COCOROSIE - "Noah's Ark"

I'm almost embarrassed to admit I like this one... silky melodies and incredible vocals/weirdass vocals - if you like that kind of stuff.



HERE'S a higher res version that always seems to lock up my computer unless I let it load for almost a minute. Proceed at your own risk.

KILLS - "Good Ones"

I really liked this one... I've had nights like this in clubs back in the old days.



Unfortunately I cant find a cleaner version, as the old one was taken down. Grr.

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - "Tribulations"

I find myself enjoying this video on a complete AV nerd level... lots of basic camera tricks in this one make for a top-notch package.



Here it is in a much cleaner .mov format.

I'll be coming back to this band again.

INTERPOL - "EVIL"

This was also one of the first songs I discovered on the internet via a cool video. I really dislike puppets/mannequins/ventriloquist dummies, sales clerks etc., and this vid has an almost lifelike puppet as it's protagonist. The song is suitably haunting and weird as only INTERPOL can be:



Yeesh, my skin's crawling.

ROYSKOPP - "What Else Is There?"

This one is very compelling, and Scandinavians are weird as all get out:



Makes me want to float.

Here's a nice version in .ram format.

STEPHEN MALKMUS - "Baby C'mon"

This one is just plain cool. Very trippy photograph jumps, plus a damn monster!



Better quality version HERE.

APHEX TWIN - "Rubber Johnny"

This one scared the shit out of me when I first found it, and it scares the shit out of me right now:



Better quality version found HERE.

JASON FORREST - "War Photographer"

Here is perhaps the greatest animated music video ever made... JASON FORREST's "War Photographer":



Apparently this was created by a fan, and then adopted as the official video. It really adds entire levels of cool to the rather pedestrian song... it's kind of like how a metal-head teenager would imagine what the song is about while lying on his bed with his headphones on in the middle of the night, stoned to the gills. Not that I'd know anything about that.

And Vikings are always cool.

For a somewhat better version, here it is in .mov format.

THE ROBOCOP KRAUSE - "You Don't Have To Shout"

One of my all-time favorite videos, and one of the earliest that I found by just stumbling around on the web. THE ROBOCOP KRAUSE'S "You Don't Have To Shout" has that certain undefinable something that gets my feet tapping... one half TALKING HEADS, one half German exchange student, one half goofy visual puns, and a 1970's era Olympic gymnast... what's not to like? Oh, and HERE'S a link to a few other ROBOCOP KRAUSE songs. "In Fact You're Just Fiction" is especially enjoyable. There's not a whole lot of info on the web about them and my rather cursory search turned up no MySpace page. Anyway, who cares, just go listen.

Let's get this thing started

What is this site for? Well, I wanted to have a blog where I could go and dump all the cool music videos I've found in my web travels to keep them all in one easy-to-reference place, so here we are. I really like the combination of music and film... it's like coming at something from two creative angles. I was there for the birth of MTV, and I'm still hooked on the concept, even though I have to go to the internet to feed my hunger. Thank goodness for that, ain't? I also wanted to loosen up a bit and be able to post some weirder things, with perhaps a liberal dose (HA!) of politics, and write some stuff without making sure I'm keeping my language and subject matter all nicey-nicey, like I have to do at the work-related blog that I maintain daily. You won't see graphic photos of pigfucking, but I might use the word "pigfucker". You just never know.