2017: Buzz Bands LA’s Favorite Videos of the Year

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There’s a lot to see, but here are Buzz Bands LA’s favorites from all the videos we posted throughout 2017. If your attention span perseveres, the reward involves laughs, dancing, the stuff of nightmares, sparkling people, dogs catching Frisbees, donuts, clones, Macaulay Culkin, roller skates, basketball, politics and some very imaginative approaches to the art of music videos.

||| Also: See Buzz Bands LA’s year in Photos.

Clipping. “Back Up”

Grown-ups with baby faces and babies with grown-up faces. Milk everywhere.

L.A. Takedown “Bad Night At Black’s Beach”

A tribute to the opening sequence from “Flight of the Navigator,” dogs make the world a better place.

Polartropica “Olympia”

Shiny and sparkling, like swimming in grape soda.

Adult Books “Firewalking”

A delightfully disturbing homage to “Twin Peaks.”

The Lemon Twigs “I Wanna Prove To You”

Director Nick Roney embeds the D’Addario brothers at his grandparents’ house and can’t handle the bonding that ensues. Ends with vomit.

Old Man Saxon “Sunday Saxon”

A tortoise-man and a little boy commune in the woods.

Steady Holiday “Terror”

In this metaphor for the darkness pervading politics and culture, a creepy creature from the sofa refuses to die.

The Buttertones “Sadie’s A Sadist”

Indulging in cinephilic fantasy, the band goes on a mission to retrieve secret plans for a cybernetic robot bartender/rhoomba.

Bedouine “Solitary Daughter”

Something about that soft focus and throwback layering allows the song to penetrate your mind like a warm cup of tea.

Cutty Flam “Runaway”

Watch this adorable band play with itself.

Father John Misty “Total Entertainment Forever”

Macaulay Culkin (playing Kurt Cobain) gets crucified. A tiny Ronald McDonald bursts out of Josh Tillman’s stomach. The picture’s colorful, the message bleak.

Awolnation “Passion”

The camera follows disabled skater Og De Souza of Recife, Brazil, who lost use of his legs to polio but found a way to pursue his passion for skateboarding.

Moses Sumney “Lonely World”

Exploring empty terrain, he finds a mermaid. They embrace, then she drowns him. It’s about love.

The Donnies The Amys “Racehorse”

A glimpse into the glamorous world of competitive roller dancing.

Trapdoor Social “Never Stop Listening”

The band went to North Dakota’s Standing Rock Indian Reservation to join the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Despite the cold and hardships, they captured plenty of hope among the people.

Dhani Harrison “All About Waiting”

A scientist is defeated by a clone of herself in this futuristic animated sci-fi.

Joey Dosik “Game Winner”

The video and song are about basketball, but you still kind of feel turned on by the end.

BØRNS “Faded Heart”

Garrett Borns gets trampled by skeletons but first, he dances, and then, he drives a cool car.

Starcrawler “I Love L.A.”

The kids misbehave at Mom’s Donuts & Chinese Food.

John Isaac Watters “Past Hope Now”

At 20 minutes, this movement-based music video meets short film depicts a couple’s struggle in the dusty desert.

BOYO “Insomnia”

A guy installs surveillance cameras in the homes of three weird people, then watches them from his van.

Thumpasaurus “Mental Karate”

Take all those bad thoughts and karate chop them to pieces!

Kolars “Dizzy”

The more Lauren Browns dancing in outer space, the better.

Flying Lotus “Post Requisite”

Slide down the rabbit hole into a collage of disturbia.

Miya Folick “Woodstock”

A magnetizing vision in orange, Folick moves to her cover of Joni Mitchell’s song.