Posted on 10/12/2017 11:28:19 AM PDT by mairdie
"Weight" for my favorite vampire character, Spike, in Buffy. By The Band. If you don't know the series, Spike falls in love with the vampire slayer. Talk about barriers to a relationship.
I do remember reading a story about Robbie Robertson in Newsweek as a teenager. They were doing one of their "next big thing" treatments on him, built him up like he was some big rock superstar.
That was a couple years before they (along with Time) put Bruce Springsteen on their cover.
Shouldn’t he have a Billy Idol soundtrack?
There’s a number of videos I’ve ended up making for songs with incredibly obscure lyrics. Part of it is just taking the challenge and seeing if you can bash your way into forcing meaning where it isn’t obvious. Landslide by Fleetwood Mac is another one of those for me that I did for the Star Trek remake. And American Pie for Uhura driving the Enterprise. Sometimes I do them because I REALLY want the song in a set to play in the background because the song really gets to me. I never read about Robertson. Now you’re making me want to!
Have never played a Billy Idol song. Just looked him up and they could be twins!
They both do the same British accent (Spike and Billy Idol).
Buffy, Spike and “The Band” is a connection that I’d have never made but it works surprisingly well. I’m in the minority here on FR, I miss the 90’s, it was a great decade, for me at least it was.
Sarah Michelle Gellar appeared in another very striking, somewhat dark music video for a song that I’ve always enjoyed, being rather uncharacteristically melodic for the group in question. She was just so achingly, absolutely beautiful in it, and apparently it was a very memorable experience for her personally, because upon the death of Scott Weiland, she tweeted “I’ll always be your Sour Girl.”
Stone Temple Pilots - “Sour Girl”
From 3:01 onward, wow. I’ve posted this video to FR music threads before and caught flak, apparently many just don’t get it, and admittedly, Scott Weiland writhing and cavorting with demonic Teletubbies in a post-apocalyptic Seussian landscape is just a bit peculiar. I hope for Scott Weiland’s sake that the end of this video wasn’t prophetic.
I’m so glad the video worked for you! That’s the challenge fun with songs like this. Thank you.
I’ve never watched MTV music videos. They’re basically fine arts turned kinetic, in my opinion. What I do is literary. It just happens to be literary through video. But I did watch this and you’re right. All the way. This was a fine piece of art - dark and disturbing, but absolutely art. I was a physics/art history major and really do appreciate the beauty in this piece. And I see what you mean about the 3:01 on. Thank for the link. I’m glad I saw it.
My late hubby loved both Buffy and “The Weight”.
Really wild to see them synchronized...Thank You! :-)
The music seems pretty misplaced with that scenery. Way back when- it was travelling music for a young road bum that hadn’t got stuck out there yet and still had options.
Robby Robertson and The Band were the best. His and Dylan’s work complemented and reinforced each other.
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.
And many more.
Synchronized but on different highways.
And that’s what makes it interesting!:-)
((((On synchronized but different highways, I prefer the “Road Less Traveled”)))
>>The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
One of my absolute favorite songs. Love Dylan’s work and knew he worked with the group, but didn’t know much about their collaboration.
>>The music seems pretty misplaced with that scenery
The goal with these music videos is the unexpected. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t. But you want to take words that people expect to be interpreted one way and turn it on its tail until it feels like the song was meant for that new context. Using Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer as a Scotty drinking song, for example. I can never hear that song now without seeing Scotty. Long ago and far away, people used to write me about the songs. One recurring theme was that they would be standing in a grocery store, music would start and they’d break out laughing because no one else could see Kirk and Spock but them.
The goal is literary. The music adds power, but the goal is always literary. And will sometimes fall flat on its nose. No problem. You just rub your nose and try the next one.
>>Road Less Traveled
One of my favorite poems. I used to always recite poetry as I walked so that my steps were to the rhythm of the words. Walked to that one many times.
I’m so glad it worked for you. Love them both, too.
I am at a disadvantage here. I haven’t had a TV in 29 years and don’t go to(or download) movies. Every time I glance they seem worse so I am at sea on these correlations.
To me it was the epitome of American poplar music. I don’t know how much of an authority on the subject I could be. My other favorites are Hank Williams and Gracie Slick.
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