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Beavis and Butt-head shouldn't have all the fun. We, too, can critique videos, as in these current champions...
-- ''Here'' (from the soundtrack to Clueless) Luscious Jackson Sounding like Deee-Lite (and strangely lightweight), Luscious Jackson leads off the marketing for the movie Clueless, starring MTV fave Alicia Silverstone. In keeping with their disposable neo-disco sound, the visuals sweetly evoke the whole mirror-ball era. Technology smoothly blends film clips into the video, thus avoiding jarring cuts. Seems peculiar, though, to see Luscious Jackson hit major rotation on the back of Silverstone, when their previous video was so much stronger. B-
-- ''Human Nature'' Madonna Merging cornrows, Liquid Leather, and Hollywood Squares, Madonna positively glows in her most amusing and least pretentious video since 1985's ''Material Girl.'' Despite plenty of apparently unavoidable SMs (Stupid Madonna-isms) -- the I'm-being-ironic face, the above-my-own-material smirk, the ain't-I-fit? belly thrust, etc. -- this video is amazingly unannoying. A
-- ''More Human Than Human'' White Zombie Did Blue Cheer reunite? Or is it Raging Slab? Talk about eternal (psychedelic/speed-freak) video verities: Single-framing, jump-cuts, random monster close-ups, black lights, sinister Super-8 inserts, and the ever-popular apocalyptic bum on the street without whom no such video would be complete. All that and a hook that you just hate to love. A rare, perfect melding of band persona, music, and visuals, directed by Rob Zombie himself. So stupid, it's brilliant. A-
-- ''Wynona's Big Brown Beaver'' Primus Les Claypool, mistaking nonstop smirking for irony and derivation for inspiration, chooses the Duracell battery robots as the visual model for this typically virtuoso, typically tuneless riff-fest. Nice appropriation, but once he and the boys are encased in plastic, no other ideas appear. C+
