October 2008
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Watch#240: air - playground love (2000)
happy halloween from air, sofia coppola, the virgin suicides, and the super groovy music video extraganza! stay classy.
why is mtv's new online library, even the vintage... →
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Watch#239: u2 - numb (1993)
being that the edge is the greatest noun-named entertainer on earth (“better than the rock” should be his motto), it’s only fair that he got this video, which really freaked me out back in third grade, when it debuted to what i distinctly remember was great fanfare. it really goes to show that a guitarist is only as good as his precisely-shaven goatee.
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Watch#237: pink floyd - seamus (aka mademoiselle nobs) (pompeii, 1972)
drastically ugly days call for drastically spectacular pink floyd videos that feature drastically stoned band members getting a female russian wolfhound to bark along drastically to their musical stylings.
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Watch#235: portishead - rip (2008)
tomorrow is the first day of the last week of october—and everyone knows that the last week of october is to portishead what the beatles’ rubber soul is to the first week of july. the reason leaves turn from scarlet to that sad old-newspaper yellow is because the trees are listening to beth gibbons.
bonus: see portishead make new york city cry here.
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“ms. lakshmi, current host of bravo’s top chef and now-estranged age...”
– jon liu, blowing everyone’s (new york state of) mind in the nyo
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Watch#234: outkast - elevators (me & you) (1996)
there’s an album by the band spacemen 3 called taking drugs to make music to take drugs to, which would make for a good name for a book about outkast’s mid-90s work, except it would have to be called, say, going to neptune to pick the astroland sunflower psilocybin that when eaten produces music good for spacetravelling in a jacuzzi full...
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Watch#232: the velvet underground & nico - femme fatale (1972)
the music john cale made after he left the velvet underground make john lennon’s post-beatles imagine and plastic ono band look like sad little side projects. (see oct. 16th for gideon’s bible and paris 1919, but then there’s also the better-than-bowie man who couldn’t afford to orgy, barracuda, and amsterdam).
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john cale - gideon’s bible (from vintage...
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Watch#228: run d.m.c. - it’s tricky (1986)
penn and teller! reverend run and jam-master jay! chain-snatching and a helicopter! the guitar riff from my sharona and rick rubin’s drums! it’s tricky has it all, even the lyrics, “these girls are really sleazy/ all they say is ‘please me/ or spend some time/ and rock a rhyme,’/ i said, ‘it’s not that...
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Watch#227: the ramones - sheena is a punk rocker (1977)
“the guitarist on the left has hair that looks like my bf lol only i he doesnt brush it like i think the ramones do” says one of the 361 youtube comments for this sheena promo.
“the clash are musically and textual much more developed and mellow than the ramones, so what are YOU talkin about?” says another.
“the new...
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Watchgod bless françois truffaut’s screen-tests. four minutes into this there’s a song from little richard kanayan (imitating carles aznavour, his future shoot the piano player costar) that’s better than any other tune ever sung by any human being, except maybe tom waits. the louis armstrong bit right at the end isn’t half-bad either.
points also go to jean-pierre léaud for...
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Watch#222: boby lapointe - avanie et framboise (from shoot the piano player, 1960)
this is from the second scene of a film that everyone (every single person on earth, except for the moviegoers who made beverly hills chihuahua the no. 1 film in america this weekend, because, sorry, but they don’t deserve it) should see in its entirety.
but let me just say that the left glare and right grin are...
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Watch#220: ini kamoze - here comes the hotstepper (1994)
i don’t know how or why this video is based on the late robert altman’s fashion satire prêt-à-porter, though i’m not complaining. kamoze and altman, together at last.
weirdness of the filmic catwalk footage aside, i’d like to say that my enjoyment of this song transcends irony or nostalgia, especially because of that...
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Watch#219: the smiths - ask (1986)
this always reminds me of spending warm summer days indoors writing frightening verse to a bucktoothed girl in luxembourg. we weren’t in love, but the bomb kept us together.
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