Videos of the Week

Sorry I have been lax this week with posts. Last week was a bit nightmarish work-wise and didn't have the energy to post anything. Here are the videos from last week that struck my interest. Going to branch out a little and stray from just pure music videos. There will now be videos of anything that caught my eye. I had more in here, but the blog for some reason will not post the links.

It has been raining here in Atlanta for many weeks now. We've had very few sunny days so things have been rather gloomy as of late. Hard to complain since last year we had a severe drought. So in order to counteract the gloomy effect, I looked for videos that put a smile on my face:



Sadly, Junior Senior have broken up, but they left us with two really fun cds. This was their first single "Move Your Feet." It has a really sunny melody and always makes me feel good. Plus it has a zany animated video that cracks me up.



Goofy video from Love is All. Sounds like a demented Cyndi Lauper. Well, a more demented Cyndi Lauper.

The next video is not in the happy category, but comes from one of my favorite artists of the moment, St. Vincent. This is the first single from her wonderful new cd Actor.





White Rabbits are an interesting band, very hard to peg into one category if you listen to their cds. They sort of take the everything but the kitchen sink approach. They sort of sound like a more tribal Radiohead. The two drummers are amazing.



Peaches is filthy, raunchy, and irresistable. Here is the new video for her song "More."



Animal Collective have never been a favorite of mine. My friend Matthew loves them and is always trying to convince me that I should too. I have listened to their new cd countless times and just don't get it still. I do like the song "Summertime Clothes." Here is a fun performance of the song on Letterman.



More embedding problems for the actual music video for this song, so here is a live version. It's all programmed music anyway, so the music is the same. Great song though. Was recently listening to Nitzer Ebb's cd Belief, which is a classic industrial cd.



New artist from Britain called La Roux. Sounds a lot like Robyn. Not great, but has a catchy chorus and a pretty cool video.



New video from buzz band of the moment, Phoenix. Pretty good for a French rock band, since usually they suck. Interesting video.



Pulp hasn't released a cd in ages, so we are left with the brilliant Jarvis Cocker to provide us with solo material. Of course, since he basically was Pulp, there isn't much change. This is a live performance of the song "Dishes" from the cd This Is Hardcore. It's a wonderful song with some great lyrics. "Though I'm not Jesus, I have the same initials" and "I'm not worried that I will never touch the stars, the stars belong up in heaven, but the earth is where we are."



We end this post with Buddy Cole!!!!! So damn funny.