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RE: Music Videos - Cool, Clever, Fun, Artistic, Odd or Just Plain Silly - john - 07-31-2012
Into the 80s. I'm an Annie Lennox fan. The Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams" video is one of the classic early mTV videos. Hell, they all are. Good one, LovinDa.
RE: Music Videos - Cool, Clever, Fun, Artistic, Odd or Just Plain Silly - john - 07-31-2012
RE: Music Videos - Cool, Clever, Fun, Artistic, Odd or Just Plain Silly - LovinDaHaley - 07-31-2012
^ Steve Martin's Banjo Galore (he does everything like he's killing snakes). But Paul Shaffer's little pinanno-jam-frenzy slammed the mobnobbins out of it! Fun video. Mucho merci-mahal-arigatos to you fine sir.
The MTV Classic Video Madness Marathon continues...
Billy Idol - White Wedding
Eddie Money Shakin'
George Thorogood - Bad To The Bone
RE: Music Videos - Cool, Clever, Fun, Artistic, Odd or Just Plain Silly - LovinDaHaley - 08-01-2012
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax, Don't Do It
A Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran "So Far Away"
RE: Music Videos - Cool, Clever, Fun, Artistic, Odd or Just Plain Silly - My Alter Ego - 08-01-2012
Apropo of nothing else contributed on this thread thus far (I think), I believe this would fit under the "just plain silly" name of the thread. A little background: yesterday, for some reason, I was reminded of an internet search that I did probably 9 years ago. I came up empty handed.
However, 9 years of growth/improvements yielded not only a hit (that confirmed what I'd origninally been seeking to find), but a short youtube clip.
Thus, here's my favorite scene in Blazing Saddles. The absurdity of it always makes me giggle.
RE: Music Videos - Cool, Clever, Fun, Artistic, Odd or Just Plain Silly - john - 08-01-2012
Tee hee hee AlterEgo, prehaps the classiest scene in the film. Beats the heck out of the scene with the beans.
RE: Music Videos - Cool, Clever, Fun, Artistic, Odd or Just Plain Silly - LovinDaHaley - 08-02-2012
^^ I think this thread makes a great home for that Blazing Basie post MAE
But is having seen the movie a requirement for experiencing the giggle effect?
Do y'all recommend the movie?
That Blazing Saddles post from MAE inspired me to add my favorite Count Basie video to page three of our fine music collection in the thread, "Fine Music - Orchestra, Big Band, Classical and Such"
But first, a few words from LovinDaBasie...
Count Basie's version of "April in Paris" is too sexy for pajamas (the music in that Blazing Saddles video). The Count's simplicity of style as an arranger was a perfect fit for that beautiful song. As a matter of fact, when it comes personal preference, I'm far more likely to swing with the "less is more" approach of Basie than with the more complex compositions and arrangement of my beloved Duke Ellington and Fletcher Henderson. I just get the biggest kick of how Basie could strip down the complex ideas and written scores of other composers to what he recognized as the essential elements that would make a good work great.
RE: Music Videos - Cool, Clever, Fun, Artistic, Odd or Just Plain Silly - My Alter Ego - 08-02-2012
"Tee hee hee" is right, John. Indeed, this scene is far more classy than the infamous campfire scene -- which, is probably why few people remember it, but can't forget the "bean" scene.
Lovinda, having watched the movie probably helps put the absurdity of a deliberately out of context scene (the Count's orchestra?? Playing out in the middle the of desert?? And playing "April in Paris" of all things???) in better context. Years ago, when I saw this movie in a smallish theatre, I suspected that I was the only one in the audience to recognize the song being played -- in fact, I may have been the only one to recognize Count Basie! And given I was the only one who laughed at a line Harvey Korman used, when exhorting the biker gang to "go do that voodoo that you do so well," I'm certain that I was the only who knew that was from a Cole Porter song.
BTW, I think your analysis of Basie's style is spot on!
RE: Music Videos - Cool, Clever, Fun, Artistic, Odd or Just Plain Silly - LovinDaHaley - 08-03-2012
So I watched the movie and I can't believe I didn't do it sooner. It's hilarious. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. Now I have to do a Mel Brooks movie marathon. I Had a great time, thanks MAE and John.
Until then, it's back to my "MTV Madness Music Video Marathon"
INXS - Devil Inside
Huey Lewis And The News - I Want A New Drug
John Fogerty - The Old Man Down The Road
RE: Music Videos - Cool, Clever, Fun, Artistic, Odd or Just Plain Silly - My Alter Ego - 08-03-2012
(08-03-2012, 12:51 AM)LovinDaHaley Wrote: So I watched the movie and I can't believe I didn't do it sooner. It's hilarious. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. Now I have to do a Mel Brooks movie marathon. I Had a great time, thanks MAE and John.
Blazing Saddles is Mel Brooks at his best. I'm glad that you enjoyed it and I'm glad that I played a small part in getting you to watch it. You should probably watch Young Frankenstein and maybe The Producers (either one or both), if you haven't already seen that, but other than that, I wouldn't recommend a lot of the movies MB did following Saddles and Frankenstein. Most of them were quite disappointing.