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I’M ON FIRE by Bruce Springsteen
Music videos typically feature a rock band (a) in concert, (b) playing their instruments in some kind of industrial warehouse or (c) smoking cigarettes and wearing tight jeans as they stroll through...
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SAME LOVE by Macklemore
My friend Max (short for Maxima, though if it were short for Maximus that would also be cool in a GLADIATOR way) has introduced me to Macklemore. He’s a Seattle rapper famous for the THRIFT STORE song...
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DO YOU DREAM IN COLOR? by Bill Nelson is a complete trip
My freshman year of college, I had an 8 a.m. class on Fridays called “Concepts of the Self.” I shouldn’t have to tell you this is prime time for a hangover, and if I do, well you’re a better person...
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Italian singer creates masterpiece of nuttiness
The singer is Italian, yet he’s not singing in Italian or French or anything else. He’s purposefully doing this song in pseudo-English, and it sure does sound like English, except the words just aren’t...
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BARBIE GIRL by Aqua may be the worst video ever
Though the competition is fierce, I do believe we have one of the strongest contenders ever. ### Guy – Photo by Suhyoon Cho Reformed journalist. Scribbler of speeches and whatnot. Wrote a thriller that...
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DANNY BOY by Sinead O’Connor
Sometimes, you don’t need instruments at all. This is a lost gem, a beautiful little piece of musical history. Related posts: Music Video Monday’s Greatest Hits Insane music video + lyrics – EXCELLENT...
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DON’T YOU WANT ME by The Human League
This is one of the first music videos to feature some sort of story. You know, a plot instead of (a) the lead singer emoting into the microphone while (b) the rest of the band pretends to play their...
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HANDLEBARS by Flobots deserves some kind of award
I’ll happily write about a music video if the lyrics are interesting, if the song is great — or the music video tells a story. Gentle readers, we have hit the trifecta. These lyrics are interesting,...
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Music video madness: HURRICANE by MS MR
Most of the time, it takes a bit for a song to grow on you. Listen to it once on the radio and yeah, that’s alright. Second time, it’s good. Third time, you’re into it. I liked this song — and this...
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RED HANDS by Walk Off the Earth is music video goodness
So I heard this song on the radio about 5,092 gazillion times, and still liked it, and wondered, “Who’s singing a duet with the lead singer of Aerosmith, who has to be 94 years old by now?” But it’s...
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Walk Off the Earth blows up GRENADE by Bruno Mars
So I’ve found this genius band from the big honking nation known as Canada — which has provinces where you could fit Texas and Alaska inside and still have room for most European counties — and while...
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Another musical invasion from the UK: Jessie Ware’s WILDEST MOMENTS
So this Jessie Ware, if you haven’t heard of her, is talented and different and old school mates with some singer named Adele and some other singer named Florence, as in Florence and the Machine. If...
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Let Jessie Ware turn out your NIGHT LIGHT
Jessie the Ware is British and therefore can make things like “That’s all kinds of rubbish” sound incredibly smart and cultured. I believe, deep in my soul, that everyone should be required to pick...
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CAMERA ONE by the Josh Joplin Group
The great thing about the Series of Tubes is this: say you hear a song on the radio, or lived back in the day when MTV played, I don’t know, music videos instead of stupid reality shows involving...
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ICE, ICE BABY as sung by the movies
Oh, this is brilliant. The classic ’90s song by Vanilla Ice, as sung by clips from various movies. For fans of this song, I took the original and put it under the lyrical microscope, line by line: ICE,...
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DESERT ROSE by Sting
No matter what you think of Sting — and you should think VERY WELL of him — he’s never boring. This video is part travelogue, part concert-montage. And it has yet to bore me. Related posts: Music Video...
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CLARITY by Zedd is ambitious and good
Music videos are common, and have been done so many time, it’s hard to do anything truly different or interesting. The Beastie Boys played cheesy cops with giant mustaches in SABOTAGE, which is...
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A random duet turns out to be awesomesauce
Kristin Chenoweth likes to do something few performers dare: grab somebody random from the audience and perform a duet. This can be funny, or so bad it’s good, like karaoke writ large with a big pop...
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THE FOX by Ylvis is pure nutty goodness
When is something so bad that it circles back to good? Well, here’s one example: THE FOX by Norwegian duo Ylvis. The melody sounds like late ’80s emo from Savage Garden, with lyrics set down after...
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WE ARE BROTHERS by Baddy Paris and Rufus Starlight is pure brilliance
As a child of the ’80s, I grew up watching music videos. You know back when MTV played them instead of reality shows involving people who get drunk a lot and are really into self-tanning. This music...
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