Fatboy Slim tops 'best ever videos' poll

Fatboy Slim's Weapon Of Choice has been named the greatest music video ever made.

A panel of music industry experts chose the video in a poll for music channel VH1.

The Beastie Boys' Spike Jonze-directed video for Sabotage was second, with Jamiroquai's Virtual Insanity in third place.

Michael Jackson's groundbreaking Thriller video was sixth, behind Coffee And TV by Blur and Radiohead's Street Spirit.

Fatboy Slim also made the top 20 with the video for his single Praise You, which was also directed by Spike Jonze. The Weapon Of Choice video features Christopher Walker dancing to Fatboy's track in an empty hotel lobby.

Fatboy - real name Norman Cook - said: "This is the biggest award I've ever received, really it is. But I want to dedicate this to Spike Jonze and Christopher Walken because I was at home making a baby at the time they made the video."

A poll among VH1 viewers recently awarded Thriller video the top spot, with Madonna's Like A Prayer in second position. Madonna had the highest number of entries in the experts' poll, with seven in the top 100, while Jackson managed six.

VH1 vice president of programming and production, Christine Boar, said: "Our chart verifies the fact that the music video industry has finally progressed on from Thriller. Thriller was ground-breaking for its time, but the industry prefer ingenuity to big budget extravaganzas."

The chart will be counted down by DJ Sara Cox on VH1 from April 29, with 20 tracks each day until May 3. The entire chart will be played on May 4 and 5.