There’s still four more months left to the year, but Bang Bang Bang is the music video of the year for me. The multitude of Japanese references, from the 70s talk show thing to the weird angular framing, is just wicked. And director Warren Fu goes all the way by sandwiching the main event with a faux commercial and sports news. And—sorry, Mr Ronson—to be honest, I thought Q-Tip almost stole the show with his debonair smoothness and delivery. This is one wicked Friday track!

Is this an ode to the late Michael Jackson? Maybe not, but I can’t wait to go music shopping this weekend to get Kula Shaker’s brand new album.

A true 90s classic from Garbage — radio-friendly and emo all at the same time. And this was the Shirley Manson look I liked the best; her subsequent goth-like makeover didn’t quite work for me. Although I’d like to think she’s ageing gracefully, she still does look a wee bit scary.

This video really, really makes me want to go on a holiday. And if I did, the Little Joy album would be the perfect companion to space out with.

A beautiful, psychedelic video (despite the frenching geese at about 2:10) by the French studio WIZZ for the excellent Thibaut Berland

The rejuvenation of hip hop has begun with the incredible talent of Janelle Monáe. I don’t know about you, but I really cannot remember the last time a female hip hop star kept most of her clothes on and made a good concept album.

I find myself strangely addicted to this video, starring an incredibly hot Magdalena Neumüller and a strangely French looking b-boy Elias Buttinger. Maybe it’s a side effect of consuming TamiFlu.

Maybe I am just feeling cabin-feverish. But it’s a great piece of film, despite the low quality video.

Beautiful track and a video to match from the quite excellent self-titled Miike Snow album from last year.

Class album by The Cardigans from 1998 — never saw the video for Erase/Rewind until 12 years later last night!

Keywords: Jungle, Man, Woman, Blood, Gore, Dick, Twig, Wig.

For a song about a guy indirectly asking for some rude action, I really don’t get the black and white, psychedelic treatment for the video for Arctic Monkey’s My Propeller video. (Maybe I need to watch it more carefully again for the sexual references, but I really have other things to do.)

All said, it’s a good song from the somewhat under-rated Hambug album.

Everybody! Stay calm! Don’t panic! It’s really been 11 years since Mystical Machine Gun was released and it still sounds great.