Each month Q rounds up the best music-related fare Youtube has to offer. Here’s our pick for January...
Jeff Buckley at the peak of his powers
This mesmerising May 1995 concert performance was previously only available on the Jeff Buckley: Live In Chicago DVD. Now, thanks to the excellent moviesfoundonline.com, you can enjoy the entire 98-minute set for free, including a feedback-drenched rendition of MC5’s Kick Out The Jams.
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The Killers Vs The Vines
Brandon Flowers and local hero Craig Nicholls of The Vines shared lead vocals
on this full-blooded demolition of The Beatles’ Helter Skelter in Sydney last November. Garage-rockers Howling Bells and Louis XIV joined in too, bringing the number of bodies onstage to a frankly chaotic 16.
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50 Cent’s sniffing yarns
When a Croatian TV crew turned up unannounced at 50 Cent’s dressing-
room door, they caught the rapper and two cohorts crouched suspiciously over
a table. What could they possibly have been doing? We wouldn’t care to
speculate. Perhaps Fiddy enjoys the smell of tables
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Sweden’s newest pop export
Like her compatriot Robyn, Lykke Li makes winning, evolved electro-pop that even non-pop fans can enjoy. The inventively-choreographed video for lascivious debut single Little Bit proves she has a keenly developed visual sense, too. All in all, a slick package: stick her on the next iPod ad and watch her fly.
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Calling Flaming Lips fans
Psychedelic adventurers in the Mercury Rev/Flaming Lips tradition, Brooklyn
duo MGMT (pronounced “management”) also have a healthy sense of their own ridiculousness, if the tongue-in-cheek clowning that runs through debut video Electric Feel is anything to go by. Expect to hear a lot more from them.
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Bjork: close encounters of the weird kind
The video accompanying current single Declare Independence marks the first time in 10 years Björk has worked with left-field French director Michel Gondry, and it’s as unhinged as you’d expect: a surrealist explosion of colour and movement, with
Björk screaming at faceless foot-soldiers through a megaphone. What does it mean? Beats us.
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Ryan Adams is DJ Reggie
He might have kicked the drugs, but Ryan Adams is still capable of bizarre flights of fancy. He recently used YouTube to unveil a bizarre hip hop alter-ego, DJ Reggie, complete with cringeworthy rhymes, old-school drum breaks and authentically naff visuals. Clearly a man with plenty of time on his hands.
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Rufus Wainwright, child star
In 1988, a 15-year-old Rufus Wainwright starred in the little-watched Canadian children’s movie Tommy Tricker And The Stamp Traveller. The precocious young thesp also wrote and performed a cutesy song, I’m Running, for the soundtrack; sister Martha also provided a song. Evidently, back then he was not the gay messiah, just a very naughty boy.
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Babyshambles karaoke
When Pete Doherty failed to turn up for
a recent London gig, his bandmates dragged 18-year-old fan Jamie Bell out
of the audience to fill in for one song. Sadly, the plucky volunteer’s efforts weren’t entirely appreciated by the impatient crowd: he got a pint of lager in the face
for his efforts.
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Meet the country Winehouse
There’s a ragged, lawless edge to Pennsylvania-raised songstress Dawn Kinnard that sets her apart from her straight-laced country peers. OnAll In Your Head, a swooning highlight
of her recent debut EP, she deploys her huskily resonant voice to devastating effect.
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