I Think I’ve Heard of TRL

Posted by Kyle November 12th, 2008 at 02:36pm In Music Videos

Ok, so while I may consume television and movies voraciously, I didn’t grow up with cable. And if I happened to be at a friend’s house who had MTV, we were much more likely to watch Beavis & Butthead, which did show music videos, but it showed about as much of the videos as TRL did, and I don’t think there was a lot of content overlap. If I remember correctly, Beavis & Butthead tended to watch videos that either “sucked” or were obscure metal bands.

So I have limited exposure to music videos. I first saw this video for “Once in a Lifetime” on the DVD that came with the fancy Talking Heads box set, and I was shocked that the people who brought you The Hills let this on the air, but apparently it was a well-played video.

Letting a bunch of art school graduates play with video effects on TV has never worked so well.

As Maggie said earlier, Palladia (née MHD) takes a break from Dave Matthews Band concerts and shows music videos in HD from 3am to 6am. I haven’t seen a lot of winners, but this one for Knights of Cydonia blows them all away. I only know this song from Guitar Hero, but I’ve been told Muse is big in Europe or something.

I love a video with a story. Here’s a rarely-seen gem from novelty alt-rocker Hartley Goldstein.

And one of the biggest “story” videos ever. I don’t think anyone has ever topped Slash’s guitar solo in the church yard. Why is the church so much smaller on the outside than it is on the inside?

This Bishop Allen video was directed by a friend of mine, but it’s still legitimately awesome. It makes me a little motion-sick, but the effort involved is very cool. They really did print out and photograph each one of those frames.