Saturday Morning Videos

by Pop Tarts Suck Toasted on Sat, 2009/04/25 - 2:00pm Post to Twitter

Andy Milonakis - "Let Me Twitter Dat"; A series of still photographs isn’t really a video, but when they are pieced together with an super simple, but hysterical concept it works out really well. Tweet, tweet bitch!
Grade: A-
  

King Khan & the Shrines - "Land of the Freak"; There’s something about King Khan that just screams retro. It could be the soul infused funk tunes he belts out or his general sense of style, but whatever it is this video definitely matches it with it’s own retro vibe. It’s not the greatest video, just a series of silly images, but the song is absolutely great!
Grade: B

The Sweptaways & Jens Lekman - "Happiness Will Be My Revenge"; This isn’t really notable as a video. All it is is a record player with hands popping in and out from time to time. But since this is the first appearance (at least that I know of) of this new Jens Lekman song, well that alone makes it worth the watch and listen.
Grade: B- (video scores low, the song is good)

Green Day - "Know Your Enemy"; Didn’t Audioslave already make this video? For a band that I adore, Green Day have always had some shitty videos. They always feature themselves prominently in them, usually focusing on live shots and I found that terribly boring for music videos. They should get Hype Williams and see what they end up with!
Grade: C-

Kanye West - "Amazing"; YO, I KNOW ‘YE IS TRYING TO BE A DOPER PERSON RIGHT NOW AND HE’S NOT TRYING TO BE ALL ABOUT HIMSELF BUT COME ON MAN THIS VIDEO IS PRETTY FUCKING BORING. YEAH LANDSCAPES ARE PRETTY AND SCENIC AND ALL THAT SHIT BUT THERE’S SOME BEAUTIFUL LADIES IN THIS VIDEO AND YOU DON’T BARELY SEE THEM! SHIT ‘YE THAT’S SOME COCK BLOCKER SHIT RIGHT THERE!
Grade: B-

Pterodactyl - "December"; When lights, colors, and sounds all blend together like they do in this video it can be a beautiful thing. Yes, it’s a bit trippy what with all the lights and colors coming into your retinas like they do, but it looks awesome going from light to dark and definitely fits the song beautifully!
Grade: A-

Video of the Week:

Matt & Kim - "Lessons Learned"; It’s kind of funny that all the focus on the new Matt & Kim video has been on the duo’s nudity. There has been a mostly naked singing cowboy in Times Square for years! This is not new to us New Yorkers! The thing that I was really caught up with were the expressions on Matt and Kim’s faces. It was as if they were in Times Square for the first time ever, and let’s face it with their reputation that’s totally possible.