool video in the process. Ezra 'Vampire Weekend' Koenig steals the cameo show for us. 

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