Generation YouTube
Tom Scocca of The New York Observer sums up the vast appeal of the web’s latest plaything with The YouTube Devolution. Below I’ve assembled links to the clips that Scocca references in the article. Now, I’m a sometimes busy guy with lots of deadlines. But I also finding myself losing lots of productivity time searching for obscure stuff at that damn site. Do they have the video for “Can’t Shake Loose,” an ’80s-tastic solo single from ABBA’s Agnetha Faltskög? Yes. What about a clip from the short-lived sitcom The Ellen Burstyn Show with Megan Mullally as Burstyn’s daughter? Well, not yet — but while I was looking for that I found this fantastically kitschy 9 minute fashion show from 1985’s Night of 100 Stars. See what I mean? Fudge.
The Pixies on The Dennis Miller Show (1991)
The Pixies’ “Velouria” music video
British sitcom Heil Honey I’m Home (part 1 of 2)
Comments
Geeeeez; ol' Black Frances and Kim Deal doing "Velouria" take me back to the fall
of '90, when I was fresh outta grad school, newly married, and so poor I had to buy 40 oz. bottles of Miller beer for a buzz. I had no idea I'd ever be a grown up with a mortgage and a kid on the way.
Here's to our lost youth!
Posted by: Mass Bradley | July 28, 2006 08:33 AM