September 2009
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Watch#451: missy “misdemeanor” elliott - the rain (supa dupa fly) (1997)
it’s amazing how good this sounds 12 years later. late-90s missy elliott tastes like the bubbles at the bottom of bubble tea, but smells like lipstick. and she could put four minutes of crickets in a song without anyone noticing! i wish she were still so fat.
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Watch#450: epmd - strictly business (1988)
yes, here we are at the four hundred and fiftieth video, that famous landmark of music video blogging, and is there a better way to celebrate than with the first song on the first album from erick sermon and parrish smith’s weirdly underrated late-80s hip-hop group? not only do we have teepees, plaid button-down shirts, a glimpse at what it looked like...
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Watch#445: lou reed - coney island baby (1976)
the last time lou reed got this tender, he was a 26-year-old asking pale blue eyes to linger a little. this time, six albums into a troubled solo career and two years into the gerald ford administration, the sweetness smells like a yellowing yearbook: he misses his high school football coach, his friends are gone, he hopes that maybe the nice girl who...
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Watch#443: patsy cline - i fall to pieces (1961)
the thing about patsy cline is that she knew how to sway, lean back, lift her eyebrows to her hairline, shake her head, open her mouth into an O, have her pedal steel guitar player cry for her, then make world crumble with sadness.
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Watch#440: afrika bambaataa & the soulsonic force - planet rock (1982)
as far as afrika bambaataa classics go, it’s unfortunate that this doesn’t have james brown praying for peace and unity, or johnny rotten worrying about the end of the world, or ub40 shooting electric waves of awesomeness, or mr. freeze break-dancing in his white gloves, but none of that matter when planet rock pops...
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Watchi have good news and i have bad news. the good is that i made my live cable television premiere earlier today, but sadly it involved talking about hysterically expensive real estate instead of cool music videos. joining me on cnbc was george w. bush’s secretary of commerce carlos gutierrez, who, i have to say, has a fantastic mustache.
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Watch#437: metronomy - radio ladio (2007)
geeee golly, if only this song was just a smudge less hip and self-satisfied (with a lot less of those ripped-off, linoleum floor kraftwerk electronics, and a lot more of those catchy and weird and gushy “l! a! d! i! o!” vocals), the video’s dreamy crayola body paint, excellent hand wiggling, and inspired yellow/purple backgrounds would have...
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Watch#436: mc solaar - bouge de là (1991)
you know the universe can’t be all that rotten when bad things become good, so take solace in knowing that an exceedingly mediocre early-70s latin funk band named cymande (whose album covers tended to involve illustrated depictions of birds) has been sampled by kool herc, grandmaster flash, de la soul, the fugees, masta ace, and, most importantly, mc...
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