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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Ten More Music Videos with Bicycles

Here's all the bicycle music videos I've found so far on a YouTube playlist. #YouTubeNchill

1. Flume and Chet Faker - "Drop The Game" 2013 *A few bicycle cameos in a video that is all about the dance moves.

2. Duke Westlake feat. VerBS - "Geyser" 2013 *This bicycle has a starring role in the video, with close-ups and everything; courtesy of Mello Music Group.

3. Latyrx feat. Forrest Day - "Exclamation Point" 2013 *I hereby resolve to stop overusing exclamation points.

4. Isaiah Rashad feat. SZA - "Ronnie Drake" 2013 *One of my favorite things about SZA is that she is not afraid of getting dirty. She's playing with a pile of leaves in this video and can be seen wading in a dirty pond after putting her white sweater in the dirt on Ten Music Videos featuring Reflections.

5. KMD - "Peachfuzz" 1990 *MF Doom's first crew has been down with bikes since 1990.

6. Rocky Rivera - "Ain't No Way" 2014 *This video also has skateboards, playgrounds, bubbles, and dogs.

7. Dag Savage feat. Blu - "Don't Stop" 2014 *Synchronized dance routine for the win.

8. Kwamie Liv - "Follow You" 2014 *It's a blink and miss it bicycle, at 0:45. She is from Copenhagen, Denmark and she is awesome.

9. Mick Jenkins - "Jazz" 2014 *He gives some great advice in the first line of this song. Mick Jenkins is opening up for Method Man and Redman (cue giddy squeals) at The Showbox on November 3. Bonus points for having balloons.

10. Fences feat. Macklemore + Ryan Lewis - "Arrows" 2014 (SEATTLE MUSIC) *This is a truly amazing music video. It has a double bicycle as well as a tiger, some Wes Anderson shit on a train, a bunch of taxidermied (not a real word) ani mals and a ladder.

*The first installment of Ten Music Videos with Bicycles can be found here. It has LL Cool J, DJ Shadow, En Vogue, J Dilla, Naughty By Nature and five more.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Ten Music Videos featuring Chains

1. Jeru The Damaja - "Come Clean" 1993 *This is another one of those good beats.

2. EPMD - "You Gots To Chill" 1988 *I love that this video takes place in an ice factory, can't get more chill than that.

3. Rocky Rivera feat. Davinci - "SF City Retrospect" 2011 *Her verse is the best part of this song by far, it starts at 1:26.

4. Billy Idol - "White Wedding" 1982 *One of the guys has chains on his black outfit, no surprise really. I like the part when Billy unwinds his scarf while looking at the camera, followed by a pout.

5. Raekwon - "Incarcerated Scarfaces" 1995 *Most of these dudes are wearing chains, one of them even has to show off how big his chain is by putting it in his mouth!

6. When Saints Go Machine feat. Killer Mike - "Love And Respect" 2013 *It's funny that this dude is wearing a chain on the outside even when he is on the run. What if shit got crazy and he had to maneuver quickly and he lost it? I like the parts without Killer Mike the most.

7. Janet Jackson - "Miss You Much" 1990 *Janet has a chain hanging from her vest thingy.

8. Onyx - "Slam" 1993 *This band contains Fredro Starr, the thuggy troublemaker from Save The Last Dance. The energy displayed by these guys in this video is frightening.

9. Method Man and Redman - "Da Rockwilder" 1999 * I still like Method Man even though he is wearing white raver gloves and one of those weird hats with long dangly things. It's so cute when they walk together.

10. LL Cool J - "I'm Bad" 1987 *"I'm notorious, I'll crush you like a jelly bean" -LL Cool J (tough guy)

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Ten Music Videos featuring Couches

1. Tyler, The Creator - "IFHY" 2013 I truly feel that Tyler is a super genius. The only thing that makes his age obvious (he is only 22) is the lyrical content of his music. He still thinks that he has to shock us, even though the world would probably pay attention even if he went in a less shocking direction.

2. Madvillain - "Rhinestone Cowboy" 2004 *I have a lot of respect for these guys (MF Doom and Madlib), but, I don't like this song or video that much. The applause within the song doesn't really do it for me.

3. M.E.D. - "Push" 2005 *J Dilla is on the couch, it looks like the Donuts cover is a still from this video @ 2:25.

4. Bonobo feat. Andreya Triana - "The Keeper" 2009 *The one-shot music video is slowly paced which accentuates the smoothness of the song. I like most of the songs I put on here, but this is one of the ones I actually listen to...a lot.

5. Curren$y - "Chandelier" 2012 *I don't really like this song as a whole. I do appreciate how he respectfully talks about his lady, this is one of those rappers that deserves to get chicks. That said, I have not listened to any of his other songs.

6. Otayo Dubb feat. Bambu - "A Lil More" 2012 *This video serves as a public service announcement for ladies warning them to bring their drinks into the restroom with them. I wouldn't listen to this song regularly, but, they seem like good guys making music that actually means something.

7. The XX - "Islands" 2010 *The band is working this couch.

8. MC Lyte feat. Xscape - "Keep On Keepin' On" 1996 *I believe pantsuit MC Lyte does say "sugar for my booger" @ 1:56. I just recently found this song and even starred it on Spotify.