General Music Chat

Ok, call me an old geezer, but I never could quite get into those story vids, mini-movies or whatever you wanna call 'em. Give me concert footage any day; I still prefer the pre-MTV clips where folks just play a tune live. I got cable TV just in time to see the first broadcast of MTV, but got tired of it pretty quick. Yeah, I know: they're very creative, use lots of distaff elements, tell a good story, etc... I still say 'nyet.'

I'm w/ Joe Walsh on this one. That's great and all...but can you play it live?

I'll say it again.... eMpTyV set music back about a decade. At least.

I used to watch VH-1 (when that was actually a music channel ) in the afternoons after work and they had a show that played the old sound stage recordings from the 60s and 70s. I still relish those performances. Heart - Magic Man, Tommy James - Crimson And Clover, etc.... To see a band play a complex song you've heard on the radio a thousand times, yet you can tell it's not just a lip sync and overdub affair. That rules.
Def Leppard would wear the same clothes on every night of the Hysteria tour and play the hits several times a night just to get that corny footage for those cookie cutter videos.

Ok, call me an old geezer, but I never could quite get into those story vids, mini-movies or whatever you wanna call 'em. Give me concert footage any day; I still prefer the pre-MTV clips where folks just play a tune live. I got cable TV just in time to see the first broadcast of MTV, but got tired of it pretty quick. Yeah, I know: they're very creative, use lots of distaff elements, tell a good story, etc... I still say 'nyet.'

i'm w DP on this one. Give me real footage of musicians playing ANY day!

I'm w/ Joe Walsh on this one. That's great and all...but can you play it live?

and i'm w Joe on this one (and on pretty much EVERYthing).

Now you guys are getting totally off topic.
Go back and please read the OP. This thread is strictly about video concepts.
I'm not a music video fan myself but I do believe some have artistic merit.
That's what this thread is all about.

c'mon, jook. it's all just conversation, no? and threads go where they go.

besides....there's plenty of relevance to the thread's original topic. Both DP and i weighed in w our views on music vids. Seems pretty on point to me!

Maybe I shouldn't have posted a video thread in a music forum?? Whatever............carry on.

hey, it was no skin off my nose. and i doubt anyone else was bugged by it either.

you put up a thread about music videos....and some offered up ones they like, and some voiced their opinions ON music videos. no big whoop, and it's just biz as usual from where i sit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug7IgB8MfWE

I always liked this one....my take is that the folks waiting for the bus are a thinly veiled metaphor for the Katrina victims waiting for help.

and points for George Porter driving the bus....since we all know how he "drove the bus" for The Meters!