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YouTube Music Videos

Saturday, October 20, 2007
Evidently, there is a booming cottage industry, heretofore unbeknownst to me (imagine!), of amateur videographers creating music videos for their favorite groups and songs. At the end of this post is a list of cool videos to They Might Be Giants songs that my boys and I found recently.

I say, it's about time! I was just entering high school when MTV came out, and I remember lying in bed composing a video to Rush's La Villa Strangiato, which of course would involve some kids stumbling upon a haunted house and being chased by monsters. (Diversion: I just created a Raymond Scott station on my Pandora profile. Read it to find out what this has to do with anything.) It was sooooo disappointing to me that most MTV music videos were so lame: the band onstage, the band on the bus, the band lip-synching out in a field somewhere. Where's the storytelling?

So, now YouTube has finally afforded those with a more creative vision (and the production skills) to do better. Following is the list of TMBG songs we have found:


Sadly, still no one seems to have done a creative video to La Villa Strangiato, just plenty of bootlegged concert footage. Any videographers looking for a fun project?

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