They Might Be Giants - Don't Let's Start
Wake up and smell the cat food in your bank account.
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July 31, 2006
July 28, 2006
The Epoxies - Molded Plastic
Previously mentioned New Wavish band The Epoxies Molded Plastic single gets a fast moving animated video. Nice to see this band take off a bit.
Thanks to Chris.
July 25, 2006
Dali's Car - The Judgement Is The Mirror
Peter Murphy and Mick Karn's one single from their one album from their oneshot post-Bauhaus and post-Japan band Dali's Car. Didn't even know this had a video until just now. Three of you are going apeshit with joy, albeit in a moody and detached way.
July 21, 2006
Four Volts - Heartworm
Bunsen Honeydew Four Volts' amusing video for the Heartworm single.
June 28, 2006
Stevie Wonder - Superstition on Sesame Street
Stevie at the height of his 70s badness doing his thing for the crumb-snatchers and Muppets on Sesame Street. Right behind Stevie is Ray Parker Jr. who would later go on to do the Ghostbusters theme song. We're sure Stevie knew he was back there, we're just pointing him out.
June 26, 2006
The Dogs - Your Mama's On Crack Rock
The Dogs' Your Mama's On Crack Rock: not only catchy as dengue fever, this is officially the new Bitchinest Video We've Seen While Doing Screenhead, edging out that horse video we tried real hard to find a legal way of showing you but never did. With thanks to Melanie.
June 23, 2006
Dabrye - Smoking The Edge
Damn spiffy animated video for the ever-inventive Dabrye's Smoking The Edge.
Via Superette
June 22, 2006
The Damage Manual: Sunset Gun
An all too brief late `90s early `00s collaboration between pigface, PiL and Killing Joke luminaries Martin Atkins, Chris Connelly, Geordie Walker and Jah Wobble, here's something like a single from The Damage Manual:
June 20, 2006
Neo Plastic Boogie Woogie
Severine Pictures' spaztastic bit of video goodness for Mahogany's new single.
Neo Plastic Boogie Woogie (Flash file) [Severine Pictures]
March 23, 2006
Pigface -- Suck (live)
Skinny Puppy's Ogre and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails duet the Pigface track Suck, which later showed up on Trent's Broken album as one of the "hidden" tracks. Taken from the Glitch video.
Thanks to charliesheen
Super Furry Animals - At Least It's Not The End Of The World
We're not the biggest fans of the band, but this is a hard video to not like. From Numero 6, which has two other animation heavy videos up at Partizan Lab, both also similarly hard to not like.
Super Furry Animals - At Least It's Not The End Of The World
March 22, 2006
ElmoGangsta
A more effective than you might expect mashing of Elmo and NWA's Gangsta Gangsta.
Better red than dead, yo.
Thanks to Real Genius
March 21, 2006
Negativland -- truth in advertising
March 20, 2006
Benkyou ga Dekinai
Video from 80s J-Punk unit The Stalin. Some bands are in it for the money, they were in it for the bruises mostly, banned from venue after venue for attacking and occasionally hurling shit (literally shit) at what they felt were lackluster audiences. Read up on the boys here.
March 17, 2006
Pogues - Waxie's Dargle
We're only doing one post for Paddy's Day, so we went as Irish as we could without needing a kidney transplant latter; here's The Pogues doing a particularly Irish number: Waxie's Dargle
March 15, 2006
We'd buy that for a dollar
Electronic act Ex Models let loose with Sex Automata. Feels like the bastard kid of Paris Hilton and Twiki from Buck Rogers.
Ex Models - Sex Automata [French Kiss Records]
Dark brown. Light black.
Saul Williams makes a cameo during Nine Inch Nails' set during the New Orleans Voodoo Fest last November to perform African Student Movement. Starts off a little clunky, but once it gets rolling it works real well, particularly with the Hurricane Katrina undertones. Great lyrics to this one.
Jeremy Warmsley - Dirty Blue Jeans
Honestly, we find the music in this clip so twee it makes us want to punch ourselves in the face with a tack hammer just so we can experience something percussive, but Fink's video for it is certainly interesting; feels like you're a humming bird on dope.
March 14, 2006
What not to do
Jim Starace & Rachel McIntosh quirky Don't Fuck With Love, descirbed as "a one minute and thirty second stop-motion animated film, set to the song of the same name by the group The Sad Little Stars. A Cautionary Tale in Three Fantastical Dimensions, Two Star-Crossed Lovers Flirt Their Way through a Magical and Luscious 1920's Paper Pop-Up New York City."
The Sad Little Stars - Don't Fuck With Love:
Quicktime or Flash
Vote for it at the IFC media lab
Via antville
March 13, 2006
Depeche Mode - Suffer Well
March 10, 2006
Lick it up
PCL Linkdump goes Kiss crazy and licks up every last nugget of Kiss off YouTube they could find, and toss in a few handy Kiss links while they're at it.
... The Hottest Band In the World! ... [PCL Linkdump]
March 9, 2006
Kuzai Heart You Girl!
Shine!Strength!'s video for Kiwi band The Sneaks' single Kuzai Heart You Girl! The Sneaks explain themselves this way:
"In 1951 the earth was frozen in time by a visiting spaceman. This event not only left us questioning who was master, Robot or Humanoid, but of course left embedded in the living rock secrets only discoverable by a select few. So far only three people have been privy to this hidden knowledge, Sir Issac Newton, J. Edgar Hoover, and Marilyn Munroe (sp), however now all three are dead. The Sneaks are making music as a cover for their true occupation, discovering exactly how Gort could appear all knowing and fearsome at the same time as appearing to be made completely out of cardboard."
Thursdays are rough.
March 8, 2006
Praxis - Animal Behavior
Praxis was/is an amazing collective of experimental musicians who came together in the early 1990s, dedicated to pushing musical boundaries. The members of the band are (were) many and include(d) (time is so funky, baby) the currently sort-of-famous for his stint in Guns n' Roses/ KFC bucket fashion victim Buckethead, and Funk bass legend /all around spiffy dresser Bootsy Collins. The debut Praxis album, Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis) sounds like listening to an old Parliament record after sustaining a massive head injury, and is our favorite thing to clear out a room with when it becomes infested with Nickelback fans. Despite our love of the album, we had no idea there were ever videos made for what could only loosely be called a single from the mass of sound, but it turns out that at least one did magically occur: Animal Behavior
March 7, 2006
They die hard
"The world's smallest sit-com" Powerloafing examines the reoccurring tendencies of the greatest American president citizen Screenhead has ever had the pleasure of serving under.
Bush goes Powerloafing [powerloafing]
Also meeting our patriotic needs, Atom films offers up a clip of The Right Brothers perfoming Bush Was Right [atom films]
March 3, 2006
Guitar Wolf - Jet Generation
The mighty Guitar Wolf's Jet Generation, from the 1999 album of the same name. This snippet of a fan interview with the Guitar Wolf himself (lead guitarist/singer Seiji) sums the band up real well:
P: You moved to Tokyo, right?
Seiji : Yes.
P: You are from...?
Seiji : Nagasaki.
P: Why did you move to Tokyo?
Seiji : Ah, easy to rock.
Uploaded by wil9839
And while we're rocking out, this is a fine time to link to Teengenerate's Let's Get Hurt
Uploaded by senbei
Crazy Girl - The Rebel
Living like a rebel, she sold her soul to the Devil because she wasn't level-headed.
You heard us. The Devil.
We once sold our soul to a guy in Pittsburgh for a can of that SportShake chocolate drink stuff in 1996. We felt like an asshole once we got to a gas station and they had a case full of the stuff. Also, it made us fart.
March 2, 2006
Jaga
Jaga is a Norwegian 10-member electronic Jazz collective. We know what that description sounds like, but g'wan and check them out anyway. You'll be dead sooner than you think.
It's time to panic
Another animated Lemon Demon music video thing. Watch for a few familiar metal grills sprinkled throughout the carnage.
When the Robots Attack [albino blacksheep]
Wax Tailor's Hypnosis Theme
Hugo Arcier's sultry video for Wax Tailor's Hypnosis Theme. Check out the pretty effective CG going on in the last half.
Hypnosis Theme [Wax Taylor]
Via ektopia
February 27, 2006
Rasputin
Boney M's song about the life of Rasputin, "Russia's greatest love machine", culled from WFMU's Beware Of The Blog's exhaustive investigation into the 11-inch penis'd Euro-Disco king that is Boney M. If the thing in the jar is to be believed, Boney was likely inspired by a penis kinship with the Mad Monk of Russia.
Read more about this musical force of nature here.
Rasputin video [WFMU]
For A While
Last week to note her birthday we posted a pair of Nina Simone videos which many of you seemed to enjoy, however we stupidly neglected to mention that the uploader to YouTube who made that possible has a fine site called Chocnut, so we're going to use that as an excuse to post yet another Nina Simone clip, with thanks to Marco. Here she is at Ronnie Scott's performing For A While:
February 22, 2006
Steve²
Here's Stevie Wonder with a pretty great live performance of Superstition on German TV show Musik Laden. The drums alone kick the devil in his dangly bits.
And here's a live clip of Stevie Ray Vaughan covering the tune. Note how it also kicks the devil where he pees.
February 21, 2006
Yma Sumac
Of the dozens of documentaries on Peruvian exotica music divas with five octave - range voices that we have to sift through every day, this is probably the best one:
Via PCL Linkdump, who have a better quality download, if you're more than casually interested.
Also: Yma Sumac - Gopher Mambo
Henry the Wasp
Here's a highly effective video extravaganza for "psychobilly" unit The Highliners' Henry the Wasp that had to run well past six dollars to produce.
Pendulum - Slam
Why? Why did this have to happen?
Thanks to ATA
February 20, 2006
Athlete -- You Got The Style
The best thing about the last movie version of the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Shynola, provide their book animating magic to Athlete's You Got The Style. End result being possibly the most happy we've seen anyone about global warming, except for the people who sell flood insurance.
Athlete -- You Got The Style [director's bureau]
Bet that was hard to write
This one goes out to all of you other fine people who don't get these goofy mini-holidays like President's Day off either. You other folks go on and drink your $5 milkshakes from Starbucks and watch Meatballs III on cable, we'll keep the society warm and not taken over by China for you until you wake up from your diabetic coma and can get back to work.
Fuck the Shit [break.com] (not worksafe, but your boss didn't come in today anyway)
February 17, 2006
Ride on Shooting Star
The FLCL clips in this post bellow got us in the mood to hear the opening tune from that show, Ride On Shooting Star, from the mighty pillows.
We were happy to notice lots more pillows at YouTube
February 16, 2006
Jaw Modulation
Jean-Paul Tremblay & Eddie Pak's nicely gritty 16 mm video in which mighty mouth Beans brings his always interesting vocals to this track from Headset's 2004 block party of a record Spacesettings.
Headset - Jaw Modulation [lowculture]
Via Antville
Hot Topic is so not punk rock
There's a thin chance word-hurler MC Lars isn't real fond of George Bush:
George W. "My Daughters Like to Drink"
George W. "Watch Out"
George W. "Fundamentalist Prick"
By the way, if there is one thing which never stops, and never stops being fun, it is reading who is punk, and what is not.
February 14, 2006
Geeks in Love
Lemon Demon provides the ditty for Andrew Kepple's Geeks in Love [New Grounds]
Thanks to Brett
February 6, 2006
First there are kisses, then there are sighs
We're presenting 80s white funk pop thing Power Station's Some Like it Hot because, sheepishly, we only just now learned all about Caroline Cossey.
We need to go take a very long shower and then watch football and then go hunting and then punch out a street mime for looking like a sissy, is what we need to go do.
See also: Amanda Lepore in Sunglasses At Night
February 3, 2006
The Epoxies - Stop Looking At Me
"The Epoxies are a local (to Portland, Oregon) synth / punk / new wave band. This is a music video for their song Stop Looking At Me. It was shot in six hours and edited over the course of three months."
Feels like every Amy Heckerling movie at once. By the time we got to the chorus, we had to admit we were into it. Via Hello! Video
Talkin' bout them tiny cookies that the peoples eat
For all two of our other Adrian Belew fans, here's a pretty trippy stop-motion animated video for Frank Zappa's City of Tiny Lites. Even if you're not a fan, Bruce Bickford's claymation visuals are a nice little mind-fuck.
February 2, 2006
Crossroads Showdown
Mid-80s flick Crossroads is that rare chance to watch the Karate Kid square off musically against Satan for the soul of a blues man who has hocked his eternal ghostly bits in Hell's pawnshop for some talent, just like Robert Johnson was once meant to have done. The movie insults dozens of our remaining brain cells the six or so times a month we watch it, particularly in the bit we're linking to here where Satan's rent boy Jack (Zappa alum Steve Vai) magically forgets where the last few frets on the guitar are and gets his ass handed to him by Daniel-san. Redeeming feature? Bitchn' music performed by Steve and Ry Cooder as Ralph Macchio's stunt talent.
Thanks to bulk182461bulk.
February 1, 2006
Afrika Bambaataa - Renegades Of Funk
Pretty great video for the mighty affectionate Zulu leader from the South Bronx and his Soulsonic Force, Afrika Bambaataa.
Dance, suka!
This Is Not A Love Song
We missed mentioning Ex-Pistol John Lydon's birthday yesterday; he is one of our favorites, particularly on the Public Image Ltd album This Is What You Want, This What you Get, from which this single comes. Don't let the 20 or so years between now and when this track originally appeared fool you, it sounds exactly as fucked up and out of place now now as it did then. The thumbnail of the post-Pistols band drawn over at Wikipedia is a pretty amusing quick read.
January 31, 2006
YesButNoButYes' Top Ten Great Music Videos You Haven't Seen
Well, regular readers have seen five of these here before, but the other 5 are interesting. And come to think of it, judging by the emails a lot of our original readers are probably dead or incarcerated by now, so enjoy the pretty moving pictures, new blood. The list features links to the clips.
Gary's In The Park
Ross Harris' video for Gary Wilson's In The Park. Gary Wilson?
"Gary Wilson emerged from New York's DIY movement with 1977's proto-New Wave masterpiece You Think You Really Know Me, an extraordinary record which has been known to suck unprepared new listeners in like a drug and never let go. Shortly after its limited release its creator simply vanished. In the 25-year wake before he was found again, Gary's small-town opus had spread by word-of-mouth and indie radio to inspire a whole new generation of musicians and producers with his bizarre songs and personal musical vision. His cult following includes Beck, who shouts him out in "Where It's At (Two Turntables And A Microphone)", The Roots’ ?uestlove, Simpsons creator Matt Goening, and of course, Stones Throw’s Peanut Butter Wolf."
Yeah yeah, visionary, blah blah, say, are we meant to find the glory hole on the paper bag head woman hot, or is that us?
We don't know. Leave us to our shame. Anyway, read the whole thing at the Stones Throw label site, from which we get the video.
Touch our monkey. Love him!
Front 242's Tragedy For You video. This is powerhouse video making, friends. Witness: wACKY bELGIANS! Early 90s Milli Vanilli bike shorts! Zaftig opera chicks! Homoerotic overtones! Bike shorts! Sprockets music! Homoerotic bike shorts! Buried... shopping carts! ... Uh.. unnecessary aviator goggles on very pale men in the dark ..er ... bike... shorts... bananas ... you know the more we review this thing the less we like ourselves?
Alice Cooper - Public Animal #9
A not so well known performance from the band not just the man at at the Beat Club, in Bremen, Germany, 1972.
January 30, 2006
Makina Fifth
Bath ducks deal with the pompitice of love in Makina Fifth, one of three music videos from electronic music group Ugress.
Thanks to TJ
Stop writing in correcting our spelling of "pompitice"... it's a made up word from a Steve Miller song. There's no wrong way to spell made up words unless they're French.
Callipygousocity
Mr. Mos Def presents us with Miss Fat Booty. Suits a Monday, doesn't it.
also: roundaboutism
Pleasure Is All Mine: Bjork Vs. THX 1138
Bjork Vs. THX 1138: Pleasure Is All Mine Interesting video mashup by Adario Strange
Via antville
January 27, 2006
Public Image Ltd on American Bandstand
Johnny wanders around for a bit not lip-synching the song Poptones, which pisses off aptly named Dick Clark. Possbly the best thing on American Bandstand. We've had this on before, but the link died quickly after being featured. Probably our most requested clip, here's YouTube to the rescue.
January 26, 2006
Hard luck fist f_ck
Here's an unreleased PETA ad fronted by Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor in which the mistreatment of cats and dogs in China is the focus. While we don't want to see animals tortured, worrying about how animals are treated seems like something to tackle after all the people are looked after, a day which is very far away. That aside we're just happy to see one-time boundary pusher Trent once again in a video labeled "extremely graphic." Now if he'd just sing something. Don't watch this if you're easily upset or in denial about what that is in beef Hot Pockets.
Slightly easier to watch is pre-NIN Trent doing Eyes Without a Face in his high school new wave outfit "Option 30", which all things considered sounds pretty good to us.
Cool
HumanTornado's Suga Free video. If this doesn't cheer you up, call the 911 gang and hang one of those cardboard pine trees around your neck while you wait so you don't stink up the joint, because you're dead, Jim.
When I Wake Up
Keith Schofield's pretty great video for Wintergreen's When I Wake Up centers around the serious cavity in the black plastic smile of Atari 2600 video cartrages: E.T. The Extra Terrestrial.
When I Wake Up
With thanks to Howard
January 25, 2006
Jaan Pehechaan Ho
Mohammed Rafi's highly catchy song seen in Ghost World. The video is a clip from Bollywood's "first thriller" Gumnaam, in which a group of people are trapped on an island when their plane abandons them and are hunted down by a masked.. .dancer, or something.. honestly we start fuzz out trying to explain it. Read about the film here.
Wolves and Wolverines
Old Time Relijun offer up a catchy bit of noise bounce from "the back wood jungles of Olympia, Washington" wit hthis animated clip for Wolves and Wolverines.
Old Time Relijun - Wolves and Wolverines [krecs.com]
Via Fecal Face
Sugar We're Going Down
We're a week late on this one because we'd mistakenly thought we'd seen it already. If you haven't seen Andrew Mathas' animated goof on Fallout Boy's Sugar We're Going Down, it's a riot.
Unrelated: No, not Patti!
Thanks to fist.
Smif n Wessun's Gunn Rap
Gunn Rap is from Smif n Wessun's 2005 Reloaded disc. Smif n Wessun are now known as Cocoa Brovaz after a legal battle with gun merchants Smith & Wesson over the name they've had for like ten years or so. That was a responsible move from responsible company Smith & Wesson... selling guns in Black neighborhoods is cool, but being assoicated with it would just be tacky.
Speaking personally as raging dyslexics who struggle to spell anything properly, we sort of whish these guys could be put in charge of the language. The Nez Englazz wud be muph ezzer on r tinee brainz.
January 24, 2006
Good music to never be heard from again by
"The Original Funeral Orchestra", postmortem hard to classify blues-ish band The Dead Brothers' Trust in Me gets a pretty fantastic video from Slowboat Films. Three fellas out in mother nature doing a little laptop slide music for ya. Reminds us a bit in equal parts of that Bone Machine album from Tom Waits, and that one special bit of Deliverance.
The Dead Brothers -- Trust in Me [Slowboat Films]
The Dead Brothers site
Sunglaphthhh Atth Nithgggt
Amanda Lepore in a video for Tiga's version of Sunglasses At Night. When you see those stickers warning you not to stick your head under the water in a Jacuzzi because of the jets, we always sort of envisioned something like this.
January 23, 2006
Xanopticon vs Tron vs Depeche Mode
Graphic Designer Justin Alt cuts Tron to fit a recent Depeche Mode track to interesting effect. Also, electronic unit Xanopticon cuts Xanopticon to Tron with their video for Neurve. Looks like a little 2001 in there too.
The Birds
The faces on the dogs in this Pleix video called look pretty confused, but all things considered we think they're handling being tossed straight through to the 1980s with a lot of grace, as we'd fucking flip out.
The Birds [pleix.net]
January 20, 2006
Ministry - Flashback
Fantastic little seen 1988 video for the penultimate track on the mighty Ministry's The Land Of Rape And Honey, a cornerstone of "industrial" music which still sounds fresh to us. This is a suitably dense clip for the track, we advise you press your nose to the screen for best effect.
January 18, 2006
Rocket Brothers
The band Kashmir is Radiohead if Radiohead's musical van blew a tire after OK Computer, but animated music video for the song Rocket Brothers in which a jealous brother takes the long way around to get some family is pretty great.
Dev2.0 - Whip It
DEV2.0 is Mark Mothersbaugh's (of Devo, if you need to be told) cute lil' tweak/ embrace of those kidz bop sort of albums for Disney. Here is the DEV2.0 version of Whip It, evidently the #1 sadomasochistic anthem for children to perform. Gerard Casale provides a video.
Dev2.0 - Whip It (.wmv file)
Via Antville
January 17, 2006
Devil Beside You
We link here to the video for Ai Mei's title track for Devil Beside You. Start watching all 13 episodes of this Taiwanese "idol drama" Degrassi-on-Barbiturates and you'll.. uh, probably stop at some point. Devil Beside You at You Tube
Dig Up Her Bones
A little postmortem love ditty from The Misfits.
We Are The Also Rans
The Young Knives come up with a clever way to make a video for cheap. We figure the style well matches the vocal, which we would describe as "one bran muffin more than this girdlocked car will allow." Rock and roll is all about the tension, we guess.
January 13, 2006
Noooo-wikawikawikawika-ooooo!
DJ Keltech embracess the Darkside. That's one way to make an impression.
Thanks to ATA
January 12, 2006
Chacarron
Video for El Mudo's wretched song. El Mudo is probably best known this side of things for providing the score to this YTMND bit.
January 11, 2006
Plastic Operator - Folder
Plastic Operator - Folder
Bitstate's stylishly animated video for Plastic Operator's Folder.