Yes, the violence in the video may be a little disturbing but The Kills are pretty awesome, so it’s OK.
Mashups don’t come better than Danger Mouse’s 2004 effort, The Grey Album, which combined an a cappella version of rapper Jay-Z’s Black Album with instrument samples from The Beatles’ White Album. Completely unauthorised and deemed illegal, very few people have the promo vinyls that were initially pressed. You will not find it on CD or on iTunes (or maybe you can) but you know for sure that it can be found floating around in the deep bowels of the interwebs.
Find The Grey Album at your own discretion/risk, but almost as good as the audio mashup is a video mashup done for one of the tracks. Not the most polished video in the world, but I guess the idea was good.
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MTV just launched MTV Music where they have a free database of over 16,000 music videos available free for everyone to watch. They even have an API to perhaps entice geeks to ditch YouTube and MySpace as their source for music videos.
The first thing that went through my mind was “What took them so long?!?”. The second thing that went popped into my head was “They’re calling it MTV Music? How redundant!”.
The third thing I did was to watch Dire Straits‘ Money For Nothing video which was one of the first few things I remember watching on MTV back in the days when they used to show nothing but music videos.
Warning: Video quality is quite crap for the older stuff
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Obama ‘08 - Vote For Hope is a very slickly produced video from MC Yogi which shows his support for (duh!) Barack Obama. This is obviously a great way to plug his new album that was recently released, but even then, this is a very nice piece of self-expression.
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Random fact: Did you know TeddyBears started out as a grindcore band?
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That’s the official video to the new single, Spiralling, from Keane’s upcoming studio album, Perfect Symmetry. I seriously don’t know what the hell is up with the retro (and honestly quite fugly) 80s Max Headroom-esque graphics. The ‘Ohh’ background vocals sounds like it was sampled from EMF’s Unbelievable and they are even some Zoo TV style video walls somewhere in there. A terrifyingly ugly and obnoxiously derivative video that looks like it was done by my neighbour’s 12 year old who could only afford 3D software from two decades ago.
Fail.
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- 3D, 80s, music video, retro, ugly
Random Friday Music is going to make a comeback really soon, but until then, please take in the bizarre new video for Ready For The Floor from Hot Chip, off their spanking new album Made In the Dark.
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