MTV Is Dead, the Nail in the Coffin? YouTube.

Here I thought the music video had died out.  Pop songs are still being run on the radio every ten minutes ( I swear if I hear Enrique’s “Tonight (I’m Lovin’ You”) I’m gonna get an aneurism!), but on the TV, the media is dead.  MTV started becoming irrelevant when they did away with their countdown on TRL.  VH1 plays just as many reality shows as MTV but at the very least they have a countdown somewhere, maybe.  Anyone with a HD channels can watch Palladium, as they always show high definition music videos between their programming of concerts and live shows.

Something new has been brewing in dark.  Something sensational will be very mainstream and music videos will be relevant, the difference is it won’t be on your television, but on your computer monitors and smart phones.  Goggle has quietly unleashed YouTube Top 100, the top 100 music videos based on some poppy music chart.  I assume it’s either top 100 music videos watched, or downloaded, or from the Billboard Top 100 Chart.  

In any case, here’s a chance for users to ditch the Music Television and listen to these songs back to back, an option featured by YouTube, on any medium which allows internet access.  The possibilities are quite endless, you watch/listen to them at work, stream them at parties on the loud speaker and HD TVs, stream from the beach under a sun umbrella, or poolside sipping on a margarita.  The best part, these songs will be relevant because it’s always getting updated with the popularity of just released music videos.

If Goggle was any kind of smart, they’d market this on their Goggle powered Android devices and Goggle TV products.  If any streaming device was smart, they’d add this link as feature as well, I’m looking at you AppleTV. If you were any kind of smart, you’d stop reading this and head over to the link right now.

[YouTube Top 100]

This is Why I Love it When Indie Bands Win Pop Awards

Hearing people bemoan about how Slim and Gaga and Bieber lost to Arcade Fire, really makes me smile.  I’m an Indie Boy at heart and Arcade Fire winning the Album of the Year, the Grammy top prize is a double edge sword.  Seeing pop fans fall to their knees in tears always puts a smile to my face, but the idea of an Indie band going mainstream dampens my feelings of exclusivity.  By that same rationale when Muse won Rock Album on the Year, I was just as excited.

Here’s a link to whoisarcadefire.tumblr.com, which is a collection of people’s upset tweets and blog entries.  Lovin’ it. [whoisarcadefire.tumblr.com]

Silver Sun Pickups | Lazy Eye

I’ve been waiting
i’ve been waiting for this moment all my life
but it’s not quite right

and this ‘real’
it’s impossible if possible
at who’s blind word
so clear but so unheard

i’ve been waiting
i’ve been waiting for this silence all night long
it’s just a matter of time

to appear sad
with the same ‘ol decent lazy eye
fixed to rest on you
aim free and so untrue

everyone’s so intimately rearranged
everyone can focus clearly with such shine

everyone’s so intimately rearranged
everyone can focus clearly with such shine

lost and loaded
still the same ‘ol decent lazy eye
straight through your gaze
that’s why i said i relate
i said we relate
it’s so fun to relate

it’s the room the sun and the sky
it’s the room the sun and the sky

i’ve been waiting
i’ve been waiting for this moment…

The Black Keys - I’m Not The One

I’ve been tried
And I’ve been tested
I was born tired
And I never got rested
Harder than Marble stone
I’m better off Better off left alone

Cause I’m not the one
No I’m not the one
You wanted it all
But I’ll give you none
Cause, I’m not the one

Well, like a toy
To a kid
I said jump
And mama you did
You know, your daddy knows
And your mama knows
That’s wrong
So now it’s time
For me to move on

Cause I’m not the one
No I’m not the one
You wanted it all
But I’ll give you none
Cause, I’m not the one

You think
That I’m normal
But all these years
I’m just trying to warn you
You’d do good
To move on
No it won’t
Hurt me none

Cause I’m not the one
No I’m not the one
You wanted it all
But I’ll give you none
Cause, I’m not the one

Harvey Danger | Woolly Muffler

All I ever wanted to be was a woolly muffler on your naked neck
Double-wrap me when it’s cold
But you pulled a little tight just now
And I’m afraid I feel a choke hold coming on

All I ever thought we might come to was second dates and flirting eyebrows
Or maybe even psychic friends
And we could share a secret language
And almost definitely make more of it
Than it was
But everyone around us would know
Everyone watching would know

This is not a walk with walking wounded
Here’s the ball, here’s the pole, now where’s the tether?
Where’s the tether?
Hands can grow together
If you’re not careful or grateful or whatever
And I never much cared much too much to begin with

I will not take your possibilities under my care
I will not see you on the bus
You want me to hold your hand, it’s a courtship I can’t stand
And here i thought you were crying because you were happy
But no

Friends will turn against you
People disappoint you every time
So if you’ve got greatness in you would you do us all a favor,
And keep it to yourself?
Keep it
keep it to yourself

A labored expat fantasy:
Quit your job and move away with me
Oh what bliss it would be
To pretend we never met

I’m elated now

Alakline Trio | Radio

Shaking like a dog shittin’ razorblades,
waking up next to nothing after dreaming of you and me
I’m waking up all alone, waking up so relieved
while you’re taking your time with apologies,
I’m making my plans for revenge
Red eyes on orange horizons
If Columbus was wrong I’d drive straight off the edge
I’d drive straight off the edge

Taking your own life with boredom,
I’m taking my own life with wine -
it helps you to rule out the sorrow,
it helps me to empty my mind
Making the most of a bad time
I’m smoking the brains from my head
Leaving the coal calling the kettle black and orange and red
This kettle is seeing red

I’ve got a big fat fuckin’ bone to pick with you my darling
In case you haven’t heard I’m sick and tired of trying
I wish you would take my radio to bathe with you,
plugged in and ready to fall