Two quick things

[bop_radar]

1. I feel I should report that the Vividcon DVDs took my SGA-vid-watching virginity. I've resisted a loooong time, but it just happened, ok?! DON'T JUDGE ME! There are now officially no shows which I won't watch vids of. *headdesk* Also, um, I might have enjoyed some of them more than SPN vids. *blush* So, er, those of you who have previously tried to pimp SGA vids to me: the door is now open. Oh, and, um, more vid recs soon. :D

2. I have a question! What is your favourite dance track? You can interpret this two ways: either what is the track that will always get you on the dance floor and/or can you think of a dance track that is actually good (i.e. the macarena does NOT count)? Any/all responses appreciated.

Comments

[bluemeridian]

Have we mentioned the snark? And the crack that is canon? And the perfection that is Radek Zelenka as a supporting character? (I love a good supporting character - they're so often neglected.)

The most important vid... okay, there are several. First, Stress, a fantastic Rodney character vid by Rache and Sandy. (That's the IMEEM, there's a download link available but that's for a flocked post or email)

Second is The Writer by suzvoy, which transformed the way I see vids. Essentially a self-contained SGA AU, John is a writer who's been inspired by the work of a movie actor. The vid seamlessly incorporates footage from several movies Joe Flannigan and David Hewlett have acted in as well as SGA through "Grace Under Pressure". Fantastic.

Then there's the incomparable Mission Report by lim. A Teyla character vid, I did a quasi-review of it in this post. Lim wrote/sang the song that accompanies the vid, which incorporates footage from The Blue Planet and is entirely gorgeous.

*blinks* Well, I have to go get ready for work now. *grin*

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Hahahah! *g* I didn't say I would watch the show. ;-p But thank you for the recs! I will definitely watch both of those. I often enjoy great vids of shows I'm not into, but I've been stubbornly resisting SGA vids for so long. Now a whole new world opens up...

[bluemeridian]

Oh a little character knowledge helps with the vid appreciation. Really. *looks innocent* These three are really great examples of what you can do with a vid, and not just in terms of SGA. 'Stress' matches the song choice to clip choice and speed in a way that is not only completely in character, but also lots of fun to watch. Both of the other two, 'The Writer' and 'Mission Report', combine clips from multiple sources - one to tell a completely AU story, the other as an analogy. Not to mention that the look of both of them are entirely different.

On a tangent - do you have a good download manager? My dsl is wonderful, but I want to be able to just toss stuff in it and have it be right there, waiting, the next morning after downloading overnight. I hate futzing around with a bunch of medium sized files.

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, no I can't help you with a download manager, I'm afraid. I just use my standard Safari or Firefox.

I look forward to watching the vids after your descriptions! It's always great to see people pushing the medium.

[random-serious.livejournal.com]

Favourite dance track... would have to be Moby "Extreme ways" although I don't know if that counts as dance track or Moby's "Right hre, right now" (the song from Veronica Mars episode where she finds out who the Hearst rapist is) or "Where's your head at" by Chemical brothers.

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Cool! thanks! I thought 'Right here, right now' was a Fatboy Slim track--but I don't know VM so perhaps I'm just not familiar with the Moby track.

[random-serious.livejournal.com]

fatboy Slim, of course! Moby's track is the theme for the Bourne movies, it plays at least at the end of Ultimatum (which made me think of it), but it is rather mesmerizing.

[becisvolatile.livejournal.com]

Dance song?

Would have to be the Slinkee Minx cover of "Summer Rain"... or Goldfrapp's cover of "Yes Sir I Can Boogie", it's subdued in a way only they can manage... but you can't help but want to move.

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't know the first one--thanks. And yeah, Goldfrapp have very sneaky ways of making you bounce. ;)

[sarmoti.livejournal.com]

I don't even like dancing, but Full Frontal's version of "You Think You're a Man" gets me groovin' around the apartment. I can pretend I'm in a gay disco, which is fun. :)

Also, I will always, always dance to Outkast's "Hey Ya" and Britney's "Toxic" and of course SEXYBACK.

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Heee! That's perfect. Thanks! And yes, I'd agree with Sexyback, though it's actually very hard for me to dance to--it doesn't match my dancing style at ALL. Consequently I look like an idiot when I attempt to dance to it.

[talitha78.livejournal.com]

Excellent SGA vid here:

http://hollywoodgrrl.livejournal.com/54193.html

I recced it in my recent VVC post. Also, lim's SGA vids are very experimental and visually interesting. newkidfan has a couple along the same experimental lines. mamoru22 has some good ones, too.

[talitha78.livejournal.com]

Oh, and keewick has a couple of great SGA vids.

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

keewick is awesome!

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Thank you! :)

[jeannev.livejournal.com]

My favorite dance track is an oldie, but goodie. "Brick House" by the Commodores. I can't NOT move to that song.

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Oh, interesting! Thanks!

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I think my favorite dance tracks are mostly from the 80s, and I'm not sure I want to admit what they are. :D

I assume one of the SGA vids from Vividcon you watched was "We built this city", right? (I think talitha78 recced it, so she probably has a link if you haven't seen it--I personally thought it was completely hilarious).

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Yes, that was one of the ones I watched. And I had to admit to liking it so it was best to come out of the closet. ;)

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

I don't have any other SGA vid recs except This is How it Works (http://sublim.imeem.com/video/Tk2siKdd/this_is_how_it_works/), which may not be comprehensible unless you read the story it was made for, Freedom's Just another word for nothing left to lose (http://www.kekkai.org/synecdochic/sga/freedoms_just_another_word.html), which I highly recommend, btw, and you know I don't read much SGA. Really all you need to know to read the story is who McKay, Shepherd, Ronon and Elizabeth are, and the fact that they once worked in another galaxy. It's mainly a story about going on with your life after you've lost everything that's most important to you.

The vid is one of my favorites, and it also totally got me hooked on Regina Spektor, which is another plus.

Oh, and I thought of something that always makes me dance that I'm not embarrassed to admit publicly: Obladi Oblada (?spelling?) by the Beatles.

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Ok, excellent. *notes vid* I am actually coming rapidly to the conclusion that all this time I have been dutifully watching SPN vids when really I would have been better off with SGA (in terms of shows I have no intention of ever watching and which I kinda hate). I can't name a single SPN vid that hasn't made me at least slightly irritated because of the show (which shows the depth of my SPN-revulsion as there are many good vids in that fandom!) but I have enjoyed SGA ones now! All this time and I was punishing myself needlessly...

Obladi Oblada! Yes! *notes* That's a good one. It's so cute.

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

I really liked My Brilliant Idea (http://www.kekkai.org/lim/) by lim.

I've never seen a single Stargate episode or know any of the characters, yet I had a great time watching this!

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

I've seen some eps and I know the basic premise but it's always good to see vids that stand alone without that. thanks for the rec!

[kristiinthedark.livejournal.com]

Oooh, dance music. I used to go clubbing a lot and there were quite a few song that would drag me out on the floor. But the biggest ones were Tainted Love by Soft Cell and almost anything by Erasure.

*dances*

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Tainted Love--yes! It's always fun (and funny!). Hee! *bops*

[serenography.livejournal.com]

I loooove to dance. A few favorites: Just like a Prayer - Madonna, You Can Leave Your Hat On - Tom Jones; Just about anything by Prince, Closer by NIN, Pink has quite a few that make me move too.

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Nice! Yes, Pink is very bouncy/infectious. She sucks me in. And classic Madonna is definitely reliable too. I'm very comfortable dancing to NIN since a lot of the clubs I first went out to were goth/industrial so my dancing's pretty well-tuned to that era.

[smact46.livejournal.com]

I love to dance too. I have lots of favourites but bizarre love triangle by new order never fails to get me dancing anytime, anywhere - it's completely infectious.


If you haven't already fallen for it, you can check it out here.

http://www.last.fm/music/New+Order/_/Bizarre+Love+Triangle


I have also been loving this song (the others) by the dukes of windsor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTU6GctiUeI

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Ohh, yes, Bizarre Love Triangle is one of my faves too. Thanks for the links!

[brokenmnemonic.livejournal.com]

I don't know about good dance track... but I've got a handful of dance/techno type tunes on my HD, waiting for me to work up the nerve to try and produce a vid to something I don't listen too much as far as music goes ;) If you want samples, let me know and I'll d some uploading...

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Hee! Did you guess that I was asking for vid-related reasons? I actually have quite a lot of dance tracks from my youthful clubbing days but I got to thinking about dance tracks and how they're really different to different people--what makes one person get up and dance is completely blah to someone else. It just made me curious...

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

One of my favorite SGA vids is actually to instrumental music, but it's soooo pretty. It's the second one from the top here (http://community.livejournal.com/kanzeyori/11150.html).

A fun one for fans which... not being a fan you may not enjoy is mamoru22's Cartoon Heroes, which can be found on Imeem (http://mamoru.imeem.com/video/ldNf5RzI/cartoon_heroes/) (at the bottom) or on her webpage (http://www.viddish.org/sga.html). It's a mix of SGA & SG-1, including a bunch of behind-the-scenes stuff. It's a lot of fun.

Finally, I recommend astolat's Bohemian Like You, which can be found on her website (http://intimations.org/vidding/) or at Imeem (http://astolat.imeem.com/video/4AegMx_Q/sga_bohemianlikeyou/).

Hope this helps!

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

Damn. It would help if I'd actually named the first one, wouldn't it? *facepalm* Anyway, it's called Welcome Home, and this is at the top of its description: ___Her, city___

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Ohh, thank you! I'll definitely check those out--they sound great. :)

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

Oh, and as far as dance songs? Pretty much the one that always makes me want to dance is Pink's "God is A DJ." I blame dualbunny. :-)

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, I'll second that! ;) It's amazing how a brilliant vid can change one's view of a song. *g*

[crayola-girl.livejournal.com]

Two of my favourite dance tracks are:

Eric Prydz - Call on Me
Bodyrockers - I Like the Way You Move

Both have cool beats and I always wanna dance when I hear them, even if it's in the supermarket, lol. :D

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes! That's perfect! Just the sort of toe-tapping-ness I was looking for. :)

[bloodygoodgirl.livejournal.com]

For point #2

Dance Dance - Fall Out Boy (http://www.sendspace.com/file/g28dlg) I think the title says it all.

House of Wolves - My Chemical Romance (http://www.sendspace.com/file/pdh2d5) For some reason this always reminds me of 1940's big band swing dance or something.

The Queen and I - Gym Class Heroes (http://www.sendspace.com/file/ievx1f) I just love this one.

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Ohh thank you for those, hon! Wheee!