Seen your video

Among the zillion great things you can find on YouTube: lost mid-90s no-budget rock videos by indie artists, which MTV may or may not have played back in the day. There was a little sub-sub-genre of absurdist videos, usually featuring members of the band doing ridiculous things for no good reason. They were visually livelier than the Replacements' inspired "anti-video" clips from the 1980s, but they weren't necessarily more meaningful.

I know I saw Pavement's "Gold Soundz" clip on MTV once, late at night. I don't know if they ever played the Archers of Loaf's "Web In Front". Both are hilariously weird.


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