Musicvideos
January 7, 2010
I did a list over the songs I would like to see in a top 50 list from year 2009 and figured it would be fun to also see what 2009 had to offer in terms of musicvideos. Now some of the videos I’ll be linking are songs from earlier years but haven’t had their musicvideos releases until sometime last year so they still made the list.
Ow and also, fucking wordpress won’t allow me to hotlink videos from vimeo so you’ll have to open a new tab if you want to see them, but then again most videos are in HD so you would have to anyway. Ow well, here goes!
Charlote Gainsbourg – Heaven can wait #1
If you’ve seen any of the musicvideos Beck has gotten anything to do with you will have definetely noticed that they are.. fucking.. I hate to say it but.. BONKERS! This is one of those “…the fuck was that?”-musicvideos, where the viewer goes “…the fuck was that? rewind that shit, I have to see it again” and you realize that yes there was a man in the back of the toilet wearing a tinfoil mask holding a womans hand while another dude pours alcohol down the drain.
Midnite Vultures – Sexx laws #2
And in second place we also have a Beck video, but the thing is that he’s stuff is just fucking awesome. I mean these are what makes me fucking love musicvideos, because even if neither this video nor the ‘heaven can wait’ video have literal interpretations of the songs but they still manage to make perfect fucking sense, the second I saw the oven getting POUNDED by the fridge I was like “yeah you know what.. this actually makes sense listening to the song, I DO want to defy the sex laws regarding sexual intercourse with appliances”. And also I’m pretty sure both these videos are recorded with a RED camera or with DSLR´s which is fucking awesome since you get great colors and depth, i like!
Cinnamon Chasers – Luv Deluxe #3
This is a great video but in a completely different sense then the 2 above, it’s.. I don’t even know what to say about it. I mean the way have made it looking like you are watching through the guys eyes is not something new, but it still feels original and fresh. I just see this is a short movie rather than a musicvideo, in the very short amount of time they manage to create a more than fulfilling story. I loved it!
Raekwon – House of Flying Daggers #4
The fellas from Wu-Tang have always had some weird interest in asian and more so chinese cultures and it’s not the first time we’ve seen a musicvideo where they portrait themselves as kung-fu “hustlers”. But fuck it, the shit works for them so why the hell not? This is probably by far the coolest video of the year, the guy beats a dudes entire fucking ribcage CLEAN out of his body! This video has an awesome style and is just plain balls off the fucking wall killer, and so it’s definetely in my top 10 of the year. Hands down.
Ramona Falls – I say fever #5
These guys have in my opinion released the best album of the year and also one of the top 10 best songs. I wrote a post, one of my earliest ones and one of the posts I actually enjoyed writing the most, which was about “weird stuff”. Music, art, photos, videos, songs, writing etc. that people didn’t understand and thought were too weird. I can definetely see this video being one of those weird ones that people just shake their heads at and go “what the fuck do they mean? I don’t get it.. this sucks”. This video IS fucking weird and you will be finding yourself after it’s ended thinking “the fuck was just all of that?” but that is the beauty of it.. it just fucking sucks you in and gives you the ride of your (life would be too exaggerated but) day.
Grizzly Bear – Two weeks #6
This isn’t the official video of ‘two weeks’ but it’s better than the original, this kind of falls under the same category as ‘I say fever’. You really don’t know what is going on but nevertheless you can’t take your eyes off of it so you just watch. This is also probably one of the best songs from 2009 if not the best song, haven’t quite decided yet.
Dan Deacon – Paddling Ghost #7
This is a very literal interpetation of the song itself and so it doesn’t leave a whole lot to the imagination. But that works just fine by me. By the looks of it Dan Deacon has made up a pretty awesome looking world and I really don’t mind letting him show me around.
Themselves – Roman is as Roman does #8
Anticon is a label packed with some really cool dudes who bring stuff to the table that really are as original as things can get these days. Anyway Themselves released one of the years best hiphop albums and not long after their release they put this up on vimeo which I thought was fucking bonkers! (Now I’ve said it twice.. balls…)
Land of Talk – It’s okay #9
I try and not use the word beautiful, at all, simply because whenever I hear someone using it I think “you cheezy fuck”. So I really don’t blaim you at all if that is what you think when I say this is beautiful, I really can’t come up with another word for it. Maybe if I had Chris´s lingual skills I could’ve said something else but I don’t.. so… yeah. Just look at it! It’s fucking stunning! And also the song is definetely one of the best songs from 2008 (video was released this year however).
Röyksopp – This must be it #10
Röyksopp is in your imagination FUCKING things up, what?! Have you ever seen anything as fucking ridicilous as this before? Dude is riding a giant fucking drumset on 4 wheels, he catches projectile drumsticks with his BARE HANDS and gets everybody to fucking party, this hombre has gotten all them bush bitches hot and now they need to let 0ff some steem by playing drums in the middle of a fucking field! (Gasping for air even though I’m writing) This video is SICK, it’s just completely fucking out there and it’s almost so good that I’m starting to think it should be my favorite video of the year.. but then some chick pops out the mud starts doing a crazy rain dance which kind of turns me off.. I’m actually thinking maybe it’s Karin Dreije? Anyway, this video is insane, anytime Röyksopp and Karin Dreije get together to make a song it turns into pure gold. Watch this video people and do yourselves a giant fucking favor.
This is yet another awesome Montreal based band, I’m losing track of how many bands from Montreal it is that I listen to.. anyway. I’m a sucker for well executed stop-motion movies, and this is really fucking good, I think partly the reason why I really enjoy this piece so much is the house that they shoot it in and the way they edit the frames to enhance that eery old robust feeling of the house. It’s one of those videos where each and every frame could be a potentially GREAT picture (I do realize that each frame is a picture ofcourse.. but just because it’s a stop motion video it doesn’t mean they are all great by default).
Passion Pit – The reeling #12
This was one of the earlier videos that really caught my attention this year and I’ve seen it way too many times really. The reason why I chose to put Monogrenade at 11th place and not Passion Pit was simply because Monogrenade managed to make a stopmotion that gave me soo many great looking shots that it appealed to me a bit more. However Passion Pit still does a great fucking job using stopmotion and therefore it is without a doubt in my top 15.
Why? – These hands / January 20 someting #13
Another band from the awesome label Anticon. This is actually two songs in one musicvideo but it really works well since the songs go perfectly hand-in-hand. This is by far the “simplest” cleanest musicvideo out of the entire bunch, the entire latter part is just frames of the guys from the band playing. But still the director manages to keep my interest peeked throughout the video. In all a great video and an even better band.
Chromeo – Night by night #14
CHROMEO MOTHERFUCKERS WHAT!? Honestly these guys are two of the coolest cats out there, they just fucking radiate cool. I can’t help but to get jealous of them both. So yeah this video meets every single requirement it has to in order to be in my top 15 and THEN SOME! Like some of the other videos (most of the other videos really…) I can’t tell if they are using a RED camera or a digital SLR but either way it looks absolutely and utterly.. I’m trying to come up with another word for hell’a balls off the fucking wall bonkers, but I can’t so I’ll just run with that.
Pacovolume – CookieMachine #15
This video is probably the best looking one out of the bunch I have picked out, they have done an even better job than with the Monogrenade video at creating a video with almost nothing but really great looking frames that could easily make for awesome pictures. But all the above have similarly great looking esthetics but also bring something else to the table, which this doesn’t.. really. It’s great to look at but I didn’t find it as entertaining as the rest, which is important I think in a musicvideo. But this goes in my top 15 without a whole lot of thinking about it.
