Video Tape: What would I program on Rage???

OK, what would you program on rage? Because I know what I would. Well you get around 55 videos to pick and about every half a dozen you talk about the video/song so here goes…

Intro: "To sum up I’ve picked stuff I’ve seen on rage before and I would love to see them all again. I think it covers a lot of styles of music and hopefully very entertaining video clips. Well, I remember them being so. I think I’ve covered from childhood to right up to now 2010." (Keeping it very brief because I wouldn’t like to talk on TV very long so this is it.)

Playlist:
1. The Drones - Jezebel
"How good are they? The greatest band from the past decade and Gareth Liddiard is the best songwriter currently working in the world of music."
2. The Drones - The Minotaur
3. Dirty Three - Everything's Fucked
4. Dirty Three & Cat Power - Great Waves
5. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Breathless
"He’s the greatest songwriter from the past couple of decades but this one is his last really great song and it’s a cool video too. I never think his songs match-up with the videos but here are the next few I think work the best."
6. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Love Letter
7. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Loverman
8. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Jack the Ripper
9. The Boys Next Door - Shivers
10. Laughing Clowns - Eternally Yours
"Because they are an underrated band and should be played more. Ed Kuepper is one of the greatest songwriters too and kind-off forgotten but will be remembered now."
11. Laughing Clowns - Holy Joe
12. Ed Kuepper - The Way I Made You Feel
13. Augie March - The Moth Ball
14. Sarah Blasko - Planet New Year
15. The Paradise Motel - Bad Light
16. Magic Dirt - She Riff
17. The Scientists - Human Jukebox
"Because they are another underrated band and should be played more too. Kim Salmon is one of the greatest songwriters too and kind-off forgotten but I’m going to remember him now."
18. Kim Salmon & the Surrealists - I Won't Tell
19. Beasts of Bourbon - Psycho
20. Darling Downs - Circa '65
21. Antenna- Come on Spring
22. The Triffids - Wide Open Road
23. Jeff Buckley - So Real
"Because it's so strange."
24. Portishead - Glory Box
25. Bjork - Army of Me
26. Joy Division – Shadowplay
27. The White Stripes - I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
28. Faith No More - Midlife Crisis
29. Johnny Cash - Hurt
"Because it's so sad."
30. Antony & the Johnsons - Hope There's Someone
31. Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
32. Adam & the Ants - Antmusic
33. Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth
34. Rihanna – Umbrella
35. Jay-Z - 99 Problems
36. Benny Benassi - Satisfaction
"Because it's so hot."
37. Donna Summer - I Feel Love
38. Roots Manuva - One Witness (One Hope)
39. Charlotte Gainsbourg - Heaven Can Wait
40. dEUS - Theme From Turnpike
41. The Young Gods - Gasoline Man
42. Einstürzende Neubauten - Z.N.S.
"Because it's so weird."
43. Sepultura - Slave New World
44. Refused - New Noise
45. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Dang
46. The Jesus Lizard - Puss
47. PJ Harvey - This Is Love
48. The Breeders - Cannonball
49. Tom Waits - Goin' Out West
"Because it's so crazy."
50. Bob Dylan - Things Have Changed
51. Cat Power - Lived In Bars
52. Fiona Apple - Fast As You Can
53. Beth Orton - Stolen Car
54. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney - I Gave You
55. Guns N' Roses – Estranged
"Because it's so insane."
Of-course I don't any featured videos myself so that's it.

The full playlist is on youtube or below here (but some clips seem to be missing in this embed version)


P.S. There is a really cool looking book out now which is written by Narelle Gee, who could have one of the coolest jobs on the planet.

Video Tape: The Drones guest program Rage

Right, I have to do something else other than this 50 Nick Cave songs list, it's going to drive me mad (if I'm not already). So, what can I write now? Well, who's far better than him? The Drones that's who. No doubt they would have be the band/artist of the the last decade, the 2000's. The four unbelievably brilliant albums, if not totally perfect albums in a row: Here Come The Lies, Wait By The River..., Gala Mill, Havilah. With each album quite different but still the same The Drones but building upon the previous record. Also just releasing all the kind-of out-takes album: The Miller's Daughter, in the middle of all that is brilliant as well. No other band has had such a perfect run and under the noses of most people too. We will have to see what's next for the band. Next week Gareth Liddiard lead songwriter and singer is to release his debut solo album Strange Tourist, in the true sense of the word, just all by himself.

You can not possibly find another band who ripped up the rule book, then set it on fire, pissed and shat on it, kicked it into a bloody mess then just flicked it into the corner. I can not possibly praise them too much. If you don't know it yet they have already changed the Australian music landscape forever. Everyone will ask you in the future did you see The Drones live? And if you can say "Yes" well, you and I are the lucky ones. You can hopefully forget about horrible bands like The Living End, Wolfmother, Jet now. Even now Nick Cave is getting too popular for my liking which maybe is why he's getting a bit of a bashing here in my blogs but I'm not the only one with what Mick Harvey said. Now Liddiard joins in on this too. In a paragraph in the Aussie Rolling Stones magazine Liddiard say America is on it's way out, Aussies don't have to do that anymore and names an old Cave song but really he could have said Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! Why does Cave name drop U.S.A. cities in the last lead Bad Seeds single and title track for that album, other than to sell some more records to them. It's false, it's just as bad as like Molly Meldrum on Countdown in the 70's and 80's. Looking for validation in America is a waste of time (unless maybe you are one them) but that old mentality of the U.S.A. is the best place in the world, which should be shot between the eyes with a double-barrel shot gun, who better to do that that Gareth Liddiard and his band The Drones? So it's beyond doubt or should have been long, long time ago for Australians to stop mythologizing America. Don't get me wrong now, The Drones don't really have to get as stupidity big as the above bands or artists because they're already just as or more important that any of them in so many other ways and done it all their own way too.

So anyway this blog is called video tape because I'm going to link a youtube playlist I put together at the end of this blog based on a video tape (did I need to say that?) I've still got a couple of boxs in the back room which I recorded a television show called rage but too much about the past. I'm trying to catch up with the twenty-first century, I've got a mobile phone lately, started a blog here and joined facebook the other day. The last time I watched rage until the very end and started watching at the beginning and enjoyed it was a long time ago by the looks of it. It was of course when The Drones were on. Anyway here's what video clips they picked and played.

The Drones guest program rage on Saturday 21st February, 2009:
Saturday morning guest programming, from 10:00 till 11:00:
10:00am
THE DRONES - Shark Fin Blues
LOW - Breaker
TRICKY - Money Greedy
MILES DAVIS - Decoy
NINA SIMONE - Revolution
CAT POWER - Cross Bones Style
BOWERBIRDS - Ivy Climbing
BOB DYLAN - Not Dark Yet
10:30am
BOB DYLAN - Love Sick
AUGIE MARCH - The Cold Acre
TOM WAITS - Hold On
THE GIN CLUB - You Don't See
THE DRONES - I Don't Ever Want To Change (Live)
Saturday night guest programming starts 23:20:
23:23pm
N.W.A. - 100 Miles & Runnin'
WU-TANG CLAN - Can It All Be So Simple?
23:30pm
BUSTA RHYMES - Woo-Hah!! (Got You All In Check)
MISSY ELLIOTT - Pass That Dutch
CLARE MOORE - The Town Bike Song
ALAN VEGA - Wipeout Beat
IGGY & THE STOOGES - Loose
PATTI SMITH - Because The Night
LAUGHING CLOWNS - Holy Joe
12:00am
THESE IMMORTAL SOULS - Marry Me
STICKMEN - Without A Clue
THE JESUS LIZARD - Puss
DARLING DOWNS - Circa '65
KIM SALMON & THE SURREALISTS - I Fell
LOU REED I Love Women
GOD - My Pal
12:30am
JOEL SILBERSHER - Flappin' On A Hook
JOEL SILBERSHER - Through The Manoeuvres
TEX PERKINS & HIS LADYBOYZ - I'm Not In Love
DIRTY THREE - Hope
PALACE BROTHERS - Ohio River Boat Song
NEIL YOUNG - Harvest Moon
NEIL YOUNG - Change Your Mind
1:00am
DAN KELLY - Drunk On Election Night
PAUL KELLY - If I Could Start Today Again
BILLY BOB THORNTON - Angelina
THIRTY ODD FOOT OF GRUNTS - Memorial Day
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Atlantic City
THE MUPPETS - Ma-Na Ma-Na
TEAM AMERICA - America, F**k Yeah!
DRAGONFORCE Through - The Fire And Flames
1:30am
THE MELVINS - Honeybucket
EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Armenia
THE DOORS - The End
SPARKLEHORSE - St. Mary's
MERZBOW - Minus Zero
2:00am
PINK FLOYD - Astronomy Domine
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART - Ice Cream For Crow
SPENCER JONES - Execution Day
FEATURED VIDEOS
THE DRONES - River Of Tears
THE DRONES - Shark Fin Blues
THE DRONES - Locust (Live)
2:30am
THE DRONES - I'm Here Now (Live)
THE DRONES - The Miller's Daughter (Live)
THE DRONES - Jezebel
THE DRONES - I Don't Ever Want To Change (Live)
3:00am
THE DRONES - I Looked Down The Line And I Wondered (Live)
THE DRONES - Motherless Children (Live)
THE DRONES - From Black To Communist (Live)
THE DRONES - The Minotaur
THE DRONES - Oh My (triple j tv)
3:30am
THE DRONES - Suicide Is Painless(triple j tv)

Here's all the clips I found on youtube (full playlist here) and I've made into a this thing:


Hope you like it, Cheers.