[youtube T62302eK_-4]Okay, so this isn’t really a legitimate music video, it’s a youtube mash-up, but I think it’s hilarious. Hall and Oates’ ‘Maneater’ synched up to a series of Danzig videos. The guy that edited this did a pretty solid job, too bad Danzig never had a saxophone player.
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[youtube ZkRxoaKKftg] This is a pretty classic metal video. Lemmy drives through the living room wall in a motorcycle to pick up the teenage daughter and then rides off into the night. The police try to kill him but he is immortal. What more do you want from a Motorhead video?
[youtube yP8QhblSkRI] Morphine has become somewhat of a legend since mysterious frontman Mark Sandman died onstage at a relatively early age in 1999. They have been dubbed with creating ‘low rock’, but really what they did as a band is make jazz more accessible to a general audience; specifically garnering high marks with the independent/alternative rock community of the 90s. Although their music sounds nothing like most of the 90s alternative rock, they were more closely followed by the alt-rockers than the jazz fans.
’Buena’ is the first song from their second album, 1993’s ‘Cure for Pain’. It is a good example of their unique sound, featuring Mark Sandman playing slide-bass, Dana Colley on sax and Jerome Deupree on drums.
[youtube -j39ABZyzek]This is a classic Metallica video from the ‘. . . And Justice For All’ album from 1988. Kirk Hammett’s solo from this song has since become infamous. This is the studio version of ‘One’ but it is chopped up with scenes from the film ‘Johnny Got His Gun’, a story about a soldier who comes back from war deaf, dumb, blind and missing his limbs. The film and book it was based upon were major influences for the song.
Metallica has a new album coming out soon called ‘Death Magnetic’; I’ve heard the singles they released called ‘Cyanide’ and ‘All Nightmare Long’ and I’m not impressed.
[youtube VBsbCMIyG6E] No Quarter is my favorite Led Zeppelin song by far. It was on their fifth album Houses of the Holy, which is considered by many to be the last great Led Zep album; or at least the end of the ‘classic’ era of Led Zeppelin. I like this transitional period best because I think they showed the most emotion and just the right amount of expirimentation here. The riffs in this song are pretty hautning and I think this song was the pinnacle of Jimmy Page’s career as a guitarist. This is a live video from 1973 and you can tell by the amazing ad-libbing that this is a band that really knows how to play together. They seem to use the original composition as a blueprint, particularly vocalist Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page.
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Dread Zeppelin is a Led Zeppelin cover band that features a reggae band and an Elvis Presley impersonator for a lead singer. Apparently they’ve been doing this for about 20 years. This is the music video for their version of ‘Heartbreaker’, which also seems to be mixed with the Elvis song, ‘Heartbreak Hotel.’ I was pretty impressed that the guitar player was able to get the solo down (you can even hear the bass following along) and all in all it’s a pretty entertaining cover.
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While the music itself doesn’t really appeal to me, this is a really amazing concept for a music video. The music sounds like a studio-fabricated attempt at imitating some 80s pop rock (maybe Cheap Trick or the Cars?) The entire concept of the video with the treadmills is really interesting though, and the band must have put some serious work and rehearsal into coordinating it. I also imagine lots of fuck-ups and bruises were also involved.
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King Crimson is a classic English progressive rock band that gained momentum in the late 60s and early 70s, with a similar sound to their contemporaries Pink Floyd. It’s a wonder that King Crimson did not experience the same kind of mainstream success as Pink Floyd and I attribute it to a couple of different possibilities:
-The mid 70’s, after Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ came out was really the big boom for progressive rock; King Crimson was broken up in between 1972 and 1981 so they could not capitalize on this period when their style of music became very popular.
-King Crimson’s music is a lot more expiremental and complex than Pink Floyd’s; this makes them less accessible.
Whatever the reasons may be, I think King Crimson are often overlooked and are, in my opinion, one of the most interesting rock bands of all time. They are extremely prolific, with 13 studio albums and literally dozens of live albums released over the years. They are probably most well-known for their live performances; they are a very performance-oriented band and never play a song the same way twice.
This live video, shot in Belgium in 1972, shows their talent for improvisation. Performing the instrumental ‘Lark’s Tongues in Aspic pt. 1′ which would later be released on their 1973 album ‘Lark’s Tonges in Aspic’, this line-up features guitar legend Robert Fripp, John Wetton on bass, David Cross on violin, Jamie Muir on percussion and Bill Bruford, quite possibly the best rock drummer of all time. I think having two percussionists definitely adds a lot of depth to this performance.
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Although They Might Be Giants only achieved mainstream success with their 1990 album ‘Flood’ with songs like ‘Birdhouse In Your Soul’ and ‘Particle Man’, they have actually been around since the mid-80s and continue to make records today. ‘Don’t Let’s Start’ is from their first self-titled record as a two-piece, comprised of John Flansburgh and John Linnell.
I like this video a lot, I think it really shows the strange and goofy sense of humor and approach to music that has made this duo a cult legend. In more recent years they have hit commercial success again making children’s music.
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Pink Floyd did not become world famous as a progressive rock band until 1974’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’, but they were experimenting with new sounds long before then, and ‘One of These Days’ from the 1971 album ‘Meddle’ is a great example.
The focus of the video, and arguable the focus of the song, is Nick Mason’s drumming. The track is an instrumental, with the only vocals being a modified recording of Nick Mason stating ‘One of These days I’m Going to Chop You Into Little Pieces.’
David Gilmour and Roger Waters both played the bass on this song and Richard Wright’s keyboards really create a unique atmosphere of sound.
