Cuz there’s no MTV anymore…
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Frightened Rabbit - “Head Roll Off”
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Frank Black (with Moris Tepper) - “I Burn Today”
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Vetiver - “Been So Long”
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Sufjan Stevens - “The Lakes of Canada”
The Frightened Rabbit video is probably the best song partially about atheism I’ve heard since XTC’s “Dear God.” Actually, I never really cared for that XTC song. It was too preachy… this song is better.
My buddy Josh bought Frank Black’s Teenager of the Year, and I can’t believe that was 14 years ago when it came out. Anyway, I told him how John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants directed the video for “Los Angeles” and upon searching for that video, I found this one which would have been better if it included a hovercraft like the “Los Angeles” video did.
I scored the forthcoming Vetiver record of cover tunes a little early and was looking through some of their videos and found this gem featuring Adem, Vashti Bunyan and Juana Molina helping out.
La Blogotheque and The Take-Away Shows is probably my favorite web site ever, and I found this Sufjan performance and thought it was good.
April 28, 2008 – 11:35 pm -
3 Comments
Chris
Random tidbit + tangent =
That Sufjan bit was shot in Cincinnati at last years Music Now Festival. Later that night he got on stage and said that his album “Avalanche” was named after that Chevy truck. He thought it looked like a Transformer. I never put 2 & 2 together when I saw the vehicle on the artwork prior.
http://www.asthmatickitty.com/music.php?releaseID=50
joshua
arguably one of the best first-person confessional verses in rock music:
They tried to give me advice / Down at the record shop / I said sit down boys / This may come as a shock / What’s all I listen to? / It’s all freedom rock
joshua
you’re a terrible blogger.