Maximum YouTube music video joy over at MusicThing
Music // Steve // 13th February 2006
Tom over at ace music-tech blog MusicThing has gone mad on our new favourite thing YouTube, and scouted out a fair few classic music videos, including a suitably mental early TV performance from Iggy and the Stooges, a cracking new Prince single, and the most arse-shaking beat from James Brown's funky drummer Clyde Stubblefield.
Also check that Chaka Khan drumming performance mentioned in the comments. So far I've managed to find a load of scary old Gary Numan doing his Bowie-as-a-robot schtick ("We are glass"), Joy Division being impressively bleak ("Shadowplay") and yet more France Gall ("Quand on est ensemble").
The good news is that the video streaming seems to work through corporate firewalls (Flash videos over normal HTTP?), so if you're at work and the YouTube website isn't blocked, you should be able to get your Chaka Khan fix at your desk. And slow everyone elses connection at the same time, marvellous.
Comments
jeez thats the next 2 months gone then
i can reccomend:
siouxsie live on revolver from about 78
numan - down in the park on whistle test
distillers cover warsaw (nee Joy division) no love lost!
the faint
etc etc
ive just burnt my dinner cos of this.
nice work gents - I like alot
jim w : 13/02/2006 19:10:33
OK, the bits from Jim’s post:
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Hong Kong Garden on Revolver, 1978Comical Gary Numan in Tubeway Army - Down in the park on the Whistle Test, 1979
The Distillers - No love lost (Warsaw cover)
And one of my favourites : Bjork (with the tiniest keyboard ever) and PJ Harvey doing the kiddy-scaring turn at the Brits about 10 years ago -
cover version of the Stones’ "Satisfaction"
stevepaperjam : 13/02/2006 21:09:59