I do still "Love" OK Go.

Sorta kinda disclaimer still stands, but the new OK Go video is just as wondrously inventive and breathtaking (and smile-making) as their previous endeavors. They've come a long way from those treadmills, but the planning and concepts have only gotten both more grandiose and more emotive. At least that's my take.

I'm seeing them later this week and confess, despite contributing to the fundraiser to augment support for the release of And the Adjacent Possible I still haven't listened to the new LP from start tp finish. It's wanted to be in the correct mindset before digging in, and I think today will be the day, So if this video spurs you to check out their new album, we might both be listening to it for the first time together without knowing it!

There's also an extended behind-the-scenes video for the making of the music video (that's a mouthful) and it's super entertaining well.

Grey Cell Evergreen.

No joke, Ned's Atomic Dustbin's Godfodder came out on this day in 1991!

A few months later I would see them open for Jesus Jones so I could review the headliner's set.* I know not everyone digs them, and many of my British pals slightly cringe when I proclaim I am a fan, but this debut was a perfect thundering mix of melody and guitars atop a truly rumbling rhythm section that my ears were thirsty for at the time. The group would never recapture this formula so perfectly again, but I can still listen to it from start to finish with a smile on my face. And while I do love the most popular single off this album "Kill Your Television," it's "Grey Cell Green" that hooked me into my initial fandom.

*It was a memorable night, complete with me cornering some Ned's players at the back bar of the Aragon when I stumbled across them on my way to try and find my show buddy since he'd taken a bunch of acid earlier. I found him in the bathroom staring at a sink as he turned to ask me if I too saw that it was filled with blood. And friends, it was (and not the best time for him to run into something like that. Yipes! But he was fine and we enjoyed the rest of the show together.