August 2009
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Watch#432: kraftwerk - tour de france (1983)
there would be none of aphex twin’s window licking, umbrella dancing and face melting, none of dr. dre’s world class wrecking, none of talking heads’ globe-trotting skinny-tie soul and none of the cure’s drip-drip-dripping, just to think of a few random examples, if düsseldorf’s bionic superstars, kraftwerk, hadn’t...
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Watch#426: major lazer - pon de floor (2009)
music video humping is such a delicate thing. sometimes you can have too little humping, but sometimes you can really have too much. yo la tengo’s just-released periodically double or trouble definitely doesn’t have enough—it’s all close-up shots of 30-somethings eating slices of fruit in front of a white background. but as...
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Watch#424: ll cool j - goin’ back to cali (1989)
it’s weird that ll cool j’s goin back to cali is nearly as good as the notorious b.i.g.’s, it’s even weirder that it’s got such incredibly well-punctuated phrases (“her bikini: small. heels: tall”), but weirdest of all is how upsettingly beautiful its monochromatic video is. the thing looks like jim...
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Watch#422: beach boys - good vibrations (1968)
this isn’t the world’s peppiest performance of good vibrations, but what the band lacks in pep they make up for here in uber-gonzo visuals that are really far out, man. the white suites are nice, too! this must be what spiders see when spiders watch late-60s drug-addled californian pop.
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