Music Videos
April 9, 2008I’ve been on a bit of a music documentary / video buzz recently, rewatching all my favourites, and searching for more.
There are some great documentaries out there:
Flaming Lips – Fearless Freaks
Pixies – loudQUIETloud (which they are playing on pitchfork.tv for a week only). Recommended.
SFA – On tour, not sure of the name.
There’s a fantastic Blondie documentary that I saw last year some time as well, an unreleased Mogwai one that they played in the IFI some time last year but has not actually been released, DCFC/Low on tour. Last year also saw the Sigur Ros DVD on release but this made me want to go to Iceland more than see the band again, despite having great moments.
Foals Suck (as mentioned below somewhere) follows foals on their US tour and the best documentary I’ve seen of recent times.
My favourite recent music video is ‘Caravan’ by Efterklang (below)
It would be great if people can recommend some more of each, especially videos from Irish bands. There seems to be a massive scarcity. Lots of tripe on Channel 6 (who was the band who went around the house in wheelchairs?)
I do quite like the ‘Said Say It’ video by Cap Pas Cap, but only for a minute or two before the itch to move on takes over. The new Robotnik video is great and I really like the video for ‘About my temper’ by Panda Kopanda. I’m sort of stuck there though.
I’m sure I’m missing some real obvious ones so feel free to kick my blog arse. Maybe it’s just not the done thing in Ireland. After all, until recent years, who but Channel 6 would play videos from the Irish unsigned…
Back to watch Alan Sparhawk’s takeaway show…which kicks ass…
Sigur Ros ‘Heima’ is splendidness spread across freshly baked cakes, makes me warm inside. You should try the documentry The US Vs. John Lennon, Its an offical doc about how the Nixon administration tried to kick Lennon out of the U.S. because he was influencing the american pop culture too much…in relation to his political activism against the war in Vietnam.
Theres a cool vid I like by an ok Irish Band, well think they be Irish. Hoarsebox – Do It To The Letter. Done with puppets…not sure if its on youtube or not.
Low rule.
Hey,
check out
http://www.promonews.tv – an excellent resource AND
http://www.videos.antville.org
Not so much for the irish bands, but invaluable for checking out new videos. Yup.
cheers lads, shall check those out phlphlphl,
i’ve seen that video before on channel 6 actually. didn’t know who it was.
There’s a documentary about the music board of ireland that’s been doing the rounds.
Party Weirdo made a doc about travelling to gigs and fests last summer too.
Also, Team Fresh’s video for Portrush is something of a mini-doc, as it’s a scenic vid from a skateboarder’s view of the coast, and the song itself is about Paisley Jr. and his developer cohorts who tried to bamboozle apartments and resorts there. One of the more ambient TF tracks too!
(Soz I’d do links but am rushing around a bit :s)
The Devil and Daniel Johnston is an amazing documentary totally recommend it.
as for irish music videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIarGBU_wXw