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The Top 10 Coolest Music-Video Explosions

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5. Metallica, "I Disappear": For their song from Mission: Impossible II, Metallica went widescreen with a video that echoed Hitchcock and Kafka. At the end, Lars Ulrich barely makes it out of exploding apartment.

6. Limp Bizkit, "Boiler": All Fred wanted was a maggot-infested hamburger, but if you want something done right you do it yourself. By our account, out of the dozens of videos that Bizkit made, only five didn't have a fire or explosion of some sort.

7. Nena, "99 Luftballoons": We were going to write a capsule for this video in English and then get Google to translate into German, but we are on deadline.

8. Korn, "Got The Life": Korn also had beaucoup amounts of fiery blasts in their videos. All that label money behind the rap-metal movement must be to blame. Now we are lucky if we get a tattooed stripper in a cage. For shame.

9. Billy Idol, "Dancing With Myself": So apparently '80s Billy Idol was a really bad conductor of electricity. But there was nothing bad about his bad-boy looks (licks lips, puts on aviators and drives off in a Camaro).

10. Miranda Lambert, "Kerosene": We would let Miranda Lambert burn whatever she wanted. Grandpa's old farmhouse? It was condemned anyway. A collection of our baby photos? We weren't that cute, so you are doing us a solid.

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