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Tag: music video

CIPC #295: Hum Tum

Posted on October 25, 2022December 30, 2022

Every now and then,1 I spotlight an ad on this blog. Today, I’ll write one. It’s going to be an ad for the Max Euwe…

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CIPC #285: Fishbone, Party at ground zero

Posted on August 9, 2022August 9, 2022

Long, long time ago, when music videos were a new thing, almost anybody could get some airplay. Even a rock band with a short, random…

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CIPC #239: Ava Max, Kings & Queens

Posted on September 14, 2021

Perhaps I have been indoctrinated by Pepsi, but to me Ava Max sounds like some kind of soda. Or perhaps like some obscure British sports…

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CIPC #231: D, In the name of justice

Posted on July 20, 2021January 3, 2022

Take a good look at the picture below. It comes from the music video for the song In the name of justice by the metal…

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CIPC #213: System of a Down, Lonely day

Posted on March 17, 2021January 3, 2022

You know what’s been a long time? A music video blog post! So let’s have a look at today’s subject. System of a Down1 is…

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CIPC #181: Yoko Ono, Don’t count the waves

Posted on July 29, 2020

Over the last two blog posts about movies, there was a distinct rising theme in quality. Now, I will make it a crab canon by…

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CIPC #178: XTC, The mayor of Simpleton

Posted on July 8, 2020July 13, 2020

It is remarkable how little commercial success correlates longevity. Nowadays, XTC is considered one of the quintessential British rock bands from the eighties, but back…

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CIPC #164: Ahzee, King

Posted on March 31, 2020

After one hundred sixty three blog post, I can apparently still stumble upon something which is novel: I have never written about a DJ before.…

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CIPC #134: Mari Govori, Pososi ty

Posted on August 27, 2019August 28, 2019

If you were alive in the spring and summer of 2017 – and I suspect this is not an uncommon occurrence in my readership –…

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CIPC #129: Roxette, It must have been love

Posted on July 23, 2019

I have always thought it rather strange that there is so much Swedish pop music. In classical music, the Swedish presence is basically nil, but…

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