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Post by Beach Boys Fan on May 6, 2019 7:35:51 GMT -5
Which videos you'd seen that you like? Share them here. Here's few faves: Features cutest cat pose: Ditto: Funny/ cute clip that features 2 dogs eating with human hands. Dog fans will enjoy it  : Various youtube channel creators dance to fun song: Ditto: Black & white food commercial with clown: |
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Post by rentatris on May 8, 2019 15:43:25 GMT -5
Good Thread!
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Post by jk on Mar 1, 2020 15:16:56 GMT -5
This was a great favourite of mine last year. The band is fascinating but so is the audience!
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Post by jk on Mar 3, 2020 5:27:01 GMT -5
Here's one I was alerted to not so long ago by BBF, for which many thanks. These are Psychic TV (with Genesis P-Orridge to the fore) and "Godstar":
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Post by jk on Mar 21, 2020 8:49:35 GMT -5
There's no getting round Mr Herring in this stunning version by Future Islands of "Seasons (Waiting On You)":
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Post by jk on Apr 20, 2020 7:04:46 GMT -5
The Birthday Party perform the title track from Junkyard on the German TV show Götterdämmerung in July 1982:
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Post by jk on Jul 3, 2020 5:35:35 GMT -5
This just about fits in this thread. The jaw-dropping 15-minute segment beginning here at 18:40 must surely rate as the most spectacular all-live event ever staged in a stadium. The stunning music helps [watch it on YouTube]:
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Post by jk on Jul 18, 2020 17:28:05 GMT -5
From the sublime to the ridiculous (maybe). The official video for Jimmy Nail's "Ain't No Doubt" is super-cheesy but I love it -- and I love the song:
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Post by jk on Jul 20, 2020 14:58:17 GMT -5
In the early days of pop videos, two stood out for me in terms of sheer complexity (Peter G's "Sledgehammer") and sheer simplicity, Massive Attack's "Unfinished Sympathy", a single steady-cam shot from start to finish. To say nothing of a sublime song:
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Post by sneakypete77 on Jul 21, 2020 6:50:13 GMT -5
A wonderful song and an enigmatic video. I always wondered where Ian Brown got the inspiration for his F.E.A.R video, which I posted a while ago in the … Listening To Now.. thread. Seems that the outrageous Aussie Leigh Bowery from Sunshine, Melbourne who was the art director for the Massive Attack video shoot was also a Stone Roses fan, and here’s Ian Brown and Massive Attack’s Daddy G together in 2001, the year when F.E.A.R. was released. Case closed I wonder (yeah, flimsy at best )?
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Post by jk on Aug 3, 2020 14:19:47 GMT -5
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Post by pendlewitch on Aug 3, 2020 14:28:31 GMT -5
jk, there was a more recent interview:
Don't call the doctor if you can't afford the bill? - one for our American friends, unfortunately lacking the NHS 
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Post by jk on Aug 3, 2020 16:12:28 GMT -5
jk, there was a more recent interview:
Don't call the doctor if you can't afford the bill? - one for our American friends, unfortunately lacking the NHS
Thanks, pw. What a bloke! I do apologize to him for spelling his name wrongly.  Yes, the National Health Service, bless it. I remember it was given the most wonderful celebration in the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics -- and rightly so.  |
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Post by jk on Aug 23, 2020 6:24:23 GMT -5
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Post by jk on Sept 15, 2020 17:04:53 GMT -5
Here's one I really like these days: John Newman's "Tiring Game" ft. Charlie Wilson:
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Post by jk on Oct 1, 2020 14:22:11 GMT -5
Found this cool video (a promo for a 1978 single) yesterday, arriving there via Nikki Sudden. TBND became The Birthday Party some time after Rowland S. Howard upped the band to a quintet. Note an almost unrecognizable Tracy Pew on bass, although his glare at 1:36 is a hint of things to come (RIP Tracy, RIP Rowland): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birthday_Party_(band) |
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Post by jk on Oct 2, 2020 14:45:33 GMT -5
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Post by jk on Dec 22, 2020 17:25:44 GMT -5
I know it's silly feeling nostalgic for a foreign '80s sitcom one has never seen but there you are. A good friend recorded a version of this song and I felt compelled to look out the original. (Their version of "Together" is better!) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Spoons |
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Post by jk on May 10, 2021 5:38:27 GMT -5
Here's another from my blogger friend's American Metropolitan Circus project, "where Joseph Byrd meets Fritz Lang". "Tailor Man" is a bonus track on the 2004 CD reissue of The United States of America (1968). It features the criminally neglected vocal cords of Dorothy Moskowitz, who also wrote it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_United_States_of_America_(album) |
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Post by jk on May 20, 2021 5:01:26 GMT -5
Sparks are always good for an entertaining video. This one accompanies "The Rhythm Thief", which opens their stunning 2002 album Lil' Beethoven. Lights out, Ibiza! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil%27_Beethoven |
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Post by jk on May 20, 2021 14:19:24 GMT -5
On the subject of videos... Years ago my son introduced me to a 2000 album called Since I Left You by Aussie electronic outfit The Avalanches. Compiled from literally hundreds of vinyl samples, it conjures up a fantastic imaginary movie in a dazzling array of sounds, colours and images. Later, I was foolish enough to check out the official video of one of its four singles, "Frontier Psychiatrist". My advice? Listen to the album and its singles by all means but stick to videos that feature the album cover and avoid any creative videos like the plague! Trust your imagination -- anything contrived by others is bound to fall short. (Another prime example is Pink Floyd's "Cirrus Minor". Steer well clear of the appalling accompanying footage from the film More.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Since_I_Left_You |
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Post by jk on May 21, 2021 4:02:37 GMT -5
Accentuating the positive once more, this wonderfully barbaric clip is of the "Dance of the Oprichniks" (with a song from Fyodor) from Ivan the Terrible Part II, directed by Eisenstein and scored by Prokofiev. It seems Stalin was happy with Part I, as it put the earlier despot in a favourable light, whereas Part II was a lot less complimentary about Ivan, which Stalin felt reflected badly on him. So even though filming was completed in 1946, Part II only saw the light of day in 1958, by which time filmmaker, composer and dictator were all dead. To be watched on YouTube only: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible_(Prokofiev) |
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Post by jk on May 27, 2021 13:53:55 GMT -5
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Post by jk on Sept 1, 2021 6:18:57 GMT -5
I was looking through old topics in this section (no life!) and stumbled across this video which a kind poster linked for me. Goodness, these guys can dance -- in high heels too!
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Post by jk on Oct 17, 2021 7:25:30 GMT -5
I was looking through old topics in this section (no life!) and stumbled across this video which a kind poster linked for me. Goodness, these guys can dance -- in high heels too! This, in turn, is for that kind poster. It's a stunning performance of "Tilted" (here followed by "I Feel For You") by Christine and the Queens (born Héloïse Adélaïde Letissier), which I saw last night for the second time when guest interviewee Elton John requested it on Jools Holland's Later.... Go well, that person. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_and_the_Queens |
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