Me too. Audience just as interesting to watch as the mob.

This, of course. Perfectly mirroring the non-textualized existential angst of post-postmodern post-consumerism.

xander biscuits - Pick 5 - Daft Punk - Around the World


I'm aware that I have 2 write ups to do now, but I've got a baby in my arms and I don't want to hold this up any more than I have to

Will pm and spreadsheet though...

Round 5

Simply Irresistible - Robert Palmer



There were 3 things that immediately popped into my head when I read music video draft.

#1 was the Smugglers Blues montage from Miami Vice. But apparently this video doesn't exist. Likely a copywrite issue. I can find the audioless montage and of course the song but not the montage with the song. It would likely be frowned upon anyway since it isn't an "actual" music video even though it is music with video. Hell, Miami Vice was just 2 or 3 music montages loosely linked by chasing drug dealers or other nefarious types.

#2 was that D. L. Roth video Zeno posted earlier.

#3 This one! This is the prototypical music video. All of those hot look alike babes made it very popular and very memorable. Anyway when I think music video this one pops into my head.

so far:

Paperback Writer - The Beatles
The Making of Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
Singin' in the Rain - Gene Kelly
Bad to the Bone - George Thorogood
Simply Irresistible - Robert Palmer

And sniped.

I'm more of a "Scatter my ashes" kinda guy, but if I were ever to have a tombstone I would want it to say...

"She's so fine
There's no telling where the money went."

So I’m assume my everyone is up for ten rounds now.

I can go forever even without coloring outside of the lines

Solid pick, I bounce around my apartment every time I hear this song.

I don't know what your "my everyone" is, but I'm up for ten rounds.

Ten is OK wit me

****ing spell check on my phone

Busta's ratio of good songs to bad songs is pretty awful. But his good songs are pretty goddamn good. The ratio for videos fares much better.

I had assumed it was a term of endearment. Now I feel jilted.

So the write up.

Looks like a fun video, but it's probably a setup and everyone is a commercial
actor/extra so whatever right? Wrong.

It was filmed guerrilla style without any permission and the lead guy in the video who is also the director of the video is none other than Spike Jonze.

More than a fun seeming video, but it's got the good story to go with it and only cost $800 to produce the whole thing.

Read more about it here:

Write up:

So again it seems like a nice enough video and a catchy song. It's got weird costumes and funny dancing and it's ok, but nothing that great until you realise more about it...

The video is:
watch the video again in the knowledge of this and watch that grin form on your face as you realise it's true.

Oh and the Gondry that is mentioned in that quote is Oscar winner Michel Gondry who directed this video.

Pretty neat huh?

So going through the videos of others (some I was already familiar with and others I wasn't) I'm going to give the following opinions with my picks being totally ignored:

Dominic is ahead by a fairly wide margin. It's no surprise since he came up with the idea for the draft but he actually understands the thing we're drafting. Not the best song but the best video. It can be a great video (NIN) or perhaps a video that really complements the song really well (Hurt) but it's not just a great song that has a video which many other people seem to be drafting for some reason.

I'd but John Cole in position #2 and revots33 in 3rd.

Worst pick has to be Paperback writer. That video is just a big load of nothing. There is very little official Beatles stuff on YouTube and mrbaseball just picked whatever was available. Good song + Crappy video =/= A good drafting strat.

Ah, I was thinking of maybe picking this one! Busta just has this completely wild, funky, kinetic style and the video matches it perfectly. Word on my seed!

I'm kinda going for best song and best video together. Of course, I threw in the Whitesnake video for personal reasons (although it does feature a woman and cars, the stuff of rock videos), and I will probably choose one more for personal reasons. I like to do that in drafts.

But I really enjoy watching the ones I've never seen, which are most of them. Never listened to Coldplay, but that is a neat video.

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For me it's the music about 99% and if the video can keep up then great.

I have liked watching most of these though. I am a big fan of music + video but not necessarily music videos.

finally

and JC's Hurt was epic.

I hope I remember to post my favorite after the draft is complete.

I think it's on me according to the spreadsheet, but I wasn't pm'd.

Anyway, I'm taking this video by Richard Hawley because it's sweet. It's about love, couples who love each other, love that's playful, and love that endures. And it features real couples, except for Hawley himself who appears at the beginning and end of the video. As I grow older and thinner, I still want to believe there's a little spare meat left on the bone, as Hawley sings. If this one doesn't melt your cold heart, you don't have one. And this one goes out to a special friend, one who kept me fed for a time.



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Round 5 -- First attempt

1966 and 1967 were formative years for me. One of the many things going on at that time was the Cultural Revolution and the Red Guard movement in mainland China that I followed on the radio and in the news papers. It formed a lasting impression on me of what life in, and the government of, communist China must be like.

Here's a video depicting that era that sums thing up rather nicely:



Imagine my astonishment a few years ago when a friend sent me the following link to a video also from China. It's different than the one above. It seems Rock n Roll subverted more that 60 years of idiotic cold war perpetrated by the world's governments. Makes me proud to be an anarchist.

Wang Rong (AKA Rollin from Chick Chick fame):



PM so far:
1. Golden earing
2. Zatoichi
3. Morris Day/Kyary Pamyu Pamyu/Tempura Kidz
4. Grrrrls Just Want To Have Fun
5. Bad Sister (rock version)

Will PM Cranberry Tea. It's on him, not Dom as I previously thought.

Fatman,

That the first video was shot in Tiananmen Square; I recognize The Great Hall of the People that sits large and squat at one side of the square. I was in Beijing in 2005 so missed the fun of the Cultural Revolution but did get to enjoy the orgy of Capitalist Greed that has gripped Beijing recently. And I would bet my life savings that the vehicles in the first video were probably the only cars in Beijing at the time and were probably of Russian origin. Now you can hardly get around Beijing the traffic is so hideous.

I have no comment on the second, main video (the babe is Hot!); except to say that The Dust Busters could do a better one, especially after some hillbilly moonshine. I find it hard to believe you posted it. You must be sober. That or the Cold War damaged your brain beyond repair.

With the greatest respect,

Zeno, Master of The Universe.