What are you listening to?

[vitruvian man]

(04-04-2011 11:22 AM)Nung Wrote:  Cool stuff, Rey! Thanks!

Not to stray off-topic but my personal approach is to avoid "videos" because I feel that music all by itself is perfectly self-contained. The forced visuals of videos always seem to weaken the music for me and ruin the magic the artist intended. Especially, because I have seen so few videos, the imagery of the ones I have seen stay with me forever. I prefer the images in my own mind.

(Now when an artist creates music and video at the same time for an art project I really think it can be very powerful and artistic. Eno's installations come to mind. Neither the video alone or the music alone is as strong as the pairing when it is created as a unified whole. An old pal named John S. Banks is a video artist and his work is another good example of this blended approach. He has superb state-of-the-art visuals paired with excellent music from professional musicians like Jon Anderson.)

Ok, back to the Topic!

I would generally agree with this only with the exception of Video song or live in studio performances. However if a music video is creative and cleverly thought out then I enjoy them aswell