Heliotrope wrote:
The video for "Bull in the Heather" by Sonic Youth has been on TV a few times lately, and man, is Kathleen Hanna annoying in it, but I bet that I may be the only person on OTF who thinks that.

What network are you watching?

Counting Crows - Mr Jones

Oh man, Counting crows give me ths shits.

For one, it's the attire he is wearing.
Did GAP have a 'douchebag urban cowboy' range out at any point?
Yes, they did, here is the proof.

The only groundbreaking thing that dude has ever done is apparently be the first person to wear UGG boots judging by that video.

Secondly, it's the dreadlocks. With said Urban cowboy attire.

Thirdly, it's the ladies in the video, either waving their hands about like they're in the middle of a big acid trip during the middle of Woodstock. No, you're in a poo music video for middle of the road music. It's either that or them looking all wistful and melancholy.

I aint buying it.

Fourth, it's the way he is lurching about as if possessed by demons whilst ghostly spirits writhe about underneath said cowboy garments, as though he is the frontman of the greatest rock band in the entire history of rock, as though he has reinvented the wheel and rock as a concept.
'OOH LOOK AT ME! I'M AN ENERGETIC FRONTMAN WITH SO MUCH ENERGY! MUSICAL ENERGY THAT IS COURSING THROUGH MY VEINS! THIS ISN'T SHODDY POP ROCK BY THE NUMBERS! THIS IS MUSIC!'

I never did understand what they were all about...

Incandenza wrote:

What network are you watching?

The 120 Minutes show on VH1 Classic. Not the one with Matt Pinfield, which I think is MTV2, but the one with '80s and '90s alternative videos.

Heliotrope wrote:
The video for "Bull in the Heather" by Sonic Youth has been on TV a few times lately, and man, is Kathleen Hanna annoying in it, but I bet that I may be the only person on OTF who thinks that.

You'd lose that bet. Blimey.

Yeah, that's an excellent call, Heliotrope. "Kooky". Blee-ech.

And the original video was for "Every Day Is Like Sunday" by Morrissey. The girl in that really has to be seen to be believed.

It's funny, all I can think of are heroes who I ended up loving way more after seeing the video.

The Midwestern Farmgirl who goes to LA-LA Land, only to be influenced by David Beckham 20 years before he arrived. Greatest nutshot in MTV history.

Pink not only dumping her boyfriend, calling him "pitiful" for wanting to get back with her, but ultimately deciding to drive a motorcycle off the top of a building and getting the aerodynamics absolutely correct as to cross the street in the air and score a direct hit on his living room - thus influencing 9/11 - made me a Pink fan for life.

0:00 - 0:16

Alright, evidently some kind of kidnap scenario unfolding here. Might as well keep watching, I've got the sound turned down so I can't hear the song and, hey, the video might end with a few chopped limbs or maybe a bit like A Serbian Film. Great movie. I was in it, did you know that? I played a Serbian.

0:34 - 0:36

Oh, I see. You're screaming but they can't hear you because they just won't listen and they're dead inside, or something similar. I can't claim to be an expert on any of this, but is it in any way possible that there is some sort of... discord between this pleasant young man and his parents? Perhaps he's struggling with the concept of cognitive dissonance. Those headphones must have cost a bomb for a start, but he's using them to listen to Staind, FFS. Ah, I see what's happening here! This guy evidently can't even dress himself without his mother's assistance so it's unlikely he was capable of walking into a shop and paying for an album by himself. What he really wanted was a copy of Let Go, ostensibly because he loves "Losing My Grip" but in truth it's because he's too young for Playboy and he needs masturbatory material from somewhere, damn it. But he ended up with a Staind CD. Guess I'd be angry too, then. What horrible folk they are, these "parents" (or Kodos and Kang as they're no doubt known on their homeworld).

0:57 - 1:05

They're taking him to a diner and paying for his food? Why, those bastards!!! Don't they know Attack Of The Clones is in the local multiplex?! Besides, he's got an urgent appointment in his bedroom between 19:00 and 19:02 this evening. It's not going to take his sister long to figure out what happened to her copy of Come On Over, you know.

1:24 - 1:25

Yeah, mine too.

2:09 - 2:30

Is this the angsty teen equivalent of the Million Man March, or something? "I have a dream, my brothers! A dream that one day we'll be able to hang out at the mall as long as we want. That one day we'll NEVER be forced to tidy our rooms and take that box of week-old KFC out from under the bed again. That one day our pornographic needs will no longer consist of trying to nab fleeting glimpses of the ten minute preview while Mom and Dad are out of the room! I may not get there with you..."

You've got to love the parents' faces here, though. "Remember it's just a phase, that's all. It's just a phase. You were like that once..."

3:20 - 3:23

Now, on top of silently screaming and pulling faces at people, hallucinations too. Hope those headphones aren't too comfortable, jack. It's best to get used to the idea of something clamped around your head.

Tactictoe wrote:
Counting Crows - Mr Jones

Oh man, Counting crows give me ths shits.

For one, it's the attire he is wearing.
Did GAP have a 'douchebag urban cowboy' range out at any point?
Yes, they did, here is the proof.

The only groundbreaking thing that dude has ever done is apparently be the first person to wear UGG boots judging by that video.

Secondly, it's the dreadlocks. With said Urban cowboy attire.

Thirdly, it's the ladies in the video, either waving their hands about like they're in the middle of a big acid trip during the middle of Woodstock. No, you're in a poo music video for middle of the road music. It's either that or them looking all wistful and melancholy.

I aint buying it.

Fourth, it's the way he is lurching about as if possessed by demons whilst ghostly spirits writhe about underneath said cowboy garments, as though he is the frontman of the greatest rock band in the entire history of rock, as though he has reinvented the wheel and rock as a concept.
'OOH LOOK AT ME! I'M AN ENERGETIC FRONTMAN WITH SO MUCH ENERGY! MUSICAL ENERGY THAT IS COURSING THROUGH MY VEINS! THIS ISN'T SHODDY POP ROCK BY THE NUMBERS! THIS IS MUSIC!'

I never did understand what they were all about...

Crikey. That video was dreadful, in more ways than one.

"Stay still, you twat!"

CV, I smell a book coming on...