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| From | "josh chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Favorite All-Time Videos |
| Date | Mon, 12 May 2003 16:42:58 -0400 |
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I've just never bought into the art form, as it were. I've never sat in
front of a TV and watched rock videos-- not even in the 80s.
But I did think of one other one I liked. I remember seeing videos in rock
clubs like the Ritz (NYC) before concerts.
I liked the Cars video with the bumble bee.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stewart Mason" <flamingo@theworld.com>
> During the heyday of MTV when people kept making the "videos ruin songs
> because when I hear the song I only think of the video" argument, my
> response was always along the lines of "So *that's* what it's like to have
> absolutely no imagination and a dearth of original thought. Huh."
>
> When you get right down to it, videos are commercials. On the other hand,
> I *like* commercials (there's quite often more technical innovation and
wit
> in one 30-second commercial than in an entire episode of some overhyped
> pile of warthog excrement like Buffy or Six Feet Under), so I've never
> bought the similar "videos are too commercial, maaaaaaaaaan, we like to
> maintain our street cred" either. Don't tell me that when the
Replacements
> were making the video for "Bastards of Young," they didn't know full well
> that it was going to be a video that people were going to be talking
about,
> or that it would further their whole calculated "anti-star" reputation.
>
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