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Monday Morning Music Videos: Good Weather for an Airstrike’s Top 65 (!)

Monday, January 23, 2006

Today’s MMMV will be hosted (unbeknownst to them) by the recently controversial folks over at Good Weather for an Airstrike, who, through posting a good portion of their top 65 videos of 2005 with EZArchive, caused the server to crash and their subscription to be terminated. Don’t hate, though–they’ve left us with a magnificent [...]

Top 20 Videos 2005

Monday, December 12, 2005

Yeah, I know, another list. This one was a lot easier to compile (especially the top 10) than the albums list. It was a decent year for videos overall (and for David Cross, who appears in 1/3 of them), one in which Gondry held serve for me as the G.O.A.T., Spoon showed that they still [...]

Monday Morning Music Videos

Monday, November 28, 2005

There’s no better way to start off a week, my mother used to say, than with some lifelike dismembered limbs contrasted starkly against crude computer animation. That, and a hearty stack of pancakes. Mmmm…pancakes. The video is for Xiu Xiu’s “Muppetface” (mov), and it’s easily one of the most memorable I’ve seen this year. It’s [...]

Monday Morning Music Videos

Monday, November 7, 2005

Devendra Banhart’s new record Cripple Crow is fantastic–unfortunately, the same cannot be said for his new video for the great song “Heard Somebody Say” (.mov). It’s not bad–far from it–but I suppose I expected much more bizarre rural chicanery, and got bizarre urban chicanery instead. It’s polished, but amateurish at the same time. And I’m [...]