I was watching a couple of music videos that were ‘kinda conceptual.’ I wasn’t sure which 1 I was supposed 2 like the most. Music videos really ‘get my mind jogging’, thinking about the identity of an artist, the purpose of a music video as a marketing tool/brand enhancer, and what I expect from a meaningful/conceptual music video.
/// Just want 2
/// look at shit
/// that looks ‘cool’
/// on the internet
/// then re-blog it
/// making my own blog
/// look ‘cooler’
/// we are branding 2gthr
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Animal Collective – My Girls
It’s always interesting when a widely respected band makes a ‘mediocre conceptual video’ that is excessively ‘praised’/'meme-ed’ as an extension of the band. Kinda boring video, never really ‘goes anywhere’, and just makes you think about how ‘uninteresting’ AnCo are as humans. Sure they ‘make good/relevant music’, but videos like this make u wish they ‘had more to offer’ as humans/ambassadors of some ‘message.’ But I guess that’s why it is easy to ‘like’ them since they are ‘just music-making bros’ and not Bono/Chris Martin/Ricky Martin/Brandon Flowers/Susan Sarandon/ Ben Gibbard / Kanye West, etc.
Overall just kinda tired of reading reviews/hearing dbags say that Animal Collective’s music is ‘textural’, and this video kind of just reminds me of how much i h8 pre-modern music criticism / when people try to describe the non-aural elements of sound (if they exist). But ya. the video is s0000 textural, just like their music.
N e ways, do yall like AnCo showcasing their meaningful technological instruments in this vid?
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Friendly Fires – Skeleton Boy
I liked this vid/song more than I liked the “My Girls” experience. It makes me feel more ‘alive’, and ‘looks cooler’ than the AnCo video. Sometimes, u just have 2 admit that some things are ‘cooler’ than other things, and ‘coolness’ is the most important thing sometimes. The song kind of makes me want to ‘buy a car’ after being inspired by an upbeat/meaningful/dancey song in a commercial.
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The Coldplays – Some song about Puppets
Coldplay has a pretty interesting existence as a ‘globally recognized band’ because they don’t really have a vision of ‘what they want to be as a band’–instead, they just kind of re-use already accepted concepts/ideas that were already executed by highly regarded bands and artists. I wonder what ‘the mainstream world’ is looking for when they decide to ‘honor’ the Coldplays as a relevant/listenable band.
Can’t believe they are sticking to the ‘colonial war’ uniform gimmick [via puppets].
“I used 2 rule the world.” – George W. Bush + The Coldplays duet
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BUT SRSLY
Which conceptual music video do yall ‘like’ the most?
Or is ‘the music video’ a dead art form?
In the future, will all music vids look like iPod commercials/capture the same positive consumer-core zeitgeist?
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that was the best ipod commercial i’ve ever seen
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AnCo ‘my girl’ sounds like a bad trance melody with some br0 singing over it using his macbook mic in his college dorm room.
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//////////Reply by xavier
//////////Posted January 28th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
@noo, best band description ever A+
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that “bad trance melody” is ripped from frankie knuckles’ “your love.” not saying this as someone who is totes “blog aware” but as someone who prefers the original and wishes anco would ‘just stop it already.’
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//////////Reply by Jess
//////////Posted March 28th, 2009 at 12:05 am
@yess, Similar, perhaps, but far from an all-out rip-off.
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should i eat a bagel
i forget
oh yeah r.i.p. updike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!45zg
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I dunno, but how can I conceptualize those perfect AmAppyAd tits in a more concrete fashion?
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my favs in conceptual vids are def:
the radioheads – house of cards
the radioheads – just
the decembrists – 16 military wives
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not feeling all the h8 towards coldplay
yeah theyre mainstream, but some of their songs are actually good. the one in this video is definitely a positive listening experience
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What good is an adobe slab when you’re a pile of goo?
YOU WOULD JUST DRIP OFF
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the internet has officially killed the music video
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actually, maybe that happened once people realized real world/road rules was more interesting than an 8 minute Tool video
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seriously,
what
the
fuck
is
textural?
that sounds like some bullshit phrase that guy who wrote hipsters:thedeadendofwesterncivilization would use.
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//////////Reply by Jess
//////////Posted March 28th, 2009 at 12:08 am
@bearbaby, It’s experiensual, inspironic.
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anco challenges existing blackface concepts by extending “blackface” to “blackbods”
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You’re a fucking piece of shit Carles.
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lolololololololol
that omikron ad is so funny in so many ways
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My personal brand doesn’t include music vids, yall
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r1ght n0w my favorite conceptual-core video is “Ruthless City” by Morgan Geist…it makes me want to move to the city and get robbed at night by authentic muggers while walking home from Trader Joes/Whole Foods/ Zaabars. Just tryna eat organic in this “Ruthless City” yall.
http://www.vimeo.com/2843195
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I thought the whole point with AnCo was that they ARE mediocre and conceptual, and that their music doesn’t really “go anywhere”? In that view, this video is a perfect extension of the AnCo brand: meaningless beauty, genial aestheticism, technology tweaked just enough to retain the stench of the huma– er, animalian.
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yeah the my girls video sucks, they should have stuck to the original title of material things blah blah blah
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R.I.P. Charles
http://www.spinner.com/2009/01/27/telefon-tel-avivs-cooper-dies-at-31/
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Blue man group ripoff
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I second the guy at 1:22 on the coldplay video.
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sorry anco. i stopped smoking pot and now i h8 u.
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//////////Reply by 1890's
//////////Posted January 28th, 2009 at 1:34 am
@aids,
all that panda bear reverb makes me sick when i’m sober
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//////////Reply by m
//////////Posted January 28th, 2009 at 1:37 am
@1890’s,
aww come come now. really?
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anco track sounds like somone who just discovered steve reich and wanted desperately to be make some “meaningful sound textures” with minimalism. i know you have an anco hardon but you can do better than this crls. check minus.
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im gonna frickin kill u carles.! thats not a threat , its. yea it s athreat. deal w/ it
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first two
both still need more alt boobies
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hro is a guerrilla aesthetician
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Wake up, Adam Humphries.
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anco video is super bad, i do not want to see anco playing their instruments, sorry panda bear rocking the sp 555 is just not that cool.
the second video was better but i wouldn’t call it ‘cool’. i would call it mediocre dance rock that should have died 1 half yrs ago.
im with you all the way on the coldplays why can’t people see they are the worst parts of u2 and radiohead combined in the 21st century. also, good george bush + the coldplays joke.
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted January 28th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
@jean jacques, The fact that it’s in high definition makes is 20% cooler that it might normally be.
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I just tripped balls to that AnCo. good shit
-StonedAlt
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I am angry that you are still on the subject of AnCo, let the lame kids in highschool that just discovered chuck paluhnuck have them. us black people wont stand for this, the least you could have done was feature the most inspiring video of the time “if i had a heart” by fever ray, that is a truley conceptual peice of art.
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what about that zany new killerz video?
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WTF ARE ADOBE SLABS?!?!?
(i looked them up and couldn’t find any definition…)
YOU CAN’T JUST MAKE UP YOUR OWN WORD FOR WALLS PANDA BEARRRR!!!!!
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//////////Reply by mmm
//////////Posted January 28th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
@frustrated alt,
i think they’re supposed to be beds amirite??
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//////////Reply by jako
//////////Posted January 28th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
@mmm,
adobe bricks is what he probably means, it’s a type of brick they used to build castles and other olden timey houses
however my issue with panda bears lyrics is that a social status isn’t a material thing, whereas adobe slabs ARE material things…is he trying to be ironic? or what?
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//////////Reply by Jess
//////////Posted March 28th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
@jako, I think the slabs would serve as partitions within the four-walled structure; “…adobe slabs for my girls…”; girls need their privacy.
I think he’s equating material things with social status because of how often people do exactly that, very effectively demonstrating and accentuating the absurdity of it, in my opinion. It makes people ask what he means, and the answer is right in front of them. It goes beyond the same old pointing out of the problem:”People are too materialistic, they erroneously equate possessions and status!”, and instead, he makes himself look like he isn’t making sense when it’s society’s view that doesn’t make sense. Intentional or not, it’s genius at work.
Wisdom is moving forward, try to keep up.
//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted January 28th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
@frustrated alt, Adobe® Slabs is the premier design tool of the bronze age optimized for the flexible earth platform.
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted January 29th, 2009 at 9:57 am
@anony, i lold
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<3 Fever Ray
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zomg the AnCo and Friendly Fires videos were AWESOME! Never too jaded for the descendants of Duran Duran!
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Aphex Twin – Windowlicker.. ;))
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the anco and coldplay videos were cool but the friendly fires video was the best.
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adobe slabs is a new software program combining photoshops with blogspot/wordpress/tumblr/blog
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AnCo’s video made me CRAVE for Doritos and Ipods
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so-me did a doritos commercial with anco?
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is friendly fires a metronomy side project?
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CRLS you should blog about this Anco video…
hxxp://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB21WDRX888
LMFAO
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//////////Reply by KELLY
//////////Posted January 28th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
@hahahah,
0mgz this girl is the biggest disgrace to humanity
serioussssssly this juz made me h8 anco even more
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//////////Reply by robert4042
//////////Posted January 28th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
ANCO ALTS ARE GETTIN OUTTA CONTROL! !!!!
hxxp://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=zXqM2614k8A&feature=related
^THESE KIDS ARE EVEN WORSE!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
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god i’m so sick of tangible, material things like social status and facebook status…
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//////////Reply by Jess
//////////Posted March 28th, 2009 at 12:31 am
@andrew, you guys….c’mon man. It’s the assumption that people make about status based on material things and the absurdity of it that he’s addressing. Why do I suspect that you know this perfectly well and that you’re just hatin’?
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Check out the (Rex the Dog – Bubblicious) video. i think it’s better than both of these
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skeleton bozy>coldplays> AnCo
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sometimes HRO makes me wish i was mainstream…
but then i keep coming back..
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//////////Reply by delig
//////////Posted January 29th, 2009 at 12:49 am
@zbaby, yeah wouldnt it be easy to just hear you’re favourite music on fm and wear same clothes as everyone not caring about authencity, and not having to read a bunch of shitty blogs and being able to watch tv without getting pissed at shitty writing and shutty reality shows. its a curse being alt
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those are the ugliest puppets evr
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Animal Collective’s use of Windowz 95 screensavers was off the chain.
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AnCo’s video was like the Blue Man Group’s and Steve Job’s love child.
at least they have good music to make up for it.
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1 vote for the animal collectors
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My take on their choice to clearly and distinctly depict their instruments: They are their connection to this world and the audience. They are the last recognizably earth-originating or worldly objects in the experience that is Animal Collective. The rest is FAR OUT MAN! I mean WAY out there!@!!
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Oh yeah, i liked the AnCo vid cuz I’m a fanboy. But wait, what if I’m a girl?
Anyway, there is an actual message in the song and that message is simplicity in life.The vid is simple, so it reflects that, buster. It’s talking about materialism and the depiction of the band members as non-descript, unintelligible blobs REVEALS them as spiritual beings. You got that?
P.S. I don’t expect people to agree or care, by the way, by and large and by the time I get to Arizona. Bye.
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