tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217774432024-03-26T05:01:39.687-04:00VideotequeJust listening to music is so last year.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-88567105235404159452011-12-16T03:29:00.000-05:002011-12-16T03:30:00.034-05:00Uh, so....Do you use Spotify?This is my Spotify playlist. My favorite music, constantly updating. 1 song per artist. Enjoy.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1165560082896756902006-12-08T01:41:00.000-05:002006-12-08T01:41:22.906-05:00Hello?Anyone listening?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1152809450302784502006-07-13T12:47:00.000-04:002006-07-13T22:17:10.976-04:00Videoteque...... closed. For now.Hi.I'm Ben.I hate to say this, I really do, but for now... we're closing up Videoteque. There isn't one reason for this - there's a few - mostly both Derek and I don't really have time to update two blogs, what with his relaunching of his site and my site suffering as a result of this one. I really do love music videos, and you never know, maybe I'll post a video from time to time. The idea of a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1152386053477691972006-07-08T14:54:00.000-04:002006-07-08T15:14:13.503-04:00Panic! At The Disco: "But It's Better If You Do"This video, "But It's Better If You Do", is a burlesque-themed clip directed by Shane Drake. It's a fun clip with a story to it (which I especially like), and while the singer annoys me from time to time (the hand claps are a bit much, frankly), it's an entertaining clip that's going to get plenty of airplay on the MTV/Fuse channels. The entire episode of "Panic! At The Disco Makes A Video" wasUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1151854248264399062006-07-02T11:18:00.000-04:002006-07-02T11:30:48.276-04:00Buck 65: "Wicked & Weird"Another one from the speaksinglyricist, Buck 65, this one from 2003. It's a goofy road-movie-caper spoof type of video from director Sean Michael Turrell, featuring mannequins, puppets, dancing girls, dirt roads, and some pretty cool cinematography. If you haven't seen the other two videos of his that have been posted on this website, do so, because Micah Meisner's work on those two is as good Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1151171443588250782006-06-24T13:37:00.000-04:002006-06-24T13:50:43.620-04:00Classic Video - Souls of Mischief: "93 'til Infinity"It's funny, but hip-hop videos have dramatically changed in the last fifteen years. Now it's all about bling and Cristal - but then there are videos like these ones from back in the day (and like the "Scenario" video as well) that were just about the music. Can you imagine a hip-hop video these days where the group isn't on a fancy soundstage? Where instead, they were walking through the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1150924779438706492006-06-21T17:06:00.000-04:002006-06-21T17:19:39.483-04:00The Pipettes: "Pull Shapes"Awesome. Anytime a band decides to market themselves with a video based on the Russ Meyer-directed "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls", I've got an extra bit of love for them. And this video, a shot-for-shot remake of a scene from the film, just screams fun to me. I'm absolutely in love with the girls in the band (the one in the glasses, hoo-fah!), and the song is just a summer song beyond Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1150761239811894542006-06-19T19:44:00.000-04:002006-06-19T19:53:59.823-04:00Lily Allen: "Smile"Lily Allen is the New Hot Thing™ in music, with everyone from Scott Stereogum to every damn kid on MySpace showing their love for the wee British budding star. Her Sophie Muller-directed video for "Smile" is everything that a good video for a relatively unknown artist should have - it makes her looks charismatic, interesting, and dynamic. The video features her getting revenge on a boy who hass Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1150559038627752722006-06-17T11:38:00.000-04:002006-06-17T12:13:18.423-04:00Classic Video - A Tribe Called Quest: "Scenario"The Tribe's seminal track "Scenario" was accompanied by a video that was, for all intents and purposes, a visionary video that forsaw the how computers were going to change music videos and, really, our lives. Change your hair - change your skin color - change anything - a computer can do it! (Okay, maybe not. Heh.) I think part of the fun of this video is that it's so simple: they take advantageUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1150383284658894082006-06-15T10:15:00.000-04:002006-06-15T10:54:44.673-04:00Camera Obscura: "Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken"And we're back. I'll be doing my best to keep this place up to date, y'hurd.And what a video this is. The Glasgow-based Camera Obscura comes back with the bubbly "Lloyd, I'm Read To Be Heartbroken". The video, though, is tremendous - it's a throwback to the 1950s, with a simple theme and setup - two dancers through a series of brightly-colored (you might even say technicolored) sets, as we seeUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1149734463616524852006-06-07T22:05:00.001-04:002006-06-08T22:23:38.183-04:00Snow Patrol: "Chasing Cars"Boy, Gary Lightbody really wants to be Chris Martin. More and more, it's becoming apparent. This video is very... Coldplay - tight shots of the singer and such. I'm not really all that impressed with this video, as it seems kind of simple. There's such a slow build through the video, there isn't much of a payoff. I know it sounds odd to compare it, but... okay. Do you remember the video for "Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1149572304638519932006-06-06T01:37:00.000-04:002006-06-06T01:38:24.653-04:00Sorry 'bout the break in action....I've been on vacation in Cape Cod for a few days now, so I've been a bit... away from music videos. On the other hand, I've got my mum really into Lily Allen and The Pipettes over the last few days, which is pretty cool.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1149133721804028262006-05-31T23:32:00.000-04:002006-06-07T22:26:35.680-04:00A.F.I. - "Miss Murder" (Director's Cut)Davey Havok (owner of the coolest name in music) and A.F.I. are back with the new single, "Miss Murder", a truly terrific rock song with a brilliant video directed by Marc Webb. One of A.F.I.'s distinguishing characteristics have been their epic and grandiose videos (see: "The Leaving Song, pt. 2; Girls Not Grey), and this video is no exception. Webb's direction style, seen in My Chemical Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1148972076526404022006-05-30T02:38:00.000-04:002006-05-30T02:54:36.566-04:00Classic Video - Foo Fighters: "Everlong"You have to understand - I love Dave Grohl. I think he's one of the most creative people on the planet - in his music, his style, his ability and his complete willingness to give himself to his music. This video, directed by the amazing Michel Gondry, shows off both the genius of Grohl and of Gondry. Gondry's video is that of a dream in parts - Grohl and his "wife", played by Taylor Hawkins (Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1148758756976710582006-05-27T15:14:00.000-04:002006-05-27T15:39:17.000-04:00The Black Heart Procession: "Not Just Words"As I've written on my site, I'm a big fan of the Black Heart Procession. Their dark psychadelic sound is really impressive. And this video (which, if we had got it a day or two earlier, would have been an exclusive - damn you MySpace!), featuring Shannon Sossamon (for no reason that I can figure out except that she's very pretty and dances like a goofy Stevie Nicks) takes us on a tour around a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1148358905146678582006-05-23T00:18:00.000-04:002006-05-24T01:14:59.920-04:00The Streets: "Never Went To Church"Mike Skinner's follow-up to the wholly sad "Dry Your Eyes" is his newest weepie, "Never Went To Church", a track that has taken time to grow on me. I think that this video is actually what did it for me - the track is one of his most personal, if not the most personal that he's ever written. While "Dry Your Eyes" was about an unnamed woman, this is very specifically about the death of his Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1148357824760362942006-05-22T23:51:00.000-04:002006-05-23T00:17:09.500-04:00Deadly Fists of Kung Fu: "Shortpacked"Wow. I don't really know what to say. It's like an episode of Robot Chicken gone power-pop. Don't get me wrong - that's a great thing. The video is highly entertaining (and when a band is called "Deadly Fists of Kung Fu", can you expect anything else? I mean, really?), and the simplicity of the video, despite what must have been a bitch to animate really impresses. I know it sounds odd - Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1147911955733977342006-05-19T23:08:00.000-04:002006-05-20T04:53:59.560-04:00k-os: "Crabbuckit"So if you hadn't figured it out yet, I'm a big fan of k-os. I love his music - it's the fuse of hip-hop, jazz, rock, and funk all into one that really does it for me. This video follows k-os through the streets of Toronto (I assume) with his guitar as he rocks out and and looks through his sunglasses to see 'the crabs in the buckit', so to speak. This site seems to slowly becoming a Micah J. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1147912521547888972006-05-18T23:57:00.000-04:002006-05-19T16:39:03.020-04:00Alkaline Trio: "Mercy Me"Sometimes, videos are so bizarre it's hard to write about them. This is one of them. The animation is really interesting and different. Alkaline Trio is one of those bands who have been around forever and I really can't say a bad word about (nor can anyone else), and the video is just flat-out original. There's not really a plot to it, and there really isnt much else to say. It's just a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1147912052719471722006-05-18T23:51:00.000-04:002006-05-19T02:07:58.450-04:00Lady Sovereign: "Random"In a music studio come to life, we find wee little Lady Sovereign spitting some of the most clever and fastest rhymes on the planet over a sirenesque type of beat. Her style comes across in this video (directed by Chris Cairns of "Disco Infiltrator" by LCD Soundsystem; "We're Here" by Guillermots) in a pretty slick way - between the spoofs on the St. Louis scene ("that churr, I mean chair"), of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1147910912905831352006-05-17T19:52:00.000-04:002006-05-17T22:56:38.860-04:00Lupe Fiasco: "Kick Push"Lupe Fiasco, out of Chicago, is one of the hottest MCs on the national hip-hop scene. He's apparently a very big fan of skateboarding, and you'll see why in this video, with the use of the "Skateboarding Is Not A Crime" slogan in various spots. He's techincally already appeared once on this website, in Derek's post on the Kanye West clip for "Touch The Sky, and I certainly hope he appears againUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1147850453954053592006-05-17T00:30:00.001-04:002006-05-17T03:59:36.463-04:00Minus the Bear: "Pachuca Sunrise"Thanks to Wendy at Toolshed for this video, as it's pheeenomenal. It's really a great video for "Pachuca Sunrise" by the Washington band Minus the Bear. The concept is brilliant - I mean who hasn't had those pill-shaped things that you put in water and have them expand into dinosaurs or guitars? They're the best things ever. When I was young, I cut my finger really bad on a pair of scissors (Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1147642200836833722006-05-14T16:37:00.000-04:002006-05-21T05:03:13.660-04:00Rainer Maria: "Catastrophe"First things first - lead singer Caithlin De Marrais is gorgeous. I have to get that out of the way, because having watched the video now about 15 times in a row. She's flat-out gorgeous. Second, Thank God for Fuse, because without them, we'd never see videos like these (what with programs like MTV2's Subterranean basically disappearing). Additionally, Fuse will often spend 30 minutes in the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1147594281906371822006-05-14T03:48:00.000-04:002006-05-14T17:11:15.476-04:00Buck 65: "Kennedy Killed The Hat"Buck 65 has been featured on this site before, with the feature on 463 (a truly fantastic video, in my opinion), but this one, for "Kennedy Killed the Hat" is just as good, albeit a scant 2:20 long. The Micah Meisner-directed clip (who also did the 463 video and the "Man I Used To Be" clip for k-os) is simple - a chase of some sort of freak (or, as the song puts it 'mu-tent-te') through the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1147333599225428212006-05-10T23:26:00.000-04:002006-05-11T03:46:39.236-04:00Depeche Mode: "Enjoy The Silence (Remix)"Depeche Mode, honestly, is not one of my favorites. That's the truth. I've never been able to get into them. But this video for the remix of "Enjoy The Silence" is just awesome. The animation is very cool, and the story of the video is Matrix-esque. I think that's part of the attraction - that it's so very cool, both in style and simplicity. The animation isn't complex like a Gnarls BarkleyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0