Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Runaway Train
Best song I heard today because you cannot hear this song without thinking of the video. It's simply impossible. This video is burned into my head for the rest of ETERNITY. It still gives me the creeps when that old man climbs into that car with the hooker baby. Anyhow, if you have yourself a spare twenty minutes, it's quite an experience to Google some of the names of the missing kids from the video. Some happy endings, most not. Videos just don't do these kinds of things anymore. There's no social element to them. Don't get me wrong, videos can still kick ass, as I was responsible for about 8,328 views of Bad Romance back in November. But the gut punch you get from this video? Doesn't happen anymore.
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Good call on the gut punch of reality this video gives you, and how that whole PSA by way of music vid doesn't happen anymore.
ReplyDeleteMy friend Marissa had a blank cassette tape that she used to record this song whenever it came on the radio, so that after some time, she had a full tape to play this song continuously back to back. That also doesn't happen either. Dinosaurs!