CAGE THE ELEPHANT - "No Rest For The Wicked" - REGGAE VERSION

OK, this kicks complete ass:



doesn't it?

WALL OF VOODOO - "Back In Flesh"

Is time to go?



NONONONO!

SIOUXSIE - "Peek-A-Boo"

I always forget how many young people have never seen these building blocks of music:



This one goes out to all the people on Earth who were born after this aired.

MC5 - "Kick Out The Jams"

Holy crap, another great one:

MC5 - Kick Out The Jams - My Beat Club Video from my-beatclub

Well all RIGHT!

THE RAMONES - "Pinhead"

Holy crap, I never saw this version:

Ramones - Pinhead - My Beat Club
Live At Musikladen!

Video from my-beatclub

The boys sure can rock out, eh?

The best Joy Division cover ever in the entire universe

Is this one:


Too damn cool.

JOY DIVISION - "Shadowplay"

This one goes out to Bob:



And is probably my favorite.

999 - "Homicide"

I never thought I'd find the video for this song since YouTube began to suck so hard:

999 - Homicide (78)
Uploaded by BadBoy88. - Explore more music videos.

So I've gone further afield!

Yaeyuh.
-

B-52s - "Dance This Mess Around"

A surreal classic:



Plum loco.

MAGAZINE - "Motorcade"

Another great song from one of my favorite bands.


Just listen to that baseline...

R.I.P. Lux Interior

Just tear it up:



Those pants! My eyes! I can't look away!

TEMPTATIONS - "Papa Was a Rolling Stone"

What can I add to this one?



Absolutely nothing.

BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE - Medicine Show (Live)

A favorite song, post Clash:



Get three coffins ready.

KERMIT THE FROG - "Hurt"

Just so...



painful.

DAVID BOWIE - "Five Years" (Live 1972)

Quite possible my favorite Bowie song:



but the whole RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS album pretty much kicks ass.

GREG HAWKES & TIM MANN (NEW CARS) - "Moving In Stereo"

Greatest version of this song EVER! On ukulele!



HERE'S the clean version.

And HERE's the NEW CARS' website.

RAMONES - "Time Has Come Today"

Absolutely the best Ramones video:



The church of Joey Ramone.

DEE LITE - "Groove is in the Heart"

If you don't like this one



you have absolutely no soul. Even Satan don't want you.

As my friend J-P sez, any vid with Bootsy is ACES!

MAGAZINE - "The Light Pours Out of Me"

I want this song played at my funeral:



And does that bassist have my sister's sweater on?

HIVES - "Tick Tick"

OK, this is just one huge ass-kicking song and video:



And HERE is the better version than that YouTube crap.

I really dig the Hives.

MODEST MOUSE - "Invisible"

You're not invisible inside your car
No matter what stupid sort of mission you're on

And here's a great version of this video.

Just great.

WHITE STRIPES - "Fell In Love With A Girl"

Another true classic, directed by Michael Gondry:



Best use of LEGO™ ever.

WHITE STRIPES- "The Hardest Button To Button"

In case you missed it:



Classic Michael Gondry vid.

CAB CALLOWAY - Reefer Man

Wonder how much a dime bag was going for back then...



By the way, that was a trick question. What, are you high?

CRAMPS - "Surfin' Bird"

Just turn this up:



Ooo maw maw ooo maw maw.

ECHO & the BUNNYMEN- "The Killing Moon"

This song always makes me feel incredibly sad:



Still does.

KEITH MOON - "Barbara Ann"

Holy smokes!



Strange times, eh?

TINY TIM - "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?"

No.



I think you're really really weird.

CLICK HERE to bask in a better version of this freak.

DAVID BOWIE - "Drive-In Saturday"

He emerged even MORE glamorous.



Best line: "His name is always BUDDY!" as only Bowie can sing it!

DAVID BELLE does some amazing parkour

Behold:



What is parkour? CLICK HERE!

ETHEL SMITH - "Tico Tico" and more

This woman really knows her way around a Hammond Organ:



Obviously the current generation doesn't have a lock on "cool"...

EARTHA KITT - "I Want to be Evil"

Thanks to NOHANDSMOM for this one:



Absolutely wonderful.

FUTURESHOCK - "Late at Night"

Sometimes it seems like this late at night:



HERE's" a bit better version.

LOUIS ARMSTRONG - "Paris Blues"

Every time I see this, I smile:



Louis Armstrong is one of the few people I would have actually like to have met.

ARCTIC MONKEYS - "Teddy Picker"

Nice.



Nicer.

THE RUNAWAYS - "Cherry Bomb"

*GULP*



*kaff*

Gotta get some air...

Chaiyya Chaiyya

Gotta love that Bollywood!



That has to be my favorite "dancing on top of a train" sequence EVER. I wonder how many dancers were lost in the filming of that movie...

WALL OF VOODOO - "Back In Flesh"

Stan Ridgeway is a god among men:



I don't wanna go.
He won't go.

The NATIONAL - "Apartment Story"

I thought this one was just beautifully choreographed to look effortless. Check it out:



Though as a friend asked "Do you know how hard it is to get actors to look like they're just chatting like normal people?"

HERE is the nice version... well worth watching this one.

DANIELSON - "Did I Step On Your Trumpet?"

This video is just completely awesome... I love the whole "high school play" look of the sets and the props, and they really have things timed perfectly for all the rapid changes:



HERE is a cleaner version!

JIM CARROL - "People Who Died"

Great great song...



I lost this album (Catholic Boys) long ago sadly. It's like it died died.

SEX PISTOLS (Sid Vicious) - "My Way"

Just in case you've never seen this... bask in the glory that is SID:



I'll never forget seeing this for the first time... I had never seen anything like it and was TRANSFORMED.

FRANZ FERDINAND - "Do Ya Want To?"

I found this video quite a while ago and thought it was great, plus it was my first introduction to Franz Ferdinand:



Whoops! All the vids on YouTube have "embedding disabled by request"... whatevuh, rockstars.

So HERE'S the place to watch this!

TOM WAITS - "I Don't Want To Grow Up"

HOLY SHIT! I never knew that the Ramones were covering this Tom Waits song:



But I have the strangest feeling that I knew that once and I killed that memory with scotch or something...

WE ARE WOLVES - "Fight and Kiss"

Yikes!



Sometimes I feel like I'm moving under water...

NICK CAVE - "Stagger Lee"

This is one of the most frighteningly grim songs I have ever heard, and his album "Murder Ballads" is chock full of grim weirdness:



HOLY SHIT, THAT'S IT FOR ME, NO MORE DRUNKEN NIGHTS AT SOME FUCKING ROADHOUSE.

MAGAZINE - "Motorcade"

For old time's sake:



I never seem to get enough Magazine.

THE WHO - "My Generation" on the Smothers Brother's show

Keith Moon blow up real good:



Smash host's guitar.

NICK CAVE - "Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow"

I am surprised that I never posted this one:



RAISE YOUR HANDS UP UNTO THE SKY!

JUDAS - "Heaven On Their Minds"

I remember being struck dumb upon seeing this movie in our Junior High Scool music class, having absolutely no religious background...



I always liked Judas and felt bad for him.

PETER MURPHY, TRENT REZNOR, TV ON THE RADIO - "Bela Lugosi Is Dead"

The bats have left the belltower.

DAVID BOWIE - "Heroes"

Nothing left to say:



Thanks, NOHANDSMOM, that was completely awesome. Sometimes I swim like dolphins they swim. We can be heroes just for one day.

LYKKE LI "I'm Good, I'm Gone", live

This is pretty damn amazing:



Isn't it?

THE HIVES - "Hate to Say I Told You So"

But it's alright:



Because I wanna.

LENINGRAD COWBOYS + the RED ARMY CHOIR - "Sweet Home Alabama"

Seriously:



That has to be one of the signs of the Apocalypse.

YARDBIRDS - "For Your Love"

I give you everything and more and that's for sure:



I used to put this song on every damn mixtape I made...

YARDBIRDS - "Heart Full of Soul"

Page, Beck:



Clapton?

JACK NICHOLSON - Easy Rider

Here's the first of the day, fellahs.



To old D.H. Lawrence!

THE CLASH - "Magnificent Seven" - live on the Tom Snyder show 1981

Classic TV:



*sigh* Saw this live.

"HOWARD BEALE - The Mad Prophet of the Airways" clip from the movie NETWORK!

Indeed.



Hard to believe this movie was out in 1976... and the book written even earlier. Eyes open, folks!

PHILLIP ROEBUCK - "Little Bo Peep"

Best. Banjo. EVER!



And HERE's the nice pretty version.