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July 19, 2007

New Maxïmo Park Video - "Girls Who Play Guitars"

From Devo nods to sincere stares, Maxïmo Park's clearly put forethought and finances into their Earthly Pleasures clips, which we appreciate. It's always around video #3 that the laziness sets in/the coffers run dry, though, and unless you're JT, that's when things go to shit. (For JT, it hit the skids with #4.) And aside from a swirly trick or two, it is pretty standard we're playing/you're cheering fare ... but we love this song's hook (and bridge), so here ya go.

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Is this not working for anyone else?
I click but no go

Posted by: Jason Malmberg at 07/19/07 8:52 PM | Reply
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there it go

Posted by: Jason Malmberg at 07/19/07 8:59 PM | Reply
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This is the only listenable song on that whole album.

Ugh, remember when rock from the UK was enjoyable?

Posted by: Allen at 07/20/07 2:22 AM | Reply
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wow Allen I totally don't agree with you.

I think the vid for 'Our Velocity' is better, but this is a fun song. I just saw Maximo in Chicago earlier this week and they were INSANE. I think they take drugs no one else knows about.

Posted by: Liv at 07/20/07 11:25 AM | Reply
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dude. I am pretty sure that 75% of enjoyable rock is not coming from this country. UK has the best sounds hands down.

Posted by: ehayes at 07/20/07 1:11 PM | Reply
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Pretty sure about 75% of the enjoyable rock is coming from overseas, esp the UK. Not slammin on you Allen, but i just think you should have put more thought into that statement because the UK is crankin it out. I think people would be inclined to agree that stateside,well,the music industry is sucking so hard. Leave it to the Brits and Aussies to get us through.

Posted by: ehayes at 07/20/07 1:14 PM | Reply
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Eh, whatever, the US rock versus UK argument could go on forever. I'm just glad I finally know who the hell Maximo Park are, since they're playing my venue this sunday in Seattle.

Posted by: Lyndsi at 07/20/07 11:28 PM | Reply
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