Killing the Radio Star
Okay, I think I’m totally turning into a Daft Punk fan. I saw this video on someone’s blog, and now the tune is firmly lodged in my head.
The song’s cool, but the video really picks up about 90 seconds in. Completely amateur, but cooler for it.
In further Punkishness, I had mentioned before the Interstella 5555 video, set to Daft Punk music and designed by the gentleman who designed Space Cruiser Yamato, Captain Harlock, and Galaxy Express 999. Watching this really takes me back to the 80s, when I was first getting into the anime that’s now old school, watching tapes that had been copied so often that the reds smeared halfway across the screen.
And, unrelated but cool, this is someone’s idea of Star Wars movie titles in the style of Saul Bass, famous for the titles to “The Man With The Golden Arm”, “Around the World In Eighty Days”, “Psycho”, and “Alien”:
There is your videos for the evening.
The Saul Bass one is way cool.
Did you see Daft Punk on the grammys? They performed with a hip hop star whose name I can’t remember. It was way cool, despite the hip hop.
Do you have a copy of Interstella 5555? It’s actually the entire song turned into a rock operetta, for lack of a better name. What really makes it amazing is that Matsumoto doesn’t speak a word of French, and neither of them speak a word of Japanese. It all hung on one translator who spoke both.
*ACK!*
That should have read “the entire album.
Nope, I’ve only seen a few YouTube clips. I’m thinking I’d like the whole thing now that I’m really getting into their music.