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It has been known for a long time, music isn't only for listening, but also for watching. I am among those whom is more important the sound of the song. However, i don’t mind to watch a good quality video. And if the video is for song i especially like, then it’s a high score! Anyway, this is the list of 5 of my favorite music videos.

 

The White Stripes – The Hardest Button to Button

This video created by director Michel Gondry is one of the strangest videos i have ever watched.  This is not an animation, according to Gondry, they used 32 identical Ludwig drum kits, as well as 32 amplifiers and 16 microphone stands. Drum kits and guitar amps seems to come alive as they clone and reclone to the rhythm of the song that duo performs. Really a great music video!

 

Fatboy Slim – Weapon Of Choice

 

Christopher Walken, the most famous movie villian, shows his incredible dancing skills .I have never percieved him like dancer, because he doesn’t dance very much in his roles. But in this video, he shows his moves  on the table in the lobby, on the escalator and flying all over L.A. hotel. The man deserves an Oscar for performance in this music video. Outstanding!

 

Bjork – All Is Full Of Love

 

There is something weirdly beautifull and thrilling  about this video. When i first saw this video, the first thing that cross my mind was ‘Wow,maybe we (humans) could learn something from all of this! If robots can express their feelings and all is full of love, maybe there is still hope for mankind.’ We just have to share our emotions with others. I know that this is an animation, but who cares! If robots can kiss and caress each other, so we should do it, too.

 

Radiohead – Just

 

Music video meets film. To this day, this clip makes me uneasy. Why that man is lying on the pavement? What he told so everyone else lay down? Why subtitles has cut out at the crucial moment? Lots of questions, which leave me even more curious and intrigued every time i watched it. Unique Thom Yorke and Radiohead.

 

The Prodigy – Smack My Bitch Up

 

Enter the Void meets Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – that’s how i feel about this clip. One crazy story shown through first person perspective. There is everything in this video – shocking scenes of drug usage, sex and violence, but hallo! -  girl is doing all the damage. Surreal and very powerful!!!

 

I remember clearly that day. It was novemer of 2003. I was at my sister's house, helping her with some homework. Still high school students, a lot of things we were more important than school. In one moment, she asked me: ‘ You’re, like, love hip hop, right?’ I nodded affirmatively. ‘Well, my friend burned me some cd, so I could give to you, if you wanna listen?’ I said OK. After a while, she had to answer the phone, leaving me in the room by myself, so with nothing to do I put the cd with the title De Facto on it in the player. And so it all began. ‘Kuća na promaji’ was the song that was heard. I became speechless. ‘What is that? Who is this guy?’ i wondered. Needless to say, further learning was over. I grabbed cd and ran home. The next few weeks i listened to it from dust till dawn. I find out that rapper is called Marchelo, a student of literature from Paraćin, only three years older than me. All i was thinking, he was able to fit in the form of poetry and express through rapping. I put him on pedestal as a spokesman of our generations. On the album there were numerous anti-war rhymes, songs of freedom and tolerance, songs of the criticism of the social, cultural and spiritual situation in our country, distorted value system , as well as songs about lost love, problems of youth, brotherly distance, celebration of hip hop culture. This cd was very important for me, because in many ways helped me to understand the world around me. Each rhyme has remained etched in my absorbing brain, affecting to become the person i am now. With his narrative style of rapping, Marchelo was able to give the point and meaning to everything. Thanks to this intelligent young man and his songs, many generations may understand what real values to be fostered are. And, then, live concert. All this songs heard on stage by the same guy who wrote them. I was the happiest teenager back then. I think no cd had such a influence on me to this day.

Of course, I continued to follow the work of  Marchelo. Now, he is one of the most respected rappers in Serbia. But this is not all. He has become a multi-media personality. Besides release of three more music albums, he wrote three books and published many columns in various magazines. He is a serious artist whose opinion is very appreciative.

It was announced recently that Marchelo is heading on tour with regard to  the tenth anniversary of the album De Facto! My brain enthusiastically accepted this information. I was at many of his concerts,  i've been among the oldest in the audience for long time, and he rarely performed songs from the first album. So when i found out about this, i immediately went ten years in past. Well-known feeling permeated my whole body and i screamed with pleasure. One after the other, Subotica, Beograd, and Novi Sad in the end.

I intend to go to all three shows. Cause, 10 years later, this album still remains among those with the greatest impact on my life. It's like honor for many years of loyality and tracking his work. If so, i certainly deserve that award.

 

 

Place: Heineken Open'er Festival, Gdynia, Poland

06. July 2013.

 

Kings of Leon are amongst three of four of my favorite music artists. And every year i expect for them to come to my country, but such a thing never occured. So, when i find out that my favorite band is coming to Poland to play i was overjoyed.

I decided right away i am not going to miss that show and when my girlfriend agreed to join me for this 3 day adventure, everything become even better. Backpacks – checked; passports – checked; tent – checked; concert tickets – bought and we were heading to Warsaw by train. Five-hour wait before leaving to Gdynia didn’t disappointed us, because we used that time for sightseeing the Polish capital. After traveling through the whole night, we have reached our last stop at 7 am. Gdynia, here we are!

Due to high temperature of 30 degrees, as soon as we set up the tent, we immediately headed for the nearby beach. We spent the day swimming in the sea and enjoying the sun. After few hours, we were wearing Kings Of Leon T-shirts and ready to join festival crowd.

As we enter the really large festival area, we were delighted by its appearance. Main stage plus six other stages, silent disco, theatre plays, fashion stage, the Ferris Wheel and many more. Everything that one festivalgoer could wish was there. Not to mention cold Heineken beer.

One hour before the concert was already too crowded. People huddle, pushing to capture the best place. Incredible extrusion began 15 minutes before start. I couldn’t stand straight. We resisted as much as we could. After few minutes, we end up in front of main stage, almost in first row. Excitement inside me grew stronger. A really big scream from the audience indicated that guys from band are coming on stage. The first beats of the song ‘Crawl’ made me realize that is really happening. I am indeed at the concert of Kings of Leon. No pushing bothered me anymore. The whole crowd jumped in the rhythm of next song ‘Four Kicks’. Then they played several songs from their first two albums. It sounded amazing. I was singing and screaming and jumping. The audience was thrilled, which Caleb also felt and than said ‘this is the best crowd we've played to on the entire tour’. ‘Pyro’ and 'Be Somebody' followed before Caleb asked the crowd if they were ready for a new song. Then they played new song 'It Don't Matter' before a crowd-pleasing 'The Bucket'. The time has come for song 'On Call', when Caleb said: "I just wanna play all night with you people”. The band ended their main set with 'Knocked Up' and 'Use Somebody'.

The crowd demanded more, wanted more of Kings of Leon magic. After five minutes, they were back for an encore. The band opened the closing section of their headline show with 'Radioactive'.  My favorite song ‘Sex On Fire’ was next with huge crowd sing-a-long. Kings of Leon then finished with 'Black Thumbnail'. The end of the show was followed by a thunderous ovations.

Soon the crowd began to disperse as I stood motionless, eyes fixed to the stage, not believing what I had just experienced. If there was any slice of doubt that I will be disappointed by my favorite band’s live show, it was gone like in no time as they offered me the best concert in my life.

As we were returning home by train the next day, we summed up the impressions. We have revived memories of the previous night with the help of photographs that i managed to take in all that confusion. Thought that prevailed for both of us was ‘we can’t wait the next Kings of Leon European tour’!!!