Here is my latest update, this time in the form of a convenient video blog! Just press play, and I’ll explain everything.
We knocked off 100-50, now its time to begin rounding off the list of my 100 favorite youtube videos with part 3. In this list you’re gonna find a lot of amazing super groups, all-star pair ups, and ultra rare collaborations! Let’s begin the magical mystery tour right now!
#49. John Lennon, Jealous Guy – I dig this video because of John’s ruminations on the philosophy of love right before he launches into the song.
#48. Louie CK on Late Night With Conan O’Brien – Appropriate because Louie’s genius show Louie began its second season last week. Don’t miss that.
#47. Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Mean Woman Blues/Blue Suede Shoes – They were still young, and they were still thin, and of course they could still rock.
#46. The Beatles, Strawberry Fields Forever – My favorite Beatles song, when I was 17 years old. Read more »
Welcome back again to my youtube favorite retrospective part 2! You know the deal, the list is done, and we’re looking back at all the hits that made us laugh, cry, and die. Let’s start rolling right where we left off!
#74. The Ramones, Blitzkrieg Bop – It’s more Ramones, the greatest and most original punk ever playing the shit out of Blitzkrieg Bop, in Germany of all places. Not bad for a bunch of Jewish guys from Queens.
#73. The Sex Pistols, Anarchy in the UK – When I was in college, I actually had a history professor show us this video as an example of historical outliers. That’s all well and good, but I was just fascinated with how the drummer sat at the front of the band.
#72. Elvis Costello, Pump it Up – Declan MacManus’s punky little pop jam. You gotta love Costello for essentially being the reincarnation of Buddy Holly in modern times, both physically, and musically. Read more »
Part 53 rolls on again with the legendary FLAMING LIPS! I love them so much, and I love this song so much. I’m in love, with a band and a song, why? Because they never break my heart. Take “Talkin’ Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues” from the 1992 album Hit to Death in the Future Head. Take it, and play it over and over. First of all, everyone knows, the greatest songs just begin with lines like, “Imagination, that’s the way that it seems, a man can, only live in his dreams.” You know what that is folks? It’s the lines of a great lyricist, and that’s what Wayne Coyne is, one of the greatest lyricists in rock and roll history. His lyrics are like if John Lennon wrote for Pink Floyd. Wayne gives psychedelic music universal vulnerable heart, and its beautiful. This is one of my favorite music videos ever, one of my favorite songs ever, and you just need to get on board. Check it out!
Welcome to part 44 of my youtube countdown! Today I bring you a real blast from the past. It’s the Flaming Lips on the David Letterman show in 1995 performing their only commercial pop hit, “She Don’t Use Jelly.” I discovered the Flaming Lips when I was 17 years old ten years ago, right before they blew up again in the pop culture landscape. They are kind of impossible not to love. Their sound is a psychedelic mix of screeching yet melodic electric guitars, bodacious larger than life drumming, and lead singer Wayne Coyne’s unmistakable, warbly high, pitched croon. For whatever reason, “She Don’t Use Jelly” made it to #55 on the US Billboard charts, probably just riding the grunge wave of the early mid 90s, but the Flaming Lips were never a grunge band. They have always been a psychedelic garage band bent on pop music domination, clawing their way to immortality by recording dozens of gorgeous songs and records, having an always incredible experimental live show, and lastly, just through sheer grit and determination. They are the ultimate underdog story in rock history. So, without further ado, I present to you their epic ode to female masturbation, with Paul Shaffer making another appearance in a band that no one would have ever have guessed he performed with. Enjoy.