Tag: Music

Daft Punk ~ Interstella 5555 ~ The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem

If you only know Daft Punk from their high-school-party hit One More Time, you just don’t know them enough. The French duo impressed me a lot once I dug a little deeper into their music. This video is their 2001 album “Discovery” set as the soundtrack to a one-of-a-kind anime film that tells the tale of an alien rock band being abducted to Earth (yes, the other way around from what we’re used to) and the dark secret behind the abduction… You might already be familiar with, indeed, One More Time, Aerodynamics, Harder Better Faster Stronger and others that, for me at least, became personal favourites. There’s no dialogue;the only narrative mediums are Daft Punk’s music and the animation, creating a followable story, a satisfying sync of audio/video that serves the purpose of the music video and an experience open for interpretation all at the same time. What else can I say? Enjoy!

As a sidenote, I might add that I’m sharing this with you despite having no delusion that most about no-one will watch a random video, just because I or indeed anyone said so, if it’s longer than just a few minutes. In this case, it’s 65 minutes. The medium is the message and ours has become the medium of the frighteningly short attentions spans…)

Radiohead – (Nice Dream)

I heard this pretty song on S3E20 of How I Met Your Mother (it’s a fantastic sitcom) and it’s stuck with me. The top-rated comment of the above video reads:

Thumbs up if you pity people who know good music only from shitty sitcoms.

I find this a strange idea. How about you?

Dredg – Sang Real

Lyrics

I’m the addict on the corner
I’m the lawyer in the tower
I’m the body with the coroner
No, the leader with all the power
You’re the pillow, the cool side
The sand during high tide
The cocktail, poolside
The water when clouds collide

From the inside out we were formed
From the inside out we will fall
Soon this all will come to an end

I’m a local but a foreigner
Still the addict yet I’m sober
Still the body with the coroner
Many friends yet still a loner
You’re the pillow, the cool side
The sand during high tide
The cocktail, poolside
The water when clouds collide

From the inside out we were formed
From the inside out we will fall
Soon this all will come to an end
Soon this all will come to an end

From the inside out we were formed
From the inside out we will fall
Soon this all will come to an end
Soon this all will come to an end

Yes – Siberian Khatru

It usually goes like this:

1. “Hey, awesome song!”
2. “Wow I can’t get this out of my head!”
3. “I like it so much I want to use it as my ringtone!”
4. *fast-forward a few months*
5. *ring* “Oh gahdz, my ringtone annoys the hell out of me.”
6. *listens to proper song another time*
7. “Hey, I have this song as my ringtone, awesome!”
8. Proceed to 2.

The most observant of you will notice this is a closed loop.Because life is usually not this well-structured and logic-driven, longer and juicier earworms that would deserve to be blared out from my phone every time someone feels the urge to talk to me are usually held back by the sheer power of laziness alone.