Because judging by the near-riotous reaction to him tossing his jacket into the audience at the end of his performance on Today, it looks like the crazed young ladies making up the front row would have torn him limb-from-limb, instead of his poor, defenseless (and sorta Sergio Tacchini-looking!) More »
Well, some 20 hours after the video for Common and Lily Allen’s new single hit the Internet, no less than 900,000 copies have appeared on the various video sites, perhaps not so surprising for a guy who recently had a No. More »
The above clip of New Order live on the BBC doing “Age Of Consent” may be my most favoritest thing on the Internet; I found it several months ago, when it was posted to the blog for the 33 1/3 book series. (The “Temptation” clip from the same session might be even better.) The performance is amazing, as are the sartorial choices, but what really made this heretofore unseen clip of my favorite band hit so hard was that it would probably be languishing on some VHS tape in an English basement, forever far from my eyes, without these kind of random, easy-to-take-for-granted internet connections. So in honor of this grindingly slow news day, please enjoy this grab bag of random YouTubery, most of which was found simply by plugging band names into the site’s search box. Who knows what we’ll find inside. New Kids On The Block demo reels? Live performances from Dogstar? Lindsay Buckingham/Stevie Nicks sex tape? A buncha stuff all you hip Internet cats have already seen on a buncha cooler blogs? Only one way to find out:
Ed. note: Once again, Idolator intern Kate Richardson scours the video sites, looking for the best fan-made music videos. In this entry, she looks at two clips that pay tribute to all-ages sex symbol Alan Rickman:
Ed. note: Here’s another installment of “VHS Or Beta?”, where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies–from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he looks at the 2006 documentary Fabricando Tom Zé, which looks at the life of the Brazilian musician.
A recent European Commission study of childrens’ attitudes toward downloading saw a variety of excuses from the leeching kids–“CDs are too expensive,” “I watch Cribs and all those artists’ houses are a lot nicer than my crappy place”–but No. More »
In an eye-gouging monochromatic color scheme straight out of a 1998 Hype Williams clip, everything about the video for Pretty Ricky’s third single “Love Like Honey,” from the shiny overalls to the laser zap beat, could have been released to BET a decade ago without anyone blinking, while the boys continue to impress the poet in me with their mackadocious middle school come-ons: “Lick your nose/ Your neck/ Down to your bellybutton.” Who could resist? (Also are they saying “you gotta make the sex crunk”? I pray they are.) Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia’s first-ever music video is a little more, how do you say, restrained than Pretty Ricky’s gold experience. A religious ode to staying on the straight and narrow, “Malak Ghair Allah” nonetheless features the protagonist racing motorcycles like it was a Ruff Ryders video and hitting up fly Muslim honeys for their digits:
Last Friday, Alex Goldberg cornered Tokyo Police Club backstage at their show in New York City, and he quizzed them on their biggest show-going pet peeves. Tune in as they tell tales of unwelcomed pot smoke, losing their “more cowbell” virginity, and enough ass-grabbing to fill six pairs of jeans. More »
Thanks to the Deciblog for unearthing the entire Anthrax episode of Married With Children on YouTube, which involved the Bundy kids throwing a crazy party while their parents were out of town–only to have their entire guest list cancel because of some Chicago-style snow. More »
A few months ago, Idolator’s Michaelangelo Matos sent out an email to a handful of his associates with a proposition: Give me a list of your 100 favorite R&B songs. While there were some basic guidelines regarding chronology (nothing before a certain date) and genre (no hip-hop, no house, etc.), the request was pretty simple–just 100 great R&B songs to be later compiled together and ranked into a master list. Well, those months went by and the only person to turn in a completed list was…my mother. Needless to say, she was not pleased and has been persistently nagging me to publish the list ever since, even going so far as to write capsule reviews of each entry (at my request). And so, after the jump, I present the first installment of Kathleen Turner’s 100 Greatest R&B Songs of All Time (with bonus YouTube links):
