Making music videos is an adorable crap shoot. You spend time , energy, money and favors, but it’s worth it cause the label’s happy, the bands happy, everyone loves it. Right? What could go wrong?
Oh nothing really except for as many reasons as Sicilians have pubes. (Dear record industry, you still have so many fucking chefs that no food ever leaves the kitchen.) I’ve heard so many stories from directors including the ones I’ve experience first hand, that the music industry should be called the “Practical Joke Industry”. The band not telling the label, the label not telling the band, the song being the wrong one, too many vaginae being shown and a drummer human being replaced by another drummer person. In fact that is why you will barely ever see the following Virgins video for the song: One Week of Danger, directed by my bud and exceptionally annoying broad and wicked fist fighter; Crystal Moselle. So, here it is, deserving to see the light of day but buried by one of God’s lil’ hiccups.
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Hey!! Is that the video for Battles, “Mirrored?”
Killer drum kit BTW.
03.06.09 at 11:43 am
Bad/Boring video for good band.
03.06.09 at 12:19 pm
great fucking video. just great. what the hell is the problem?
love it.
03.06.09 at 12:52 pm
Video is brilliant & Crystal is brillianter
03.06.09 at 12:55 pm
i would give this thing tons of little cute kitten heads! beautiful
03.06.09 at 12:58 pm
Awesome, I could listen to a bunch of grown men sing poppy songs about the cute girls they love all day long!
03.06.09 at 1:47 pm
Why is it that rock videos have to show the drummer hitting the snare when we hear the kick and vice versa?
Is this part of the Practical Joke Industry, too? Also the chick in the yellow shirt is hot.
03.06.09 at 1:55 pm
Crystal is tops!
03.06.09 at 2:05 pm
Ugh, that video sucked. The other virgins video is much better. Also, all the first versions of the virgins song so much better. This version of one week of danger SUCKS.
03.06.09 at 2:09 pm
that yellow shirt could be an addendum to my theory that David Bowie and Tilda Swinton are the same person.
03.06.09 at 2:27 pm
the drummer is the only hot one. he should go han solo.
03.06.09 at 2:28 pm
crap
03.06.09 at 2:41 pm
I love this video. All you haters need to pull the cock out of your ass and put it in your mouth so you can shut up.
03.06.09 at 3:14 pm
this sounds like “apples in stereo” circa 1999.
03.06.09 at 3:55 pm
sux
03.06.09 at 4:06 pm
this is cute
03.06.09 at 4:20 pm
The Virgins seem to be having an Identity crisis, but I actually feel like this shows their real personalities.
A little bit Cannonball…Old Clash performance video vibe
03.06.09 at 4:29 pm
they have nice jeans
03.06.09 at 4:40 pm
these dudes smoke mad crack…for real.
03.06.09 at 6:14 pm
I always feel like such a voyeur when I see the virgins! Something about them is so reminiscent of watching a 13 year-old’s fucking band practice that it makes me feel dirty. Maybe it is their pretty faces. Maybe it is that NY mag and everyone else make them look like adolescent, gay fashion icons.
Good video, though.
03.06.09 at 8:36 pm
i heard one of their song the other day playing in a Gap outlet store in Aurora, Illinois……..
just saying….
03.06.09 at 9:22 pm
Re: The Gap. well then that means they’re doing well so good for them. There is no such thing as a cool band anymore. Singles go to Gossip Girl before the album is out these days so get over it Mr. Indie deathbreath. Poseur.
Also, the Virgins definitely do NOT smoke crack you idiot. One of them is sober, the other one barely drinks, and the singer parties sometimes. So please, shut up. Thanks.
03.06.09 at 9:36 pm
Definition: kook-someone who zealously defends the members of a pop music band following more or less innocuous statements. Seriously though, aren’t you downtown people supposed to not be the lamest people on earth?
03.07.09 at 12:41 am
i love the vid. the industry is reverting to affordable , what people don’t get is that the most bare bones vids are essential. no pretense. this video is a great example of that. simple. executed and out the band and raw. Kanye complained about not winning over justice because he spent MORE $$$. Nice rule of measure idiot! This video is this song; memorable, raw and secure.
over production is insecurity: learn about LESS from this stones vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8MhpofxMgk
03.07.09 at 1:46 am
why did the drummer quit the band?
03.07.09 at 2:49 am
Also, the Virgins definitely DO smoke crack you idiot. One of them is a wild homo chimp, the other one looks like a little girl, and the singer DONALD smokes mad crack and looks like a FUCKING HOT MESS 24-7. So please, shut up. Thanks.
03.07.09 at 3:14 am
I mean, who the hell trolls sites to leave hate comments? Don’t be bitts, loser. You’re sitting on your couch wishing you were traveling the world so why don’t YOU please shut up. I’d rather be a homo chimp who looks like a girl and smokes the fuck out of some crack than someone who is jealous enough of those things to sit on a couch bitching about it.
03.07.09 at 11:53 am
those dudes need some new clothes asap
03.07.09 at 4:54 pm
a little to close to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biSwRLbhp4g
for comfort.
03.07.09 at 8:34 pm
The Virgins are one reason enough to disown New York.
03.08.09 at 7:19 pm
How is this music in any way exciting or new?? Who cares what they smoke or what they wear..etc., etc. The bottom line: very ordinary music made by young men straining to be extraordinary
03.08.09 at 7:24 pm
All this shit is the same….every single band plays the exact same guitar, wears the same shoes, distorts the vocals in the same way, goes for a “retro” sound (read shitty recording), and on and on. I can’t wait for this style of music to go the way of that intolerable “nu-rave” shit that came before it
03.08.09 at 7:29 pm
the one on the right looks like a cro-mag or a native american… and i think i could totally bang wade. i bet he’s such a slut!
03.08.09 at 10:54 pm
holy shit. did you guys personally invest in this fucking band or something?
03.08.09 at 11:11 pm
Wade is not a slut. Nick makes out with fifteen year old girls. whoops. Don’t smoke crack. Do lots of blow with cory kennedy but then again who doesn’t. Just clearing shit up. Thanks.
03.09.09 at 8:01 am
YEP, THE VIDEO IS A WEAK VERSION OF BATTLES’ VIDEO FOR “MIRRORED”.
SPRINKLE IN SOME BLUR, MAYBE SOME CLASH, AND GO GET YER CASH.
03.09.09 at 9:25 am
dire.
03.09.09 at 9:58 am
WHOW THESE GUYS ARE GOOD AT MODELING I HOPE THEIR URBAN OUTFITTERS SOUNDTRACK SAMPLER CD IS A BIG HIT!!
SORRY BUT THEY SOUND LIKE FUCKING GARBAGE AND THAT VIDEO TOOK ABOUT 2 HOURS TO SHOOT I BET, THE ONLY COOL PART IS HOW YOU CAN INTERMITTENTLY SEE THE LIGHT GUYS AND CAMERA CREW IN THE REFLECTIONS BUT BEYOND THAT IT’S RETARDED.
WHO SIGNED THESE LOSERS BEFORE THEY’D EVEN PLAYED A SHOW? RIGHT, SOME CRAZY IDIOTS WHO MANAGED TO SUCK THEIR WAY TO THE TOP OF SOME LABEL
03.14.09 at 10:39 pm
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