No, nothing to do with plank spankers, long hair, umlauts or standing astride the monitor trying to look cool. Apparently there’s a world of ‘shreds’ videos where someone has taken what I assume is an extraordinary amount of time and care to tamper with a music video. This is one is the best I’ve seen so far, and I’m not really sure why it makes me laugh so much, but it does.
Here’s Hall and Oates:
Hall and Oates: The Cider Years (Official video).
Superb!
That is a work of genius.
The Beach Boys shred “I Get Around”:
This is the one I keep returning to.
Man alive, that’s good!!
The gold standard. Represents how I’ve always seen them, the brilliance of Pet Sounds aside.
The Focus one is pretty good, too:
This is Depeche Mode unplugged.
And then there’s those nice boys from One Direction. It builds …
I love these!
This one is still a favourite of mine. One of the earliest maybe? I think it works so well because the video itself is already a bit ridiculous.
The guv’nor regarding these things
“YOU PASS SO BAD GA-A-A-SS”: