Here are some music videos I quite like and some words about them. It's a gimmick.
Here's some music I've been listening to recently.
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Mid Morning Music Video #360 - ‘Intro Intro’ by Little Nikki
This song is very good. Like, ‘I’mma go out and dance in a club, and I really hope they play that Little Nikki song so I can get down on the floor HARD’ sort of good. That sort of good where you hope that before the night out you are having is done they play this song so you can dance, but you hope that before you go out, and then, just in case this song is, for some reason, not played whilst you are out, you put it on in a living room where you and your friends are pre-whatevering before going out and everybody gets up and dances on your coffee table together, only for the coffee table to break in half under the mass of five people dancing up on it, causing everyone to crumble to the floor in a mass of gyrating bodies, but instead of worrying about the fact that you are being squashed (and, possibly more importantly, that you are going to need a new coffee table), you smile, because you have just shared a great moment whilst listening to a very good song with some close friends. That sort of good.
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Mid Morning Music Video #358 - ‘Take Care’ by Drake ft. Rihanna
The best song of 2011 gets a video treatment that it rightfully deserves. Just a spectacular piece of art.
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Mid Morning Music Video #357 - The Weeknd, live at Coachella
Watch this. You should, nay, you MUST, watch this. I imagine beng there live was kind of magical. One of those great, great moments where music is amazing and people are amazing and you fall deeper and deeper in love with every single note of music that The Weeknd has released so far. Those three free mixtapes from last year are all spectacular in their own ways.
Mid Morning Music Video #356 - ‘Kill The Lights’ by The-Dream ft. Casha
Incredible The-Dream song gets an official video. If you’re thinking about having sex tonight, put this on beforehand and I imagine it will enhance your pleasure. Although don’t watch the video at the same time. Avoid doing that. That’s not good sex etiquette (sextiquette? Yeah, sextiquette works).
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Mid Morning Music Video #335 - ‘What Is Light? Where Is Laughter?’ by Twin Atlantic
The amount of love I have developed for Twin Atlantic is a combination of both an utmost joy and, frankly, a little bit of an embarassment to me. Understand, I am not embarassed about the fact that I am listening to them regularly. Merely the fact that I have spentdays, literally days, where I listen to just them and nothing else. Last.fm reliably informs me that I have listened to them 208 times in the past 3 months, which is a mere representation of how much I have listened to them, seeing as around 50% of the music I play doesn’t actually get scrobbled to Last.fm.
Anyway, to this song. This song has some things going for it. I wouldn’t say it was Twin Atlantic at their best, an honour which I’d say probably belongs to ‘A Guidance From Colour’, or maybe ‘Better Weather’ (being the sucker for the big ballad rock song that I am), although I also do really really really like ‘Free’ a lot, but this is Up There in terms of quality. Also, Scottish.
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Mid Morning Music Vido #334 - ‘Hitsville UK’ by The Clash
Imagine you’re, ooh, I don’t know, go with me, just for a minute, and you’re 16-ish and your friends like really shit music and you don’t like shit music, but don’t really like any music, although you’re dipping a toe cautiously into the water of liking some music. That’s kind of a rough estimation of how I felt about hearing ‘Sandinista!’ for the first time, from whence on it was a downward spiral into where I am now. ‘Hitsville UK’ is…well, let’s not really make any bones about it, ‘Hitsville UK’ is a straight up pop song about how the major labels are hoovering up acts on the nascent independent music scene and churning out rubbish music on the radio. It’s also incredible.
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Mid Morning Music Video #333 - ‘Another Bed’ by The Twilight Sad
I’m often struck by how much The Twilight Sad are my favourite Scottish band. That’s a pretty big claim, given the competition, but it’s completely true. This is the second single off of new album ‘No One Can Ever Now’, an album which takes the band away from their stratospherically noisy guitars and on to stratospherically noisy keyboards. Imagine if New Order got really fucked up one night with My Bloody Valentine. Or something. It’s brilliant, though, this song, as is the whole album. And that voice. That bloody voice. Unf.
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Mid Morning Music Video #332 - ‘Chains Of Love’ by Ryan Adams
Ryan Adams is a handsome man. Also, got my tickets for his Sheffield City Hall date this morning for Rosie and I, so that’s VERY EXCITING. ‘Ashes & Fire’ is very easily in my top five albums from last year.
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Mid Morning Music #331 - ‘I’m The One’ by Reema Major
Amazing. This is amazing. Really amazing.
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Mid Morning Music Video #330 - ‘Glory’ by Jay-Z feat. B.I.C
I think the best way to demonstrate my feelings towards this, the song Jay-Z has written to celebrate the birth of his new baby girl, is to just to direct you to this tweet (yeah, I twitter, add me if you like) I wrote last night,
Mid Morning Music Video #329 - ‘Memory Of You’ by Nicola Roberts
Yesterday, something amazing happened. Nicola Roberts dropped her ‘Yo-Yo’ single (possibly the best song off of ‘Cinderella’s Eyes’, for the record) backed by this, a solo version of ‘Memory Of You’, originally by Girls Aloud, and released as a B-Side to ‘The Loving Kind’. This is it, right here. Give it a listen, it’s probably Girls Aloud’s best B-Side, after ‘above ‘Hoxton Heroes’, which narrowly edges out ‘Dog Without A Bone’ for second place. Anyway, in Nicola’s hands, it stays pretty faithful, and yet becomes even more amazing. Imagine getting as close to Robyn as it is possible to get without actually being Robyn, or a Girls Aloud song that is a slightly more bass-y ‘Untouchable’ and you’re basically there. It’s incredible, and makes me do a little happy dancey smiley thing.
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Mid Morning Music Video #328 - ‘212’ by Azealia Banks
Here’s one of 2011’s songs that’s just snuck up on me recently. It’s a bit splendid, is this. 2012 should be the year of amazing female rap music, given Azealia Banks, Kreayshawn, Lady Leshurr and Reema Major all wriggling through last year, to throw on top of Nicki Minaj having a new album out next month.
Mid Morning Music Video #327 - ‘Holy Holy’ by Wye Oak
In keeping with yesterdays theme of doing the best of 2011 in early 2012, here’s Wye Oak’s ‘Holy Holy’, off of their fabulous ‘Civilian’ album, which was pretty much the best album I heard all last year. It’s all wonderful, sharp guitars, breathy female vocals and driving drums. Lovely.
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Mid Morning Music Video #326 - ‘Experimenting With Rugs’ by Florrie
Starting 2012 with 2011’s best Pop song. Maybe even best song period.
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