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 15th April 2018, 11:17 PM
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I was just wondering what everybody thought the best Robbie Williams music videos are.
No one can deny how iconic Rock DJ is so that has gotta be right up there. It's an enjoyable visual experience, at least until it gets near the end  but it is still an interesting concept for a video.The Feel video fits the mood and theme of the song really well. It's not as sensational or shocking as the Rock DJ but it fits the song well and I always enjoyed watching it on the music channels in the noughties You Know Me has a really fun video! I loved the Alice In Wonderland theme and the singing frogs and cabbages and Robbie's amazing somersaults Next up is something totally different, Robbie went live on ChatRoulette to showcase new song Losers (featuring Lissie), it is great seeing all the different reactions the members of the public had and Robbie's comments are hilarious |
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16th April 2018, 05:34 AM
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I will have to think about this one Tombo
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16th April 2018, 11:03 PM
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All the above plus this.  Love the song, love the video. I seem to remember this was filmed in Vienna in the middle of the Close Encounters Tour in 2006 Gorgeous |
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17th April 2018, 03:34 AM
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yep, still love Lovelight
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17th April 2018, 04:17 AM
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Lazy days is one of my all time favourite videos, has a new romantic feel about it , I thought it suited Robbie & the character he played very well . He was always better & more natural in videos where he was given a role to play , it brought out the theatrics in him
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17th April 2018, 05:34 AM
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Supreme!
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17th April 2018, 10:54 PM
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His videos have been consistently inventive, clever and original right up to Party Like A Russian.
If they give him a an idea and let him run with it, they're always good. |
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27th October 2022, 11:51 PM
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'Supreme', 'Advertising Space', 'You Know Me' are some of his videos I like best.
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28th October 2022, 07:08 AM
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Still Lazy Days for me , I also liked Party Like a Russian though, superb video
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28th October 2022, 11:36 AM
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Rock DJ Feel Come Undone he has loads of great videos 
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28th October 2022, 07:25 PM
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Loads and loads are really great.
But my favourite is Supreme. Waiting for some new interesting characters for him. |
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28th October 2022, 11:02 PM
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Strong and Misunderstood for me -and agree Party Like A Russian is a great video.
Millennium is really good too. |
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26th February 2024, 12:29 PM
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Thought I would resurrect this thread & go through some RW official videos right from the beginning. It must have been quite expensive to make some of these videos even back in the day , one of my all time favourites has to be the video for FEEL, I love everything about it
 FREEDOM - Released AUG 12TH 1996 Also decided to post this performance from TOTP Christmas Special 1996 . Great performance, too good to pass ( video thanks to Kellysclassics ) This post has been edited by Sydney11: 26th February 2024, 12:42 PM |
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27th February 2024, 07:37 PM
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OLD BEFORE I DIE - Released APR 14th 1997
Video from TOTP 1997. Vodeo thanks to Steveh31 The promo video for 'Old Before I Die' was directed by David Mould; his other high-profile video projects in 1997 included Texas 'Say What You Want', and Oasis 'Stand By Me'.riginal video directed by David Mould The first single from 'Life Thru A Lens' entered the UK Chart at No. 2 at the end of April 1997, matching the peak position of Robbie's solo debut 'Freedom' the previous August. 'Old Before I Die' was also one of the first songs written for the album, with demos recorded at Crescent Moon Studios in Miami, Florida in October 1996, overseen by Robbie's co-writer Desmond Childs, who worked with Aerosmith, Bon Jovi and Cher (amongst others) during a particularly successful spell in the '80s and '90s. A second writing partner was Eric Bazilian, a founding member of US Rock band The Hooters and co-writer of their December 1987 UK No. 22 single 'Satellite'. |
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27th February 2024, 11:20 PM
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Love those early performances -he had so much raw energy
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28th February 2024, 07:01 PM
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LAZY DAYS - Released 14TH July 1997
Always loved this video Video thanks to Erick Carvalho The music video for the single Lazy Days. Directed by Thomas Q Napper. Shot on Robbie's ‘day release' from rehab, the Lazy Days video saw him on the road to recovery. In his words: "It is a bonkers video, 'cause that's how my head was at the time I think. I was still in rehab three weeks after the video was shot, then when the video came - I think for me to get in touch with my anger - they wouldn't allow me to watch the video. And I just went "OK I know you want me to get in touch with my anger but I'm not. I don't care. . . so PAH!"Copyright: 1997 Chrysalis Records Limited Songfacts Robbie Williams described the Britpop-inspired cut "Lazy Days" as "an anthem about being young," adding on his website: "It's basically saying enjoy your youth and don't worry about making mistakes because we all make mistakes - it's part of growing up. That's something I've only just learnt for myself." The song was written by Robbie Williams' frequent collaborator Guy Chambers during his time in the British quintet The Lemon Trees. Williams loved the song, but made some changes to the lyrics and arrangement before claiming it as his own. Directed by Thomas Q. Napper, the video sees Williams dancing around a pleasure garden alongside a multitude of Alice in Wonderland-esque characters. Williams was checked into rehab for cocaine addiction at the time, but was permitted to leave for a day to shoot the video for this song. Williams later said it was "a bonkers video, 'cause that's how my head was at the time." Unfortunately, Williams would return to rehab several times throughout his career, including in 2006 for depression, and in 2007 for dependence on prescription drugs. "Lazy Days" was the second single released from Williams' debut album, Life Thru a Lens, after "Old Before I Die." The song peaked at #8 in the UK, but limited promotion meant it failed to see the same success across Europe. https://www.songfacts.com/facts/robbie-williams/lazy-days This post has been edited by Sydney11: 28th February 2024, 07:07 PM |
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29th February 2024, 12:26 PM
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SOUTH OF THE BORDER - Released SEPT 15TH 1997
Great tune live  TOTP 1997 . Video thanks to heydudeololo Making of SOTB - Preparing the video shoot Songfacts Robbie Williams said that "South Of The Border" was inspired by his move from Stoke-on-Trent to London. Writing on his website, Williams explained: "I whistle along on this track like Roger Whittaker, but the song is about me completely losing the plot and leaving home to move to London." This opening line of this song is rumored to be about the British supermodel Kate Moss, who was infamously involved in a cocaine scandal in 2005: "I know a freaky young lady, name of Cocaine Katie." This was changed to "No Shame Katie" in the single version. Older listeners will remember "Cocaine Katie" from the 1972 Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show hit "The Cover of "Rolling Stone"." Williams described this song as "one of the best, so much better than 'Angels.'" Directed by Thomas Q Napper, the video for this song was filmed across two days at Bow Studios, London. Williams decided to release "South Of The Border" as a single at the very last minute, hence the largely uneventful video. "We were recording the 'Let Me Entertain You' video the next day, and I just went 'no, we're doing 'South of the Border' as a single,'" he said. "South Of The Border" failed to reach the Top 10 in the UK, leading critics to suggest it was the end of Robbie Williams' solo career. On the contrary, his next single, "Angels," catapulted the former member of Take That to international fame. This was the third single released from Life Thru a Lens after "Old Before I Die" and "Lazy Days." The song peaked at #14 in the UK, making it Robbie Williams' only single to miss the Top 10 until "Sin Sin Sin" in 2006. https://www.songfacts.com/facts/robbie-will...h-of-the-border This post has been edited by Sydney11: 29th February 2024, 12:27 PM |
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5th March 2024, 01:39 PM
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ANGELS - Released DEC 1st 1997
England fans sing Robbie Williams 'Angels' at Croydon Box Park. Video thanks to BeanymanSports2 The fourth single from 'Life Thru A Lens', and the first song that Robbie wrote with Guy Chambers. Released as a single at the beginning of December 1997, it spent twelve consecutive weeks on the UK Top 10 and peaked at No. 4. It has returned to the chart on numerous occasions in the intervening years, with streaming figures now in excess of 380 million. A public vote for the 2005 BRIT Awards, where Robbie performed the song as a duet with Joss Stone, named 'Angels' the best song in the previous twenty-five years. In June 2018, his chosen duet partner was Taylor Swift, when the pair performed 'Angels' onstage at Wembley Stadium in London. The promo video for 'Angels' was filmed at Staunton Sands, a beach on the North Devon Coast in England, and directed by Vaughan Arnell. Vaughan had directed videos for the Spice Girls and George Michael, and would work with Robbie again on multiple projects. Songfacts In this song, Robbie Williams sings about his guardian angel, who offers him both protection and affection. Williams told his biographer Chris Heath that this song is about his fascination with the paranormal: "I believed that stuff when I wrote 'Angels' – that's why I wrote 'Angels.' 'Angels' isn't about anybody, it's about the thoughts that loved ones that have passed on come back and take care of you." (Source: The Daily Telegraph November 6, 2009). Williams had previously been a member of boy band Take That, but quit the group in 1995. His solo career stalled until "Angels" was released on Christmas 1997. The main songwriter and frontman of Take That was Gary Barlow, whose solo career started well, (his song "Love Won't Wait" being co-written with Madonna), but soon dried up, the opposite of what happened to Williams. Barlow went on to become a professional songwriter and X Factor judge. He wrote hits for Alesha Dixon ("To Love Again") and Matt Cardle ("Run For Your Life"). Although it only reached #4, "Angels" spent 27 weeks on the UK chart and is by far Williams' biggest-selling song. He quickly cemented his stardom in Britain, scoring a series of hits, including the #1 duet with Nicole Kidman on "Somethin' Stupid." He has also dueted with Kylie Minogue, Neil Tennant (from The Pet Shop Boys) and Neil Hannon (from The Divine Comedy). This is regarded as a classic in the UK and is a massive karaoke favorite. It's one of those songs that is constantly played on pub jukeboxes. A review of it said that it "taps into the sentimental old git in all of us." There was a lot of press rivalry with Williams and the Gallagher brothers from Oasis, one of their more printable insults of Williams being "That fat dancer from Take That." Many Britpop fans felt that "Angels" was an attempt to cash in on the then huge Britpop craze by writing a mainstream song in a similar style. After this song, Williams became a huge star in the UK despite criticism that he was a glorified cabaret singer. He has tried many times to break the US market, all attempts being unsuccessful. He eventually said that he gave up and "couldn't be arsed." Williams co-wrote "Angels" with the Irishman Ray Hefferman, then Robbie's longtime collaborator Guy Chambers transformed it into his biggest worldwide-selling single. Hefferman recalled in an interview promoting the 2006 Manchester Irish Festival how he earned a paltry £7,500 from the song: "We (Hefferman and Williams) met in a Dublin pub during the Christmas holidays of 1996, and proceeded to go out and have a few beers etc. He ended up staying in my place, as we had said we would try to write some songs together. I had one that I had written in Paris called 'An Angel Instead,' which he liked, and we worked on it together. He called Louis Walsh, who organised a studio for us, and we recorded a version of it here in Dublin. He went back to England after that, and we lost touch. I was therefore very surprised to hear that 'Angels' was on his new album. I got in touch, and essentially signed a waver of my rights to the song for just £7,500 and the rest is musical history, I'm still writing songs and selling albums independently and he is a corporation." As "Angels" was unknown in the US, Jessica Simpson covered it in 2004. In the UK, most reviewers were less than impressed with her take on it. In a UK based VH1 poll of best #1s, worst #1s and songs that should have got to to #1, this was voted the top song that should have topped the charts. >> The drummer on this song, Chris Sharrock, went on to become a founder member of Liam Gallagher's post-Oasis band Beady Eye. The black-and-white video was directed by Vaughan Arnell and shot at Saunton Sands beach in England. It was the first of many Robbie Williams videos directed by Arnell; others include "Bodies" and "Heavy Entertainment Show." Robbie Williams performed a duet version of this song with Russian soprano Aida Garifullina at the 2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony held at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia. He also sang "Let Me Entertain You," "Feel" and "Rock DJ" but he provoked an angry action on social media by flipping the bird at the camera during his performance of the latter song. "Angels" is inspired by Williams' belief in the Christian concept of celestial beings. He reasons his anthem most likely came via divine inspiration from God. "People think it's about my mum, or that it's about somebody or something," he said on the Weaponized YouTube page. "It's actually about angels, it's actually about St. Michael, it's actually about Gabriel. Do I have a belief in angels? I love the idea of angels. It's not lost on me that the most powerful song that I've ever had is about an angelic force, maybe there's something in that." https://www.songfacts.com/facts/robbie-williams/angels |
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14th March 2024, 10:02 AM
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MILLENNIUM - RELEASED SEPT 1ST 1998
'Millennium' was the first single from Robbie’s second album ‘I’ve Been Expecting You’ and the first of seven UK No. 1 singles (so far). ‘Millennium’ includes a co-writing credit for John Barry and Leslie Bricusse, as it incorporates elements of their 1967 theme for the James Bond film 'You Only Live Twice'. That theme was originally sung by Nancy Sinatra, who topped the chart when she duetted with her father Frank Sinatra on ‘Somethin’ Stupid’; a cover of the same song would provide Robbie and Nicole Kidman with the UK Christmas No. 1 in 2001. The James Bond connections continue in the video directed by British filmmaker Vaughan Arnell, where a suave tuxedo-clad Robbie shares the screen with model-turned-TV-chef Lorraine Pascal, among others. ‘Millennium’ won the award for ‘British Video of the Year’ at the 1999 BRIT Awards. Video thanks to JoannaDarc Video thanks to Rosa Mannen Songfacts This song prepares for the Millennium (year 2000), which was two years away at that time. It was brilliant forethought to create an anthem surrounding the event, and the big chorus with "stars directing our fate" made it the most popular song about the new millennium. This was despite some rather cynical lyrics, where Williams even mentions the "sarcasm in my eyes." Williams wrote the song with his producer, former World Party member Guy Chambers. According to Chambers, Williams wrote most of the lyrics very quickly, but didn't have a title for the song. It was Williams who came up with the very topical idea to name it "Millennium." Chambers explained to Songwriting Magazine in June 2019: "There was a lot of talk about the millennium back then, it's a bit like the 'Brexit' word now... not that I'd write a song called 'Brexit.' I just thought it was an interesting word." The little bridge in the middle of the song was conceived as a soccer chant. Chambers had the melody for that section written, and Williams came up with the words, "Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough." The music for this song is based on Nancy Sinatra's "You Only Live Twice" from the James Bond film of the same name. The actual sample of the song wasn't used because it was a lot cheaper to recreate it in the studio than to clear it, so an orchestra comprising of a 26-piece string section, four French horn players, and a harpist was brought in to record it. Speaking with Sound on Sound, Guy Chambers said: "Robbie came up with the idea for the song. He wanted to use the string section from 'You Only Live Twice,' but put it to a hip-hop beat. Once we had decided that, it was just a matter of finding a beat that worked - something that we eventually achieved by speeding it up." Chambers added to Songwriting that John Barry, the original composer of "You Only Live Twice," didn't approve of "Millennium": "A few months after it had been released and had been a hit, we actually met John Barry, who wrote that amazing string line, backstage at a prom. We wanted to meet him but he was incredibly unfriendly, I got the feeling that he thought we'd murdered his piece of music. It was a bit awkward to say the least, but I'm still a huge John Barry fan." "Millennium" took a mere four hours to write, Chambers told Sound on Sound: "What's interesting is that this is the simplest song Robbie and I have ever written – only two chords. And it's written in D-flat major, which is very unusual in pop music. In all, it took us about four hours to write, but then we always work fast." Williams isn't a fan of this song. Speaking with Songwriting, Chambers revealed: "Rob doesn't actually rate this song as one of our best. He doesn't like performing it. He thinks it's one of our 'B' songs rather than one of our 'A' songs. I think it's one of the 'A' songs. That's okay, we can agree to disagree. We don't agree on everything, we never did." The music video was directed by Vaughan Arnell and used a James Bond theme to go along with the musical idea. Williams does some very rough recreations of famous scenes from various Bond movies in the clip. The video was filmed at Pinewood Studios in London, home to the famous 007 Stage. British model and television chef Lorraine Pascale stars as one of the Bond girls in the visual. Strictly speaking, the new millennium began on January 1, 2001, but it was commonly celebrated a year earlier. "Millennium" was the lead single from Williams' second album, I've Been Expecting You. It was Williams' first single to reach #1 on UK chart, knocking All Saints' "Bootie Call" off the top spot. Williams, who was engaged to All Saints member Nicole Appleton at the time, said: "Someone had to be knocked off and it may as well be the wife." This song also received extensive airplay in the US, where it peaked at #72 on the Billboard Hot 100. Despite this, Williams was never able to truly crack the States. Speaking about his failed bid to win over the country, Williams commented to Billboard in March 2003: "My sense of humor is very British. Maybe my writing is too colloquial. Or perhaps Americans simply don't like me." https://www.songfacts.com/facts/robbie-williams/millennium This post has been edited by Sydney11: 14th March 2024, 10:03 AM |
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25th March 2024, 01:34 PM
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SEXED UP - RELEASED NOV 3RD 2003
One of my favourite RW songs Songfacts "Sexed Up" is a deeply bitter breakup song Robbie Williams originally wrote alongside his longtime collaborator Guy Chambers in 1998. Williams claims he's indifferent to the fact his lover has left him, with the British singer snarling in the bridge: "Screw you, I didn't like your taste anyway." Williams later admitted "Sexed Up" came out harsher than he intended, adding: "I just found myself tripping over each lyric until it became that song, which is pretty vitriolic for a subject that's so heartbreaking." After performing this song on The Robbie Williams Show in 2002, Williams denied it was about "a certain person who goes out with a guy in a rock band," before actually admitting "it might be." This is a reference to Nicole Appleton of All Saints, whom Williams was briefly engaged to in the late '90s. Appleton went on to date and marry Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher. This resulted in a nasty rivalry between the two men, culminating in Williams challenging Gallagher to a boxing match at the BRIT Awards in March 2000. Williams initially offered this song to "Torn" singer Natalie Imbruglia. After she turned it down, he decided to keep it for himself. "Sexed Up" was first released in demo form as a B-side to the I've Been Expecting You single "No Regrets." The demo version features slightly different lyrics, with Williams singing "I'll lay a bet, that I'm okay" instead of "I can't awaken the dead, day after day" in the opening verse. The music video was directed by Jonas Åkerlund, who'd previously worked with Williams on the clip for "Come Undone." American actress Jaime King plays Williams' love interest in the visual. King has since credited the video for boosting her career, with the former model going on to star alongside Bruce Willis in 2005's Sin City. "Sexed Up" was released as the fourth and final single from Williams' fifth album, Escapology. The song peaked at #10 in the UK. "Sexed Up" also gained a huge amount of airplay in Brazil after appearing in the telenovela Mulheres Apaixonadas as the theme music for the characters Diogo and Marina. https://www.songfacts.com/facts/robbie-williams/sexed-up |
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