Videos of the Week

It's that time of the week again, when I recap what songs/videos have been interesting me lately. After looking at my Facebook postings, I just realized that not much was interesting me this past week. It's been that lull time before all the new summer releases come out so there hasn't been much new stuff that I've seen. In addition, some of the old songs I like either I cannot find the video on Youtube, or the video has the embedding disabled, which is completely annoying.

Oh well, this may be a short post, so enjoy what is there:



This is a relatively straightforward song for Bat for Lashes. It sort of sits in the middle of her new cd Two Suns as a bridge between all the other challenging music. It's not my favorite song on the cd, but it is a good one. The video is a little bizarre; and I am not quite sure what is the purpose of the dancers with the black balloons taped on them. And the end of the video looks like it was copied directly from a Bjork video.



I'm not a huge fan of Crystal Antlers. They can be a little too prog-psych-funky for my tastes. However, this song sort of grabbed me as it is somewhat different in execution. The singer actually seems to be singing and putting some emotion into it, especially when he sings "don't let me die, all alone." Could be an interesting new direction for them. I hope they continue to go down this path.



Here is a video from one of my all time favorite bands, the Cocteau Twins. Elizabeth Frazer has an amazing voice. This was a live performance from the Jools Holland show. It is interesting to see them from this period when they have a pretty large backing band, knowing that they used to perform as a three piece with a drum machine. I have seen them live in both incarnations. Both were interesting and hard to say which one I prefer as I do have a certain fondness for that old drum machine sound.

As a bonus, here is a clip of a video for the song "Crushed" which was on the Lonely Is An Eyesore compliation CD from their label 4AD records.





I've always loved Siouxsie and the Banshees. This was a great song from their CD Tinderbox. A very muscular song.





Múm is a favorite band of mine, though their latest release didn't really do anything for me. I have posted two versions of "We Have A Map Of The Piano;" one a fan made video and the other a live version of the song. It is probably in my top five songs of all time. I can listen to it over and over again. It is great to listen to on headphones on a cold wintery day.