Video Juke Box V.2.0

by **mr dragon** on Sat Sep 05, 2009 2:59 pm

Thought I'd start the new thread off with this...

The Alarm- Strength:

by **mr dragon** on Sun Sep 06, 2009 6:02 pm

Darn it. I start a new music video thread because Tony made a complaint about the speed, then give him a little bit of eighties to start it off- just to tease him. And no response.....!

Oh well..... *le sigh*....I think a little bit more classic eighties is now in order....

Blancmange- Blind Vision 12' remix:

by **mr dragon** on Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:34 am

No one's using my brand new shiny Video Juke Box I made especially just for Tony ....Wots wrong wiv ya awll. :smt004

I was out in me broom broom this afternoon and I heard this terrific track on XFM's drivetime. I haven't heard of them before- I'm a little bit behind with new bands at the moment. I thought they were Brits at first, but they're Aussies. Very nice stuff from our brothers down under.

The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition:

by **kitchenwitch** on Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:55 am

OK, this is weird. So I have the radio on in the other room, but I click on your video offering and it's the same song that I'm already listening to. I've heard it a few times before, I just didn't pay any attention to who it was.

I think this is something you'll like.
Portishead Machine Gun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKm-OkHj-VM

If one doesn't work the other ought to.

by **ukus** on Mon Sep 07, 2009 5:30 pm

Dang ... clicked on cos P got me into Portishead (Glorybox is still one of my all time favorites ) but they have disabled your video Kitchy :smt006

by **mr dragon** on Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:38 pm

You can watch it here Karen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygu36h0eXN8

Y'know. I bought the first major Portishead album back in about 1994- Dummy, when it was released. That's the one you're referring to Karen. It's a very good album- iconic. I also have a later solo album that Beth Gibbons did with a guy called Rustin Man, which is also good. But they've never been as interesting, or good, as they were back in the day- ie in 1994.

kitchenwitch wrote::smt008

OK, this is weird. So I have the radio on in the other room, but I click on your video offering and it's the same song that I'm already listening to. I've heard it a few times before, I just didn't pay any attention to who it was.

Have you been listening to London's XFM again on yer telly cable package Bonnie ;-)

. That is too weird though....But I do have special powers you know....

The Temper Trap - Science of Fear (love the guitar that kicks in about two thirds into the track- nice vid too)

by **tonyrockyhorror** on Wed Sep 09, 2009 1:17 pm

An international hit.
I think der Hoff covers this when he tours Germany :smt023

by **Caer Ibormeith** on Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:51 pm

A Hard Days Night :smt018

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQwwqajZXD8

One of my favorite movies. Along with Help!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXh4EuJa2TU

by **mr dragon** on Thu Sep 10, 2009 6:48 pm

From one of my favourite female artists ever to walk this planet :-)

This is from a sequence from 'The Ninth Wave', the flip side of probably her best album- The Hounds of Love. I think it's genius- better than all the official tracks that got chart releases on the A side. Sorry, there's no official videos because they weren't official tracks that got released as singles- it's just run of the mill visual Youtube 'stuff' added by the posters who put the songs up. The songs are great though, particularly given that there was a sequence to them that tie them together. Probably one of my favourite B sides on an album.

Kate Bush - Under Ice

Kate Bush - Waking The Witch

Kate Bush- Hello Earth ( I adore this song):

We luv ya Kate ;-)

by **kitchenwitch** on Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:40 pm

Oh, I do so like Kate Bush. She really has a beautiful voice.
Sarah McLachlan is another favorite female singer of mine.

by **mr dragon** on Sun Sep 13, 2009 5:44 pm

kitchenwitch wrote:Oh, I do so like Kate Bush. She really has a beautiful voice.

Aye. Beautiful voice, and beautiful imagination. I've never tired of KB, particularly that album. Still sounds as good today as back in 1985. She's a consummate artist. Very intelligent and creative lady. She can make a song about just doing the washing sound interesting- which she actually has.

This is from Peter Gabriel's album- So (a lot of people of my generation, or around about, know this song and the album very well, so it's a bit boring of me to put it up- I know!). I bought it in 1986 when it was released, when I left school and first went to college- it's still got a nostalgia factor for me. I still think it's a great album, and a great song (particularly given what the song was actually about at that time in history- a lot of people probably don't know what the song was really about).

Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush -Don't Give Up:

I also like the Sarah McLachlan track, Bonnie. I haven't really listen to her that much before.

by **tonyrockyhorror** on Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:55 pm

I remember when The Harmonicats were in their heyday :smt002

by **mr dragon** on Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:20 pm

Ladytron - Deep Blue:

by **kitchenwitch** on Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:48 am

Muse - Uprising

by **mr dragon** on Thu Sep 17, 2009 5:05 pm

I like Muse, a very intelligent band within their genre- though I haven't bought any of their albums (I reckon I'm now too old now, at least I think I am ;-)

).

I am curious though. Are they also popular in the US, particularly with younger people- college students etc? It wouldn't surprise me if they were. They have that cache in their music.

A little bit more Kate from me. I'm in a KB mood at the moment ;-)

. From her last album released in 2005/6, and also the title track- with a cracking Pink Floyd'esque ending. I just love her as an artist, and also unashamedly as a male- a lot of her music comes from a deeply female point of view in the way she embellishes it. She's just simply something else. I get where she's coming from. A very, very talented lady indeed, and also one of my musical heroes who genuinely touches my soul.

Kate Bush- Aerial:

by **tonyrockyhorror** on Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:39 pm

What? Nobody remembers The Harmonicats? :smt004

I've always liked this one but rarely get to hear it on the radio.

by **mr dragon** on Thu Sep 17, 2009 7:29 pm

The Harmonicats?

:smt008

Yeesh...

The Cult- Rain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3DgAJwVeVU

One of the best tracks of the eighties...

....'Hot sticky scenes, y'know what I mean.....'

:smt025

by **kitchenwitch** on Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:45 am

Here's a little ditty from a band called Cage the Elephant.

mr dragon wrote:The Harmonicats?

Yeesh...

You summed that up well. I was at a loss for descriptors.

Muse is rather popular over here, but if you only listened to commercial radio you would think that they only did Knights of Cydonia.

by **ukus** on Fri Sep 18, 2009 6:39 am

Heard this a couple of days ago and now it's in my head :smt006

(Good tune for when you are dusting though )

I ran ..... Flock of Seagulls

by **mr dragon** on Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:08 am

Blondie - Dreaming:

Back when I was a wee Dragon, Debbie Harry was just about every teen age boy's wet dream. Justifiably so :snakeman:

by **kitchenwitch** on Fri Sep 18, 2009 7:21 pm

But isn't she old enough to be your mum????

by **mr dragon** on Sat Sep 19, 2009 8:02 am

Lol. Of course, although I think Debbie Harry's slightly younger than my mum. Can't a lanky gawky teenage boy not have a crush on a very sexy women in her prime- as Debbie Harry was back then :smt002

. I reckon I speak for nearly all men of my generation when I say that! She was pure sex on a stick back then :smt018

A couple more from The Cult. Probably one of the most criminally underrated rock bands of all time.

The Cult - Lil Devil:

The Cult- Revolution:

by **kitchenwitch** on Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:41 am

mr dragon wrote:Lol. Of course, although I think Debbie Harry's slightly younger than my mum. Can't a lanky gawky teenage boy not have a crush on a very sexy women in her prime- as Debbie Harry was back then . I reckon I speak for nearly all men of my generation when I say that! She was pure sex on a stick back then

Hey, whatever turns you on. :smt023

It just struck me as a bit surprising because I know you're younger than me and Debbie Harry was well into her 30's when Blondie was first popular, I just didn't think she had such an appeal to the younger teen males, but hey I'm a chick, so what do I know? I am quite gratified that men of all ages appreciate the finer qualities of older women, especially as I slide into the steady decline and decay of old age. :smt002

by **mr dragon** on Sat Sep 19, 2009 1:05 pm

Lol, Dragon ain't that young either- unfortunately. I'm gonna be 41 in November :smt008

You're right. It is true that Harry (and Blondie) didn't make it until she was in her thirties. I think the thing about her, back then, was she didn't really look particularly older. You could have easily shaved five years of her actual age at the time and she could have gotten away with it without question. I think also, there was something about her that was a little bit different at that time. I don't actually normally go for blonde ladies as much, but she kind of had that mix of confidence, but also slight coyness, intelligence, with just pure unadulterated sexiness. It may also have been a British thing, Blondie were very popular in the UK. And, also- I should say that most teenage males have a bit of a fantasy crush on an older woman, or women, at some point. Fuck I even remember even when I was just 11, I think had a little bit of a secret crush on our French teacher, who was also our form tutor, in my first year of Secondary School. She was actually French as well, so that added to the allure ;-)

. Ironically that was the one year I did amazingly well at languages and was at the top of the class- actually true! That's the answer on how to teach children. Give 'em sexy teachers :smt012

by **kitchenwitch** on Tue Sep 22, 2009 10:55 am

I heard this on the radio a little while ago and decided it was my new favorite song. Think Adam Ant and the tribal drum sound.

by **mr dragon** on Tue Sep 22, 2009 2:40 pm

The drum intro is definitely Adam and the Ant'ish! Y'know, I was 11 and in my first year in senior school, when Kings Of The Wild Frontier was released. I remember a mate of mine was obsessed by them as a band. A little bit of nostalgia there for ya...

This is not a great, great track, but I really like it, and I very much liked the album they released at the time (I To Sky) from hence it came- in around about 2001/2. They seemed to peter out after that as a band, which is a shame.

JJ72- Always and Forever:

by **kitchenwitch** on Wed Sep 23, 2009 6:22 am

Hmmm, not bad, but you're right, not particularly good either. It's funny how sometimes a tune can really sound great at one point in our lives, but several years later you wonder what the hell you were thinking at the time. Then again there are songs that sound fantastic forever - even if it's to no one else but yourself.

This is one I really really like, we'll see if it has any longevity.

The Local - Addict Me

by **mr dragon** on Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:47 pm

This is probably not to everyone's taste- I think I'm more of a fan of some contemporary electronica than perhaps most people on here. But I love it, either way. It's from an album called Velocifero. Sorry there's no official vid, just band snap shots put up by the poster- it's an album track not a single release.

Ladytron- Season of Illusions:

by **kitchenwitch** on Fri Sep 25, 2009 6:19 pm

Here's another more recent release that I've been digging as of late.

The Big Pink - Dominoes

by **mr dragon** on Mon Sep 28, 2009 4:49 pm

This is a bit of an oldie from the eighties. Ok, it's not a 'true' oldie for Tony- because it's not fossilised yet ;-)

...I'm teasing.

Anyone born before about circa 1979 remember this-

The Church - Under The Milky Way:

by **Caer Ibormeith** on Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:56 am

mr dragon wrote:This is a bit of an oldie from the eighties. Ok, it's not a 'true' oldie for Tony- because it's not fossilised yet

...I'm teasing.

Anyone born before about circa 1979 remember this-

The Church - Under The Milky Way:

I loved this song and this band. One of the best out of Australia. :smt018

I have the CD Starfish on my iTunes.

by **mr dragon** on Tue Sep 29, 2009 1:50 pm

It's a good track innit Sandy. I don't have the album but I heard it on the radio the other day- I hadn't heard it in a very long time. I think it was also used in the film Donnie Darko- that was the last time I've heard it in recent years. I remember the song very well from when I was a teenager.

I bought this album back in about 2001-2. Again, probably not to everyone's taste, but I had it playing the other day and I thought it was still rock solid. Here's one of my favourite tracks.

David Holmes and The Free Association- ( I wish I had) a Wooden Heart:

by **tonyrockyhorror** on Wed Sep 30, 2009 6:51 pm

by **mr dragon** on Thu Oct 01, 2009 5:10 pm

The Herbaliser- Something Wicked This Way Comes:

by **kitchenwitch** on Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:51 am

Great old clip of Benny goodman and Peggy Lee! I love the big band sound. :smt023

by **kitchenwitch** on Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:57 am

I'm not quite sure what to think about this one.

by **mr dragon** on Fri Oct 09, 2009 2:04 pm

Death In Vegas- Dirge (DIV is a kind of indie 'Marmite' band, you either love 'em or just hate 'em- and I do actually love 'em. But either way- a very, very good video indeed. Kind of strangely beautiful, and anti MTV- Nice :smt023

):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QzPwN9MKTQ

by **kitchenwitch** on Sat Oct 10, 2009 3:44 pm

The video is interesting, but I can't say the same for the song. To me it seemed like they came up with a good little groove, but had nowhere to take it.

I heard another one from Cage the Elephant today. Apparently the song has been out for a while though, I must not be that with it. But I'm really beginning to like this band. I may have to check out more of their music.

by **mr dragon** on Sat Oct 10, 2009 4:30 pm

kitchenwitch wrote:The video is interesting, but I can't say the same for the song. To me it seemed like they came up with a good little groove, but had nowhere to take it.

I had a feeling that would be a comment- and probably fairly so. The track doesn't actually go anywhere in structure, it just has a nice beginning/intro that's sort of repeated all the way through- but then again it was just an album track, and created as a piece of ambience, as part of the whole album as a filler. You see that happening on a lot of albums. I also noticed a few films and dramas have used that track as incidental music over the last few years, which is fine- because that's what incidental music should do, or be there for. But I actually just put it up because I really like the video combined with the track. It's a deliberate attempt to anti-MTV, as a video that might also get shown on MTV. DIV do that a lot and I can see where they're going with it- artistically. The idea of showing older people dancing in some ways kind of sensually, yet with all the b/w photographic textures and framing they use as a video, alongside the editing, with jump cuts and close ups- all classic MTV stuff, is kind of a way of twisting up the whole 'glossy' but trying to be 'arty' MTV 'thing' on it's head, truly artistically, by replacing those visuals 'stylistically' with old people instead. I like that kind of thing- as a photographer and also working in the media. Because there's a lot of crap that's disingenously used by the media nowadays in so called 'arty' and technical ways visually- in order to try and give it some kind 'credence' or kudos, that's kind of 'arty' in the way it's presented, but also fake, soul-less, or 'plastic' as an interpretation philosophically as to what's actually shown. I also thought there was something sort of beautiful, and even sensual, in the way they shot those older people dancing- as if they were also younger in spirit. There's something poetic, sensitive, and even respectful about it that I like. It gave them character, and soul. It humanised them. That's actual art for me. Something a lot of modern cultural media doesn't do very much anymore- with it's complete obsession with 'youth'.

Here's another DIV track- from the early noughties. Years ago, back in about 2002, when XFM was a more true indie station and less commercial, they used to play this regularly. It's from an album called The Contino Sessions. And yes it is a completely 'messed up' song- intentionally, and no I'm not a serial killer for liking it- to the 'moralists' who don't get the irony of song, or the video! I'm also just partial to a bit of dirty electric guitar and drum beat combined, with some Hammond organ thrown in :-)

And, as per usual, another DIV video to fuck with your head a little- ie be the opposite of the 'status quo' just for the sake of it- but also to make a point. You also get one guess as to who the guest vocalist is :smt002

Death In Vegas - AISHA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95Cy0JhVKuc

by **kitchenwitch** on Sun Oct 11, 2009 10:23 am

Okay, I liked that one a lot better. Definitely fucked up, but pretty cool. Watching her run around like that in those heels made my feet hurt.

It's gotta be Iggy Pop on the vocals.

In regard to the previous DIV tune you posted, I thought it might have been one of those ambient music tracks they throw in between songs on albums. But not having that context it comes across as wanting to be something more.

Out of all attempts at being artsy in video, I hate the whole shaky camera thing the most. It annoys me and tries my patience and I can't help but feel that it's a monkey with ADD doing the filming.

by **mr dragon** on Mon Oct 12, 2009 2:24 pm

kitchenwitch wrote:Okay, I liked that one a lot better. Definitely fucked up, but pretty cool. Watching her run around like that in those heels made my feet hurt.

That was the song that turned me on to DIV back in about 2001- not sure if that says anything good about me or my morals ;-)

. They used to play it on XFM regularly- I used to listen to the station in a studio I used in Kensington when I had a regular freelance contract with a company back then. Happy days. The world was a slightly better place back then. No economic melt down and some of the 'rest'....

kitchenwitch wrote:It's gotta be Iggy Pop on the vocals.

You get a prize Bonnie- though, it was pretty obvious ;-)

The video also makes me laugh. They're taking the piss out of modern Hollywood horror films where there's nearly always some sexy girl being chased by a serial killer, or something like that. I mean, if you think about it, it's kind of questionable morally for Hollywood to keep doing that as if it's some kind of acceptable 'commercial' product. It's a bit sick, in a way, actually.

kitchenwitch wrote:Out of all attempts at being artsy in video, I hate the whole shaky camera thing the most. It annoys me and tries my patience and I can't help but feel that it's a monkey with ADD doing the filming.

I hate 'shaky cam' as well. It's got to be the most over used- and usually for the wrong reasons, technique used in the media since it was introduced- particularly on late night tv. Some people (though not all) in the film industry have used it very well- and for the right reasons, but most people don't. I'm also getting sick and tired of 'jump' cuts being used all the time in editing as well now- in cinema, but more particularly in tv. I mean, if you're going to do it- do it for a genuine reason, don't just do it because you think it looks clever and you've got lot's of 'toys' now on your computer editing suite in Final Cut Pro. Grrr!

OK. One more 'fucked up' vid by DIV, and a good track at least in my book. Tony's going to hate this I know- and I think, the entirety of say Fox News and their 'conservative' commentators. I can just see the words- 'Euro Trash' flash before my eyes, while completely missing the point ;-)

Death In Vegas- Hands Around My Throat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7oMqpjIYLk

by **kitchenwitch** on Tue Oct 13, 2009 6:10 am

Cool. Totally fucked up and kinky. I loved it. I'm guessing that DIV doesn't do happy songs. :smt002

mr dragon wrote:The video also makes me laugh. They're taking the piss out of modern Hollywood horror films where there's nearly always some sexy girl being chased by a serial killer, or something like that. I mean, if you think about it, it's kind of questionable morally for Hollywood to keep doing that as if it's some kind of acceptable 'commercial' product. It's a bit sick, in a way, actually.

I hate Hollywood slasher films. They're usually so sick and depraved with no redeeming qualities that it scares me so many people like to watch them. Horror films with less blood and more suspense are much more interesting to watch and usually more frightening.

by **mr dragon** on Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:49 am

kitchenwitch wrote:Cool. Totally fucked up and kinky. I loved it. I'm guessing that DIV doesn't do happy songs.

DIV often do slightly fucked up songs! I think 'Dirt' from their album Dead Elvis has got to have the most messed up vid they ever did- I thought it was great! Weird as Hell though. I'm not putting it up because I think the PRT might start thinking I'm a bit of a freak ;-)

Though they're not all dark and fucked up. I have a couple of their albums- Scorpio Rising and The Contino Sessions. Some of their tracks kind of go more 'light' surreal and even a bit 'hippyish'. '23 Lies' would be an example. Some of their stuff is pretty good, but some of it more so so take it or leave it- in my opinion. They're quite a good band to take incidental music from for media stuff though. I've noticed the Beeb use DIV segments sometimes as ambient backing for cultural programming, dramas etc, that kind of thing. They're kind of a experimental band in a way, not necessarily a band you come to always love for their structure and sound as musicians. This is the kind of ambient thing I mean. I think stuff like this works really well for tv/film if you pull bits from it in the right places-

Death In Vegas - Leather/Girls [Live]

kitchenwitch wrote:I hate Hollywood slasher films. They're usually so sick and depraved with no redeeming qualities that it scares me so many people like to watch them. Horror films with less blood and more suspense are much more interesting to watch and usually more frightening.

I hate most of them too. Though, they don't scare me at all- I usually just get bored. I've noticed that many 'Horror' flicks nowadays just seem to try to be competing for the most sickest visual you can actually get away with putting on the screen in this day and age. I just find that gratuitous and empty. The best 'horror' films were made in the 70's, when they often had a good story, and a lot of the violence was more 'suggested' than shown. The Omen and even sci fi like Alien (the original film) being two excellent examples.

by **mr dragon** on Wed Oct 14, 2009 10:45 am

I said I'd put a track up for Tony today to cheer him up. Hope things are going well for you Bro.

Frank Sinatra- That's Life:

by **Caer Ibormeith** on Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:23 am

Diamonds and Rust-Joan Baez (the song she wrote about Bob Dylan)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnspGQzt1Jc

Forever Young-Joan Baez covering Bob Dylan tune

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=favgoOn-U1I

by **mr dragon** on Fri Oct 16, 2009 1:13 pm

Diamonds and Rust is a great song.

I thought you might like this Sandy. I remember chatting with you about this cover version of the song a while ago on here.

Cowboy Junkies- Sweet Jane:

by **ruexperienced** on Sun Oct 18, 2009 9:22 am

Hello all,

A friend of mine recently turned me on to this incredibly talented duo, this being one their most recent efforts.

They are Antoine Dufour & Tommy Gauthier.

This is also the way music used to be : live and unedited.

This video also highlights the stunning revolution in home recording (both video and audio of stunning clarity) that can be up on the web in literally minutes from it's first performance.

I provide both engineering and technical support to a number of world class home studios here in L.A. and even I have to say this is incredibly well recorded.

Hope you guys enjoy it this fine Sunday morning...

:smt023

Sean

by **kitchenwitch** on Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:24 am

Thanks Sean, I totally enjoyed that. So much so I may have to own their CD.

by **mr dragon** on Mon Oct 19, 2009 2:12 pm

Very nice stuff. I enjoyed that as well. Interestingly there was some slight shades of early Dave Mathews in live concerts, with the violin, in there I noticed. I agree about the live unedited thing with music, Sean. There's nothing like it. I was sitting in a cafe in Ealing a few weeks ago and there was a British/Indian guy just playing acoustic guitar and riffing in whatever direction he felt like going in. It was great. Loved it, as always. We had a long chat afterwards about music. We also get that on the London underground with buskers sometimes as well- occasionally, the really good ones, always bring a big smile to your day.

Another one from The Cowboy Junkies 1988 Trinity Sessions album. Most of the tracks on the album were also done in one take- the whole album has that feel of being natural and live- it's a wonderful album from start to finish. It's probably one of my top twenty favourite albums.

Cowboy Junkies- Misguided Angel:

by **kitchenwitch** on Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:35 am

Here are a couple of Oingo Boingo tunes with very clever Halloween themed videos.

BOO!