In spite of turning up on the Garden State Soundtrack, I remain rather taken with the New Slang.
Tag Archives: 00s
Harrowdown Hill / Thom York (2006)
Thom York’s catchy 2006 polemic on the Iraq War and the death of Doctor David Kelly. For a music video that first premiered on a mainstream commercial TV station, Harrowdown Hill turns out to be bloody difficult to find in any quality better than ‘potato’. Indeed, the version above – while still not proper HD and occasionally raked by compression artefacts – appears to be the best one currently available and its hidden away on director Chel White’s Vimeo page! The version on XL Recordings YouTube page? Just a squidgy mush!
Dr Who on Holiday / Green Day, The Timelords, Dean Gray et. al. (2005)
I’ve managed to become rather obsessed with this Holiday / Doctorin’ the Tardis / Other Bits and Bobs mashup from the mid 00s. It’s pulled from the American Edit mashup album and the whole thing comes together far better than it has any right too…