I’ve never been a huge fan of The Smashing Pumpkins, there one of those bands that I cherry pick a songs from. Thirty-Three is one of their good ones though. They did a really nice job with the video.
I do not really know the band Sigur Ros really well. I have heard a lot of good things about them but I haven’t really taken the time to listen to them yet. However I did happen to see this video a couple years ago. An excellent example of “texture”, or at least what I think “texture” in film is.
This a great looking video. The album the song is on is “Give Up” and is a great album. Plus there’s is an acoustic version of the song on the sound track for Garden State which is a pretty good movie that has an amazing sound track.
This Beck video has been one of my favorite music videos since the first time I saw it back when I was in high school when I was in college. It represents why I watched way too much MTV and VH1 late at night (when they actually played music videos) looking for little gems among so much tripe.
Every time I see it I wonder about the symbolism, but it’s probably just something the director thought would be cool.
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