The Best Music Magazine Ads Ever

Five brilliant TV spots.

1. Nirvana

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=1mjMQXVU878.

2. Kanye West

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=dTzKGORCifk.

3. Radiohead

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ff4OTS01pz0.

4. The Smiths

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=8sRWd7zrMe0.

5. Animal Collective

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=LAUP6vuLT_Y.

Sweet Mothers of Invention, these are good. I know they’ll be “too weird” for many of you. Well, you’re all wrong. It’s a music magazine, the ads should be weird. Plus, I’ve played drums since I was six, so there.

The concept, the casting, the sets, the voiceover (who sounds like industry-famous Doug Jeffers—who voiced the excellent Errol Morris Miller High Life commercials—but it could be a sound-a-like).

Shit, I wish I had done these.

Ad agency: Latinworks, Austin.