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Gnarls Barclay videos for Crazy and Run

Crazy is the first ever single to top the UK singles chart purely on download sales as it was released online a week before it was released as a CD single.

The filmclip is a personal favourite. A clever animation of the creators portrayed in Rorschach inkblot style. It's innovative and matches the funkiness of the song perfectly.

Gnarls Barkley is actually two people; Cee-Lo who was originally part of the Atlanta hip-hop group Goodie Mob, and Danger Mouse who has produced for a number of hip-hop artists, including the Gorillaz' Grammy winning album Demon Days. Meeting in 2003 when Cee-Lo was on a tour for which Danger Mouse happened to be the DJ, they began working together on what would become the St. Elsewhere album under the name Gnarls Barkley for their project as a duo. The collaboration's name came from friends, "making up fictional celebrity names like Prince Gnarls and Bob Gnarley." When someone came up with the name Gnarls Barkley, they hit on a winner.


St. Elsewhere has been certified Platinum by the RIAA for selling over 1,000,000 albums in the U.S.




Crazy was released as their first single on April 3, 2006, preceded by its release as digital download and 12" Vinyl record single in March 2006. It gained popularity BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe's television advert, and it was also made Record of the Week by Ken Bruce of BBC Radio 2.

For their American television debut on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on May 24, 2006, the band performed Crazy. Then along with Christina Aguilera, AFI, and Wolfmother performed at the MTV Movie Awards 2006. In October 2006, Gnarls Barkley recorded a live session for Live from Abbey Road at Abbey Road Studios.




Watch and enjoy.

This clip is of the the single Run from the 2008 release The Odd Couple

Now watch closely and see if you recognise the not so hip announcer...no? A clue? I'll just say that we are seeing a lot of JT around lately.



Another catchy tune with a great video.

Sit back, hit play and enjoy the audio / visual fabulousness of Gnarls Barclay.

Sources: Gnarlsbarcayvideos, Wikipedia and Gnarls Barclay The Odd Couple - available on iTunes



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Weezer's new clip - all your fave internet stars together!

The latest music video offering by Weezer for their new song Pork and Beans has received almost 2 million views within the first 24 hours of being uploaded. It has since received almost 4 million hits. If you watch the clip you will see why. It has to be one of the cleverest clips I’ve ever seen.

Directed by Matt Cullen of production company Motion Theory who came up with the idea only a few weeks ago and shot it in early May. "For people who aren't on the internet, this is like a web CliffsNotes to getting into internet culture," he told technology website Wired


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JET releases tribute clip to Fred Hollows

Australian rock band Jet has joined forces with The Fred Hollows Foundation, releasing a new video clip on YouTube to pay tribute to the life and work of the renowned eye surgeon.


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Bob Marley February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981

Bob Marley was born Nesta Robert Marley in Jamaica on February 6 1945. Today is the anniversary of his premature death from cancer aged just 36. Marley’s name is synonymous with reggae music and he is undoubtedly the most famous artist this genre has known. A testament to his popularity, the compilation album, Legend, posthumously released three years after his death is the best-selling reggae album ever, with sales in excess of 12 million copies.

Marley became friends with Neville "Bunny" Livingston (later known as Bunny Wailer) when his mother moved the family to Kingston’s Trenchtown slum after his father’s death. He left school at the age of 14 and started an apprenticeship as a welder. But his real love was music. In his free time, he and Livingston made music with Joe Higgs, a local singer and devout Rastafari. It was at a jam with Higgs and Livingston that Marley met Peter McIntosh (later known as Peter Tosh


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Hendrix in sex scandal 38 years after his death?!

US porn company, Vivid Entertainment, is reportedly releasing a 40-year-old amateur sex video that allegedly stars legendary musician Jimi Hendrix and two women. The LA based company and largest adult film producer stated that it obtained the tape from a collector. Although they say the tape has been authenticated, by an ex-lover and the notorious Cynthia ‘Plaster Caster’ (who is famous for making plaster molds of the appendages of many famous rock stars including Hendrix), the authenticity has already been disputed by a former girlfriend and a number of collectors and historians.

According to the NY Times, Kathy Etchingham, who was a steady girlfriend of Hendrix, has checked out stills taken from the film and said that the features of the man in the footage do not match. According to her the face and nose of the man are broader than those of Hendrix


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Misheard Lyrics (with video clips). What have you misheard?

We’ve all done it. Heard a song, sang along certain that you have the words right until one of your mates starts pissing themselves saying, “sing that bit again” and you say, “sing what again?” and they say, “that last line”, so you say, “oh, you mean…” and it sets them off again until you realise, crap, that’s obviously not what it says.

Misheard lyrics are called Mondegreens, a phrase first coined in 1954 so it’s not a new thing. Two of the most misheard lyrics that I know of are in Purple Haze by Jimmy Hendrix where “Scuse me while I kiss the sky” seems to be heard as “Scuse me while I kiss this guy” and the ever famous Manfred Mann’s version of the Springsteen song Blinded by the Light where “revved up like a deuce” becomes “wrapped up like a douche


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The Times Really Are A-Changin’



The Pulitzer Prize is synonymous with greatness. Regarded as the highest highest national honour in print journalism, literary achievements and musical composition in America, it has had many great talents listed among its winners. This year the Pulitzer board awarded Bob Dylan a Special Citation for his “profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power


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