My Top 100 Favourite Music Videos: #98

#98: "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Nirvana
Release Date: 1991
Director: Samuel Bayer
Fun Fact: The video was inspired by the film "Over the Edge" and The Ramones rock comedy film "Rock 'n' Roll High School".

I don't know what you're going to think of this video being at #98. The song/video is stupidly overplayed. You tend to find people either think this song/video as one of the greatest of all time or one of the most overplayed/fed-down-our-throats videos. For me it's both. I do think it's overplayed. I think the video itself is overrated. Hell, it's not even my favourite Nirvana video (more on that on a different day). But I do love the song/video all the same.

It's funny actually, comparing it to #99's entry. They're actually complete opposites to each other when it comes to imagery. This video has no vibrancy in its colour. The video is grainy and dirty. And yet it matches the song to perfection. The vibrancy and "power" in this video is in the performance, both by the band and by the audience. It's just pure energy, surged throughout a school gym. It's incredible to watch. So while it's overplayed, and, within time hopefully, will get played less, it's still an amazing video.

Here's the video for your enjoyment!

 

Click here to see #97 on the list or here for #99!

The Rock and Metal Double Feature Show 9/3/14

Hey, and welcome to the newest entry of The Rock and Metal Double Feature Show. Sorry the website entry is late but this is last week's entry. I'll be putting the next show up at midnight tonight. But here's last weeks show if you've missed it.

Listen to the show here:

The Rock and Metal Double Feature Show (9/3/14) by Johnny Mercyside on Mixcloud

The Rock and Metal Double Feature Show: 9/3/14
Track listing:
The Rock Show
Bad to the Bone - George Thorogood
Animal - Def Leopard
Learn to Fly - Foo Fighters
Buffalo Soldier - Bob Marley
For All We Know - Brother and Bones
Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell - Iggy Pop and the Stooges
This Charming Man Without Me - The Smiths vs Eminem
Headstrong - Trapt
The Kill - 30 Seconds to Mars
American Idiot - Green Day
Waiting for the Sun - The Doors
Judy is a Punk - The Ramones
Beard Accessory Store - The Beards

The Metal Hour
People of the Sun - Rage Against the Machine
Sweating Bullets - Megadeth
Zombie - Breed 77
Adrenalize - In This Moment
Welcome Home - Coheed and Cambria
End of the Heartache - Killswitch Engage
This Calling - All That Remains
In Wake of Pigs - Oh Sleeper
The Plague of Humanity - Hate Eternal
South of Heaven - Slayer
Super Nova Goes Pop - Powerman 5000
Seven-Eleven - Mindless Self Indulgence
Vendetta - Slipknot
Total running time: 02:00:00

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Retro Mixtape: Best of Punk

Here is a Retro Mixtape I did when I did my Disaster Fanzine stuff. This was in July 2006, which made me 17 years old. I do like this Mixtape, and if you like Punk music I'd recommend you look at the list. If you think there are other songs that are missing by all means comment at the bottom of the blog and recommend your own!

Mixtape: Punk

A Mixtape is a playlist of a certain genre, band or era. The list is generally 80 minutes long, the same length of a blank CD, with further recommendations if some of the songs aren’t to your taste. Remember kids, downloading is wrong! Here is a list of The Best of Punk, and no that is not Green Day, The Offspring or Blink-182 but pure 1970’s and 80’s Punk. We’ve added some Post-Punk and New Wave in there too, aren’t I nice! So here is a recommended list for your Spiked or Mohican-bearing friends! 80 minutes of pure punk bliss!

1. Babylon ’s Burning – The Ruts
2. Automatic Lover – The Vibrators
3. Into the Valley – The Skids
4. Smash it Up! – The Damned
5. Anarchy in the UK – Sex Pistols
6. Ever Fallen in Love – The Buzzcocks
7. Teenage Kicks – The Undertones
8. Jilted John (Gordon is a Moron ) – Jilted John
9. Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps - Splodgeness Abounds
10. Who Killed Bambi? Edward Tuderpole (with The Sex Pistols)
11. Oh Bondage, Up Yours! – X-Ray Spex
12. Don’t Dictate – Penetration
13. Typical Girls – The Slits
14. Sweet Gene Vincent – Ian Dury and the Blockheads
15. I Wanna Be Your Dog – Iggy Pop and the Stooges
16. Psycho Killer – Talking Heads
17. Jocko Homo – Devo
18. No More Heroes – The Stranglers
19. 500 Miles – Toy Dolls
20. Teenagers from Mars – The Misfits
21. Banned from the Pubs - Peter and the Test Tube Babies
22. I Hate People – Anti-nowhere League
23. Angels with Dirty Faces – Sham 69
24. California Uber Alles – Dead Kennedys
25. White Riot – The Clash
26. Baby I Love You – The Ramones

Don’t like some of the songs? Here are some alternatives:

1. Cool for Cats – Squeeze
2. Dead Beat Descendant – The Fall
3. Hanging on the Telephone – Blondie
4. Spellbound – Siouxsie and the Banshees
5. I Don’t Like Mondays – The Boomtown Rats

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