Vulcan Love Grip

Song: Closer

Artist: Nine Inch Nails

Vid Genre: Fan Vid

Description: Totally called that one.

Creative Commons Wet Dream

Song: No Pause
Artist: Girl Talk
Vid Genre: Fan Vid
Description: The apex of creative commons. A blogger posting a YouTube mash-up of artist music videos to the stylings of Girl Talk's contemporary neo-omnisamplings of today/yesterday's sexiest beats and riffs. The collective dick of Disney's law representation is about to slough off.

Lions and Crowns

Song: Wicker Chair
Band: Kings of Leon
Vid Genre: Live (for BBC)
Description: lions and crowns can no longer listen to it– think of that night you saw them in the amphitheater you shouldn’t have gone were crippled by the flu but you’d bought the tickets months earlier so sat on the lawn and watched the scottsdale crowd screech sway in expensive shoes enjoying your band lay there holding her hand your other hand holding her beer her hair the air the love in this girl! lights swirling orange yellow the singer wailing ‘someone like you’ the flu the stress all things were not at all things

Viva La Negra

Song: Sueño Con Serpientes
Artist: Mercedes Sosa (covering Silvio Rodriguez)
Vid Genre: Fan Slideshow -- I hate these, but I love this song.
Description: Mercedes Sosa is one of those great cultural folk-type singers to come from the West. Born in northwestern Argentina, Sosa was mestizo, French and Quechua (of Incan ancestry). She became famous around the same time as Silvio Rodriguez (who wrote this song), and they both ended up symbols of the revolutionary movements in Latin America. Sosa died last October. Viva la Negra.

As If Lewis Carroll Wouldn't Smoke Dro Today

Song: Smokin on the Dro
Artist: Three Six Mafia (The Caterpillar, The Cheshire Cat, Alice)
Vid Genre: Fan Vid
Description: I haven't seen a cartoon cover with this kind of oratory precision in years. Creative commons strikes again. Brilliant.

Feist Gets (a bit less) Weird

Song: 1, 2, 3, 4 (Sesame Street remake)
Artist: Feist
Vid Genre: Sesame Street remake
Description: I dare you not to smile.

People Eatin' Bacon All Across the Nation

Song: Chicken and Meat
Artist: Das Racist
Vid Genre: Official Music Video
Description: If the internet works the way I hope it does, these guys will make it big.

[from the great band that gave you 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell']

P.S. - We Got Dicks Like Jesus

Song: My Dick
Artist: Mickey Avalon
Vid Genre: Live Performance
Description: Free Kobe.

Trashy Flashy Beta World

Song: I Really Like American Girls
Artist: John B
Vid Genre: Old-School Flash
Description: This takes me back to the days when we watched all of our videos on EbaumsWorld and CollegeHumor. Anyway, I like this song because, whenever I'm abroad for an extended period of time, I really, really miss American girls. In my mind they're tied with Scandinavians.

Kate Perski

Song: Hot'n'Cold
Artist: Ukranian polka band covering pop singer Kate Perry
Vid Genre: Cover
Description: My Finnish friend Venla just posted this on Facebook. Oh, the wonders of globalization and social networking.

Techy-Tacky Yellow Submarine

Song: Whachadoin?
Artist: N.A.S.A. project vid of M.I.A. song featuring Spankrock, Santogold and Nick Zinner
Vid Genre: Alternative Music Video
Description: Fucking Sick.

Chubby Little Loser

Song: (untitled)
Artist: David Bowie
Vid Gengre: TV Clip
Description: One of my all-time favorite clips from Extras. Here's a tip: sing this song with your friends when you're drunk at a bar.

Harder, Better, Faster, Charleston

Song: Around the World
Artist: Daft Punk
Vid Genre: Fan Vid
Description: There are countless amazing fan vids of Daft Punk songs -- this one isn't even my favorite.

Greased-Up Ladies and Power Tools

Song: Satisfaction
Artist: Benny Benassi
Vid Genre: Music Video
Description: The other day my friend Holly showed me this: the greatest music video ever conceived by man.

Paint the White House Black

Song: Politics (Obama Is Here)
Artist: Ludacris
Vid Genre: Audio w/ very bad slide show
Description: This is the song that had news pundits all up in arms this past summer. And, wow, they felt it necessary to attack this? It's nowhere near Luda's most-offensive stuff. Also, it sort of sucks. Also-also, I'm getting excited for when Obama is president and I can, in the middle of a conversation, look to the horizon and ask myself out loud if America might some day be ready for a white president.

Stabby Tom

Song: Tom Dooley
Artist: The Kingston Trio
Vid Genre: Live
Description: I don't know why I like songs like this and poems like 'Porphyria's Lover,' but I worry these themes'll one day land me in the clink.

Rapture'd

Song: House of Jealous Lovers
Artist: The Rapture
Vid Genre: Live for TV
Description: The Rapture always impresses me. This is their first live video I've ever come across. If only cowbell jokes hadn't already been worn out four years ago.

Shades of Roller Girl

Song: Brand New Key
Artist: Melanie Safka
Vid Genre: Live for TV
Description: This is my second video in a row by an artist from Queens. What is it about that area in NY that makes such great music like this? Is it something they put in the water? Is that something LSD? Wet Acid Dreams.

Welcome Back, Q-Tip

Song: Gettin Up
Artist: Q-Tip
Vid Genre: Music Video
Description: I've been waiting for Q-Tip to release another album for seven years. Finally. Reminds me of the times you could listen to hip-hop sober. November 4.

Maestro Uruguayo

Song: Guitarra y Vos
Artist: Jorge Drexler
Vid Genre: live for TV
Description: What I love about this song is that Drexler sings about the relationship between art and science. Escribio el escritor estadounidense, Kurt Vonnegut, que los escritores mejores son cientificos. A mi me parece que es lo mismo en los dos lados. I'll concede that the best writers have a logical sense that will take them far in science. It's also true, however, that the best scientists possess remarkable streaks of artistic creativity.