Nostalgia, Money and the Global Village.

This should be a wonderfully euphoric, nostalgic post about Rival School's Used for Glue. One of the music video's I literally fell in love with in my teenage years on Viva 2 (rip). It was just that perfect at that time, in that moment. I still like it a lot - both the video and the song. The video made me buy the record just to have that one song. I just digitalized the record and had the sudden urge to see the video again. I was able to see the viedo despite the demise of (German) music televsion thanks to YouTube. I then wanted to write this wonderful nostalgic blog post about the vid and share/embed the video with you. "Nah-ah" said Universal Music*, apparently they don't want people to spread teh word about great videos that will make other people fall for bands anymore (see: the clusterfuck that is (mainstream) music pr and television in Germany and pretty much every other counry).

Instead, you'll just have to click here.

At least YouTube still is a (alright) resource for otherwise long forgotten music videos. That might all change due to the ridiculous demands from YouTube by GEMA.

Yeah, it all boils down to money. Again.



(* Yeah, okay, the mere fact that a Walter Schreifel band is distributed by Universal is... a bummer.)

edit: Maybe this will just ruin YouTube's dominance.
Here we go, thanks to MySpace Video
Rival Schools "Used for glue"

Where the Wild Things Are

Yeah, that charming (children's) book is coming out as a movie soon. Directed by Spike Jonze, screenplay by Jonze and Dave Eggers - so it might actually be a good adaptation. (Unlike Vorstadtkrokodile, which I read and liked as a book in school, but which I don't even recognize in the movie trailer).

Anyway, Where the Wild Things Are might just be amazing. Check out the trailer:


[via videogum ]

Blast from the Past - Goodybe Pale

Sadly Pale, one of the bands that ruled my teenage years, decided to call it quits after 15 years in "teenage heaven". Their "Goodbye Trouble" definitely belongs on my mental Teenage Soundtrack and picked me up from the floor more than once.

I finally got to see them live during their tour for their latest record in March 2007 - and it was just as cool as I had hoped it to be as a teen. Heck, they even made the Goo Goo Doll's Iris sound good, heart-wrenching - and nice.
Pale were such a great combination of cool and nice. Well, the people probably still are.

When there used to be music on music television.

Bored last night, I switched to MTV. And in one of those sudden fits of nostalgia I seem to have quite often these days, I remembered the 'good ol' days' when there acutally used to music (not neccessarily good, but nevertheless music) on MTV, only interrupted by the occasional Beavis & Butthead or Sout Park episode. Today, South Park interrupts the endless stream of scripted, dreadful dating shows (and there even worse spin offs). And I remembered the great time when Viva Zwei was still on air. And Charlotte Roche did great, well-intended shows (instead of writing bad yet wellintended books) like Fast Foreward.

And then, Pavement's "Carrot Rope" video popped up in my mind. First saw it on Fast Forward, back when there still was music on music television.

Blast from the Past.

You know that feeling when you suddenly hear a song again that you liked "ages" ago, haven't heard a lot since and it suddenly brings up a sweet nostalgic feeling? You suddenly feel 10 years younger, happier and more innocent (even though it's a depressing song and/or only 5 years old)?
Screw the guilty pleasures und arrogance of taste. I like those blasts from the past.
Today: 3 Doors Down with Kryptonite. Came up thanks to this post by Pascal. I like the song, digg the video - and 3 Doors Down turned into crap after that song (or record).