Head over to Colonel Blimp, a London-based video house which is producing some of the more interesting current music videos you'll find these days. Besides a great one from WFMU's own Donna Summer, you'll also find a Cheesy Euro-Disco anthem featuring power tools, plus videos from Dizzee Rascal, The Streets, Interpol, Chicks on Speed, Bjork, Basement Jaxx and others.
My favorite has to be Donna Summer's (aka Jason Forrest) video for Stepping Off, directed by the boy wonder Waverly. Structured as a rock tour travelogue, Stepping Off touches on dozens of Seventies rock cliches - wizards, dwarves with fake beards, coke and girls. And refreshingly, Donna Summer never appears in his own video. Click for the video here (Streaming Quicktime 6, but can also be downloaded from the site).
Bringing Cheesy Euro Disco into the 21st century, we have Benny Benassi's Satisfaction, directed by Dougal Wilson, featuring scantily clad babes in safety glasses operating two-speed power drills, Belt Sanders (110 or 220 volts!), Dual Actions Saws and Orbital Sanders. Video link here.
Another winner is Dizzee Rascal's video for Dream, also directed by Dougal Wilson. Dizzee covers the song Happy Talk from South Pacific while cavorting on top of a grand piano with criminal puppets and marionettes. Video link here.
Be sure to also check out Klonherz' Three Girl Rhumba (video link here), and FC Kahuna's Hayling (video link here).
Jason IS in the video, but blink and you'll miss him (watch the party scene carefully).
Posted by: Foreign Internet Listener C | June 05, 2005 at 07:08 PM
Yes, that's right. I saw this video on NY Noise.
Posted by: Krys O. | June 07, 2005 at 10:09 AM
Great video.
The clip for Fatboy Slim's "Bird of Prey" (also on the Colonel Blimp site) is a classic, too.
Posted by: Maximus | June 07, 2005 at 03:40 PM