Unfortunately this gorgeous video and a great song from Tim Knol doesn’t appear to be setup to embed so you’ll have to follow the link (but I promise you it is worth the trip).
http://2pause.com/#/item/266/when_i_am_king
- Andrew
A friend pointed out this video, prefacing it by saying that Bruce should never travel without the E-Street Band.
The description from the Huffington Post is succinct:
It sounds more like a bizarre dream than reality, but concert-goers at Carnegie Hall can attest to the fact that it really happened.
On Thursday, Bruce Springsteen, Lady GaGa, Elton John, Sting, Blondie’s Deborah Harry, and Shirley Bassey of James Bond fame, sang Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’.” The performance, a finale to the annual benefit for the Rainforest Fund drew wild applause.
Judge for yourselves:
– Scott
Ok, so I’m not normally one to go in for the “director’s commentary” on much of anything; be it a feature film or a music video. However when my friends drop me an email prompting me to look at something I often do – unless the header is something like “Please send me your bank information…”
So was the case with this video. I’m a big fan of Mates of State and I really like the video for Fraud In The 80’s; I’m a sucker for DIY’ish stuff being pretty much a full on DIY’er myself. In fact I could be easily sucked into a long winded (on my part for sure) discussion about how that early punk rock DIY era that took place during my formative years has had a really incredible impact on current pop culture – in a really great way. But I digress.
Director Arno Salters talks about how he put this video together in his commentary. As I mentioned before I normally don’t care for this commentary because so often it is overly sentimental or too much about how deeply they were thinking about x and y or whatever – maybe I just like to let my own interpretation of things stand. What Arno does however is explains a lot about how he actually shot the various bits of the video and that appeals a great deal to my DIY sensibilities, particularly were I to ever want to play around with stop-motion animation (which I think I might).
Anyhow, enough of my blathering. Take a look and see if it inspires you to create your own stop-motion video.
Thanks – Andrew Miller
Last Saturday Mark Linkous, indie rock icon and founding member of band Sparklehorse, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
For a good write up on Mark Linkous’ work check out this Guardian UK article. Below is a video of Sparklehorse performing the song Saturday live for Current.
By luck I met a local band this weekend that I hadn’t yet heard of. Funny thing is that this didn’t happen out at a club or at a friends party like how these sorts of things usually occur. Instead it happened because I had a piano to give away and they had a need.
Old Hundred is brewing up its own flavor of the folk rock revival here in Columbus Ohio. After getting the low-down on them while trying to remember how I got the piano into my house (so that we could get it back out) I did some googling and found their website: http://old-hundred.com/.
I’ve linked up one of their videos below and I’m glad to report they are busy recording more great music as you read this.
– Andrew
I came in about mid-stream with the Pixies, picking up Surfer Rosa in 1988 (I think that was when it released) and fell in love with them immediately. The raw power of Black Francis, a sweaty Kim Deal pounding the bass line and lyrics that captured my imagination – first as an angst filled teenager and then later as a more reflective adult.
One of my favorite songs to this day is Gigantic; I’m feeling a little bit gigantic myself as I close out this week so I thought I’d like to share what is running through my mind with all of you.
Still the best teen angst album ever conceived. Every time I stumble upon it, I realize that Townsend was way ahead of his time, that dark, twisted soul with a penchant of expressing the dark and the light in every breath.
The girl I love
Is a perfect dresser,
Wears every fashion
Gets it to the tee.
Heavens above,
I got to match her
She knows just how
She wants her man to be
Leave it to me.
Even more amazing: this is all from 1973, about a specific time when the Mods and Rockers fought on the beach. It still feels very much in the now. The film is equally great, BTW.
Not from the movie, but still a good mood piece. Note to kids: don’t do drugs like this Mod does!
– Scott
Another gem from Sweden. The XX perform their video for VCR created by Marcus Soderlund. Check out the quicktime video here:
http://www.marcussoderlund.se/video_XXXIII.html
- Andrew
Director Nicholaus Goossen has tossed up a couple of interesting pieces onto his Vimeo stream over the past month that I thought were worth sharing.
First up is a video for the song “24 Hour Party” by Beardo. While my days of getting revved up by youth anthems of teenage rebellion may be past (maybe), I am thrilled to see something like this being created today. Substantively it reminds me of “TV Party” by Black Flag or something similar from my misspent youth. From a video standpoint I think it takes a good bit from the Beastie Boys’ “Fight For Your Right To Party”. Frankly I was taken back to the days when my Kalamazoo basement held way too many drunk college students banging it out to The Parka Kings or Deconstruction or some other localish punk rock favorite.
Beardo – “24 Hour Party” from Nicholaus Goossen on Vimeo.
Up next on the list is something that musically I’m much less connected to. The band Rad Omen performing their song “Rad Anthem” provides the musical backdrop for all of your favorite fast-food icons wilding in the streets and clubs of Anycity, USA. The reason I’m posting this one up (which is on that border of being NSFW) is because artistically I was really impressed by what the director did. Maybe I’m reading too much into it; but I really like the metaphor of these corporate icons wrecking havoc and acting in complete moral depravity sort of the way I feel the real corporations have acted within the realm of our world’s finances and human rights. Beyond that the lighting, colors and shots that the director chose are really beautiful even in such an ugly context.
RAD OMEN – “Rad Anthem” from Nicholaus Goossen on Vimeo.
- Andrew
Unfortunately embedding was disabled for this video but it is worth the click thru. The Notre Dame Marching Band (sorry, OK Go is a Chicago band so the chance of them asking TBDBITL to participate would’ve been a stretch) provides the backdrop for this fun video and emotional song.
As a Youtube commentor Dezrah stated; “All art should feel like this. Triumphant, exultant and inspiring. Well done!”
I couldn’t agree more. Click Here to see OK Go’s video premier of “This Too Shall Pass”.
- Andrew
