After last night's top 5 albums of the year tonight's post brings you the five best videos of 2011. A collection of the most interesting, innovative, thought provoking, witty and imaginative videos that caressed the Devil's eyeballs in 2o11. 1. Rugged Wilderness & Mountain Man No More - Dropping Feathers Unsettling, thought provoking and elegiacally beautiful if there was a better music video in 2011 then I missed it. Go Try [...]
Tiny arms! Big sounds! Pointy faces! "Staring Out The Window" - Fulton Lights from Ninian Doff on Vimeo . Stay tuned for more music video coverage on TBE. I think it's about damn time.

Picture courtesy of deviant art by sixhundredsixty for more check out http://sixhundredsixty.deviant art.com/ All the videos in todays post have been suggested by Radar Music Videos Rue Royale Guide To An Escape Rue Royale - Guide To An Escape (Official Music Video) from Duncan Guymer on Vimeo . St. Spirit Build [...]
Without doubt this is our favourite video of the year so far. It came to us via Radar Music Videos and it is simply a work of sheer genius as far as we are concerned - crows with arms. Brilliant. We didn't know of Fulton Lights until we saw this, but the tune, an upbeat folk rocker has a lot to recommend it even without the video. Download Fulton Lights - Staring Out The Window mp3 (from 3 Songs EP) Grab the EP from [...]

"We take the bus we take the train, we go by bus we go by plane", two things about this lyric ring true for me: 1. I just got a "real job", which after doing a year and a half of Chicago fine dining is going...well, and 2. Tomorrow I'm taking a plane for the first time in over four years. This track by Brooklyn bird lovers, Fulton Lights has an almost "industrial" feel for me, obviously not in terms of the genre, but the way that this song is...happily... driven. A positive, upbeat, chugging of a track, if you [...]
"Staring Out The Window" comes from Fulton Lights' 2010 EP 3 Songs . I wish that I could speak concerning the song itself but I was completely distracted by birds in a park with human arms superimposed onto them. This Ninian Doff directed video is entertaining and quite unique. Watching birds take on human interaction makes the dirty buggers just a tad bit cute. "Staring Out The Window" - Fulton Lights from Ninian Doff on Vimeo . Fulton Lights - "Staring Out The Window"
This video for Brooklyn's Fulton Lights proves that a great concept can take you a long way. Director Ninian Doff uses footage of crows scampering around in a park and with help from some video effect wizardry, ingeniously gives them human arms. As it turns out crows + arms is hilarious! The birds dance, sing into a mic, take pictures of each other, beat on drums, and high-five. I found myself laughing the whole way through. The tune, a driving folk rock jam with a well-placed saxophone solo, ain't too shabby either (it even made Said The [...]
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Good driving songs are hard to come by. Let alone ones that make your ribcage slide back and forth in a contented bee-bop that is best achieved when anchored to a seat. Andrew Goldman's Bob Dylan-esque lyrical rhythm and 4/4 time in "Staring Out the Window," deepened by heavy horns and steady guitar chords, induces a wanderlust only satiated by road trips on American highways. It's an excellent beat for an excellent mood, and even if your day started out shitty, you could throw it on while making your way home and feel a little bit better about the simple [...]
Sep 13, 2010, 12:35pm
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Fulton Lights - "Staring Out The Window" Fulton Lights' song of a million launchings and crisscrossings, motors revving on dreams. "Staring out the window / I'm thinking about my days," it begins, like the worst kind of dull song; yet the banality is up-ended, shown to be banal, at least next to the song's riotous chug and booming horns. A man sits in the passenger seat, head leaning on the window, trading talk of tomorrows; but in his heart is the meteoric Next next next next next next , like the snick of white [...]

My brother was the Talking Heads fan in our household. As such, my strongest memories of the group are primarily visual: David Byrne in his trademark oversized suits; album cover images, most especially the stark black-and-tan cover of Stop Making Sense; the New Wave theatricality of the concert video espied in passing as I wandered through the living room looking for books. By the time we were old enough to venture out to concerts on our own, the band, while technically still together, was primarily involved in solo projects, due [...]
Dec 3, 2009, 4:46pm
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Egypt by Ian Dingman Fulton Lights - "Old Testament Kind (Israel + Palestine)" Excerpt from The Czech Republic by Rachel Haley Himmelheber It is just a hallway that separates us from the criminals in the group, a hallway and a door. They have no idea we're here, [...]

So a quick one today, kind of a "smash & grab" post as many bloggers refer to when music blogs put up a post with no real content, but with MP3 links. Umm, yeah - so I am kinda doing that, so back off haters. I have 3 separate tracks from different artists, but all worthy of the right kind of attention, as opposed to the publicity stunt in the photo above - I think the actual tragedy is the fact that designs "in yo fade" is still done these days...but, that is another story. Lets get to [...]
Sep 8, 2009, 2:02pm
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Fulton Lights - "Monsters We've Built" A sea-change, a vaulting forward in the songwriting of Andrew Spencer Goldman. He has been a master of sound for as long as I have been listening, but on Healing Waters the songs-as-songs have more substance. These are not in any way "soundscapes" - they are tunes. In places they recall the Flaming Lips' basement anthems, or Stars' bedroom warnings. But these are just touchstones; "Monsters We've Built" is so much noisier than that. There's the crash of demolition, the shriek of tearing metal, an apocalyptic roar. [...]

Fulton Lights - "Monsters We've Built" . A sea-change, a vaulting forward in the songwriting of Andrew Spencer Goldman. He has been a master of sound for as long as I have been listening, but on Healing Waters the songs-as-songs have more substance. These are not in any way "soundscapes" - they are tunes. In places they recall the Flaming Lips' basement anthems, or Stars' bedroom warnings. But these are just touchstones; "Monsters We've Built" is so much noisier than that. There's the crash of demolition, the shriek of tearing metal, an apocalyptic roar. The sound [...]

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Aug 13, 2009, 1:19pm
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Fulton Lights - "Healing Waters" Fulton Lights will be dropping a new release next week, titled Healing Waters . You can (and should) pre-order it now .

MP3: Fulton Lights - "Healing Waters" Fulton Lights will be dropping a new release next week, titled Healing Waters . You can (and should) pre-order it now .