Choreography edition.
Fatboy Slim - Praise You
Old School.
Gary Jules - Mad World
New School.
OK Go - A Million Ways
After School.
Feist - 1 2 3 4
Art School.
Tags: choreography, fatboy-slim, Favorite Video Friday, feist, gary-jules, Music-Videos, ok-go, spike-jonze
This Week I’m going to share some videos that feature the great MC, Fat Lip. Coincidentally, they are all also directed by Spike Jonze. What can I say, the man’s a genius.
The Pharcyde - Drop
The Pharcyde is the group which gave Fat Lip his start. He later got into some drugs and left the group, disappearing for a while, but early Pharcyde is some of the best Hip Hop you’ll hear. For this video, each member learned his part in reverse, then rapped in reverse for the video, which was then reversed, thus reversing the reversal, which made their mouths match up, but the rest of the video in reverse. Genius.
Fat Lip - What’s up Fat Lip?
Spike Jonze set out to find out what happened to Fat Lip after he left Pharcyde and make a documentary about it. They decided to make a video along the way. The documentary is great, it’s on his Director’s Label DVD, check it out sometime. I have it if you want to borrow it. Someday I’ll buy the rest of that set.
Ludacris - Get Back
(Warning: Harsh Language)
Sorry, I tried to find a clean version to appease the masses, but to no avail. This video only features Fat Lip at the very beginning, and he’s not rapping, but the video’s great and I thought it fit well here.
Tags: directors-label, fat-lip, Favorite Video Friday, hip-hop, ludacris, Music-Videos, Pharcyde, Reverse, spike-jonze
Well, it’s not technically Friday, but I’m keeping the title for the sake of alliteration. This week I’m going to tribute the videos of The White Stripes. Say what you want about them, but Jack White is an amazing musician and whether you like the music or not, their videos are always amazing. Michel Gondry did most of them. He is a music video god. They started off with the classic “Lego” video, but everyone’s seen that and they’ve raised the bar so much higher with each video that it seems silly to post that here, so here you go, my 3 favorite White Stripes videos:
Hardest Button to Button
Simple, contagious, and even parodied by The Simpsons. Gondry epitomizes the White Stripes in this video.
The Denial Twist
White Stripes + Conan O’Brien + Wacky 2D + Michel Gondry = Video Gold.
Seven Nation Army
This video is hypnotic. It’s not directed by Gondry, but it is my favorite song by the White Stripes. Love that beat and the guitar riff just infects you. If you like the song and you don’t hate music, check out Audioslave’s cover. It doesn’t get any better.
I could stare at the images in this video for hours on end. It’s like a kaleidoscope. I miss kaleidoscopes. Those were simpler times.
Tags: audioslave, conan-obrien, Favorite Video Friday, jack-white, lego, michel-gondry, Music-Videos, simpsons, white-stripes
I’ve been trying to find a way to keep myself posting regularly and I think I may have found it. Inspired by the posts and links of many friends, I have decided to dedicate every Friday to some of my favorite music videos of all time. You’re going to see a lot of Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry directed videos on here, mostly because they’re geniuses and every song they touch becomes music video gold, but I’ll try to mix it up a little week to week.
This week, I decided to cover my all time most favoritest music videos in the history of time, space, and music videodom across the universe.
Beastie Boys - Sabotoge
This is my all time favorite video, directed by my all time favorite music video director, Spike Jonze. Some day, I’m going to pick out my ‘fro, hop in the Falcon, grab my camera, and reenact this video on the streets of New York. Who’s with me?
Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice
Spike Jonze, Christopher Walken, and Fatboy Slim. What more can you ask for in a video?
Michael Jackson - Thriller
This is the video that put music videos on the map, and in turn, MTV. Now if only they’d remember that and quit airing rerun after rerun of my Super Sweet Sixteen. Seriously, those girls make me want to stab all the Pegasuses (Pegasi?) that I wished for with my Genie through the throat with a unicorn horn then go out drinking with my washed up leprechaun reality star buddy and end up chasing luck dragons headfirst into dumpsters. Those were the days… What? Where am I?
Tags: beastie-boys, christopher-walken, fatboy-slim, Favorite Video Friday, genie, michael-jakson, michel-gondry, Music-Videos, spike-jonze
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