Showing posts with label star wars. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 04, 2015

My Top 100 Favourite Music Videos: #9

#9 "White and Nerdy" - Weird Al Yankovic
Release Date: 2006
Director: Weird Al Yankovic
Fun Fact: The song video is CRAMMED full of references and subtle scenes, some more nerdy than others! Some examples below!
This is the third and last video by Weird Al on this, and it's also the second video he directed himself, the other being "Amish Paradise" which got to #32.

This is just one of the funniest videos of all time. Seriously. The video and song is so good it gave Weird Al a surge in his career he had never really seen before. It made Weird Al Yankovic seem cool... for the first time in his career. Sure, he's had his hardcore fans over the years, but he was always considered to be a fad, especially of the eighties. But his three (at the time, now four) decades of hard word and persistence of being the king of the parady had finally paid off.

What to say about the video? You may have seen some of these things but maybe not at all. Notice above? That's Seth Green of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame. And below, the more obvious, is Donny Osmond. Now if you watch Donny Osmond throughout the video, if you've not done it before, you'll realise how fucking fantastic he is in the video. And what's best? Weird Al had the space in the music video and wanted a celebrity to fill it. So he thought of the "whitest guy he could think of", and called Donny Osmond. And Donny makes this whole video ten times better than how damn good it was before. He's absolutely hilarious. Check out the amazing out-takes!

Other things in this video of note that are great for me are the black guys locking their open convertible car, the editing of Wikipedia to say Atlantic Records "SUCK!", the reference to Star Wars Kid, editing his MySpace page (yes it's that old now this video), and his reaction to receiving the Star Wars Holiday Special on VHS. It's just one amazing video and I love it so much.
Note: This is the seventh and last video from the year 2006 in this list.

Here is the video for your enjoyment!

Click here to see #8 on the list or here for #10!

Thursday, May 21, 2015

My Top 100 Favourite Music Videos: #23

#23: "Knights of Cydonia" - Muse
Release Date: 2006
Director: Joseph Kahn
Fun Fact: There's LOADS of references in the video to other movies, at least 16 movies in fact, including Star Wars, The Matrix, Planet of the Apes and many, MANY more!
Joseph Kahn also directed "Without Me" by Eminem, which got to #42 in my list, as well as many MANY videos. Check out this list for all the amazing videos he's done!

What to say about this video? It has so much going on in it, and it suits the song so perfectly. I heard this song before I saw the video, when I got the "Black Holes and Revelations" album, and I always imagined what the video would look like. You just know, listening to the song, that it's going to be a western inspired video, but because Muse love sci-fi and space and shit so much, you weren't quite sure how they'd include all of that into the video.

Well... you can't be disappointed. The amount of sci-fi in the video is insane considering it's a spaghetti western themed video. And it looks just so damn great, and the way they work the band into the video is fantastic too, being jukebox holograms from the future... if that make sense! I just love this video so much, it truly is one of my favourites of all time and it's definitely my favourite Muse video.


Here is the video for your enjoyment!

Click here to see #22 on the list or here for #24!

Friday, March 04, 2011

Noughtie: Best Music Videos - Part 3


If you missed Part 1, click here.
If you missed Part 2, click here.

Hallo, welcome to Part 3 of 4, counting down what I think the best 20 music videos of the last decade were. No more talk, here's #10 to #6!

10. "Knights of Cydonia" - Muse (2006)

I heard this song before the video was released, but I'm telling you, if you imagined what the video should be like when listening to the song, you'd imagine something close to this. It's such an overdramatic video, but it's brilliant. There's many references to Star Wars amongst this sci-fi/western mashup. The video is just fantastic, you really just have to see it if you haven't before.

9. "Hurt" - Johnny Cash (2003)

I just watched this video yet again whilst writing this. It's just one of the most emotional things ever to be recorded on camera. It's one of the rare songs that give you goosebumps any time you hear it. The struggle that Johnny Cash goes through to sing the song, you can hear it in every note, yet every note is still sung perfectly. He is a one in a million, fuck that, one in a billion. As huge a Nine Inch Nails fan I am, Cash owns this song. It was one of the last of many gifts he gave to us, us lucky people. Rest in Peace, Johnny Cash.

8. "Leave Before the Lights Come On" - Arctic Monkeys (2006)

I'm serious when I say this, if you haven't seen this video, please do. It's a fantastic video, with a brilliant story to it. I don't really want to say what it's about as it will ruin it for you. So... I'm going to leave it at that. If you have seen it, can I ask, why was this song a bit of a flop? It's a decent little song by Arctic Monkeys, and the video was brilliant, obviously. It's a shame as less good songs and videos got the band bigger hits. Hey ho.

7. "Starfuckers, Inc" - Nine Inch Nails (2000)

Haha, if you know the history between Marilyn Manson and Trent Reznor, then you know exactly why this video is fucking badass. Okay, history lesson to those who don't know!
Trent Reznor, lead singer of NIN, produced and helped Marilyn Manson get the level of fame he got to. However after producing the second album, their friendship fell apart. They criticised each other in the press all the time and spread a lot of crap about each other. Then, in 1999, Trent released The Fragile, which had this song (the single came out in 2000) on it, a direct attack at all the celebrities he has been aquainted with that piss him off. That was Manson primarily, but also Courtney Love (Hole), Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins), Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit) and a few more.
He then released this video to go with that track. Enough history, now watch the video to find out why it's so great.

6. "Tribute" - Tenacious D (2001)

What? Have you lived under a rock or something? If you haven't seen this video you should be ashamed of yourself. It's a modern day classic music video, and will be remembered as one of the highlights of the decade for music videos. It was so good it was the most requested video on Kerrang! TV history at one point, although I don't know if the record still stands. It's just a funny video for a brilliant song.

Part four is found here.

Here we go, Part 3 is done. Are you feeling the heat? We're approaching what I think the five best videos of the decade are. Obviously this is a biased listing to some degree, but you will like at least one of the videos in this 20 right? Do you agree with the order? Is there any video you have not seen and now you have? Comment below if you feel the need to. Tomorrow will be the finale of this fantastic part of the Noughtie series. See you then, I hope!

Sunday, January 09, 2011

Q&A with Johnny Mercyside: Part 1

Hey there,

A lazy post today as I'm really ill and can't be bothered writing anything new. This is a new thing I'll be posting, where I talk about me, as a person rather than as a freelance journalist. All these questions were asked from Formspring, and you can view my Formspring profile, with all answered questions on the left side of the site. Here are 20 questions, forming the first part of Q&A time with me. I hope you enjoy.

*Note, some of the answers may have changed, I started the account 7 months ago so where the answer is different, it's because it's outdated.

Q: What was the happiest moment in your life?
A : Probably back in 2003 when my family just left my Dad, it was a great feeling.

Q: When was the last time you received flowers?
A: I don't receive flowers, I give them sometimes to my partner however.

Q: If you could go back in time 10 years and tell your younger self something, what would it be?
A: Things will get better, my life wasn't the best 10 years ago

Q: What's one thing you own that you should probably throw away, but never will?
A: I have a box for nostalgia and I probably will keep most of the stuff in there forever I hope.

Q: If you could ask George W. Bush one question what would it be?
A: I don't really know, does he think Barack is doing a better job than him?

Q: What's the kindest thing someone has ever done for you?
A: Oh jeez that's tough, everyone chipping in to get my XBox replacement for my birthday was fantastic.

Q: Would you rather get up early or sleep late?
A: Sleep late, definitely I hate getting up early.

Q: If you could only watch one TV show what would it be?
A: Erm, tough one, probably my weekly wrestling shows.

Q: Who's the coolest person you know?
A: I don't really have a top "cool" friend, there are cool aspects of a lot of people I love.

Q: What do you think is your most attractive feature?
A: I've always thought my personality, I like to be sarcastic, try to be cheerful. If you mean appearance, probably my eyes or my bum.

Q: Are you a morning or night person?
A: I'm a night person, definitely.

Q: If you had to cook dinner for someone tonight, what would you make?
A: I'm not a cook, so I'd probably make pasta bake, I can stick things in the oven, not that it's a great talent.

Q: Star Trek or Star Wars?
A: Neither, I'm not really into sci-fi.

Q: Do you believe in God?
A: No. I believe in evolution, and take a scientific approach to how things have come around. I find it a difficult subject to talk about, due to how many people believe in religion.

Q: What's your favourite genre of music?
A: Good one, I love my industrial metal most consistently, but in terms of how many bands in a genre I like, probably the hard rock bands like the Foo Fighters, Muse and QOTSA. But as a genre, industrial metal.

Q: Do you consider yourself a good dancer?
A: No, I'm pretty awful.

Q: How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
A: Sarcastic, friendly, weird.

Q: If you had to throw away either your TV or your computer, which would you choose?
A: Probably my computer, at least I can play video games on the TV.

Q: What was the last book you read?
A: I just finished this compilation of random Top 10 listings, I got it for my birthday. In terms of proper books before that I finished reading a biography of the life of John Peel.

Q: If you won a million dollars what would you do with it?
A: Difficult, I'd like to do many things, and I'd plan it properly. So not sure where to start with that one.

If you want to ask me questions, you can ask them in the comments section, or on Formspring, which as I said before is on the left side of the website. I'll be posting these rarely though, I'd rather write about games and music than myself. Have a good night.