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Christmas Music Videos For 2011

Last week I wrote about some of the new Christmas releases this year.  I thought I'd share some new Christmas music videos this week.

 

An Eccentric Top 50 Music Videos

I just love coming across quirky music blog sites.  One that I have bookmarked and visit once in awhile (mostly since the author only adds content sparingly) has me quite mesmerized.  It's at Live Journal and is called Goethe-re-scape.

He has a fondness for old European pop music and left of center dance music.  In his latest entry he's compiled a list of his 50 favorite videos.  I'll guarantee you haven't seen many of these.  But you will be enthralled. 

Goethe's Top 50 Music Videos Of All Time

Michael Stipe Did The Time Warp

Last Friday, April 23rd, someone posted video footage of a local St. Louis TV show from the late 1970's.  The magazine style show featured a segment on The Rocky Horror Picture Show.   

It's the typical piece with the reporter taking the shocked middle American view of the affair while interviewing the freakish regular attendees.  This late night movie ritual was taking place all over the country and is reminiscent of my experiences. I never went as far as dressing up, but I did enjoy the movie and the participatory antics of the audience.  Though there was the time our college frat dressed up in our ceremonial robes to attend. I probably went to half a dozen screenings.

It appears that Michael Stipe was a fan as well.  At the 1:30 mark of the youtube clip guy dressed in drag is interviewed.  The voice most certainly is that of Stipe.  In fact, he went to high school just outside of St. Louis according to his Wikipedia page. 

This is certainly no surprising news.  Many adventurous music fans were drawn to The Rocky Horror Picture Show.  It's merely a fun little discovery for fans of Stipe and his career. 

More On The Springsteen Hyde Park DVD

Oddly missing from the the June release of Bruce Springsteen Live at Hyde Park is Rosalita which was performed at that show.

Well, until youtube decides to pull it...here's a pro shot take of it. 
Enjoy!

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Nope.  It's Devo.

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Springsteen Live In London DVD Release In June

Bruce Springsteen has announced the release of a DVD from his Hyde Park show in London on June 28, 2009.  The street date is nearly one year later, June 22, 2010.

I'm a bit surprised that he didn't release one of the full album shows since he did do multi-camera filmings for at least one of each.  Oh well, I'm sure they'll mine those down the road.  It also looks like the Darkness On The Edge Of Town box will be out in the fall then. 

This is the first concert film of Springsteen from a festival setting.  It also received great reviews from the UK press.

The DVD is titled, "Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - London Calling: Live In Hyde Park.  The set list goes like this:

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND
LONDON CALLING: LIVE IN HYDE PARK

1. London Calling
2. Badlands
3. Night
4. She's The One
5. Outlaw Pete
6. Out In The Street
7. Working On A Dream
8. Seeds
9. Johnny 99
10. Youngstown
11. Good Lovin'
12. Bobby Jean
13. Trapped
14. No Surrender
15. Waiting On A Sunny Day
16. Promised Land
17. Racing In The Street
18. Radio Nowhere
19. Lonesome Day
20. The Rising
21. Born To Run
22. Hard Times (Come Again No More)
23. Jungleland
24. American Land
25. Glory Days
26. Dancing In The Dark
27. Music under end credit sequence: Raise Your Hand

BONUS MATERIAL:
The River: Glastonbury Festival, 2009

Wrecking Ball: Giants Stadium, 2009

Here's a glimpse of the beginning of the show captured by an audience member.

First Sweet Apple Video, Do You Remember

I talked about Sweet Apple a few weeks back.  J Mascis and Clevelander, John Petkovic's new band. 

Well, here's their first video. 

Insane Video

Some look to Camus, others to Sartre, others still to Nietzsche for philosophical guidance.  The Juggalos...well they have this.

I don't know where to start.  Do you think the Insane Clown Posse (Joseph Bruce and Joseph Utsler) are in on the joke? 

Some choice lines from this instant classic video include:

"Fucking magnets, how do they work"

"Pure motherfucking magic"

"Music is all magic. You can't even hold it. It's just there in the air. "

"Fucking rainbows after it rains. There's enough miracles to blow ya brains"

"Magic everywhere in this bitch."

This will be a nice change up in concert before they launch into "I Stab People".