Worst video, EVER!!!

A quick note to whoever reads this: You MUST watch the entire video.

This video by Bonnie Tyler is quite possibly the best and worst video of all time it has everything for everyone, battle scenes, swimmers, ninjas, flying alter boys, psychotic people of every sort, winged crazy men, football players, dancing diaper men, and last but certainly not least, greasers.

I find this video absurd for the above reasons but also because our protagonist Bonnie Tyler often appears to be wearing very fine sheets, combined with her hedgehog-esque quaff we have a formidable foe to overcome in terms of taking a video seriously. The dramatic use of sheets juxtaposed in front of open doors to the journey being made by our protagonist through all the various walks of life. And let's not forget about the tremendously overdone effects to the eyes in this video, whatever it may mean, whether it's a reference to the lyric "bright eyes," or if it's some sort of symbol designed to demonstrate that when your heart eclipses you loss sight of who you are or something of that nature.

However let's not forget that this all could be taken as brilliant humor, the moment I watched the alter boy take flight I knew that we might possibly have the most genius comedic video in the entire world (Exaggeration). Nonetheless the video is actually worth something in the realm of entertainment for me because it's so bad. If it doesn't being a smile to your face, I don't know what will

This is The Greatest Lie by Circa Survive. This is by far my favorite band as of late, because simply put I think their instrumentals in combination with their vocalist is a perfect match, they change time signatures to fit the text of a song and go nuts in concert. Currently they are on tour with Thrice and Pelican, two more very good bands.

For some reason every time I listen to this song I seem to find one more really cool musical moment that's hidden in the layers that make it up. There's so much counterpoint
in this song it's almost hard to believe. if you listened to each part individually or listened to one and stacked the rest you would have what would seem like a very well written drum solo, groovy bass solo, progressive guitar solo, and a voice part that you might think would never mesh together. This is the primary reason why I love this band, they are considered to be what's called a Mathematical Progressive band. Which refers to the counterpoint involved in their music as well as their frequency of meter change. They may be in a simple quadruple meter and then switch to an irregular compound meter for only a few seconds. This can be seen in the chorus of this song in both the drum and guitar parts.

I have been writing music both for voice and guitar with the use of classical theory as well as guitar technique for about 2 years. And I still can't manage to understand how the guitar parts for this band are written. They are so unique that I just can't get enough of them. It's safe to say however that even though I'm a vocal major I don't really care about vocals when It comes to band. In this video the lead singer pushes himself sharp on several occasions. As well as having the voice of what seems like a 13 year old boy. But the passion with which he sings makes all of those things disappear for me. The lyrics to this song also have a very deep personal meaning and relation to my life. But that will be left for another day. Overall I think it's very safe to say that this is an incredibly talented band, thank whatever deity there may be that the record companies haven't taken them with their icy claws.