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Really…

Shadow of Love is great. The remixes are better. The unfortunate thing is that iTunes doesn’t carry them.

Anyway, she’s back. Enjoy!

Okay, maybe this is the song of the summer. We’ll see. It’s pretty good either way.

I am a fan of the video art form, having been raised on a steady diet of them, and creating a few of them myself. I’m an iMovie hack, I know it, so I know what good videos with creativity can be, and what amateur is (that’s me, but with creativity).

So I came upon the video for the very excellent song “Never Be Lonely” by the Feeling (which if you don’t have you should get on iTunes right now), whose video is…underwhelming.

It’s not that the band is not photogenic (they are quite handsome - check them out at the Coachella Music Festival!), however, it appears that no creativity was put into interpreting the song. It is more a montage of the faces and bodies of band members, which is fine, but what’s the story here?

At one point they’re riding on a desert road a la Kelly Clarkson “Low.” That approach worked for Kelly because she was dumping her boyfriend and looking for solitude while seeing ghosts of her ugly ex transposed on the little girl in the 1967 station wagon (great video - a definite purchase on iTunes). What are they trying to express here besides the fact that they are riding down a desert road? At another point, they’re doing an “Owner of a Lonely Heart” bit on a subway/urban street sidewalk thing.

It sort of feels like the director didn’t know what to do with the song and wanted to come up with scenes that matched each part of it, so there’s a match, but no cohesive structure. Too bad - I’d have to say this is right up there with “These Words” and “What it Feels Like for a Girl” in terms of bad direction. At least Natasha made up for it with “Unwritten.” I’m hopeful that these guys will make up for it on their next ones.

Summer must be coming, because it seems like there’s more good music out there. I really like this new group, which I know is a little bit Haircut 100-ish, but catchy and British, just like you want while praying for the sun to finally come out. This one is called “Never be Lonely.”

I was watching my favorite Gay and Lesbian television network’s top 10 videos of 2006, and saw this one, by Morningwood. Okay, so this one has been out for a little while and I missed it, but I found it eventually.

It’s very cute. My favorite part is the guy sneaking a piece of pizza during the Jane Fonda routine. Oh, and I love the Kate Bush imitation, too. It’s funny because it’s true, to quote Homer Simpson.

This video is worth downloading off of iTunes.

My favorite mix for “What’s Left of Me” (The Passengerz Remix) is now on iTunes. I think this is up there as one of the best songs of 2006. Definitely worth the download. Now I’d like a remix of the other great song, “I Can’t Hate You Anymore (link to the video, you might as well just get that).”

It was a lot of fun. This is what I’ve been listening to on my iPod as I thought about things. You should too.

So YouTube does have it. Too bad iTunes doesn’t yet. They do have the “Save it For Later” song by the English Beat, though (click here to get it). The whole Special Beat Service album is a favorite of mine, still.

In any event, this is in my top 10 videos because it’s a great song to begin with, and on top of that I love the beatnick theme of the visuals paired with it. It captures the spirit of a generation (before mine) that was obsessed with itself, and had the time and privileged to be so. Dave Wakeling looks like he’s having a great time, as do all the patrons in the cave. Will the debutantes dance? Will the philosopher put down his book? Yes! Yes! Yes!

The iTunes music store finally put up The Cranberries’ “Linger” video up for sale (click here to get it). Ever since the video store came on line, they have had every Cranberries video except this one. I am not a huge Cranberries fan, but I know good video. This one is probably in my top ten of all time. Why? Because it’s beautifully shot, and it just matches the song from start to finish. From the oblivious attractive women with the cigarettes to the flashing motorcycle headlight, it just works. To this day, whenever I am in San Francisco, I usually hear the song on Live 105. Maybe they need to move on, or maybe I need to, or maybe this is that good.

This is my first time posting a YouTube video, by the way. This video is so good, though, it deserves a click over to your iPod. You just never know when you’ll want to see it.

Next request from iTunes: English Beat’s “Save it for Later” (hmm…I wonder if that’s on YouTube).

Ok, I seem to have missed this event by about 10 days, but better late than never. Paris Hilton’s long awaited album (like over a year) has finally been released. It includes a song, Screwed, that I first heard on satellite radio over a year ago, and have been anticipating since then. Unfortunately, this album version is a bit watered down compared to what was played on XM for a short time.

Now here’s the thing. The reviewers on iTunes are skewering Paris, but they’re wrong. Seriously. Just as “Best Week Ever” discovered a few months ago, the sad (or happy) truth is that this album is actually good. Well, I wouldn’t go so far as to say that the album is “good.” However, it has a ton of potential in terms of dance mixes. We’re already hearing those, and they’re really good. I can’t wait to hear the others that are coming.

This is definitely a case of “first the gays, then the girls (er women)” in terms of marketing, to quote Samantha from Sex and the City. We want Paris. The gays have it right this time. And every time, actually.

Click here to access Paris Hilton’s album on iTunes

The title says it all. Check out “Till the Wheels Fall Off.” See, summer isn’t over yet.

Picture taken from the beach at Provincetown (forgive me, I forget the name…). We had just finished walking along the rocks, soaking up the sun, and helping a nice gentleman who had lost his beach buddies. There’s just nothing here except yourself. It’s great.

Title of this post comes from a twist on “Central Reservation,” by Beth Orton.” It just seemed right at the time.

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