This weekend, whilst flipping through the channels on le tube, K and I came across a completely trippy music video. It made me laugh. It made me smile. It perplexed and confused me.
After watching this video, I got a little curious and decided to check out other videos by Of Montreal on Youtube. The 2nd video I found is by far the best.
Enjoy the deliciously trippy diversion that is Of Montreal.
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Robert German enjoys Of Montreal.
Well, of course. Makes perfect sense. It's so natural a fit I wish I had suggested them to you myself.
Have you heard / seen Architecture In Helsinki? They have plenty of video around on YouTube and their myspace (I think it's myspace.com/aih), and I have a playlist of their latest album at imeem.com (search their name and it'll come up).
The only downside, if it is one, about Of Montreal is they're determined to give their songs, uhm, let's say, non-intuitive names. That second video is *not* for the song "Let's Pretend" or "Let's Pretend We Don't Exist" but for the song named "Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games." The first is titled "Gronlandic Edit." I don't know, is it a good thing for a band to force its listeners to twist in the wind of ignorance about their hard to remember and obtuse song titles? It does make it difficult for me to recommend them to friends without sounding even more confused than usual: "Hey! Ya gotta hear the new Of Montreal! -- Wraith Pinned to something or other; it the one where they sing "Let's pretend" in the refrain."
Or do you just call the song what you want to ("All The Beauty's Wasted"? "I Guess It Would Be Nice"? "Forget"?), and that's empowering and fun? (Rhetorical questions, unless you're compelled to respond.)
Thanks for giving me the chance to bring that up; I've been bugged by that since 2005.
Bill Stella
PS: Of Montreal also earns points for the gentle 'Fuck You' they give turn of the millennium English-speaking societies by naming their 1999 album "The Gay Parade" - The only substantial instance I'm aware of post-1970 of any non-clueless person insisting on using "gay" in the common pre-1970 definition in a musical title, in a non-ironic and post-fear of being misunderstood to mean queers so I won't use it - way.
If you know what I mean.
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