Wasn’t in nice of Luke Haines to share these Black Box Recorder videos with us?
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
A beguiling post about Talk Talk’s “I Believe in You.”
Mark Hollis doesn’t like the video, but I don’t think it’s half-bad:
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
The loudness wars are back and they’re in Rolling Stone. They’re always the last to know, that Rolling Stone. Also, the imminent death of the music business predicted in The Economist. The majors are realizing they will simply have to give music away for free if they want to stay afloat. Who knows how long [...]
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Visual analysis of Linkin Park’s songs demonstrate surprising similarity. Ok, maybe it’s not that surprising.
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Hohner melodica in full-effect as New Order bashes its way through “In a Lonely Place.”
Same performance as the other videos, this time, it’s “Blue Monday.” Voyetra synths (and Barney’s voice) all over the place. Note the in-joke reference to his own off-key singing as Barney changes the lyrics “I still find it so hard, to stay in tune with you, but I’m sure that you’ll tell us, what the [...]
New Order performs “Age of Consent.” Note out of key guitar intro, angry removal of pop-screen from microphone, and ‘gay sperm’ on the amps. Kick Ass.
Video footage of New Order performing “Temptation” at the BBC studios live in 1984.
WFMU revives an obscure bit of Velvet Underground lore. Lou Reed got his start writing music for a pseudo-Brill Building outfit and wrote and recorded a novelty single titled “The Ostrich.” The band recorded as “The Primitives” and also featured John Cale. It basically sounds like one of VU’s goofier singles. You can listen to [...]
A very low-budget video with a simple concept from Low, but I can’t stop watching.