I don’t swim and I have a morbid fear of drowning but I still absolutely love jet skis. I’ve only been on one a handful of times and every time I was the passenger as opposed to the driver but still, it was a blast. Of course, I was scared senseless the whole time but still. It’s kind of like riding a motorcycle, except you’re in the water and you can pretend like you’re in a movie or something. As this video shows, jet skis are very cinematic.
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When you’ve got three ghosts following you around on a bicycle, it’s going to make you a little anxious.
Actually, in all seriousness, I’m sure everyone can relate to this video. We all have our ghosts following us.
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So, this video is kinda brilliant both visually and musically. In fact, this might be the first video that I’ve seen this year that I’ve enjoyed as much as I enjoyed the video for UPSAHL’s Drugs. This video is a riddle and an enigma. It’s like a dream of dark and disturbing things, with just enough wit to keep you watching.
Sit back and allow the mood to take you away.
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Eddie Money, who was one of the major voices of the 80s, died on Friday. He had been in poor health for a while and had recently been diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer. He was 70 years old and he will be missed. He leaves behind a legacy of music that epitomized a decade.
I Wanna Go Back was not originally recorded by Eddie Money. The song was first performed by a band called Billy Satellite. Their version was released in 1984 and was their first song to place on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Eddie Money’s cover version, which featured backing vocals by Marilyn Martin, came out in 1986 and was included on his Can’t Hold Back album. Both the song and the video were released as a follow-up to Money’s monster hit, Take Me Home Tonight.
The song is about a man thinking about the past and wishing that he could go back to the way that things were. The video features Eddie revisiting his old high school. (I don’t know if that’s actually Eddie’s high school in the video or not.) The scenes of Eddie wistfully remembering the past are interspersed with scenes of Eddie and his band playing for an enthusiastic audience so maybe the present wasn’t as bad as the song suggests.
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This is a fun and retro video and it’s kind of easy to watch it and pretend like it’s trailer for some low-budget 80s sci-fi film.
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The woman in the video is actually the mother of director Zia Anger, which adds a whole new layer to this video. This is a video that’s about …. well, everything. What does it mean to be a woman? What does it mean to be a mother? What does it mean to be an accident or a quirk of fate?
Plus, it’s trippy! That’s always a good thing.
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Uhmmm …. okay.
So, this is from David Hasselhoff’s upcoming new album, Open Your Eyes. The entire album is going to be cover tunes. This song was originally recorded by a group called The Lords of the New Church, which had a line-up of four musicians who had previously made a name for themselves as members of punk bands in the 1970s, Stiv Bators (The Dead Boys), Brian James (The Damned), Dave Tregunna (Sham 69) and Nick Turner (The Barracudas).
(Why yes, I did copy and paste that from Wikipedia. Why do you ask?)
Anyway, I know that when I think of punk rock or even post-punk rock, David Hasselhoff is the first name that comes to mind. In this video, the Hoff’s voice actually sounds okay but he goes a bit overboard with the facial expressions. To be honest, the whole video has kind of a 90s feel to it but I get the feeling that might be intentional. Certainly, the wall of TVs feels a bit retro, as does the family watching in amazement. Families today are more likely to be gathered around twitter than gathered around the television. My favorite part of this video would have to be the politicians and the bankers throwing the money around. You can literally hear them yelling, “Look how evil we are!”
As always, the Hoff seems to be having fun and if you’ve ever wanted to see David Hasselhoff sing about income inequality …. well, here you go!
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This video has a nice retro feel to it. Watching it, it feels like one of those music videos that would have been made in the late 70s or the early 80s in order to show what aspiring musicians could accomplish if they invested in a personal computer of their very own. You keep expecting someone to say, “Now that I’ve got a Next Generation Mojo Video Maker, I can really make my music come to life.”
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Deranged for rock and roll?
Hey, who isn’t?
I like this video because it kind of has this weird, dream-like feel to it. You watch it and you get the feeling that maybe it’s taking place in some section of New Mexico that was spared from the apocalypse. Life is going on, despite the end of the civilized world and everyone’s trying to enjoy themselves and continue doing what they were doing before the bombs fell but you still can’t help but notice that there’s less people around than before.
I know that some people will probably read that description and say that I tend to assume that every music video is, in some way, about the end of the world. Well, maybe that’s true but can you blame me? Seriously, if you don’t want me to assume that every music video is taking place in an apocalyptic future, stop shooting music videos in the desert.
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To be honest, I initially assumed that this song was literally saying “Kill the Lonely” as in lonely people. Watching the video, I assumed that the idea was that Amanda Tenfjord had been kidnapped by some sort of extremely hyperactive cult and they were brainwashing her by forcing her to take part in calisthenics. From what I’ve read, it appears that’s how most cults get started. Myself, I could never join a cult because the whole communal living thing would get on my nerves and I don’t think I would be able to focus enough to make much money selling trinkets on a street corner. That may just be me.
I guess what I’m saying is that I wouldn’t want anyone to end up like Little Ice here:
However, it appears that my morbid interpretation of this song was, as usual, incorrect. Apparently, this song is all about killing the loneliness that might be lurking within you and one way to do that is to hang out in the desert with a bunch of happy looking friends.
And I guess that could be a solution. Personally, it wouldn’t work for me because I’m not a fan of the desert and I can only be around enthusiastic people for so long. In my case, I would never cheer myself up by taking part in a group hug. Instead, I’d curl up on the couch and read a true crime book while TCM played in the background. To me, that’s how you kill any and all sadness.
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Through the Shattered Lens 