4,816 kinds of crazy

June 13, 2009 8:52 PM

We Have Band's music video for You Came Out is stop-frame animation created from 4,816 still images without any video footage. The making of. (via likeCOOL)

-- Produced by Blinkink.
-- Clip of We Have Band playing the song live in Paris.

posted by madamjujujive (20 comments total)

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Cool video.
posted by defenestration at 9:07 PM on June 13

In the grand Metafilter tradition, let me be the first to say that music is horrible. So horrible that my browser had to be closed immediately.
posted by xmutex at 9:16 PM on June 13 [2 favorites]

In the grand Metafilter tradition, let me be the first to say that music is horrible. So horrible that my browser had to be closed immediately. -xmutex

All music? ever? Or just Your Favorite Band Sucks™ music.

In any case I find their music catchy and fun to listen too, not overly complicated, but the video, the tedium required to produce such a thing, is astounding.
posted by sir_rubixalot at 9:27 PM on June 13 [2 favorites]

My initial reaction on reading the headline was "ANOTHER stopmotion video?" (for some reason I'm under the impression I've seen a few of these, although I can't think of any others off the top of my head), but that was very cool, and a nice unique take. The music wasn't necessarily anything I'll rush out to buy, but I was tapping my hands and whistling along by the end, so I gotta chalk that one up as a win.
posted by barnacles at 9:29 PM on June 13 [1 favorite]

Stopmotion without any video footage? What's next, ice cream without bones?
posted by scrowdid at 10:06 PM on June 13 [9 favorites]

It seems like there's been tons and tons of stop-motion music videos being done lately.
posted by delmoi at 10:22 PM on June 13

That is because stop motion is KICKASS.

This looks like it was kind of itchy.
posted by louche mustachio at 12:11 AM on June 14

video was kickass. music was ass.
posted by analogue at 2:10 AM on June 14 [1 favorite]

You damn kids.
posted by kink at 2:40 AM on June 14

Unless Jesus himself comes & blesses these guys with the gift of making memorable music & they somehow end up writing & recording this millennium's Pet Sounds, they'll undoubtedly only be (barely, barely, barely) remembered for this clip. Visually interesting enough to keep my viewership for its duration, but I iimagine the cocaine budget for that shoot rivaled that of the production budget.
posted by Item at 3:44 AM on June 14 [2 favorites]

but I iimagine the cocaine budget

Hmm. Where'd that extra 'i' come from? Probably too much cocaine. Sorry, Jesus.
posted by Item at 3:45 AM on June 14

Watching it again: 4,817 kinds of awful. Further proof, if for some crazy (ha! get it?) reason you weren't already convinced how shitty their mucis was.
posted by Item at 4:09 AM on June 14 [2 favorites]

Mucis. That's right. Their snot sucks almost as much as their songs. I'm going to bed now.
posted by Item at 4:12 AM on June 14

I liked it better when Peter Gabriel did it in 1986
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1tTN-b5KHg
posted by fresh-n-minty at 5:35 AM on June 14 [3 favorites]

isn't that sperm footage at the start of the Sledgehammer video? ; )

as for We Have Band,
cool video, music was ok,
would gladly listen to it over 95% of what's on the radio
posted by stifford at 8:59 AM on June 14

Neat.

And yeah, kind of reminds me of some old 80s music video stuff that would get played on odd channels in the middle of the night.
posted by Artw at 1:57 PM on June 14

Cool video. Cool song. Reminds me of ESG.
posted by chillmost at 3:41 PM on June 14

I thought the video was pretty cool, the music was decent, and the thread was predictable.
posted by flatluigi at 5:18 PM on June 14 [1 favorite]

That's an ace video. I enjoyed the music too. I'm not sure what all the hate's for, it's perfectly competent electro indie stuff.
posted by Magnakai at 4:49 PM on June 15

I've actually had this song going through my head for the past few days. I like it a lot.
posted by flatluigi at 3:44 PM on June 16