Videos of the Week

It may be a short post this week owing to the fact that most of the videos I posted were in connection with the Massive Attack concert I am going to see tonight, and on YouTube the Massive Attack videos have embedding disabled. I will see what I can bring up though.



One of the creepiest videos ever made, "Come To Daddy" was the perfect collaboration between Aphex Twin and up and coming director Chris Cunningham. Based on this video, Madonna specifically requested Cunningham direct her video for "Frozen." Although that was a good video, Cunningham reportedly was not a fan of working with the Material Girl as she basically was very hands on in every aspect of the filming. This video is just stunningly filmed and extremely unsettling.



Every once in awhile I can sneak a Massive Attack video in. Here is a video for their song "Psyche." This is a second video for the song. While this is a pretty video, I think the first video featuring a girl teased by mischevious ghosts was a more fitting mood to the song. Alas, that video seems to have disappeared. Hmmm.



This is one of my favorite songs of the year. Very catchy and poppy, although the lyrics are very sad.



Hmmm. A second Massive Attack video. Maybe they came to their senses and are allowing embedding? 100th Window is by far my least favorite album of theirs, and to be honest, it is difficult to consider it a true Massive Attack album because it was only Robert Del Naja in the fold. The album is glacially paced even for Massive Attack, and most of the songs are lengthy and plodding. Still, it is amazingly produced, and there are some songs I really enjoy, especially this one featuring Sinead O'Connor on vocals.



Kurt and I have been fiddling around on Ableton working on our own music. He is by far well ahead of me in proficiency on the software. He has been doing a lot of remixes of songs. One he was working on was this song, and he only told me it was Lil Jon and never mentioned Diplo. Kurt basically took the vocals and was chopping them up, and hearing it out of context and over and over again was extremely annoying. Then when I pulled up this Diplo video and realized it was him AND Lil Jon, it made more sense. I still think the vocals are annoying, but in the context of a Diplo production they are not so bad. Love the fun, video-game inspired video.



I LOVED the movie TRON when I was growing up. Back then, the effects in the movie were quite ground breaking and stunning to look at. Unfortunately, the story was completely boring and looking at the movie now it is a bit of slog to get through. Which means it is perfect time for an upgrade. Next month, the TRON: Legacy movie comes out, and the trailers for the movie make it look so much better. I am very eagerly anticipating seeing it. Even better that one of my favorite bands, Daft Punk, composed the soundtrack. Here is a new trailer for the movie, featuring their new song "Derezzed."



Crystal Castles were able to snag Robert Smith of The Cure to sing vocals on this track off their new cd. I was skeptical at first, but it is one of those pairings that just works really, really well. The collaboration made a good song great.