Forget all your troubles America, because MTVZ is here with the 2019 shit that you need.
Stick with us for 100 videos of 2019 dopeness. That's right, it's MTVZ's Top 100 of 2019 Music Video Countdown.
We figured why the fuck not and let's post this now?
The edition of MTVZ with all 100 clips will be posted later this weekend. In the meantime here's some spoilers...
100. A Boogie wit da Hoodie f/ 6ix9ine “Swervin’”
99. YG f/ DaBaby “Stop Snitchin’”
98. Robyn “Ever Again”
97. Howell Dawdy “Illegal”
96. Potty Mouth “22”
95. Gatecreeper “From the Ashes”
94. Kim Gordon “Sketch Artist”
93. Tennis System “Such A Drag”
92. Hellrazor “Landscaper”
91. Asap Ferg “Floor Seats”
90. Stella Donnelly “Tricks”
89. Chemical Brothers “We’ve Got To Try”
88. Mozzy “Bail Bond”
87. Fuming Mouth “Fatalism”
86. Skating Polly “Hail Mary”
85. Halfsour “Paper Window”
84. Girl Ray “Show Me More”
83. Missy Elliott “Throw It Back”
82. The Get Up Kids “Lou Barlow”
81. Field Mouse “Heart of Gold”
80. Blood Incantation “Slave Species of the Gods”
79. The Claypool Lennon Delirium “Blood and Rockets”
78. (Sandy) Alex G “Gretel”
77. Kilo Kish “Spark”
76. Slipknot “Solway Firth”
75. Pet Fox “Be Alone”
74. Whitney “Valleys (My Love)”
73. Lil B “Task Force Let Us In”
72. Danny Brown “Dirty Laundry”
71. 2 Chainz f/ Lil Wayne & E-40 “2 Dollar Bill”
70. Ex Hex “Rainbow Shiner”
69. Casey Veggies “Stop Playin”
68. Koffee “Rapture”
67. Ceremony “In The Spirit World Now”
66. Hatchie “Without A Blush”
65. Mac Demarco “Here Comes the Cowboy”
64. Rosalia “Millionaire”
63. Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa “One Kiss”
62. BEAK> “Life Goes On”
61. Ariana Grande “7 Rings”
60. Charly Bliss “Capacity”
59. Charli XCX “Gone”
58. Carly Rae Jepsen “Want You In My Room”
57. YG “Hard Bottoms & White Socks”
56. A Boogie wit da Hoodie “Look Back At It”
55. MGMT “In The Afternoon”
54. Pile “Bruxist Grin”
53. Haroinfather “Tunnel Of Love”
52. ShittyBoyz “Super Smash Bros”
51. Billie Eilish “Bury a Friend”
50. Otoboke Beaver “Don’t Light My Fire”
49. Sheer Mag “Hardly To Blame”
48. Doja Cat f/ Rico Nasty “Tia Tamera”
47. Maren Morris “Girl”
46. Fury “Vacation”
45. Denzel Curry “Ricky”
44. Young Guv “Roll With Me”
43. Cardi B & Bruno Mars “Please Me”
42. Dua Lipa “Don’t Start Now”
41. YG “In The Dark”
40. Saweetie “My Type”
39. Zig Zags “Punk Fucking Metal”
38. Palehound “Aaron”
37. Kash Doll “Ready Set”
36. Juice Wrld “Lucid Dreams”
35. DaBaby “Bop”
34. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib “Crime Pays”
33. Blanco Brown “The Git Up”
32. Ella Mai “Trip”
31. Lizzo “Truth Hurts”
30. Doja Cat “Rules”
29. Young Guv “Every Flower I See”
28. DaBaby f/ Offset “Baby Sitter”
27. Nilufer Yanya “In Your Head”
26. (Sandy) Alex G “Southern Sky”
25. Glitterer “Destiny”
24. Travis Scott “Sicko Mode”
23. Big Bite “Blue Nine”
22. Sedona “More Love”
21. Fury “Angels Over Berlin”
20. Ariana Grande & Social House “Boyfriend”
19. Young Guv “Try Not To Hang On So Hard”
18. The Boyboy West Coast “You Was At The Club”
17. DaBaby “VIBEZ”
16. Jocko “Muddy Waters”
15. The Chats “Identity Theft”
14. Tyler The Creator “Earfquake”
13. Drake f/ Rick Ross “Money In The Grave”
12. City Girls “Act Up”
11. Lil Tecca “Ransom”
10. Megan Thee Stallion f/ DaBaby “Cash Shit”
09. Windhand “First To Die”
08. Hatchie “Obsessed”
07. Billie Eilish “Bad Guy”
06. Lana Del Rey “The Greatest”
05. Tyler The Creator “A Boy Is A Gun”
04. Lil Nas X “Old Town Road”
03. Slipknot “Unsainted”
02. Lizzo f/ Missy Elliott “Tempo”
01. DaBaby “Suge”
Should we just upload this one ourselves? Robert Pollard's weirdo country band released a 69 song album last October, as if there weren't enough 69 song albums in the world. But just to make it all the more frustrating, it's not streaming anywhere. The chorus goes like this "Would you like to take a ride with me in my cheap truck?" The world of streaming media could use some of this.
Typically described with tags like avant-jazz, free-rock, psychedelic, and the like, Sunwatchers chose to close out their 2018 odds-and-sods collection with the year's most enticingly strange meditation. It's incredible that this song exists, but how did this happen and why is jam-rock heading in this direction? Our theory all but rules out the possibility that one band members' 7-inch copy of "Too Drunk To Fuck" became scratched to the point where a skip in the vinyl aligned just perfectly enough that Jello Biafra's lyrics change to "I got diarrhea today-hay." With the groove locked in, Sunwatchers' ambiance hovers over the loop as it repeats over 100 times. Thanks to word-association, we can't help but think of frequent diarrhea victim Wesley Willis who released multiple LPs on Jello's record label Alternative Tenticles between the late '90s and early '00s. 
What would have been one of the decade's most beloved one-hit-wonders became a two-hit-wonder by December as "Trip" hit #1 on Billboard's Rhythmic chart and secured a nice little area in the lower 20 of Billboard's end-of-year Hot 100 (where the generally strongest charting songs of the past few years have hid). Can she turn her streak into a two-album stride? We'll likely find out by the end of 2019. In the meantime, it sounds like "Trip" still gets mad radio spins. So iHeart did at least one thing correctly in the past year. For more info, Ella Mai did 
The imaginary 2018 Kanye album that included these and 10-12 other similarly bizarre, unfinished experiments (that likely exist on an external hardrive somewhere) might have been a more appropriate follow-up to the lone artifact from his "disjointedness is cohesion" era -- the sprawling, possibly unfinished, and predictably underappreciated The Life of Pablo. Rap's answer to Third/Sister Lovers right down to the uncertainty in its last minute title changes, Pablo is now probably his most unheralded since 808s following a pattern of musical influence more clearly defined in hindsight; 808s was ultimately proven as the single most influential record of the past decade. 
This one actually pisses us off because it proves that Bruno Mars LLC (and his team of thousands) could single-handedly assist the long-awaited comeback of "fun music getting played on FM radio" with just a few easy phonecalls. As for Cardi B, we don't really get the hype surrounding LP1. But we like her, and we suspect her next record might be cool if she doesn't go all fairweather on us like Katy Perry --- which likely wouldn't even be her fault if it did work out that way. Welcome to the machine, Cardi B. This is your life now. Hell awaits you.
Unpopular take: We were kinda unimpressed with Daytona?? And it's not like Kanye's production doesn't always work with Pusha. Afterall, that was the exact team who killed it with "Numbers On The Boards" five years prior. But something feels different here. Maxi-singles used to occasionally run as long as seven songs, and Daytona starts to feel that way by the end. The rigid deliberate blueprint of "If You Know You Know" might be Kanye's only 2018 music resembling The Blueprint. But then it's follow by six uncooked ideas that might have sounded amazing without the record's loose, wobbly architecture.
If only it were 1991 again -- back when it was common for The Black Crowes' cover of Otis Redding's "Hard To Handle" and Ugly Kid Joe's "I Hate Everything About You" commonly bumped on MTV and Z100 transitioning in and out of jams from the likes of Janet Jackson and MC Hammer. (We're assuming Top 40 stations used to play "Once Bitten Twice Shy" in the late '80s, but that was before our time.) This long forgotten sub-subgenre is what Satan's Satyrs has sonically achieved with their update on a '50s R&B standard. Needless to say, we're all for it. It's hilarious and a lot more fun than it has any right to be. And it should never have disappeared in the first place. Why was there only one of these in 2018? We need more.
Mad respect to Rob Crow for even considering the immense creative challenge tackled through his 2018 Joyful Noise residency. But also respect is due for welcoming the breakneck release schedule as an opportunity to revisit Optiganally Yours and Thingy, two bands who hadn't released any new music since 2000. As far as we can tell, neither of these bands had ever split up, but the enormous success of Pinback (originally intended a a side project) resulted in the unexpected stretch between releases. We have not yet heard the entire box, but a random sampling indicates a lack of throwaways, performed entirely to precision, meticulously recorded and mixed, carefully sequenced -- especially 
"Slow Burn" is fine, but we don't really get why it turned into the critical favorite of this record. Same goes for "Rainbow" -- a very strange choice for the post-Grammy-hype radio single. "Butterflies" and "Space Cowboy" were also fine choices for album previews. But all of the above don't feel hooky enough to stand-out within pop-country radio. (Modern country fans still listen to old-fashioned regular-ass radio, by the way.) "Lonely Weekend" and "High Horse" are clearly the two songs that are easiest to remember after one listen. They are the obvious pop hits, and should have been treated as such. Another enormous blunder in the world of modern radio programming, further proof that "the biz" collectively has no idea what the fuck they are doing. 
At the final table of the 2018 World Series of Poker’s $1,500 seven-card stud event in June, Albini wasn’t wearing shades or showing off any tacky ink. But he did have on a black T-shirt featuring the name and logo of a Belgian punk band called Cocaine Piss. Albini works with the group. “We actually have a session booked in a couple weeks,” said Albini, the owner of Electrical Audio in Chicago. “They’re coming to record another album.” After he sported the tee, traffic to the Cocaine Piss Bandcamp page quickly jumped. 
Mason Ramsey went to Walmart sometime prior to March 24th, 2018, and he decided to yodel. Someone took a video with their phone -- likely one of his parents. And they wisely tagged the video "Walmart Yodel Boy" to make it seem like the video was not taken by anyone in the yodeller's family. By March 31st, the uploaded video had an entry on knowyourmeme. By April 13th, Mason had been asked to perform at Coachella. Up until this point, the meme felt pretty annoying. However, it all became justified mere weeks later after a songwriting team of four people wrote him the outstandingly dope song "Famous." It was quickly recorded and released to Spotify on April 27th, later debuting at #62 on the Billboard Hot 100. It's not tough to quickly move on from an unremarkable meme-of-the-week, but a dope jam lasts forever. Also he kinda looks like Jordy.
The No. 1 LP is the winner of what would have been the Grammy for "Wedding Band Album Of The Year" if such a Grammy Award ever existed. A layer of field recording surrounds the atmosphere of this mysterious 2014 artifact, possibly taped with only one or two mics. Liner notes reveal that these distant captured sounds are an actual wedding, and that Etran de L'Air is one of Niger's most successful wedding bands. We would like them to play at every wedding forever, but that is impossible. So instead, just play the CD or vinyl. It'll be great. P.S. Why don't more wedding people get vinyl DJ's to spin at their weddings? Kinda sick of just seeing the one dumbass with the mic spinning the same dumbass songs for 5 hours.
For all practical intents and purposes, the fluid track listing of Dopesmoker finally congealed upon the release of its 2012 vinyl and streaming reissue: Track 1: "Dopesmoker (Parts 1, 2 and 3)" Track 2: "Holy Mountain (live in 1994)," Track 3: "Sonic Titan (live in 1992)." After lasting 20 years without any official studio release, "Sonic Titan" seemed destined to go down as a lost fan favorite. Without much warning, 4/20/2018 suddenly arrived with a Beyonce-style surprise drop from perhaps the most mythic stoner-metal band of all time. The Sciences had arrived.
D'Angelo loves Red Dead Redemption 2 so much that he refused to leave RockStar's offices until 5AM each night, playing the game until very late for weeks straight. Eventually the game creators were just like, "you know, if you love the game so much, why don't you go get married to it, or go write a song for it or something." Figuring D'Angelo would be like "lol, good one," he instead responds "well, that's quite a fine idea you got there, and I think I might do just that!" And the game creators said back, "Which one, get married to the game or write a song for it?" And then D'Angelo responds, "Both ideas are quite sharp. I'll get back to you on that." This is all verbatim and true, by the way. There is a 2019 version of this song floating around on streaming services that is not the original version posted to Youtube back in November 2018. The song feels a lot less complete without the long intro, similar to what usually would happen when radio stations would butcher the intro of "Really Love" (on the few R&B stations that bothered to play it early in 2015). Speaking of that, we have not forgotten D'Angelo saying Black Messiah was intended as a double-album, and that there's another LP of unreleased jams ready to drop at any given moment. Perhaps more videogame creators should give D'Angelo free shit in exchange for new songs since this is now officially the only thing left that motivates him. S.O.S. Plz halp. We need you D. 
Most artists stick to the same lane when considering guest attributions, although Kanye is not most artists. His name appears alone throughout his very collaborative Yeezus LP. A few years earlier, MBDTF's metadata wisely omitted 
