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rushthatspeaks linked me to the video for Lorde's "Tennis Court," which started me thinking about music videos. Generally speaking, I haven't seen very many; they're not how I discover music. I'll watch them if recommended, but I don't tend to seek them out on my own. There are exceptions: I watched the video for the Pet Shop Boys' "It's a Sin" (1987) because it was directed by Derek Jarman and Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice" (2001) because of Christopher Walken dancing. I've seen a lot of Nine Inch Nails and Tori Amos and all the Dresden Dolls that existed the last time I checked around 2008 or so. (Also some fan-made videos I remember with fondness, although I doubt I could find them again if I looked. Actually, this was one.) Because they come around on the internet or because people I trust sit me down and show them to me, I know I've seen more than I can recollect off the top of my head. But when I thought of putting together a post of some of my favorites, I started drawing blanks. I like Kate Bush's "Experiment IV" (1986), but I like the song by itself much more. Jill Tracy's "The Fine Art of Poisoning" (2003) was created as a short film after the fact. Trying to compile some really striking examples, I feel like I'm left with an unsatisfying and not particularly representative set:The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, "Wuthering Heights" (unknown—anyone?)
Kate Bush, "Hounds of Love" (1986)
PJ Harvey, "Man-Size" (1993)
16 Horsepower, "Black Soul Choir" (1996)
Orbital, "The Box" (1996)
Hole, "Celebrity Skin" (1998)
Rob Zombie, "Living Dead Girl" (1999)
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling, "Episode 1: Arrival" (2011)
Amanda Palmer, "Want It Back" (2012)
The Magnetic Fields, "Andrew in Drag" (2012)
The Pack a.d., "Sirens" (2012) and "Positronic"
David Bowie, "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)" (2013)
What's all the rest I'm missing? I don't even mean classics of the genre, just weird things with music you like.
rushthatspeaks, what was that beautiful one covered in blood?
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Lucky! I don't think they've toured anywhere I could see them since I learned of their existence.
Sleep well.
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Which is honestly probably my favorite vampire movie, and answers the question of just what, exactly, one has to do to get censored by French television. Also, Farmer is a very good actress. Also, wow, now I have watched this another four times, because it doesn't stop being that good. Or that hot.
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THAT'S IT.
I love you so much.
Yes. Yes, it is.
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There have been some videos that I've liked so much that I've gotten the songs... and then sometimes the song on its own has ended up being something I didn't love quite so much--it's really the video that I've loved, as with "Atlas Hands." I *like* the song--but I *love* the video, and will one day write up the story behind it.
A video I really like--which you do know, I believe--that goes with a song I also really like, is "I Say Fever." That's one where I came to the song through the video, loved the video, and loved the song equally or better.
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I can see why; that's an incredibly striking video. I would love to read the story you write from it.
A video I really like--which you do know, I believe--that goes with a song I also really like, is "I Say Fever."
Yes! That one was gonzo. And worked its way into Gemma's A Rope of Thorns (2011), I remember.
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Yes; that's why it was the music for this post. I watched it over a couple of times. I almost included it. But it's not a favorite video of mine so much as I love the song, although I saw it for the first time enough after reading Caitlín R. Kiernan's fiction that I had a hard time not thinking of it as a fanvid for Tales of Pain and Wonder (2000). I didn't include Tori Amos' "Past the Mission" (1994) either, although it's my favorite of her music videos I've seen—I like it a lot, but it doesn't grip me in the necessary weird way.
past the mission
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I haven't read Kiernan's Tales, but Sisters was a fixture up here when, in college, I used to visit Mia Cara Sposa; one of the few I can still listen to without cringing. I've assembled a few videos (http://barry-king.livejournal.com/208898.html) that you might find interesting in their oddness and obscurity. Hope you like!
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You mean do I start with protagonists? I am not sure how to answer that; I don't tend to start with plots so much as scenes or situations, and always with words. It doesn't matter if I know what happens if I don't have the right language in which to tell it. I've had stories start from nothing more than images.
I do prefer videos that are stories, although they don't need to be plot-driven. This afternoon
I've assembled a few videos that you might find interesting in their oddness and obscurity. Hope you like!
Thank you! I shall check them out in the morning!
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I had never seen that!
Thank you.
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I think it is actually good. The interaction of the black-and-white charcoal rotoscoping (constantly in motion) and the live-action is very well done. I especially like the ending, flickering back and forth between states; breaking the fourth wall.
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There is not an exact correlation between the mainstream influence of a music video and the dwindling probability that I've seen it, but chances are better than not that I haven't. I have very distinct memories of the Cranberries' "Zombie" (1994), but that's because it was playing at a friend's house after school; I never watched MTV or VH1 on my own time. (I've had the song on my computer since college, but I just rewatched the video for the first time in almost twenty years. That is an incredibly weird thing to be able to say. I remembered the cuts between black-and-white and altar-gold and the children's mouths opening in their silent, blind-eyed scream.) I saw Johnny Cash's "Hurt" (2003) because my mother considers it—correctly—the definitive version of the song.
[edited for aargh, punctuation]
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I didn't see Johnny Cash's "Hurt" until last year (or maybe year before? I lose track of time), but yeah, wow. That is a killer song and a beautiful video.
Next I need to click on the covered-in-blood one that Rush-that-speaks reminded you about...
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I'm not offended. I'm just much more likely to have seen videos that went around the internet three years ago than played everywhere on TV in the '90's.
Next I need to click on the covered-in-blood one that Rush-that-speaks reminded you about...
It's the best short film about vampires I've ever seen.
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I'd seen the Chemical Brothers and Björk, but not the other two! I can see that "Come into My World" would have been ridiculous to stage even with all the digital composition, but I really like "Sugar Water."
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That hair is competitive with the Leningrad Cowboys. I don't say that about just anyone. Or almost anyone.
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I do not disagree with this statement. Why does the movie not exist yet?
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