Top 10 YouTubes of 2008 from Earshot Presents
Welcome to the Top 10 YouTubes of 2008 from Earshot Presents, as compiled on one Saturday afternoon late in December. The following videos are in no particular order.
787 Cliparts by Oliver Laric
Christian the Lion – Whitney Houston never sounded so tolerable.
Clapton Shreds – the Shreds series is brilliant. The videos were created by Santeri Ojala (aka St. Sanders) and banned from YouTube, but were reposted everywhere. The re-poster in this case seems to have missed the subtle humor of this video and thinks Clapton’s jazzing out. What a tool.
Cloverfield Monster Revealed Apology – This is the final installment of Norman Coady’s posts regarding the film Cloverfield. In late 2007, Norman (aka Rockwell) grew concerned that the premise of the upcoming film Cloverfield was dangerously parallel to the premise of his rock-opera, Deposession. The following is his brilliantly produced apology for having been somewhat mistaken. The music is Rockwell’s own. Look out for Deposession in 2009, and check out the vids in the meantime.
iPhone Customers Strike Back at KTLA Reporter Eric Spillman – This video is also followed up with an apology.
Professor Brothers: Late Date – Another classic from the brilliant mind of Brad Neely, whose Babycakes and Professor Brothers videos blew up in 2007 and 2008. Bob Odenkirk’s SuperDeluxe.com, the host site for Neely’s work, was recently acquired by Adult Swim, and Neely’s videos are frustratingly hard to find for the moment. Shame on Adult Swim. Most of Neely’s vids have disappeared from YouTube, too, so here’s an embed from AOL.
My Name is Lisa – A 13 year old girl deals with her mother’s Alzheimer’s. If you don’t have the patience to watch a 6:30 video right now, bookmark/save this one for later.
I Will – Dig it. The young and gifted and prolific Sungha Jung (now 12 years old).
Highlights from Tom Waits’ Glitter and Doom Tour Press Conference – Be sure to watch until its end.
Fuck It. We”ll do it live! – This is a brilliant parody of the raw tape that came to light earlier in the year, in which an enraged Bill O’Reilly (then the host of Inside Edition) has a major fucking problem problem with the show’s production team! “Fucking thing sucks!” hhahahha. You suck, Bill O’Reilly! What makes this video so great is that this guy is eloquently speaking all our minds to the biggest blowhard on television.
BONUS VID FOR SCROLLING DOWN HERE!
Santa Claus School Workshop – a fun holiday slideshow from Getty Images. Getty’s multimedia YouTube channel is one worth subscribing to.
Please share this top 10 with others and join the Earshot Presents mailing list to stay in touch.
Got a list of your own? Become an Earshot Presents contributor and post it!
If you have some more time to kill, you may also be interested in checking out the Top 10 Comedy .mp3s of 2008 from Earshot Presents or the Top 10 Songs of 2008 from Earshot Presents.
Top 10 Comedy .mp3s of 2008 from Earshot Presents
Bowie – Flight Of The Conchords
The Flight of the Conchords CD might not be a thru-player for any occasion, but hitting up a track every now and again sure is a pleasure. This one’s particularly fun (if you know your Bowie).
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Sarkozy calls Palin – The Masked Avengers
Sarah Palin’s office apparently vets her phone calls like John McCain vets his running mates. Montreal comedy duo Marc-Antoine Audette and Sebastien Trudel pretend to be French President Nicolas Sarkozy in what was only one of Palin’s most embarrassing moments of 2008. A train-wreck personified, this idiot was one breath away… ugh. Don’t get me started. The Masekd Avengers: “We have the equivalent of Joe the Plumber in France. It’s called Marcel, the guy with bread under his armpit.” Man, they nailed this one.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
It’s Just Like Good Music – Sammy Stephens
Sammy Stephens, the king of the Flea Market Montgomery (and YouTube mega-viral sensation with over 5 million cumulative vid hits and countless mash-ups and re-mixes) was more than willing to spend ten minutes on the phone with Earshot Presents last August. He laid down some grooves (on the spot – no rehearsing!) that would appear on Within Earshot Vol. VI, which was named It’s Just Like Good Music in Sammy’s honor.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Bill’s Bad Day – the Howard Stern show
Howard was obviously really psyched to share this audio with his listeners. It’s extracted from the viral of Bill O’Reilly losing his shit on the set of Inside Edition in the late 90s, when Bill had a little more hair. He certainly wasn’t any less of an asshole. Something about Stern’s snarky laughter in the background makes the audio almost as entertaining as the video.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
A Little 12oz Roll of Sausage – Randy Taylor
Texan-man Randy Taylor is ripshit about the Jimmy Dean sausage company rebranding their 16oz sausages in a new 12oz size. This message was apparently left on the Jimmy Dean customer service hotline. It’s mixed here by Earshot Presents with Moondog’s Bird’s Lament, as it appeared on Within Earshot Vol. V, Windows: Opens, EP’s 2008 spring jams . “Fuck, I wanna eat goddamn it.”
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
The Phone Calls of Earles and Jensen
The Jerky Boys made prank calls. These calls are something else. Something better. Something Farr wittier. Something so outrageously funny it hurts. With two exceptional volumes of phone calls to pick from, the work of Earles and Jensen was far too good to choose just one track for a Top 10, and the following five tracks are just the tip of the funny iceberg. The duo’s pop culture references, characterizations, writing, and improvisation are astounding.
Signed to Matador records before the company was served with a lawsuit, you can now keep tabs on Earles & Jensen on their MySpace page. A quote from the Matador website: “The rich, fully formed universe they’ve created with their mind-blowing phone calls has to this listener’s ears, transcended the mere comedy / spoken schtick bin and puts the duo in much more rarified territory.” Wouldn’t you agree?
A Man With A Confusing Array of Things for Sale
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Incident In The Wave Pool
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
I Ate An Entire Sheet Of Acid
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Room-Silencing Religious Call
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
The Yogurt Machine
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Please share this top 10 with others and join the Earshot Presents mailing list to stay in touch.
Got a list of your own? Become an Earshot Presents contributor and post it!
If you have some more time to kill, you may also be interested in checking out the Top 10 Videos of 2008 from Earshot Presents or the
Top 10 Songs of 2008 from Earshot Presents
The Top 10 Songs of 2008 from Earshot Presents are not downloadable from this page, but are hyperlinked either to the iTunes Music Store or their source.
Little Kingdom – Citay
Little Kingdom the song is representative of Little Kingdom the album is representative of Citay, a bitchin’ psych-rock outfit from San Francisco.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
You Can’t Hurry Love – The Concretes
With the charge of Spector-on-speed energy of this song, it’s amazing that the album could also include what is the most heart-wrenchingly depressing song of the year, The Concrete’s New Friend.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Ashamed – Deer Tick
I quote my brother when I say that “this guy is going places”. Sounds like something my father might say over lunch about a one-man band we just passed on Church Street, but it’s true. Chances are good that 2009 will be the Year of the Deer Tick. These Daytrotter tracks are as stunning as the rest of the tracks off of War Elephant, the studio re-release.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
100 Years – Dr. Dog
Dr. Dog’s Fate, which is coincidentally playing in the coffee shop from which I write, might not make my Top 10 albums, but this track is stunning. Timeless, soulful, and vaguely reminiscent of an old traditional tune that Dr. Dog could have never written themselves. But it’s theirs. Respect.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Womanizer – Britney Spears
When I’m in the kitchen, I listen to some pretty random radio on my trusty ‘ol PAL radio (PAL=great gift, btw). This dance track with incredible momentum played once in November and I had it in my head for over a week without knowing anything about it. I guess I wasn’t surprised to later hear that it was Britney’s come-back song, released in advance of her come-back album . Womanizer made an unprecedented jump from #96 to #1 on the Bilboard Hot 100 on October 15th and broke single-day download records online upon its release.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Most of the Time – Bob Dylan
Tell Tale Signs, the 8th volume in Dylan’s Bootleg Series, is the best yet. That’s if you’re a fan of Dylan’s more recent work. Which a good number of haters are not. The fact is – and we’re reminded with this album – that some o Dylan’s best work is also some of his most recent. Note: this track isn’t so recent – it’s an outtake from 1989′s Oh, Mercy.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Mykonos – Fleet Foxes
…because what Best of 2008 would be complete without the Fleet Foxes?
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Fire in your Belly – Liam Finn
Liam Finn’s album I’ll Be Lightning was by far my favorite album of 2008. Liam Finn’s September performance at Webster Hall was by far my favorite live performance of 2008. Liam wrote, recorded, and produced this album almost entirely by himself, a feat that would be completely understandable if you ever got the privilege of seeing him live.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Make the Road by Walking – Menahan Street Band
I wish I knew what was going on over on Menahan Street when I lived in Bushwick. The smooth soul sounds here are created by (+/-) the musicians of Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings. Made the Road by Walking is as beautiful and inspiring as its title.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
M79 – Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend were all the rage in 2008. Their Stroke-ish power-packed-indie-pop-cum-Ivy-League-charm made critics and Brooklyn WNYC tote-baggers cream themselves for good reason. Hopefully there’s more where it came from.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Please share this top 10 with others and join the Earshot Presents mailing list to stay in touch.
Got a list of your own? Become an Earshot Presents contributor and post it!
If you have some more time to kill, you may also be interested in checking out the Top 10 Videos of 2008 from Earshot Presents or the Top 10 Comedy mp3s of 2008 from Earshot Presents.
Get Behind This:
