Continuing our weeklong salute to the even-more-lost art of the music video (check you never, TRL), here are my top five. I don’t know if these are really my five absolute favorites — I tried to work myself into a nostalgic reverie over the videos I remember from high school, but all I could picture were Oasis videos, which were rarely very good, and Aphex Twin videos, which were rarely not terrifying — but these are what feels right at the moment. Also, I already posted Blur’s “Coffee and TV” a week or two ago to celebrate MTV having a website that makes it easy to embed the “Coffee and TV” video (and, secondarily, other videos), so consider these my five favorites besides that one.

5. Fatboy Slim, “Weapon of Choice”

I have to include a Spike Jonze video, and this one gets bonus points for being so much better than the actual song. It also perfectly encapsulates the Jonze style of taking (or coming up with) a deceptively simple premise and running with it for the perfect length of time. Other strokes of his brilliance: “It’s Oh So Quiet,” “Buddy Holly,” “Praise You,” Being John Malkovich, and Adaptation.

In the continuation of our “Salute to TRL” week, I’m pleased to share five of my favorite music videos. The thing to keep in mind while perusing this list is that I watched MTV primarily from 1993-1996, so some of these selections are going to be of the fondly-nostalgic-but-bad variety. With that caveat in mind, let’s get to it!

5. All Apologies, Nirvana Unplugged

Not technically a video, but MTV used to play it as one. This concert first aired in 1993, putting it smack at the start of my MTV years. I loved this song — what angsty 7th-grader wouldn’t? — and the low-key atmosphere of the Unplugged concert was a great introduction to music I might have been too scared to listen to otherwise. This is the beginning of years of wearing Doc Martens and flannel shirts. (And here’s Smells Like Teen Spirit for good measure.)

TRL goes dark on November 16, after MTV airs a two-hour special they’re calling “Total Finale Live.” Carson Daly’s coming back for it and everything. (But will my not-so-secret crush, Gideon Yago, return to do the news?) To pay tribute to the show, TiFaux has planned a whole week of music-video musings.

Not that TRL itself is all that worthy of commemoration. Most of the time, they chose to broadcast only an excerpt of a video in favor of showing the faces of hysterical teenagers. But with the end of TRL comes the end of any kind of music on MTV, even if it was just lip service at the end, and that’s significant given the network’s mammoth role in the history of popular music. Sure, we’ll all still watch videos on the Internet, but we won’t all be watching the same ones anymore. It’s bittersweet.

Here’s another fun fact: My older sister—the one who sat me down and explained to me who Britney Spears was when I visited her in college, making college seem even stranger than I imagined it to be—was actually on TRL once. She requested “Jumper” by Third Eye Blind because Stephen Jenkins was so hot WOOOOOO! She showed me the tape of it—from the same VHS on which she’d recorded the “Baby One More Time” video—and then told me afterward that they told her which video to request (well, they gave her a choice of ten) and told her what to say. (She was all, “What should I say?” And they were all, “Just call the band hot or something.”) So, there’s my insight into TRL in its last week. It was all a lie.

But videos aren’t lies. Videos are great. After the jump, I list my five favorites.