Plan B - Stay Too Long

Ben Drew returns as a fictional version of himself and demonstrates his vocal ability in frankly one of the best songs ever.

Kutiman - I'm New

The evolution of the remix. The song is entirely composed of snippets from completely unrelated Youtube videos. More on the astonishing website.

Delphic - Counterpoint

Delphic - are they the new Coldplay?

Goldfrapp - Clowns

Here's a nice little song.

N.A.S.A. - Way Down

Class.

Chase & Status feat. Plan B - Pieces

Good eh?

The Streets - The Escapist

Here's a nice affecting tune by "Da Streetz". They've got a good, simple gimmick or concept which is that he's walking away from the camera the whole time. That's all it takes to make a good video, a simple concept which you can pull off without looking stupid. Rather than cutting between lots of meaningless scenes with someone singing at the camera. What's more it goes well with the music. And looks like it was done cheap and guerilla fashion. Cool.

Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor

Here's Hot Chip with a quite mental tune.

Radiohead - Bodysnatchers (Live)

Bodysnatchers webcasted by Radiohead from their internet site a few weeks ago. Plus some additional commentary at the end about the band and webcasting.

Thedø - On My Shoulders (Live)

The Smiths - Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others

Lyrically one of the Smiths' less profound songs, but musically one of their best.

Daft Punk - Da Funk

Here's a fantastic Daft Punk video. I had forgotten all about this video until I saw it mentioned in this Observer article about music videos. Although other videos, such as Thriller, had included scripted narratives before, I think this was the first video to go to the extent of making the actual track part of the background of a traditional narrative unrelated to the music, which I think is very clever and imaginative. I like the way the central character is forced to carry around a tape deck playing the title track, for a reason which cannot be explained within the story itself, and is only understandable in the context of the viewer who is aware that the film is a music video. The surrealness is added to by the fact that the character is a dog, and emphasised by the contrast between these bizarre elements and the detailed characterisation, reminiscent of a Woody Allen film.

Radiohead - There, There

An interesting video and good song from Radiohead. Radiohead are letting people choose how much to pay for the digital version of their new album, but frankly the quality of their albums has been so variable that surely it would be better to let people hear it before deciding how much they want to pay. I'm sure it will be totally crap anyway. I think that after OK Computer they didn't think they would be able to make another album that good so they pretended they didn't want to and just made stupid experimental stuff.

Ida Corr vs. Fedde Le Grand - Let Me Think About It

A great tune from Fedde Le Grand (and Ida Corr). The Creeps is a good tune too by Fedde Le Grand. I like the way they split the words up to fit the beat. Anyway that's a different song.

Ian Brown and Sinead O'Connor - Illegal Attacks

A great song from Ian Brown. I'm not sure why he has to stand like that though, maybe he's got something wrong with his neck. Anyway, it's good that he's speaking out against the hypocritical US/UK/Israeli governments' aggressive, self-interested foreign policies and the misery caused by them (not to mention the instigation of militancy). Radio 1 actually felt the need to warn listeners before playing the song, which is kind of stupid.