Here's "Chinese Democracy" from "Guns' Roses"

 

 

"Funny Farm" by "Napoleon XIV" ("They're comin to take me away, ha ha, oh oh, hi hi, ha ha".)

 

 

"If I were a Boy" by "Beyonce", who is not someone I usually "get" but this is good.

 

 

I got this video for "Pray" by "Anemo" originally from the Podsafe Music Network. [ http://music.podshow.com ] I love the style of the band.

 

 

No, "We don't play guitars", by: "Chicks on Speed"

 

The "Large Hadron Rap"

 

 MTV2 Video Mods - Bring Me to Life This is some of the best (and most appealing,) animation. (Okay the music is generic "Chick Rock", but not that bad.) In some places, its flawless. In others, it merely excellent.

 

Antoine Dufour - Drac & Friends I - Guitar -www.candyrat.com

 

I used to play like that, on a classical nylon string guitar (

 

It was a Framus made by [or under the supervision of] Sylvio De Lellis, the late master luthier in Montréal whom I apprenticed under for a while... [

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When I studied the guitar, I studied everything from the growing of the spruce to make the face, to the actual construction, {hence my period of apprenticeship} to the making and winding of the strings, to the styles of play, to actually playing it. I studied the acoustics and the electronics of recording it. I felt I "knew" the guitar.

 

Then some people who I really respected as musicians heard me at the Yellow Door in Montréal, and they were blown away. I gave my guitar to some girl I sort of knew, and I've never needed to play it again since. {I went on to computers, the next chalenge.}])

 

Catharsis has a purpose, but it also has a cost. I spent years on that $%^&ing guitar...

 

Classical Guitar - Joaquin Rodrigo - Zapateado <- This guy is pretty good. Look at the way he holds and moves his left hand.

 

 Okay, I never looked like that, (He's got skinny legs,) but I ofter played Bach's Bourré and even and even composed one of my own (I had to write it down so other people could play it [fun with music notation { tablature }] :-)

 

And to show its not all serious:

mario brothers on classical guitar

 

Ramones "Pet Sematary" HAPPY HALLOWEEEN!!!

 

I've got a thing for Kylie Minogue.

 

O.M.G. ... This is AWFUL. Its absolutely cringe worthy. Its like discovering that your bathroom shower is hooked up to a broadcast camera. Its SO friggin' bad that it could only have come from Microsoft. (And notice the kid's laptop... It's a heavily disguised Mac...)

 

This next video is disturbing on so many levels.

 

Apart from being a song with only one lyric "They only want you when you're seventeen. When you're twenty-one you're no fun. They take a Polaroid and let you go, say they'll let you know, so come on..." repeated over and over, with a pop-synth melodic construction of unwavering symplicity underlying it, this is the victory of the video over the music.

 

They're sort of a more polished, more processed, version of "Chicks On Speed" except that CoS were a musical off-shoot of a couple of women in the fashion industry. CoS said it best when they said: "We Don't Play Guitars".

 

With the frequency shifting and correcting capabilities of computers shaping whatever sound the musicians can generate, I can't help but wonder if the talent is mostly pre- and post- production...

 

Like "David Byrne" and "Talking Heads" once sang: "My God, What have we done?"

 

 

And keeping with "Ladytron", this video is funny in being "ska" in style, extremely so with black and white everywhere, without being "ska" in music, white reggae a la The Police: