Aw yeah! Nobody makes fun music videos anymore. Perhaps I can ride the hot tub time machine back to 1985, hop the Concorde to Paris, and totally get down with this posse.
Les Rita Mitsouko is Catherine Ringer and Fred Chichin. “Marcia Baila” climbed to number two on French charts in the spring of 1985. From their first album, “Rita Mitsouko.”
[via Saltyka's Music Takeaway]
A rare performance of “Electric Intercourse,” a track that has bounced around a few of Prince’s long list of shelved projects, and, as far as I know, has yet to see the light of day. Recorded during a Minnesota Dance Theater benefit show at First Avenue on August 3, 1983.
The rest of the show, including the (supposed) first live performance of “Purple Rain,” can be seen here.
[ via 2010Dront ]
Erykah Badu hat tips the P-Funk Allstars‘ “Hydrualic Pump” (and nips a kaleidoscopic jones from Funkadelic’s first album too) for the lead single on her holy-crap-will-this-ever-get-released New Amerykah Part II: Return of the Ankh.
Scope the official, full screen-ish, infinitely looping version of the video, complete with Hitler/O’Reilly/SOTU/sock puppet intro, on her website.
Made for the now closed Pop Life exhibit at the Tate Modern. Not sure if this is a WTF, LOL, or OMG. Maybe all three?
Holy shit! Watch this before it gets taken down. The sound and picture quality are totally whack, but this version of “Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)” is epic.
Prince and Wendy Melvoin are pretty front and center throughout, and you can kind of make out Matt Fink and Bobby Z. in the background. Brown Mark’s bass neck makes it into the left of the frame, and I guess Lisa Coleman has her keyboard rig set up on the other side of the drums.
[thx O.W.]
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The District may be buried under a modest amount of snow at the moment, but here’s hoping we’re not too far off from the warm environs of this post-apocalyptic, pseudo-futuristic, western music video. Lensed by James Cameron for Bill Paxton’s band Martini Ranch, “Reach” is a most bizarre reunion for the casts and crews of Aliens and Near Dark — including Kathryn Bigelow, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, and Jenette “LET’S ROCK” Goldstein.
The music gods certainly don’t look kindly upon the song itself, but sometimes you can’t help but enjoy something that sounds like a Stock Aitken Waterman production and includes Judge Reinhold getting credit for whistling. For the truly adventurous/masochistic, the song can be found on their 1988 album, “Holy Cow.”
[via My Life as a Mixtape]
GERMAN BOLD ITALIC — the one, and only, song about a typeface (which was included as a .ttf on the CD single!). Being a Kylie superfan, it is mildly perplexing how the video for this song eluded me until today. From Towa Tei’s 1998 album, Sound Museum. Video by Stéphane Sednaoui.
Towa Tei - Sound Museum (1998)
01. Sound Museum
02. Time After Time
03. Happy
04. B.M.T.
05. Higher
06. Corridor
07. GBI (German Bold Italic)
08. Tamilano
09. Private Eyes
10. Everything We Do Is Music
[via Music Heaven]
Hail young knaves, your new anthem for pillage and plunder is here! Prince’s extra special fight song for the Minnesota Vikings may be lacking in the musical department, however, considering he probably wrote, recorded and released it all in the span of about 15 minutes, it actually sounds pretty OK.
Equal parts Twin Peaks and Jesus and Mary Chain. Exactly the kind of hissy, sludgy, recorded-from-another-room, shoegaze crap that I’m totally in the mood for right now. “Candy Girl” and two more tracks of the same ilk are up on their Myspace page.
[ thx to T.V. / via Seven Noises ]