Battle of the Bands

October 6, 2006 6:02 AM

Battle of the Bands. [QT, NSFW] Album cover animation. More at Motionographer.
posted by Armitage Shanks (18 comments total)

Friggin awesome.
posted by Demogorgon at 6:05 AM on October 6, 2006

I have to say that the best part of the video, just like the fever dreams that accompany eating too many candy corn, was when Ozzy went nuts and started biting the head off of everyone. Especially Rivers Cuomo.
posted by now i'm piste at 6:11 AM on October 6, 2006

I particularly liked Joe Jackson getting blood on his pointy, pointy shoes. "Oh MAN!"
posted by Biblio at 6:32 AM on October 6, 2006

schweet
posted by pmbuko at 6:48 AM on October 6, 2006

This is the best of the web.
posted by Mister_A at 7:44 AM on October 6, 2006

[this is good]
posted by ChrisR at 7:50 AM on October 6, 2006

not friggin awesome... fuckin' a awesome.
posted by fungible at 8:16 AM on October 6, 2006

teh awesomeness.
posted by photoslob at 9:02 AM on October 6, 2006

What a wonderful way to start the day... with homicide.
posted by lekvar at 9:19 AM on October 6, 2006

[this is fucking rad]
posted by eyeballkid at 10:12 AM on October 6, 2006 [1 favorite]

This is another example of why our society has become a little less rich through the progress of technology - when LPs gave way to CDs, album cover art shrank to nearly nothing, and it will disappear completely when CDs give way to direct distribution of music, or whatever the next thing is. There will be no more iconic art like this, and in fact many of the album covers featured in the video are likely to be among the last examples of the genre.
posted by yhbc at 10:19 AM on October 6, 2006

Ozzy went nuts and started biting the head off of everyone

Including Ozzy.
posted by kirkaracha at 11:17 AM on October 6, 2006

yhbc: things come and go....

There was no album cover art before the LP, so it is logical that there will be no album cover art after the LP.

That's just the way it goes.
posted by Pendragon at 11:33 AM on October 6, 2006

yhbc - you forgot to mention the kids, and how they should get the hell off your lawn!!
posted by jonson at 11:54 AM on October 6, 2006 [1 favorite]

Highlarious!
posted by growabrain at 6:56 PM on October 6, 2006

OK, the Rush vs. DSOTM laser thing was the best laugh I've had this week. Three cheers!
posted by Schlimmbesserung at 7:49 PM on October 6, 2006

Now that is what they invented the Internet for... thank you!
posted by VulcanMike at 9:16 PM on October 6, 2006

that was truly excellent. thanks!
posted by Busithoth at 7:04 AM on October 8, 2006