The first vids were long clips to accessible (and often sappy) music. Almost immediately, some fans started to push the boundaries: speed them up, add non-fannish clips, edit the music, add text, go meta, you name it. See the vids that astonished con goers in the 80s and 90s. VJ: Sandy
| # | Title | Vidder(s) | Song (if different) | Artist | Fandom(s) | Duration | Download URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walking and Falling | Tashery | Laurie Anderson | Blakes 7 | 0:00:00 | ||
| In the 90s and early 90s, vid songs were generally accessible pop ballads and themes from musicals; this bold choice of song was astonishing and perfect. | |||||||
| 2 | Heartbreaker | Deejay | Pat Benatar | The Professionals | 0:02:12 | ||
| The vidder used a non-humorous song to subvert the usual view of Ray Doyle--making a very funny vid. | |||||||
| 3 | Crucify | Katharine, Media Cannibals and Pam | Tori Amos | Homicide: Life on the Street | 0:04:07 | ||
| This vid is an amazing character study. It is also the first vid I ever saw that used jump cuts and made them work. They were taken directly from the source, mirroring a change in mundane TV editing that has continued to affect vidding til this day. | |||||||
| 4 | Centerfield | California Crew | John Fogerty | Multi | 0:05:13 | ||
| We'd seen multimedia vids before this, but never one that tried to create an actual crossover between the sources! | |||||||
| 5 | Orinoco Flow (Data's Dream) (original) | GF aka Gayle, ShadowSongs and Tashery | Orinoco Flow | Enya | Multi | 0:04:03 | |
| This vid is gorgeous, it has a ingenious frame (not a technique commonly used in vids of the time) and it uses source we think of as "fannish" and other source we don't, mixed together perfectly. | |||||||
| 6 | Turn the Page | Megan Kent and Sandy | Bob Seger | Led Zeppelin RPS | 0:04:48 | ||
| Fans were vidding RPS long before Popslash, LoTRiPS, Bandom, and J2. | |||||||
| 7 | Tapestry | Mary Van Deusen | Carole King | Star Trek TNG | 0:05:10 | ||
| By 1990 when this vid was made, MVD had already been vidding for years, and it shows in this perfectly told story. | |||||||
| 8 | Java Jive | Chicago Station | Manhattan Transfer | The Sandbaggers | 0:03:12 | ||
| Timing, timing, timing! | |||||||
| 9 | Strong Enough | Jill | Sheryl Crow | Wiseguy | 0:01:28 | ||
| I don't know which amazed me more--the exquisite timing or the depth of the storytelling. | |||||||
| 10 | Finland, Finland | Leigh M. | Monty Python | The drawings of Tom of Finland | 0:03:19 | ||
| Fannish is what we say it is, dammit; and you have to admit, Tom of Finland shared the early slasher's love of very male bodies. | |||||||
| 11 | Prison Sex | Jo | Tool | Oz | 0:02:05 | ||
| Initially, slash vids were done to a relative handful of G-rated sources, and yet at gen cons, were still played late at night or in "adult-only" spaces, solely for the implications we hinted at. This vid goes way beyond implications and G-rated source... | |||||||
| 12 | I Would Do Anything for Love | Carol McCoy | I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) | Meatloaf | Blakes 7 | 0:03:28 | |
| An early use of including fannish art in vids, and hilarious to boot. | |||||||