tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217774432011-12-16T03:30:00.009-05:00Just listening to music is so last year.Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00396554847123995220noreply@blogger.comBlogger661100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-88567105235404159452011-12-16T03:29:00.000-05:002011-12-16T03:30:00.034-05:00

Do you use Spotify?This is my Spotify playlist. My favorite music, constantly updating. 1 song per artist. Enjoy.

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1165560082896756902006-12-08T01:41:00.000-05:002006-12-08T01:41:22.906-05:00

Anyone listening?

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1152809450302784502006-07-13T12:47:00.000-04:002006-07-13T22:17:10.976-04:00

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

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1152386053477691972006-07-08T14:54:00.000-04:002006-07-08T15:14:13.503-04:00

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" was

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1151854248264399062006-07-02T11:18:00.000-04:002006-07-02T11:30:48.276-04:00

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

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1151171443588250782006-06-24T13:37:00.000-04:002006-06-24T13:50:43.620-04:00

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

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1150924779438706492006-06-21T17:06:00.000-04:002006-06-21T17:19:39.483-04:00

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

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1150761239811894542006-06-19T19:44:00.000-04:002006-06-19T19:53:59.823-04:00

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

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1150559038627752722006-06-17T11:38:00.000-04:002006-06-17T12:13:18.423-04:00

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 advantage

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1150383284658894082006-06-15T10:15:00.000-04:002006-06-15T10:54:44.673-04:00

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 see

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1149734463616524852006-06-07T22:05:00.001-04:002006-06-08T22:23:38.183-04:00

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 "

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1149572304638519932006-06-06T01:37:00.000-04:002006-06-06T01:38:24.653-04:00

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.

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1149133721804028262006-05-31T23:32:00.000-04:002006-06-07T22:26:35.680-04:00

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

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1148972076526404022006-05-30T02:38:00.000-04:002006-05-30T02:54:36.566-04:00

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 (

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1148758756976710582006-05-27T15:14:00.000-04:002006-05-27T15:39:17.000-04:00

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

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1148358905146678582006-05-23T00:18:00.000-04:002006-05-24T01:14:59.920-04:00

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

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1148357824760362942006-05-22T23:51:00.000-04:002006-05-23T00:17:09.500-04:00

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 -

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1147911955733977342006-05-19T23:08:00.000-04:002006-05-20T04:53:59.560-04:00

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.

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1147912521547888972006-05-18T23:57:00.000-04:002006-05-19T16:39:03.020-04:00

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

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1147912052719471722006-05-18T23:51:00.000-04:002006-05-19T02:07:58.450-04:00

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

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1147910912905831352006-05-17T19:52:00.000-04:002006-05-17T22:56:38.860-04:00

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 again

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1147850453954053592006-05-17T00:30:00.001-04:002006-05-17T03:59:36.463-04:00

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 (

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1147642200836833722006-05-14T16:37:00.000-04:002006-05-21T05:03:13.660-04:00

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

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1147594281906371822006-05-14T03:48:00.000-04:002006-05-14T17:11:15.476-04:00

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

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1147333599225428212006-05-10T23:26:00.000-04:002006-05-11T03:46:39.236-04:00

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 Barkley

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1147148560932518072006-05-08T23:56:00.000-04:002006-05-09T00:22:40.950-04:00

Hoooly fucking shit.I don't even care if I lose all credibility for posting a video by a WWE Wrestler. First off, the video is fucking hilarious. Secondly, the song is BANGIN'. I completely forgot how good this video is. Spoofing the A-Team will always go over well here in Casa De Ben, and it's videos like this that can prove that while videos are usually a serious affair (see: Wolf Parade

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1146912571463256712006-05-06T06:21:00.000-04:002006-05-06T06:49:32.796-04:00

Wow. This is easily the best unofficial video I've ever seen, created by Dan Beirne, one of the incredible writers for Said The Gramophone, which consistently features the best writing and most perfect descriptions on any blog on the internet. In fact, "blog" is nearly too silly of a word to do such a wonderful site like theirs justice, but I digress. This video is so perfect, so moving, yet it

Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00396554847123995220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1146864597908020782006-05-05T17:09:00.000-04:002006-05-05T17:33:53.490-04:00

You know, there are days where I really don't like music. I know that sounds weird, but it's usually after DJing, I just don't like listening to anything. I'll usually play video games or something else to pass the time. However, there are some bands that I'm always interested in hearing - this is one of them. Queens of the Stone Age songs are so fucking good - such fucking rock and roll

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1146713151895628392006-05-04T13:50:00.000-04:002006-05-04T15:40:20.546-04:00

Fresh off of the excellent video he directed for JV's "Exodus Damage" (available for download here or below) , Brent Chesanek returns with another great video for "Trance Manual", the second best track on last summer's Pixel Revolt. While the video doesn't immediate lend itself to easy analysis as it's an at-first curious assembly of sights and music, the images prove to fit the sound very well.

Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00396554847123995220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1146705611660969482006-05-03T21:04:00.000-04:002006-05-04T14:14:00.333-04:00

k-os' video library is terrific - "Crabbuckit", "B-Boy Stance", "Love Song", and "Heaven Only Knows" are all beautifully shot videos - but this one, "Man I Used To Be" is his best. With one of the best breakdance sequences I've ever seen, we travel with k-os as he travels through the T-Dot O-Dot. The song itself is one of my favorites, and the video blew me away the first time I saw it. As I said

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1146465073444060982006-05-01T02:17:00.000-04:002006-05-02T03:11:54.336-04:00

Thanks to reader Daniel for pointing out this video to me - wow. Although its a few months old, it's definetly worth posting and definetly worth downloading. Wolf Parade's gorgeous music is accompanied by a truly tremendous music video (directed by Adam Bizanski, who also has directed clips for the Shins), done with stop-motion animation using somewhat-creepy figures and eventually machines that

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1146171567586051662006-04-28T04:36:00.000-04:002006-04-28T03:19:39.203-04:00

This is a truly gorgeous video. With two major "sets", the video drifts between the dream world of animation and the real world (which is quite dreamy). The Josh Deu-directed clip features Monty Python-esque animation that follows each band members on their own little journey. One of the things I really like about the video is that while the video takes you between live-action and animation,

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1146170155231886572006-04-28T04:00:00.000-04:002006-04-28T13:29:16.420-04:00

So a while back (in February), Party Ben (the mash-up genius) mashed-up Madonna's "Hung Up" with Death Cab For Cutie's "Soul Meets Body", creating the dancetastic "Hung Up on Soul". Me, being a film geek and someone who really dug both of those songs decided that making a music video for the mash-up was a good idea. I'm the same guy who also made videos for DJ Mei-Lwun's "You Humped Me All

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1145906712214314712006-04-24T14:47:00.000-04:002006-04-24T17:20:38.356-04:00

So as long as we're on the topic of epic punk/emo, I figure I might as well post Thursday's new video for "Counting 5, 4, 3, 2, 1", the lead single off of their upcoming album, A City Divided By The Light. Directed by high-budget emo video veteran animators Artificial Army, who have worked extensively with The Mars Volta and Coheed and Cambria, Thursday's latest video is the latest in a growing

Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00396554847123995220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1145863166419743652006-04-24T02:15:00.000-04:002006-04-24T15:25:53.560-04:00

Here's the thing: I'm a huge Blink-182 fan. I'm not going to lie about that. I really do love their music - I'm a fan of a lot of the pop punk that's come about in the last ten years, whether it's Blink-182, New Found Glory, Fall Out Boy, Midtown, Brand New, or whatever. I just dig it. Why? Well, part of it is that for the most part, pop punk bands make good videos. They're usually guys who grew

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1145647762375050492006-04-21T15:23:00.000-04:002006-04-22T21:47:53.350-04:00

Like Willy Mason, the artist for whom all four of their music videos have been made, Tim Laursen and Emily Wilder (who together form the Wilder/Laursen production duo) hail from Martha's Vineyard and also like Mason and many of the native islanders, are people of many talents and skill sets. Mason, aside from his self-titled folk project, which has garnered him international acclaim and success (

Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00396554847123995220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1145649537273274872006-04-21T15:21:00.000-04:002006-04-22T17:51:31.670-04:00

So there's this band, "Arctic Monkeys". Not sure if you've heard of them, but I guess they're kind of big in some circles. Their debut album "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" was a decent hit in the UK and I guess they're a bit of a buzz band. Anyhow, they've had a few videos come out, but this is their most recent one - "The View From The Afternoon". I can't honestly remember

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1145510423536644742006-04-20T03:11:00.000-04:002006-04-20T14:19:18.290-04:00

The second half of my 4/20 celebration continues here with the music video portion of my 4/20 extravaganza (the music mix is available over on Good Weather For Airstrikes here). As some of you may know, pretty much the only thing better than listening to music high is watching music videos high (trust me, I've tested this hypothesis countless times). So, too celebrate this theorem, below is the

Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00396554847123995220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1145512449228538522006-04-20T01:42:00.000-04:002006-04-20T02:42:42.193-04:00

Simple in both design and song, "Heavy Sigh" is a very pleasant song - as I've written about on my MP3 blog, their sound is very 1960s-tinged lo-fi sound. It's beautiful music and the video itself is quite simple. It's animated and even seems to be in a bit of a loop, but that's okay - the animation is similar to the style that was used in "Float On" by Modest Mouse in that it's not your

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1145466342458512132006-04-19T12:40:00.000-04:002006-04-19T23:06:55.850-04:00

The first-ever official video from those mysterious Boards of Canada fellows gets their music video career off to a great start, as their hotly-anticipated video for "Dayvan Cowboy", directed by Melissa Olson, is incredible and certainly one of the very best of 2006 so far. "Dayvan Cowboy" is my favorite Boards of Canada song, and it always evokes a strong feeling of exploration for me, and the

Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00396554847123995220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1145375489662258432006-04-18T11:18:00.000-04:002006-04-23T13:48:49.846-04:00

All things considered, "Crazy" is one of the most soulful tracks I've heard in years. It's funny because the recent Cee-Lo album itself was very good and was getting play on my iPod for a long time - but Danger Mouse's production really takes control of the quality of Cee-Lo's work. I have a bit of a confession to make - I thought DM was a flash-in-the-pan. Honestly. I still don't think much of "

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1145335607215350292006-04-17T19:30:00.000-04:002006-04-18T02:57:11.140-04:00

After waiting on pins and needles for months, my eyes were finally graced by the beauty that is Sigur Ros' latest video two weeks ago (I'd meant to stop the presses and post it immediately, but I got caught up in other endeavours). "Saeglopur" marks the first time Sigur Ros, a band who clearly values their music videos and cinema as an art form - as is evident by the extremely high standard all

Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00396554847123995220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1145316033196291782006-04-17T19:03:00.000-04:002006-04-18T00:49:43.473-04:00

One of the best and most overlooked videos of 2005 was Brent Chesanek's beautiful video for John Vanderslice's "Exodus Damage", which was the best song on the man with the best name in indie rock's 2005 release, Pixel Revolt. The video garnered the #34 spot on my Top 65 Videos of 2005 list, and is a beautifully-shot, low-budget masterpiece. Chesanek's stirring clip revolves around a boy walking

Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00396554847123995220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1144966350029230632006-04-13T17:36:00.000-04:002006-04-13T18:16:44.756-04:00

After their horrendous last video for "Use It", the first single off of last year's fantastic Twin Cinema, The New Pornographers return here with their second video off of that album, for "Sing Me Spanish Techno". Gone are the low-budget bumblings of "Use It" in favor of a much more polished, more clever video for "Spanish Techno" starring a drunk A.C. Newman along with Juanita More and Michael

Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00396554847123995220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1144905185220734382006-04-13T00:09:00.000-04:002006-04-18T15:02:18.816-04:00

So this is the first in what will most likely become and ongoing series of cross-promotions with my other site, Good Weather For Airstrikes, in which videos will be posted here in conjunction with mp3s and profiles of the same artist over on GWFAS.First up is The Album Leaf, the blissful electronic project of Jimmy LaValle. You may remember The Album Leaf's "Twentytwofourteen" from the All Things

Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00396554847123995220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1144736137452504592006-04-12T14:05:00.000-04:002006-04-13T01:13:36.160-04:00

I know it seems odd that I would post a videography of one video, but bear with me. Kanye's whole thing with "Jesus Walks" was that he basically shot three videos for it - two by professionals, and the third was shot by Kanye himself, which is easily the least controversial of the three. To this day, "Jesus Walks" is still one of the most powerful, thought-provoking songs I've ever heard. It's

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1144445917549136952006-04-07T16:56:00.000-04:002006-04-07T17:38:37.570-04:00

Franz Ferdinand are back with their latest offering, The Fallen EP, which features two new songs, "L. Wells" and "Jeremy Fraser", the first new material they've released since You Could Have It So Much Better dropped last fall. However, not only is this great news for FF fans, but it's also great news for videophiles like you and I, as the group have not only released a video for "The Fallen",

Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00396554847123995220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1144290740812274902006-04-07T16:29:00.000-04:002006-04-07T16:38:16.046-04:00

MC Lars, hailing from Berkeley, California, is somewhat of an oddity - he's a rapper who thrives on using references to 18th-century Literature, Crunk Rap, Internet Relationships, and the term "iGeneration". He's not exactly Jay-Z in terms of flow, but he's doing things that no one else does as the father of the "Post-Punk Laptop Rap", creating entire albums (mostly his early work) using just his

DJnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777443.post-1144114953998549542006-04-03T21:26:00.000-04:002006-04-03T22:15:12.516-04:00

One of the greatest and most-promising directors in the music video industry right now is Elliot Jokelson, best known for his work with TV On The Radio on "Staring At The Sun" and "Dreams". He also directed Pinback's wonderful video for "Fortress" last year, which garnered the #8 spot on my Top 65 Videos of 2005 list. However, you'd be hard-pressed to find recycled techniques or even any

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In easily one of the most original and entertaining videos in a long time, DJ Format and Keith Schofield (along with MC Abdominal and MC Decisive) present us with what can only be described as a goof on the Dance Dance Revolution craze that's taken the arcade by storm in the last ten years. Schofield put together a truly original video by having the two MCs take part in something called "DJ

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Longwave's "The Strangest Things" album was a highlight of the year 2003. It has the emotional sincerity of Nadasurf's "Let Go" album while retaining pop sensibility. In one of the more original concepts for a video that I can imagine, we join Longwave in their journey on a roller coaster. It's that simple. But what makes the video so fantastic is that it seems that when the coaster is hitting

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While this video came out in September of 2005, I just discovered it. Let me go back to... February 2005 for all of you. It was a cold and snowy here in the Hub of the Universe and I was freezing my nips off waiting outside for the biggest indie rock show in a long time here in Boston. I had a bunch of beers over at a local watering hole near the Roxy (where the show was). Before I was going to

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This is actually the second video for "It's A Hit", the latest single from the trio's debut album, With Love & Squalor, although the first clip was more of a humorous teaser for the main video, and it can be streamed here (Windows Media Player) or here (Real Player). We Are Scientists are one of those bands that's eventually planning to release an entire DVD of music videos, a concept I love that

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The Eagles of Death Metal are what goddamn rock and roll should be. They're loud and classic sounding - as I wrote on my site, "i love the bluesy-rock sound that they absolutely nail perfectly without sounding fake." A lot of their music sounds like classic Rolling Stones in that sense. Now, onto the video. "I Want You So Hard" is freakin' hilarious. The video guest-stars Jack Black and Dave

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So far 2006 has been off to a bit of a slow start as far as great music videos are concerned, but Woof Wan-Bau's newest video for The Duke Spirit's "Cuts Across The Land" is one of the top videos of this or any other year in recent memory. For those of you not familiar with The Duke Spirit, they're a female-fronted power-chord rock group from the UK that possesses a distinct

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IMPORTANT: We decided to switch from Rapidshare to Ezarchive! Now everyone wins! Rejoice!Now that Ben's posted the nearly complete videography of his favorite band, The Streets, I figured I'd follow suit and do the same for my favorite band, Bloc Party. I'd have titled this post "Bloc Party Complete Videography", but I'm missing the orginal low-budget video for "Helicopter", which is an

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IMPORTANT UPDATE: We're using Ezarchive instead of Rapishare now, woooooooo!UPDATE TWO: This is pretty funny. Apparently, The Streets have another video - one that they released today. So, here's another video by The Streets - the Professor Green remix of 'When You Wasn't Famous'. Oh, sweet irony.The Streets, are, if you didn't know, pretty much my favorite music act on the planet. I've

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IMPORTANT UPDATE: So for those of you who were all "Awh nawh, I hate Rapidshare, this site sucks" and immediately left because of our inconvenient hosting system, we've decided to try to use ezarchive for as long as we can, so please come back, we'd like to be friends. Really.DEREK: Welcome one, welcome all, to Videoteque, the first blog on the web devoted exclusively to downloadable (i.e. not

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As I previously reported here, Kanye is releasing/just released his brand new epic of a video for new single "Touch The Sky", which is directed once again by Ye's favorite director, Chris Milk. Milk's previous work includes the excellent videos for "Jesus Walks" and "All Falls Down" (the latter of which is my favorite hip-hop video of all time), as well as Modest Mouse's great 2004 clip for "

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Hey hey. While the song is from 2003, Buck 65's "463" is an example of how to shoot a great video with only one person in front of the camera. The backwoods-hip-hop-meets-Tom-Waits speaksinglyricist's history with baseball is put at the forefront of the video. You see, Buck 65 (real name Richard Terfry) was once a baseball phenom, actually having scouts come and see him pitch back in high school

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Before launching into the body of this post, I'd just like to say that I've had a ridiculously good/crazy week. On Tuesday I got to see the lovely Feist (with Jason Collett) from the front row of UVA's (well actually Charlottesville's) tiny Sattellite Ballroom, which was a great show. But the true highlight of my week came on Thursday when my friend Stephen (who was actually my host when I

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While this month was a relatively good month in terms of music videos, with great contributions from The Boy Least Likely To (I still don't know if that was 2005 or 2006, but whatever), Maximo Park, and Kanye West (though it seems that one will never be released), but it took until the month's final days for us to get a true "video of the month", which will be a new monthly feature considering

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NOTE: It appears the reason this wasn't released was not because they were just waiting for the right time to release it, but rather because Kanye apparently hated it (why?!) and refused to release it. Kanye and director Chris Milk have since teamed up to shoot a video for Kanye's next single, "Touch The Sky", which you can now download at this post. Anyway, below is the original post before I

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For the final single off of their debut album, A Certain Trigger, Maximo Park will be releasing "I Want You To Stay", which is fantastic and all, but I personally would have gone with "Picture of a Postcard". However, that's neither here nor there, as the main point of this post is to bring to your attention the group's new video for the aforementioned new single.Director Ramon Bloomberg directs

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UPDATE: Wow. What a couple days it's been. We topped 20,000 hits on two consecutive days, which isn't exactly a daily occurrence around here, and the mass of people downloading the videos caused ezarchive's servers to crash, which in turn caused them to terminate my membership (see above post for further explanation, excerpts from the letter they sent me, and an actual graph showing the damage I

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The music video archive, which can be accessed at all times from the sidebar on the left, contains a list of both the videos that we've personally uploaded as well as videos that we like (or videos by artists that we like) that are hosted on external servers. The top list are direct link videos hosted on external servers; that is, "right click > save target as" these links to download the videos

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