May 2009
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Watch#383: rufus wainwright - april fools (1998)
instead of “that’s so gay,” narrow-minded jocks and their ilk should be forced to say: “that’s such an early-career rufus wainwright video with a quintet of doomed opera heroines and a cameo by gwen stefani as a dark-haired waitress.”
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Watch#382: the funkadelics - connections & disconnections (1981)
adults in superhero outerspace custumes who say, “and we are conquerors of getting down” or “we’re giving you the gift of funk to pass on through the ages/ we’re floatating funk lords traveling far and near” are always to be admired.
still, it’s nice when the music fades out and soul...
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Watch#379: grizzly bear - two weeks (2009)
the unofficial video for the unofficially prettiest song of the year will replace your organs with sandcastles, bouncy balls and gardenias.
nowadays there are lots of tunes with pretty beach boys harmonies, but this is the only one whose harmonies sound like fingerpaint. sasha frere-jones calls it a doo-wop quartet launching into orbit, which is a very...
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Watch#378: they might be giants - istanbul (not constantinople) (1990)
some dilettantes may argue that the definitive video for instanbul (not constantinople) is the famous tiny tune adventures clip, but dilettantes are dilettantes for a reason. the official video (tim burton-meets-rugrats-meets-the margins of my seventh grade social studies notebook) has globes that smoke pipes, telephones that smoke...
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Watch#377: salt ‘n’ pepa - tramp (1986)
making mid-80s hip-hop out of holy otis redding songs is dangerous, but salt ‘n’ pepa lived dangerously—and they lived in a world of matching nba-themed shirt-and-socks ensembles, luv-bug business cards, american flag drapes, yellow shorts, synchronized schwwwing! dance moves, and mustachioed hand-kissers.
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the beatles - mama, you’ve been on my mind...
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Watch#368: fiona apple - paper bag (1999)
the only woman more upsettingly beautiful than marie dubois in shoot the piano player is peggy lipton in twin peaks, and the only thing better than that is red-dressed, red-lipsticked fiona apple dancing with adolescents in the paper bag video, where she looks so pleasant that it’s hard to be too upset that she named her 1999 album when the pawn hits the...
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