Battles
“Atlas”
Album: Mirrored
As promised, here’s more of me slurping off Mr. Saccenti, the talented visual stylist that I last pimped when I covered his video for Animal Collective’s “Peacebone” a few days back.
“Atlas” was the first video of his that caught my attention, and how could it not? Once again, the song had no real […]
Van Halen
“Jump”
Album: 1984
I like “Jump” as much as the next desperately trying to be ironically hip guy does, but it appears that the video was made before ideas like “pacing,” and “concept” were part of the music video lexicon, and ideas like “awkwardly lengthy shots” and “lots of Qualludes” were the name of the game.
What […]
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“Must Be the Moon”
Album: Myth Takes
I’m not usually one for dancy art punk, but when it involves satanic spell driven rock orgy dance parties, I can only say “no” for so long. It tempts me, like sweet, sweet candy. Or like sharks to my open leg wounds.
Which reminds me, I really should get […]
Animal Collective
“Peacebone”
Album: Strawberry Jam
So keep an eye out for this guy: Timothy Saccenti. This video premiered on YouTube this week, and at first I had the sense it might be a Chris “You Probably Won’t Sleep After Watching My Videos” Cunningham video because of the design of the creature and some of the backlit, […]
So, Sammi has decided to tune your ears into the ridiculously sweet and soulful pipes of one Ms. India.Arie. Unfortunately, YouTube.Com (more specifically the user known, mysteriously, only as “universalmusicgroup”) does not like the idea of me embedding any of her videos on my page.
Because then you could watch them for free on somewhere […]
Sade (WARRANT!)
“Cherry Pie”
Album: Cherry Pie, or, Sade Sucks, But I Had To Put Something Here.
I can’t even tell you how upset I am that I can’t embed Warrant’s “Cherry Pie” video on this page. That’s all I wanted to do when I woke up this morning–write about the majesty of that video. I […]
Drowning Pool
“Bodies”
Album: Sinner
To be fair, the first five seconds of this video gave me hope for the video. For just a moment I thought, “Wow, maybe I was totally wrong. Maybe they had enough money to hire Mark Romanek or Tarsem and I’m about to bear witness to an envelope pushing music video […]
D4L
“Laffy Taffy”
Album: I Don’t Care Enough To Look This Up.
Say what you will about Flavor Flav, “Ice Ice Baby,” and Tipper Gore, but this song and video signify the greatest enemy to rap since the invention of Sug Knight.
Video: 100 negative stereotypes/10
Song: Rhythmic nonsense, at best.
Chance Sug Knight is really a warrior king […]
Arctic Monkeys
“Fluorescent Adolescent”
Album: Favourite Worst Nightmare
So this week’s getting started a day late. That’s ok though! Some of the best things get started late. Like…well…my blog! And Sammi’s blog. And U.S. involvement in WWII.
But when the late week starts off with a video like THIS, how could you even complain? […]
The Format
“Dog Problems”
Album: Dog Problems
Some people will tell you this video is stupid. Question these folks’ moral and intellectual integrity. Not only is the song one of the best singles of the past few years, but the video is perfection. Concept+simple, clever extension of concept=perfection. What is so hard to […]
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