#1 I'm unsure why, but MTV labeled this as a "Breakthrough Video." Not that it's a bad video, but when I think of Breakthrough videod, I think of like, the Michel Gondry DVD, or any mid-period Radiohead videos, and not so much an homage to pre-MTV videos from the late 70's.
#2 I was noticing that Weiland's eyes are very bloodshot, and the possibility that he doesn't remember the filming of this video is probably somewhere around 100%.
#3 I like the Brady Bunch part.
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Saturday, 19 November 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 19 November 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)
"Cutlass Supreme... take me away, boys..."
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 20 November 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)
― latebloomer: Do I have a large frog in my hair? (latebloomer), Sunday, 20 November 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)
I'm usually grateful when artists/directors can produce an aesthetically exacting recreation of a form assicated with a specific period in media history. In this sense, the STP video is on the same level with any of Spike Jonze's career highlights.
Also, the slow motion image of guys in gorilla masks throwing handfulls of cash in the air is a fun attempt at intentionally bad visual poetry.
― theodore (herbert hebert), Sunday, 20 November 2005 05:36 (twenty years ago)
Forgot about this song - really dig it.
― pithfork (Hurting 2), Friday, 15 January 2010 06:09 (sixteen years ago)
I remember hating this video because when I first heard the song on the radio it sounded really dark and intense and kind of huge and blown out, and the kind of bright colorful low-budget feel of the video totally went in the other direction and maybe even kinda changed my overall impression of the song for the worse.
― some dude, Friday, 15 January 2010 06:17 (sixteen years ago)
Blatant Redd Kross impression
― PaulTMA, Friday, 15 January 2010 10:16 (sixteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBty4l4CPfI
― billstevejim, Saturday, 16 January 2010 03:28 (sixteen years ago)
killer video, killer song, nothing will dissuade me from this opinion.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 16 January 2010 17:07 (sixteen years ago)
Never was much of an STP fan, but I remember enjoying this one when it came out.
The Breakthrough video status had a lot to do with this being an atypical song/video for both STP and the whole grunge and hard rock genre in general. Most bands, including STP were putting out these dark, heavy, portentious videos shot on film. This was lighter and goofier and more 80s retro than what anyone else was doing just then.
― Moodles, Saturday, 16 January 2010 17:23 (sixteen years ago)
third time in a row watching this video. man, i hate nostalgia
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Saturday, 16 January 2010 17:30 (sixteen years ago)
when I first heard the song on the radio it sounded really dark and intense and kind of huge and blown out
Really? Wow. Even without the aesthetics of the video coloring the song, this was not at all what I thought. It sounded to me like they had really lightened up, in fact.
― Snake Effect Low (Pancakes Hackman), Saturday, 16 January 2010 17:35 (sixteen years ago)
yeah^ it's called bing bang baby, for one
― mizzell, Saturday, 16 January 2010 17:43 (sixteen years ago)