Noise du Jour: “Sabotage” by the Beastie Boys
Posted by Eliza Gauger
See, this is how you do it.
Categories: Moustaches, Ghost Riding the Whip, Film, Clips, Ephemera, Noise du Jour, Music
Posted at 2:07 pm on July 20, 2007
11 Comments -
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the ironic conceit on which this video is built really hasn’t aged well
Comment by rl — July 20, 2007 @ 2:54 pm
It wasn’t supposed to age well, I think. Videos like this are just that, a gift to those people remembering ages past fondly enough as to smirk at parodies like this. And the fact that it doesn’t take itself as seriously as say, “Knights..” below, only sweetens the experience..
Comment by FiXXXer667 — July 20, 2007 @ 3:30 pm
Still my all time favorite video. When the subject comes up, this is always the one I refer back to.
Although 30 Seconds to Mars makes some humdinger videos too.
Comment by Katie — July 20, 2007 @ 4:02 pm
We must remember that this video was made far before retro-ironic was popular. It wasn’t even ironic, it was just low-budget and bad and totally self-aware, and that was awesome. Still is.
Comment by Eliza Gauger — July 20, 2007 @ 4:46 pm
First, 70’s retro-ironic was quite popular by the early 1990’s. Second, retro-ironic was popular in the 80’s too, except that in those cases, it looked back not to the 70’s, but the 50’s.
That said, I still think these 4 minutes make entire (quite good) shows like Life on Mars feel a bit redundant.
Comment by JD — July 20, 2007 @ 5:18 pm
The Beastie Boys have been pioneering 70s retro irony since the 80s. Paul’s Boutique is the Sistine Chapel of 70s retro art.
Comment by poot — July 20, 2007 @ 6:35 pm
Hm, what version is this..?
-At the “whaaah” the knifeman is supposed to fall off of the bridge, and this is even later than the also-not-seen knife-waving/duel/thingy.
Have you US people grown up with the “censored” version all along or is this a must-not-be-deleted-from YouTube thing? ;)
Comment by ch — July 20, 2007 @ 6:52 pm
What’s ironic about 70s cop show pastiche? If you’ve seen (and loved) Starsky & Hutch, CHiPs, Mannix, etc. this movie stays as good as it was on the day Mr. Jonze committed it to film.
Comment by Angry Sam — July 20, 2007 @ 6:59 pm
I wish I could be above retro-ironic conceit, but at least I don’t have a non-ironic nostalgic love for Mannix.
Where were we…? Oh, yeah. Cool vid.
Comment by Bat Guano — July 21, 2007 @ 3:16 pm
Don’t know enough about this ironic conceit business to join the discussion, I just love this video. Most of their videos are pretty funny.
@ch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlkgtPh1AWs
Comment by Kevin H. — July 21, 2007 @ 4:36 pm
Especially the music video for Intergalactic. Dancing gaijin in construction suits coming out of giant mecha FTW!
Comment by strangeknight — July 24, 2007 @ 1:35 am