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March 17, 2008

New Spoon Video - "You Got Yr Cherry Bomb"

Continuing today's early theme of animated videos, Spoon's Double Triple & Ryan Junell-directed "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb" features a patterned land of floating light bulbs and drums, construction paper lightning, clapping hands (real and fake), a little 'c'mon' and 'huh' action (duh, it's Spoon), and stiff ladies. If you stick around long enough, there's even real-life Britt checking out what's in the fridge.

The producers describe the process: "It's a 3 minute stop-motion animation of paper cutouts done by hand and sequenced on a computer." Want to make your own? Look at the pretty behind-the-scenes stills here. Get to it, lazybones.

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*heart* Spoon. the throwback style really works for them...the animation is super-clever and well-executed, but unpretentious enough to make for a fun viewing...kinda like Spoon. well done. thanks for sharing, 'gum.

Posted by: reconsider at 03/17/08 10:36 AM | Reply
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it reminds me of the old elvis costello "accidents will happen" promo video for some reason.

i love "cherry bomb" and the rest of the album, btw.

Posted by: thisyearsgirl profile link at 03/17/08 10:54 AM | Reply
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another bad indie rock video that values the process of making it over the actual final product. what's so bad about performance videos??

Posted by: nick at 03/17/08 11:47 AM | Reply
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nothing's wrong with performance videos; what's so bad about trying something new for one?

Posted by: Julia at 03/17/08 12:16 PM | Reply
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i found these double triple guys because they also did the cover to that mobius band valentines day ep. really good here too

Posted by: steven at 03/17/08 12:32 PM | Reply
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The Life of the Mind

Very retro, and very fitting for the throwback Mo-town style of the track.

Best new rock video I've seen recently. Made me smile. :D

Posted by: The Life of the Mind profile link at 03/17/08 12:42 PM | Reply
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Instead of taking the easy road and making another performance video, they´ve made something full of creativity and inspiration. It made me smile as well. Good one.

Posted by: Dexter profile link at 03/17/08 3:05 PM | Reply
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My favorite video of 2008 so far.

Posted by: × at 03/18/08 8:29 PM | Reply
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I like this video, I really do.

Posted by: bookwibble at 03/19/08 12:42 AM | Reply
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