Oh MAN I’m like a kid in a candy store right now, having a peppermint shake with my fudgeburger..
VEVO has launched!
VEVO is described as the “HULU of music video,” which is really cool because Hulu.com has all of these TV shows and movies in great quality that stream right to your desktop, laptop, iPhone, Blackberry and other assorted gizmos, so now there’s a service where you can get music videos that way too.
To be clear, HULU is the fudgeburger in this metaphor, while VEVO is the peppermint shake.
The Internet is the candy store.
You and me are the kids.
I just pulled your hair because you stuck gum in mine.
You little fucker.
Music videos have been online since the early days of the Internet but it’s been kind of like the candy aisle at a hardware store – poorly stocked, stale, all thrown together and there are screws that have fallen into the taffy from the bin overhead.
Now.. finally.. there is a service that streams videos to you in high quality and you can make playlists and it’s all divided up into genres and artists and stuff like that, plus there’s a huge selection which is amazing considering that the site launched about twenty minutes ago.
You also won’t have to worry about one of your favorite videos being found by an Internet Overlord and pulled off the web because it was posted by a 12-year-old kid named XhellRaizrX.
It’s a little buggy at this point – a few hours ago I called up “genres” and it showed me all the genres they had available – Alt Rock and Children’s Music. I assumed that they probably have more than that so I just waited, and sure enough all of the genres came back online a few hours later. I chose “thrash metal” and it played a Hannah Montana video for me.
She’s a sexy little baddass biatch, eh?
It’s been getting less buggy as the day goes on, so there must be an army of tech-elves with ironing boards and irons, ironing out the kinks.
Hey, speaking of THE KINKS, mouse-over this and push play, then continue reading..
Whoa, this is going to be fun!
If the KINKS video above doesn’t play for you, either the tech-elves aren’t ironing fast enough or you’re in a region that VEVO is not allowed to stream to, YET. They say they hope to have worldwide distribution soon, which is good because I’ve gone and done a silly thing and that’s put a DAILY VIDEO from VEVO on the front page of this blog, and since this blog travels the world, I want the video to be seen everywhere.
I’ll be choosing something different every day and mixing it up so that it’s rock one day, classical the next, then pop and so on. All of the videos will be chosen solely because I like them. If you want to poke fun at my choices you’re more than welcome to do so in the comment section, but you then must go to the sidebar on the left, click a widget and buy something.
So the very first VEVO Video Of The Day is Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn,” because I’ve always liked it. She’s adorable as she sings about lying naked on the floor and the fake house falls apart at the end, which symbolizes her relationship with the tall blond guy and how it fell apart but she dances anyway because she’s just a sexy little short-haired trooper.
If you’re reading this post on a day other than the day it was posted, which means the video on the front page has changed, then grab a fudgeburger with a peppermint shake, mouse-over the box below, push play and sing-along with Natalie..
Not seeing the videos? click here
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Heh! I’m afraid VEVO are being somewhat parochial and all I get are blank rectangles ["VEVO is not available in your country"].
I’ll take your word for it.
Grandad´s brilliant blustering.. Do not drink the water
Yep, I saw that there was a comment from grandad and I thought, “Oh bloody hell, it doesn’t play in Ireland and he’s going to go on about it.”
Perhaps we should nip down to the pub instead.
Why would I go on about it? I have my own problems to rant about!
If we’re going down to the pub, I’ll get the first round in…..
Grandad´s brilliant blustering.. Do not drink the water
I’ve never gotten that about pubs.. if you get the first, then I get the second, then you, then me, don’t we end up spending the same amount of coin as if we bought our own and nobody really treated anybody to a pint?
But we both feel generous because we have been buying a drink for a friend. We are a friendly lot over here.
Grandad´s brilliant blustering.. Do not drink the water
It’s like Christmas, where I give you a book and you give me a book, and we’re both out the price of one book and have gained a book each, which would be the end result if we’d just gone and purchased our own fucking book and got what we actually wanted.
Bah Humbug.
You wouldn’t even give me the price of a book? You mean fisted git. I rescind that offer of a pint.
Grandad´s brilliant blustering.. Do not drink the water
*looks around for the autographed copy of “Headrambles” that the author gifted him when it came out – can’t seem to find it*
You have lost it already!!!
Grandad´s brilliant blustering.. Do not drink the water
I watch the post diligently for unemployment checks (cheques?) – I don’t think it was ever sent. Too much Guinness, perhaps?
Not sent? How dare you! [*woops*]
I’d send you another copy but you don’t have an address yet?
Grandad´s brilliant blustering.. Do not drink the water
We has an address. Yous wants it?
Thanks for letting me know about Vevo. My life was incomplete until now….
I KNOW, huh? Me too!
Still have no clue how I found your blog a few months ago but glad I did! Love the video choices so far who could of imagined I needed a little taste of the Kinks and Natalie at the end of my day? Thank!
Well HELLO new person, and thanks!
I’ve just started a video archive where you’ll be able to revisit all the daily vids by clicking on the button on the nav bar above where the daily video is now.
I eventually want to keep it on the site, but for now it’s a VEMO playlist so unfortunately HULU vids like the SNL “Shy Ronnie” one don’t make it on there. When I get around to making a site archive they’ll be included, at least until they expire from Hulu.
I started this whole new addition with Natalie’s “Torn” just the other day, so she’s the only one on there as of this comment. Kind of sad, but there will eventually be a lot more
http://www.vevo.com/watch/playlist/the-rhodester-chronicles-daily-video/9944#0
Ooh.
I’ll be looking for “Billy Don’t Lose My Number.”
cinderkeys´s brilliant blustering.. Woofers, tweeters, hooters
On the list
Can’t find it. Wahh.
cinderkeys´s brilliant blustering.. Woofers, tweeters, hooters
Yeah, me neither, but they just started up and there are a lot of artists not signed on yet – check back.