Modest Mouse - "Satin In A Coffin"
Stars - "The Night Starts Here"
The Decemberists - "Odalisque"
Tapes 'n Tapes - "Just Drums"
The Fall - "New Puritan"
I think I just found the coolest new website. For those of us who grew up on MTV - - when they actually played videos - - the demise of that once great source of music left a void. Sure, blogs are cool but couch surfing and coming across the video for "Fish Heads" was waaay cooler. So who among us hasn't wished there was an archive of all those great videos? Well, sometimes dreams really do come true. MTV, with little to no fanfare apparently, has created a new site that does just that. And, it's as good as you'd hope. At MTV Music you can watch all the classics like "Thriller" (long version!), "Hot For Teacher," "We're Not Gonna Take It," et al, but there's also tons of stuff that you know never really ran on MTV. Pavement's "Gold Soundz"? No way! The Pixies' "Monkey Gone To Heaven"? Okay, maybe once on 120 Minutes. Now you can find it all. The site also works really well with easy searches and x-referencing, etc. I was using today's playlist to really test just how much cool shit might be hidden on there and sure enough, there's a video of The Fall's cover of The Kinks' classic "Victoria." Not random enough for you? See what you can find. (Look, you can embed the stuff too.)
Beck - "Missing"
Elliott Smith - "A Fond Farewell"
Pavement - "It's A Hectic World"
Her Space Holiday - "The Luxury Of Loneliness"
Damien Rice - "The Blower's Daughter"
And then I got to work.
Today's Stats
Total songs listened to: 10
Total minutes of music (approx.): 40
Song with the most previous plays: "Just Drums," "The Blower's Daughter" (tie) - 12
How I Rate Today's Playlist (1-10): 7
Miscellaneous factoid about my trip to work today: Forget to get my "coffee card" punched. There goes another $0.19, right out the window.
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Still geeking out over this MTV Music site. Another cool thing: Most users are apparently using it for a trip down memory lane too. The top 3 videos (after Britney Spears' latest): Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing," Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up (?!), and Talking Heads' "Once In A Lifetime."
This is such a fun site...thanks for the link! If you ever wondered what one guy from the Jesus & Mary Chain would look like if he ate the other guy from the Jesus and Mary Chain (and then followed it with some Krispy Kreme and an Oreo Blizzard), just type in their name. Fun!
Also: puzzled over Rick Astley's popularity. And sad because they don't have any Spacemen 3 at all.
All I want in life is for MTV to make entire episodes of 120 Minutes available. I left about 20 videotapes full of them at my parents' house when I moved out, and they've disappeared. So sad!
Speaking of MTV videos, did you ever want to know what that AHA song Take Me On was about?
Here you go:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1832838
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