Category: music

He’s In A Pond!

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These days, it must be hard for the imagineers and directors of music videos to find an original idea for their next project. However – and I admit that I may be displaying a certain amount of bias here – I think that Harald Zwart has done something a bit different with the new Morten Harket video, which premiered on VGTV this weekend.

Yes. He’s put him in a pond.

I’m hoping that this hotlinked (naughty, I know, sorry) video stays up until a more stable version is published on Youtube.
Now sorted.

The song continues to grow on me, the soothing voice helping, and the new album – of which this is the title track – is already pre-ordered. I can now only hope that Morten survives the onslaught of Aeromonas hydrophila and Leptospira borgpetersenii for which bathing in Nordic ponds is a notorious risk factor.

New Coldplay song is strange and beautiful

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I can’t see it having much commercial success, certainly not in this form anyway, but the remix options seem almost limitless. And I think it’s already growing on me. Weirdly catchy.

I love the video too: all infra-red and 90’s shoegazing. Remember when we all danced like that?
Oh, yes you do.

Oh, and the nod to Ylvis’ What Does The Fox Say is clear for all to see.

Nice work, Coldplay.

Tainted Love played on Floppy Disc Drives

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Incoming from about 75 different sources today (which is excellent because I have not had a minute to blog today): Tainted Love played on 13 floppy and one hard disc drive.

The video itself is almost 18 months old, but I suspect that this Huff Post article, describing it as:

…one of the greatest practical applications of memory-based technology ever created

may have resurrected it.

Embrace coming back

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One of my favourite bands from the 1990s are making a bit of a comeback. they have a new single out in a couple of weeks and a new album (their first in 7 (seven) years) out in April. This is good news and the new stuff sounds quite good too. This is even better news.

Here’s the touching, curious video for Refugees, set in Huddersfield by the look of it.
Never mind.

You may remember Embrace from such hits as Come Back To What You Know, All You Good Good People and the hauntingly beautiful Fireworks.

I enjoyed the whole 80s revival thing, and I have high hopes ready to be crushed that this is the beginning of a 90s revival, which I would surely enjoy even more.

Lim Chang Jung Has The Power To Make South Koreans Behave Themselves In A Proper And Dignified Manner

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From the country that brought us Gangnam Style comes Lim Chang Jung and “Open The Door”.

And it’s excellent!

Yes, with just one stern, reproachful stare (and a catchy song), Lim Chang Jung can make errant citizens immediately change their ways and make the correct decisions. We need to get him into Parliament here. Soon.