OK so its time for eleven of my favourite YouTube videos. You may want to watch these quickly as lately numerous music videos seem to have been removed from YouTube due to the diligent efforts of the music industry's corporate lawyers.
1. The following absolutely phenomenal piece features the video from Mylene Farmer's "Sans Logique" overlaid with the music of "Persephone" by Dead Can Dance.
2. "Tonight Tonight" by The Smashing Pumpkins.
3. For our next selection, we have the video to "Karmacoma" by Bristolian trip-hop pioneers, Massive Attack. This surreal video appears to consist of a pastiche of scenes from various films (spot the reference to Kubrick's "The Shining"). Although many of the scenes in the video remind me of films I've seen, I can't recall which specific films. Overall the video feels like something you'd expect from the half-mad, bastard child of David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino.
4. Rob Zombie's Caligariesque video to "Living Dead Girl".
5. "Psychonaut" by Fields Of The Nephilim, a video concerning the use of ritual asphyxiation as a path to gnosis. The title of the song is probably inspired by Peter Carroll's classic introduction to Chaos Magic.
6. "Zombie" by The Cranberries; a song written as a protest against the activities of paramilitary groups from Northern Ireland. Time to throw off our mind-forged manacles?
7. A little something from the world of advertising; the Metz "Judderman" advert which is inspired by Lewis Carroll"s poem, "Jabberwocky".
8. Forget about Peter Parker, here's the real Spiderman; "Lullaby" by The Cure.
9. "Blue Orchid" by The White Stripes. There are many ways to interpret the imagery in this video and you could write reams of stuff about Moses turning sticks into serpents, or about people eating apples after God has forbidden it. Maybe I am going off on one, but judging by the shoes that the model is wearing and the awkward way in which they make her walk, I think that she is meant to BE a horse (which would kind of explain some of the later scenes in the video).
10. "Human Behaviour" by the eccentric, Icelandic, indie-pop singer Bjork ("If you ever get close to a human and human behaviour, you'd better be ready to get confused...there's definitely, definitely, definitely no logic to human behaviour!").
11. Finally, we have "Indigo" by Moloko (incidentally, this band arguably kick-started the retro fad for dressing up like a Flapper with the video to their song "Sing It Back"). Also, Roisin Murphy is hawt!!!
1. The following absolutely phenomenal piece features the video from Mylene Farmer's "Sans Logique" overlaid with the music of "Persephone" by Dead Can Dance.
2. "Tonight Tonight" by The Smashing Pumpkins.
3. For our next selection, we have the video to "Karmacoma" by Bristolian trip-hop pioneers, Massive Attack. This surreal video appears to consist of a pastiche of scenes from various films (spot the reference to Kubrick's "The Shining"). Although many of the scenes in the video remind me of films I've seen, I can't recall which specific films. Overall the video feels like something you'd expect from the half-mad, bastard child of David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino.
4. Rob Zombie's Caligariesque video to "Living Dead Girl".
5. "Psychonaut" by Fields Of The Nephilim, a video concerning the use of ritual asphyxiation as a path to gnosis. The title of the song is probably inspired by Peter Carroll's classic introduction to Chaos Magic.
6. "Zombie" by The Cranberries; a song written as a protest against the activities of paramilitary groups from Northern Ireland. Time to throw off our mind-forged manacles?
7. A little something from the world of advertising; the Metz "Judderman" advert which is inspired by Lewis Carroll"s poem, "Jabberwocky".
8. Forget about Peter Parker, here's the real Spiderman; "Lullaby" by The Cure.
9. "Blue Orchid" by The White Stripes. There are many ways to interpret the imagery in this video and you could write reams of stuff about Moses turning sticks into serpents, or about people eating apples after God has forbidden it. Maybe I am going off on one, but judging by the shoes that the model is wearing and the awkward way in which they make her walk, I think that she is meant to BE a horse (which would kind of explain some of the later scenes in the video).
10. "Human Behaviour" by the eccentric, Icelandic, indie-pop singer Bjork ("If you ever get close to a human and human behaviour, you'd better be ready to get confused...there's definitely, definitely, definitely no logic to human behaviour!").
11. Finally, we have "Indigo" by Moloko (incidentally, this band arguably kick-started the retro fad for dressing up like a Flapper with the video to their song "Sing It Back"). Also, Roisin Murphy is hawt!!!
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The Valkyrie, the Ice-Queen, the Sex Kitten, the California Blonde, the Angel...there's a certain thing about blondeness that really polarizes people.
however I am moved by Massive Attack - I think they are wonderful artists and I appreciate their reference to the genius of Stanley Kubrick
nevertheless I love you - and I appreciate what is here because it comes from you