I MISS MY MTV 80′s FLASHBACK SOFT CELL- TAINTED LOVE If you were an 80’s band that covered a sixties hit, and wanted to make a video to you you’re newer, darker version of the song,–what’s the obvious route to go? A GrecoRoman/Victorian/Preppy theme of course! You’re going to want to just mash different time [...]
I MISS MY MTV The Walkmen-Heaven I really like this band. This song is a pretty good representation of why. The video reminds me of one of those images that is made up of a million smaller images. The smaller images chronicle the life and times of the band, where they are from, who has [...]
I MISS MY MTV HEADBANGER’S BALL Dethklok-Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle I know just as much about heavy metal as I do about building a Mars rover, but that doesn’t mean I won’t speak with an arrogant confidence on the subject. This may be a fake band from a cartoon, but it’s fully brutal. From [...]
I MISS MY MTV Everybody Talks – Neon Trees This song is fucking rad, this video is cool as fuck and I’ll be goddamned if I didn’t have a good time enjoying both simultaneously. This video captures the fun and excitement that MTv used to portray on an hourly basis. The cinematic shooting of the [...]
I MISS MY MTV TAKE A WALK – PASSION PIT What if you could see the world throught the eyes of the bounciest ball of all time? What if that world was full of CGI clouds and real footage of city streets? What if that view was accompanied by some rad fucking music? What if [...]
I MISS MY MTV 80′S FLASHBACK! MICHAEL JACKSON – BEAT IT To this day, I have no fucking idea what is going on in this video. I think two rival gangs are assembling in the city but people are coming out of the sewer and joining when they walk by an alleyway all willy nilly. If [...]
I MISS MY MTV JACK WHITE – SIXTEEN SALTINES This video features kids that appear to rule the world in what can only be called pure motherfucking anarchy. They boil bourbon in a coffee filter and use a gas mask to get high off of the fumes. They eat sandwiches off the ceiling. They have [...]
I MISS MY MTV HEADBANGER’S BALL CLUTCH – ELECTRIC WORRY I know this isn’t the headbangingest song off all time, but come on. This is hillbilly headbanging at its finest. And any time a song wants to include the lyrics “bang, bang, bang, bang, vamonos, vamonos” it is officially fine with me. Sure, the lead [...]
I MISS MY MTV FUN – WE ARE YOUNG It took a while, but I finally caved. I don’t want to like a band that calls themselves Fun because fuck you for naming your band after the coolest thing you can have. But goddamit…they fucking lived up to it. This song is pure fun and [...]
I MISS MY MTV YO! YPF RAPS SUGAR HILL GANG – RAPPER’S DELIGHT Yes, this is an easy one. And yes, I know it’s not 1982 but in a time when everything becomes instantly nostalgic and people forget where things are actually rooted, making the MTv generation watch the Sugar Hill Gang perform “Rapper’s Delight” [...]
I MISS MY MTV 80′S FLASHBACK! DEXY’S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS – COME ON EILEEN Fiddle? Check. Stock footage from the past? Check. Banjo? Check. Overalls? Check. This video was the 80′s in the best and worst way possible. The style, fashion and mentality of this video all make me want to crap barf. However, AND THIS [...]
I MISS MY MTV CARRIE UNDERWOOD – GOOD GIRL This song is too catchy. I have a fear that if this song were a drug, I would be a full blown addict. I don’t know if it’s the clapping, the drum/vocal post-chorus or the insanely powerful vocals and melody but there is something about this [...]
I MISS MY MTV HEADBANGER’S BALL THE PROMISE – IN THIS MOMENT I love me some lady metal – nothing is more surprisingly awesome than a hot chick letting loose a demon growl. My tolerance for screamo is fairly limited though; I’m all for it when used sporadically for emphasis or heighten the intensity of [...]
I MISS MY MTV SKRILLEX- BANGARANG Skrillex is here, and here to stay at least for the time being. There’s no denying that. Even if he fades into obscurity, he’s brought dub step to the minds of the general population with all of it’s controlled chaos, dissonant robotic sounds and aggressive rhythms. Even with that [...]
YO! MTV RAPS The Weed Man – E40 Listen to this man flow. Yes, the hook to this song is catchy and hilarious. Telling your momma that you know the weed man and that he is your friend is ridiculous, but E40 is where this track gets outrageous. I dare you to tell me [...]
I MISS MY MTV MIA – BAD GIRLS There’s been a lot of talk since the SuperBowl Halftime show if MIA flipping off the camera would affect her career, adversely. Two things have to be considered: the first is, NO FUCKING WAY. Nothing any celebrity does can affect their career negatively. Chris Brown beat the [...]
I MISS MY MTV 80′s Flashback London Calling – The Clash This song has been lauded with adulation more times than I would care to count, so I will save you the story about how much this song means to me as a musician and what the Clash should mean to the world. What I [...]
I MISS MY MTV The Civil Wars – Poison and Wine This band was one of the biggest surprises of 2011 because they sing country music and they totally don’t suck. They proved to me that the line between this and all of the indie darlings that I love is razor thin. And not only [...]
I MISS MY MTV HEADBANGER’S BALL The Sword - Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians The Sword are one of my favorite kinds of bands. You look at them and maybe think “Oh, it’s cool that they’re sort of ironically doing the old-school metal thing” and then look again and realize there is absolutely no fucking [...]
I MISS MY MTV The Maccabees – Feel to Follow You know the drill. I love this band. They have a new album out soon. I’m so excited I’m actually paying for it – in Pounds, not weak American Dollars. My expectations for it are so high they can’t possibly disappoint me because then I would die. [...]
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