Video killed the napster star

[yaoobruni]

There was a moment in 2001 when Napster went from being vaguely interesting but kinda pathetic, to being something every music fan has always dreamed of - a near universal, free music library. You know the Velvet Underground was important but have never heard them? Download 'em. Wonder what a Tom Waits/Bruce Springstein duet would sound like?

Comments

80s videos

[cos]

Duran Duran had the best videos! A lot of early 80s videos were like the short story parallel to a movie (if a movie is like a video novel). They were particularly good at it.

[magdalene1]

As a video editor and your fellow child of the 80s, these are FASCINATING. Thank you.

[rissymonster]

Hmm. Since my tomorrow will involve dealing with the aftermath of flooring subcontractor going ballistic on their GC, which is decidedly not what I want to be doing right now, this is extremely tempting.

Hugs atcha!

[winterborne]

Sweet - great link!

More links...

[yaoobruni]

Just in case you haven't yet cleared your schedule to make more room for videowatching, some favorites I found last night:

Frankie Goes to Hollywood, "Relax" - banned by radio 1 and the BBC. Gee, I wonder why?

Peter Gabriel, "Red Rain" - Not as exciting a video as "Sledgehammer", perhaps, but his best song, IMHO.

Jawbox, "Cornflake Girl" (cover). I'm so happy to discover that Jawbox made videos...

Pogues, "Fairytale of New York" - The perfect video for the perfect Christmas song. The vid for "Pair of Brown Eyes", on the other hand, is one of the strangest things I've ever seen.

The Connells, "74-75" - I've always liked the song, but the video makes me cry like a French footballer. Very much worth a watch. (The video, not me crying.)