August 2009
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#52: "Thank You" - Dido (1998)
Has anyone else parlayed such outstanding mediocrity into even more outstanding mediocrity? I think not.
Dido, thank you for your unspectacular tunes, droney voice and boring personality. If anything, I’ll always laugh when I think about how you’re just one L away from being named “Dildo”.
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#51: "Girl On TV" - LFO (1999)
Since K-Fed’s been on a fat hiatus, there’s been a stark void in white trash douchebaggery since no one else has been dropping them popozao bombs. Time to remind ourselves where douche was born as this holy trinity gives us a lesson in lyrical flair:
“Shooby-doo-wop and Scooby snacks, Met a fly girl and I can’t relax, The only problem is she’s a movie star!
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7 must-watch movies in the second half of 2009
500 Days Of Summer (2 September)
Sigh. When I first saw the trailer way back in May I already had bittersweet feelings about this movie - the kind of feeling you get when you discover a really neat band really early on but you know the classroom douchebag will eventually pick up on it , buy the t-shirt, disseminate it to the public and make it terminally uncool by mass association.
Same...
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#50: "Don't Call Me Baby" - Madison Avenue (1999)
Annoyingly successful dance/house track that got remixed into 49 different versions and got airplay so massive that you’d even hear it played at church during Sunday mass with all them grannies jiving along to it in the pews.
Then you find out that they’re Australians and you get even more annoyed. They’re the kind of people who name their kids Libertrang (true story, read...
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#49: "Komputer Muzik" - Francisca Peter (1984)
We take this retrospective waaay back to the days when music videos looked like home videos. Fran Peter drops the future bomb with this chip-tune ditty filled with Nostradamus-inspired prophesies of the future (ie: “Kini komputer menguasai dunia dari New York ke Petaling Jaya” - friggin whoa!).
From the close-ups of the computer monitor pimping out 8-bit arcade games to clips of...
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#48: "Criminal" - Fiona Apple (1996)
At the tender age when I first saw this video, I thought it was the most sinful thing on Channel [V]. The kind of sinfulness that needed a few Hail Mary’s and some holy water sprinkling to wash off. Everything about it looked and sounded so dirty.
Watching at it again now, it just plays like an American Apparel commercial.
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#47: "Buddy Holly" - Weezer (1994)
This video came out way back in 1994. Think about it. That’s back when Klinsmann was kicking it with Tottenham, back when we had no Internet and back when it was okay to make music videos that had the Fonz doing Russian jumping jacks like he was in the dance-off in Grease (fast forward to 3:05 onwards).
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#46: "Shower Your Love" - Kula Shaker (1999)
Brilliant. Just what I’ve always wanted to see - the world through Crispian Mills’ eyes.
Bonus classics: Sure you all know “Hush” but if you can sing along to the chorus of “Greatful When You’re Dead”, I’ll buy you french fries.
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WatchThe ultimate G.I. Joe song: all-star (sort of) ensemble featuring Alexis Bledel, Zach Galifinakis, Billy Crudup (Dr Manhattan or the unlucky guy with the surname that makes you snigger), Tony Hale (Buster from Arrested Development), Vinnie Jones (former Wimbledon FC midfielder and all-round badass, once played Juggernaut horribly), Julianne Moore, Alan Tudyk (Steve the Pirate from Dodgeball),...
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#45: "I Wouldn't Believe Your Radio" -...
I can remember this being one of the first few Stereophonics videos I’d seen which imminently shaped my opinion of them as being music for car rides and road trips. Look at their jolly road slut faces!