The 30 All-TIME Best Music Videos

The mischievous humor and anarchic energy of Spike Jonze’s videos were essential ingredients of 1990s MTV (and later of MTV’s Jackass), and Jonze pulled off one of his most thrilling stunts for the punk-funk lark “Sabotage,” a ’70s goof that cast the Beastie Boys as roof-jumping, suspect-beating, mean-street-sprinting, mustache-rocking hero cops. It will not spoil the video’s fun to note its impressive technical precision — the edits are perfectly syncopated to the song’s ragged beats, and the doughnut-eating breakdown is sublime in its pacing. But regardless of execution, the concept is foolproof: the Beastie Boys stage the credit sequence for a Starsky & Hutch–like police show that never was — likely because it was too unbearably awesome to exist.