Ok. After a bit of a hiatus, we’re finally back in business. There are just WAY too many good music videos being pushed out right now that don’t have a home, except on some shitty music video channel (good luck finding one that actually plays music) or in the vast abyss that is “the internets”. Our mission, as you know, is simple. Pick the gems out from the rest of the crap and serve them up daily, right here on AudioChicken.com.
So, without further ado, I bring you The Walkmen and their very cool video for “On The Water” from their 2008 release, You & Me…
Artist: The Walkmen
Song: On The Water
Album: You & Me
Label: Gigantic
Director: Nir Ben Jacob
“Everybody Wants To Rule The World” HAS to be one of the greatest songs to come out of the 80’s. And almost 25 years later, it still draws a smile…because it’s good, not because it’s funny. This song has been used over and over again in films and television shows, and has inspired a huge variety of covers by everyone from American rock and jazz artists to Jamaican reggae and even a Swedish version. Some of you may remember it was featured at the end of the 1985 film Real Genius, one of Val Kilmer’s finest works.
Since I spent part of yesterday’s post extolling the virtues of Patrick Daughters’ directorial efforts, I thought it necessary to showcase his most popular work to date…the music video for Feist’s “1234″. If you don’t already know this song, please crawl out from that rock you’ve been living under and join the rest of the world. Even those of us who avoid pop culture couldn’t have escaped this one as it graced just about every radio station and even forced itself on us via television as the theme to the iPod Nano commercial. It’s all good though…notice how many times they cut. Zero. That’s right…it’s all one take. See? Pretty cool.
Very cool video for a great song off a great album. Department Of Eagles originally formed back in 2001 while all of its two members attended NYU and released an LP under their original moniker, the Whitney on the Moon UK. In 2004 one of the members went on to join another band you may have heard of, Grizzly Bear, while still contributing to DoE. When they reconvened to produce In Ear Park, their first full-length release, they had the help of several Grizzly Bear members who joined them for the sessions, something pretty apparent at the album’s first listen.
The video was directed by acclaimed music video director Patrick Daughters who has worked with everyone from Kings Of Leon to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs to Depeche Mode (and was responsible for the award-winning video for Feist’s “1 2 3 4″), as well as Canadian visual artist Marcel Dzama whose work you might recognize from the cover of Beck’s Guero album. This is his first foray into music video directing…not bad.
Most people know Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard and his side project The Postal Service that released one of the better records to come out over the past decade in 2003’sGive Up. What they don’t know is that the other half of the band is Jimmy Tamborello, otherwise known as Dntel, and the inspiration to work together actually came from this song of Dntel’s which Gibbard lent his vocals to back in ‘01.
Since 2006, there have been rumors floating around about The Postal Service releasing a long awaited follow-up. Although there is some truth to it all (Gibbard and Tamborello have been “throwing ideas back and forth”), they’re both busy with their own music and there were never really any plans for a second record. So for all of us anxiously awaiting some good news, we’ll have to live with enjoying some new old stuff…
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