Music Video Round-Up

The new Arctic Monkeys video is pretty great:

http://videoteque.blogspot.com/2006/04/arctic-monkeys-view-from-afternoon.html

(Did you know that the Arctic Monkeys was just one guy? And that one guy is Josh Hartnett?)

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But if you only watch one of these videos, watch Carpark North's profound and unsettling "Human." Go here:

http://www.carparknorth.dk/index2.html

Click MEDIA, then HUMAN. Fuckin' Flash.

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The New Pornographers' "Sing Me Spanish Techno" is really good, too. It goes from pitiful to upsetting to ridiculous and hilarious.

http://videoteque.blogspot.com/2006/04/new-pornographers-sing-me-spanish.html

Okay, who is that bartender? That's gotta be a cameo.

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Speaking of, the video for Neko Case's "Maybe Sparrow" features a creepy hand-drawn story of a dead bird. Unfortunately, fuckin' Flash has a shitty video player that makes the music just slightly out-of-sync with the images.

http://www.epitaph.com/videos/player/759

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It's tough to do stop-motion in a music video without conjuring those praised-to-the-sky Tool videos from the our youth. I guess Wolf Parade pulls it off, though:

http://wolfparade.nonstuff.com/2006/03/26/modern-world-video/