YouTube Gold: Recommended Viewing For Your Lazy Sunday

Here is the first installment of what will hopefully be a Sunday tradition here on the SG Newswire, a host of odd tidbits and new music videos from the bottomless internet video pit known as YouTube.

1. First up we have a music video from Samuel L. Jackson. WTF, you say? Yep, Samuel L. "Muthafuckin' Snakes" Jackson. It's a promo clip for the soundtrack to Jackson's upcoming film with Christina Ricci, Black Snake Moan, out February 23rd. The plot has been explained like this:
When Rae, a wild child (and former victim of sexual abuse) wakes up after a night of partying, she finds herself in the home of Lazarus, a former blues player. Rae is attached to a 20-foot chain held by the well-intentioned Lazarus who intends to "cure" her of her nymphomania.

Keep that synopsis in mind as you watch the clip of Jackson's take on the often covered "Stack-O-Lee" aka "Stagger Lee" ,"Stagolee", Stackerlee, "Stack O'Lee", and "Stack-a-Lee"

Samuel L. Jackson's "Stack-O-Lee"


2. Long before she collaborated with Britney Spears on an atrocity called Crossroads, Director Tamra Davis made a name for herself directing cool music videos for indie and "alternative" bands like Sonic Youth, Veruca Salt, Beastie Boys (she married Mike D.) and The Lemonheads. Here's a cool short film she did for the 1994 AIDS-benefit home video No Alternative. Try to not get too distracted by Kathleen Hanna's Ski mask.

Tamra Davis's 1994 documentary short, No Alternative Girls
featuring Kim Gordon, Yoshimi, Courtney Love, Kathleen Hanna, Luscious Jackson and Huggy Bear.


3. The brand new video from the ever under-rated Scottish band Idlewild. Their new album , Make Another World, is released on March 5th. Read the SG Newswire review here.

Idlewild's "No Emotion"


4. Bat For Lashes is the non-de plume for Brighton-based multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Natasha Khan (read more about her here). Here is an oddly "fun" live version of her recent single "Trophy."

Bat For Lashes Performing "Trophy"


5. This track here by London outfit Spektrum is a current dance floor favorite at respectable clubs everywhere. The video shows Spektrum's grooves inducing mad indulgence in several fetishes, which include the use of pastries and Post-It's. Read the SG Newswire review of their recent Fun At The Gymkhana Club album here.

Spektrum's "Don't Be Shy"


6. Most SG Newswire readers are well aware at this point of The Arcade Fire's soon-to-be-released sophomore album, Neon Bible. Here's a clip of the band performing the inspired and reworked version of "No Cars Go" that will be included on the forthcoming disc. The original version appears on the band's debut EP.

The Arcade Fire's "No Cars Go"


7. The recent and creepily cool video for "9 Crimes" by total-downer singer/ songwriter Damien Rice. The video features a severed singing head, played by Rice's frequent collaborator Lisa Hannigan. It reminded me of this Tori Amos video, which is even creepier.

Damien Rice's "9 Crimes"


This Week's YouTube Gold:
8. Sorting through YouTube videos can sometime be like digging through used record store bins and scoring your own brand of gold. I discovered the cira-1980's British all-female New Wave group, Fuzzbox, many moons ago and their 1986 debut album, We've got a Fuzzbox...And We're Going to Use It, still gets regular rotations from me all these years later. The awesome proto-grrrl single from that album, "Love is A Slug," makes nearly every mix CD I make and is a "must" for every party playlist. The video is so ridiculously "'80's," you can almost smell the hairspray fumes.

Fuzzbox "Love Is A Slug"

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