Each month Q rounds up the best music-related fare Youtube has to offer. Here’s our pick for December...
Primal Scream go fly-fishing
The internet holds few more bizarre spectacles than that of Primal Scream’s toxic twins, guitarist Throb and bassist Mani, splashing around in inflatable rubber rings on a windswept Scottish loch, for the benefit of an online TV show called Trout ‘N’ About. Dignity, always dignity.
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Winehouse track gets soul-rebel makeover
At the BBC’s Electric Proms event in October, Mark Ronson invited Rumble Strips frontman Charlie Waller onstage to sing a frantic, Dexys-style version of Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black. Even if the music leaves you cold, it’s worth watching just to hear Ronson’s weirdly plummy, transatlantic speaking voice.
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World’s most awkward interview
Sigur Ros are hardly known for their garrulous charm, but the famously monosyllabic Icelanders set a new benchmark for social discomfort in this agonisingly frosty interview for US radio station NPR. The shell-shocked DJ later called it “the worst interview in the history of electronic media.”
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Dance duo’s video nasty
Demonic, dead-eyed women writhe seductively while cramming hot dogs, dollar bills and whipped cream into their mouths. No, not the new David Gray video – it’s the truly disturbing promo accompanying Simian Mobile Disco’s latest single The Hustler. Guaranteed to make you lose your lunch.
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Bob Dylan sells out. Again.
“Where’s the global warming? It’s freezing here.” So said rock’s greatest curmudgeon in a recent interview. No real surprise, then, that he’s been starring in ads for Cadillac’s latest gas-guzzling Escalade SUV. Still, at least it’s classier than the ad he did for Victoria’s Secret lingerie.
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R Kelly’s four-letter tirade
A typically unhinged transmission from the troubled hip-hop star, designed to demonstrate, “How real shit gets when you’re arguing with your girl.” Ends with Kelly telling his fictional beau to “Go fuck one of your funky-ass friends!”, before the whole thing descends into a childish punch-up. Strange chap.
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Give the man a big hand
In which a dedicated “manualist” – that’s a bloke who makes farting noises with his hands – performs squelchy-yet-note-perfect versions of heavy metal classics such as Iron Maiden’s The Trooper. We suspect he may live alone.
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The Verve unveil new material
"Someone's going to shit themselves at Radio One when they hear that," said frontman Richard Ashcroft after debuting new track Sit And Wonder at the band’s first comeback show, in Blackpool. He has a point: based on a pounding bass groove, it sounds like an anthem-in-waiting.
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Springsteen and Arcade Fire join forces
The Boss marked his show in Ottawa, Canada by inviting local(ish) heroes Arcade Fire to join him onstage. The temporary supergroup played two songs, Arcade Fire’s Keep The Car Running and Springsteen’s own State Trooper, to the evident delight of the Canuck cameraman who shot this footage, who can’t stop shouting, “Oh my God!”
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Cult violin bloke covers Mariah Carey
Final Fantasy, aka oddball troubadour Owen Pallett, is a virtuoso violinist who has scored strings for Arcade Fire and Beirut, and is currently working with Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner on an upcoming side project. Here he uses effects loops to create a weirdly hypnotic solo version of Mariah Carey’s Fantasy.
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11:27 AM | 07/12/2007
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