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- froston, on 07/10/2008, -1/+463So is there and actual video to watch? If only there was some type of television station that played music videos...
- northernmunky, on 07/11/2008, -1/+203MTV killed the Music Video Star
- alapoet, on 07/11/2008, -3/+202You know whats I love about Radiohead?
They never try to recreate their last album, or their last video. Always staking out new territory! - caniglia22, on 07/11/2008, -4/+184I remember hearing about a music television channel a long long time ago... I heard they had all kinds of different music videos. I also heard they had a show called Beavis and Butthead. If only it were true... I might actually watch it.
MTV is a joke. - Asvetic, on 07/11/2008, -5/+165Pew Pew
- r2builder, on 07/11/2008, -3/+110This isn't the video mentioned in the article, but it's Radiohead & techy, so will act as a substitute until we see the laser one. This is a video that I made, which has already been on digg, and radiohead.com - but I thought this would be a good opportunity to show it to folks that didn't see it the first time around.
http://vimeo.com/1109226
The music section starts around 1:10. The long boring intro is actually the source code for the ZX Spectrum's beep noises. - busybrain, on 07/11/2008, -4/+78Dr. Evil would be proud.
- Zandarrr, on 07/11/2008, -2/+75"We'll do it with lasers!"
- megamod, on 07/11/2008, -1/+62MTV is a lie
- TheMachine1, on 07/11/2008, -2/+44The scumbags at Viacom have made sure you can not watch a music video on TV.
- CrackyJSquirrel, on 07/11/2008, -6/+42Never really liked radiohead. But I respect that they are always on the cutting edge and they keep true to themselves.
- HuskyPuzzle, on 07/10/2008, -4/+39Man, being a successful musician must be so much fun. "Let's spend an obscene amount of money hiring the most creative people in the biz and then we'll just make it all back." Seeing these guys in GG Park in SF in August and fired up for that show.
- darkchild82, on 07/11/2008, -2/+35I LOVE this song, it's my favourite track. Heck, I LOVE this album!
- floppyparty, on 07/11/2008, -6/+36Looks like the TV on the Radio video, Staring at the Sun.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6uo2WLQ2LVA - frostbyt, on 07/11/2008, -1/+30I have not turned to MTV in over 10 years and feel like I am missing nothing but reality shows.
- Mr.Gone, on 07/11/2008, -1/+28The album itself is recorded on water.
- aside, on 07/11/2008, -1/+24that's actually frickin fantastic. i'm overwhelmed with jealousy at your talent. i'm a singer/songwriter and huge radiohead fan who likes to try new things (like this, perhaps) but could never ever come close to making something this ingenious. you would have/should have won this contest if you submitted in time. great work!
- 4d669, on 07/11/2008, -0/+20Things MTV killed:
1. Radio Star
2. Music video Star
3. The musical movement per decade phenomenon
4. The youth subculture
5. Woodstock
6. The voice of the youth - krahzee, on 07/11/2008, -4/+23Blame Viacom all you want, but they switched MTV, VH1 and others away from straight videos to other crap because of ratings.
When reality shows were constantly killing ratings wise vs. blocks of videos, it becomes hard to argue against more non-music programming. Hell, given the production cost of most shows vs. being handed relatively free programming (a small fee for airing a song, but no cost in shooting the video at all) they must really have seen a stark contrast in ad dollars to make this financially viable.
If the viewers had supported by watching more of the video segments of the day, along with the specialized shows like Yo! MTV Raps and Headbangers Ball, the push would have not been made to go to other stuff. Even MTV2, which was launched to pacify people who were upset that videos were gone from MTV, is now mostly crap in an attempt to bring it higher ratings.
To me the problem televised videos is that there is no sense of urgency to tune in. Unlike a weekly TV show, or a baseball game, for example, videos running all of the time became something to put on when nothing else was on as opposed to something that you had to watch live or miss. MTV always aired the same play list, so if the video was new, chances are you would catch it again and again anyway. Now with the internet, it becomes even more problematic for channels like MTV to put that sense of urgency into it since pretty much any video is easily available on demand thanks to youtube. - Nayson, on 07/11/2008, -1/+20My Iron Lung was a Radiohead song about a Radiohead song.
- Thezeppelin62, on 07/11/2008, -3/+21I love Radiohead.
- DaHuuuuuudge, on 07/11/2008, -0/+17Something in your comment kind of gave that one away...
- shanesemler, on 07/11/2008, -1/+18T.V.? What is that, isn't that something old people watch, like a nickelodeon?
Seriously though, there is a station that plays music videos, its called youtube.com. - mikeophile, on 07/11/2008, -1/+17I wish I could Digg that twice. Amazing work.
- ElGanyan, on 07/11/2008, -3/+19How dare they tease us with those images but not have a video to accompany it! This is teh interwebs! We demand instant gratification!
- ayeroxor, on 07/11/2008, -2/+18*****. If I open a Japanese steakhouse, I'm not going to start selling biscuits and gravy even there are people that like them, because god dammit, I'm a ***** Japanese steakhouse and I'm going to honor by clientele by not watering down myself to try to please everyone. I may not make as much money, but I will get a more devoted clientele and that will be a greater reward in the long run.
- jbird32275, on 07/11/2008, -0/+16MTV was dead before the internet was popular and before people had enough bandwidth to watch video.
- DoubleClef, on 07/11/2008, -0/+15Tear for the fact that the actual video wasn't there. :(
- seanc6610, on 07/11/2008, -0/+14well i've had music hd for a little while now, it's an only HD channel that plays concerts, music videos, showcases etc 24/7. it's awesome to see actual music on music channels.
- kawaiirobo, on 07/11/2008, -0/+13DAMN YOU, How did I not know that would be a Rick Roll!!!! oh wait.... I did.
- Lust4Me, on 07/11/2008, -0/+13Too bad the article doesn't say something informative about the video like "Unfortunately, the video was supposed to drop today but was delayed for some reason, so all we have are the screens. I'll post the video as soon as it comes out."
Oh, wait... - awtodd, on 07/11/2008, -0/+12Awesome song!!
- sadisticmind, on 07/11/2008, -1/+13who do you think was shooting the ppl? humans!? haha! silly human.
- foolosophy, on 07/11/2008, -1/+13Even if MTV did show music videos, what makes you think they'd play Radiohead? A laughable concept. Come on now, didn't you know G-Unit has a new video!?!?!
- transfuse, on 07/11/2008, -0/+11Why use acronyms when you have to explain them every time you use them?
- r2builder, on 07/11/2008, -0/+11Thanks man. :)
- mrgermy, on 07/11/2008, -0/+11But there aren't any sharks. . .
- Asvetic, on 07/11/2008, -0/+11It's 2 people... Thom Yorke and the Female Lead... plus a bunch of partygoers.
- el84, on 07/11/2008, -3/+14***** THING SUCKS
- whitebishop, on 07/11/2008, -0/+10There is a station in Canada called Much Music that play actual music video's. I used to think of it as a sub-standard MTV, now I think its the other way around.
- theOster, on 07/11/2008, -1/+11i think that was the reference, yes.
- Cloud7654, on 07/11/2008, -0/+10But do you LOVE turtles?
- sadisticmind, on 07/11/2008, -0/+10Lame.
Laugh out out loud loud loud laugh out out loud loud out out laugh out loud loud loud loud loud? - Szandor, on 07/11/2008, -1/+11Your feelings are correct.
- Clark3934, on 07/11/2008, -3/+13Strangely enough, "Video Killed the Radio Star" was the first music video to ever air on MTV back in 1981.
- srt4b, on 07/11/2008, -0/+9Less, suckage, less resolution.
- EatChex89, on 07/11/2008, -1/+10I will just say that I have already watched and re-watched this video. Radiohead + Glitch music =
- jonborthwick, on 07/11/2008, -3/+11I like turtles.
- inkswamp, on 07/11/2008, -1/+9I was seriously starting to think I was the only one who knew about these guys. This song is amazing and I've been pushing TV on the Radio on everyone I know. It surprises me that they're not more popular.
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