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The Best PMVs--Let's Have 'Em! · 2:35am Jun 29th, 2016
This fandom has produced no end of beautiful art, and one of my favorites is this gem from the early days.
(I understand there was a story based on this, but can't seem to find it. If anyone knows of it, please speak up!)
Back then, ponies were there when I needed them. Now I need that again. A few good PMVs will help put me back in the writing spirit, but I don't know where to look for the best. So post your favorites here, and maybe we'll all find some good new (or old) ones!
For starters, here are some to bring back memories.
Cheers,
HV
The Stars Will Aid Her Escape is still not only my favorite PMV, but one of my favorite things produced by the fandom, period. It's superb and I've never seen any other music video come even close, even with all the fancy edit skills.
I'm fond of these too, though
I always really liked this one, made me feel happy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPlpZATsNDc
More happy ones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TenePiDnF4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFNtwSUX3ls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaG-JijAr-c
More in your vein, maybe?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqJ7frk-Vik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEQ9SziqXhM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ds8gP-1szQ&
Not happy, or in the other section, but I loveee this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1rvLsXpOH4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIQolc2rUgM
The Stars Will Aid In Her Escape is one of the best, in part because it has the perfect song, and in part because it makes very creative use of the base work.
It is up there with Is Your Purpose Clear, Twilight Sparke?
Oh, that takes me back. Back when I used to read Equestria Daily, well, daily, I could probably pull together a nice list of PMVs. Not so much anymore, though. I think a good place to search for good new ones would be to go through JHaller's top ten videos. There's a bunch of stuff in there, and some of them are PMVs so some of them are probably good. That's just a guess, I haven't gone searching through there because I've been searching my old youtube favorites and whatnot.
Here's a list old PMVs I clobbered together.
Equestrian Mythos
Tenacious Dash - Kickapony (Plus short: Classibow)
Whip It
Pony Sauce - NRG (WARNING: Really weird. Also technically not a PMV. But excellent if you like what it's doing.)
Play Like Pinkie (Part of a six part series. I guess I'll include Strive Like Applejack here also.)
It's a Brand New Day (Short.)
Through the Fire and Ponies (From way back in 2011 and it shows. Maybe not actually that good.)
Dare to be Stupid (Another old creaker from 2011. Comedy.)
My Little Pony - Rainbow Dash - You're Gonna Go Far Kid [Explicit] (Probably the only one in this list that actually qualifies as one of the best PMVs. Responsible for hundreds, if not thousands of people joining the fandom. Yes, it's pitch-shifted.)
Believe it or not, those are the best PMVs I could find among my assorted internet detritus and what I could dig up through memory. I cut lots of not-so-great PMVs and, well, that's my best go at it. Somehow it's almost all high-energy stuff, too, so sorry if that's not what you're looking for.
Bonus not-at-all-a-PMV animation because you can't stop me!
Oh god, that The Garden PMV was mind-blowing back in the day. Way higher production value than you'd expect back then. Thanks for digging that up, haha.
It's past midnight and I'm trying to get myself to go to sleep so I'm not gonna dig up the link but the animation for lullaby for a princess took two years and is absolutely amazing on top of the song being absolutely amazing to begin with
I've never been one for PMVs, strangely. I used to watch AMVs all the time; maybe it was just a phase. But anything I've ever needed has been provided by YTPs and Ponies: The Anthology. :B
And there is a story based on that first. I've read it. Ask horizon, he'll know which one it is.
Drat, beaten to it by the OP.
But yeah, Cosmic Love is one great bit of fan content.
Know of one that haven't been posted yet, though. One I almost never hear talked about despite still looking fantastic.
Because I'm a:
Spike Jones fan from my youth, I'm quite partial to the following.
Also, I'll post it here as well: the story based on the Cosmic Love video is Martian's "The Lost Place."
Mike
I read it, but I wasn't a huge fan. I think it was The Lost Place (oddly, it has no Nightmare Moon tag, which made it harder for me to find).
I didn't feel like it translated well between the music video and text.
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These are great. Thanks, everyone.
I freaking love this one.
this one has always been my favorite.
Ooh, can't forget this'n.