While my disc drive has been getting the fixer upper, I've been spending lots of time on MySpace and YouTube sticking my ears and eyes into a bunch of strange things. Some of them have been so strange that I'll probably develop some rare infection as a result, but it's all been worth it since I rediscovered one of the coolest/strangest music videos I've ever watched. I hope the majority of you haven't forgotten The Avalanches, an Aussie electronic music group that'll knock your socks off with their debut (and only official LP thus far) Since I Left You. It's not everyday that you get a chance to listen to an album that was created from some 3,500 vinyl samples and it's not everyday you get a superb music video that's as bizarre as it is entertaining. The song has so many random characters, quirks, and scenes that any other artist wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell cohesively connecting it in a 4 and-a-half minute video.
The Best Part: It may be difficult to pinpoint an official chorus to the song, but the closest thing that comes to one is definitely my favorite part of the video. The combination of the elderly-clad Avalanche members singing "That boy needs therapy!" and "Psychosomatic!" while they're backed by a freakishly smiling grandma on a drum kit. Couple the senior citizen band with a talking coconut puppet and a turtle with the superimposed face of an old man asking "What does that mean?!" and you'll have a hard time not laughing a little. You may think it's an understatement to call this video eccentric, but it's one of the more interesting and stimulating videos I've ever seen.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Vintage Videos: "Frontier Psychiatrist"
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9 comments:
2001 is "vintage" now?
I feel old.
7+ years in the "age of instantaneous information" qualifies as vintage to this tech kid!
i adore this video
great link. thanks. -paige
The Avalanches remain a favorite of mine and this video is just as intelligent as their music.
you're crazy in the coconut
lol
vintage if you scale like wine maybe
kill will, love gus
Fantastic, and fantastic timing -- this song just came up on my ipod random the other day and I stopped what I was doing to listen attentively and try to construct a video and story in my mind's eye. It's fun stuff.
I know I had a childrens story cassette tape when I was growing up that is included in this song. I just cant figure out what the sample they are using is. It is the lady that says things like "he was white as a sheet" and "what does a parrot say?". It was a cassette of childrens stories (that I believe were religious in nature) and that lady did the narration on most of the stories. If someone coudl figure out what sample that came from you woudl solve a problem I have been trying to solve since this first came out. I ever emailed their myspace page to ask them directly, never got a response. HELP!
-Trey
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