18 April 2008

Hard to Explain

So I know this is like 6 years old, but at the risk of sounding totally out of date The Strokes Hard to Explain music video is incredibly cool. I saw it today on MTVu for what I think was the first time. MTVu is basically what we get as a replacement for IMF. I used to watch MTVu back when it was College Television Network on the campus cable system at South Carolina. MTVu is good, IMF was one of my favorite channels. Revolutionary for a "music channel", they played music videos. There were no commercials. They played bands from all over the world. There were quirky little travel segments and band interviews with artists discussing weird stuff like the food they ate on tour
(almost barfing from too many rice krispies squares, pigs feet) and anecdotes about the making of their videos. IMF was bought by Ovation TV just so they could get IMF's channel space on various networks. Ovation is occasionally mildly entertaining, but in this day and age is that any reason to take a TV channel off a cable network? Because there's not enough space. I don't think I'll ever get over the loss of ITV. Anyways, here's the video.

And here's a link to a slightly higher quality version that I can't embed.

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