Feb 23, 2010
The (read with a long E sound) best music video ever!
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Watch this video, and then thank me in the comments.
Or, actually, thank Derek Webb who tweeted it a few minutes ago.
Update: They took it off YouTube, but not Vimeo yet.
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i don’t think “thank you” can quite sum it up.
:)
Oh to be sixteen again.
Because of my high esteem for you, I listened all the way through. My esteem for you now suffers as a result. :-)
I keep trying to think of what to say, but I can’t think of anything.
pain. full.
had to watch jesus is my friend to purge the sound from my ears.
‘Jesus is my friend’…surely the high point of all Christian artistic expression!!
oh.my.goodness. busted a gut when i read this.
Blessed is the man who does not… …sit in the seat of mockers. :(
ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!
Wait…that came across as mocking. I meant to laugh (in a good way) at your use of Psalm 1, as Biblical references make up my favorite kind of humor.
Because you have ignored all my counsel
and would have none of my reproof,
I also will laugh at your calamity;
I will mock when terror strikes you.
The “train” and “step by step” shots really pulled me into the song, but what would have made this video awesome is if the cargo elevator had been going “up.”
:)
I’m pretty sure I just achieved a transcendental state of oneness with the universe.
Somebody has Mommy and Daddy’s money.
Thank you. Thank you. THANK YOU.
Hey! That’s my cousin’s band.
Just kidding.
Thanks anyway?
My fist would like to personally thank your face for that.
A small part of the musician in me just died, I think.
You know that this was played on the big screen at their church on youth Sunday.
It’s like a game of “find the actual note.”
Oh my.
The craziest part about this whole video is people have actually told them to their faces that they are good at what they do. No one makes a music video without having some fans, supporters, and admirers.
Yikes. That was hard to stomach. I should watch this while eating lunch.
the sad thing: i’ll bet a hundred bucks a ccm label will sign them in the next 3 years.
just sayin…
“… the day the music died.”
Don McLean
American Pie
I dated the lead singer in highschool, just kidding…
but a girl can dream can’t she?
That’s 3:40 of my life I’ll never get back.
Ouch. My ears hurt and I feel sick to my stomach.
Please don’t do that to me again!
Best part of the whole song is at 3:41
My ears just fell off of my head.
Someone forgot to put the vocal auto tuner on.
I actually didn’t enjoy it that much.
This reminds me of a Final Coutdown performance someone told me about. You will weep with laughter.. or just weep. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYQ9JEKwwdE
This video proves two things:
1. AV equipment is too cheap.
2. American Idol portrays people’s opinions of themselves accurately in the tryouts.
Somewhere there is a music educator crying over his students’ failing to heed his advice…or his attempt to educate them…or their complete tone-deafness.
Watching this was like standing next to my hearing-impaired father-in-law (who loves hymns) at church during worship.
Incredibad.
(Second comment on a post…record for me)
Confession: While watching this video I kept thinking to myself, “If my son was in this band, would I still love him?”
…and I still don’t know if I have clear answer in my head.
Wow — Jenny is taking musical insults to a whole new level here!
Aren’t they the people who do the “Five Dollar Foot Long” commercial? They have the same depressed, atonal sound.
I just want to tell them, “Don’t give up, you’ll find a way. Just take a deep breath and close your eyes, because it’s your life.” Wow! It just goes to show, all you need is a warehouse, a guitar, and a dream! Oh, and it doesn’t hurt to have a buddy with mad video production skills.
Shoot. Me.
The last thing I feel like doing is shining, I can tell you that.
I wonder what is said if this gets back to these guys.
Is the conversation? “Dude, this son of some whacky bapist preacher dude call you guys the best thing ever!!”
My ears. They bleed.
(The internet is a wonderfully cruel place, isn’t it?)
“Son of a wacky baptist preacher” Isn’t that a song? These guys should shoot the video.
Someone looped the guitar solo. Very nice: http://vimeo.com/9631251
You all may be surprised, but after watching this video a wave of thankfulness came over me. I was thankful it wasn’t 3:41 long.
“This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Final Placement.”
lolz
It’s still on Vimeo, though. Thank you, internet!
i would like to thank Final Placement for their copyright claim that has spared that 3:40 segment of my life
found it, and it was totally worth all the time involved to be reminded how broken the world is
a Perfect world could never produce something like this
My roommate walked in as I was watching this and said “Ooh! Music!” and then… “Oh, wait…”
All that AND a guitar solo. Ouch.
“It’s like a game of find the actual note” – HILARIOUS!
This is going round the world….and it shouldn’t. please don’t listen you will need help afterwards. Just read the comments
1. That is hilarious.
2. I am SO thankful YouTube did not exist when I was in high school.
3. My 2-year-old LOVES this video. He especially loves the guitar solo part & keeps asking to watch it!
4. Is it strange that I feel kind of sorry for these poor guys (see my 2nd point).
My 13 yr old daughter just told me she made callbacks for a part in Guys and Dolls at her school…she’s going for Sarah. I told her to watch this…she’ll feel so much better about herself. Sorry dudes…give it up dawgs!
this video is a joke, right? it has to be a joke. the solo IS a joke. right? right? no, this cannot be real. i mean, the kicks? the jeans? the matching guitars. this MUST be a joke.
right?
i have those matching guitars (just one though.)
wow. i smiled big when i saw this. cuh ray zee.
I still can’t decide if this is a joke or not… it seems like either a really good inside joke – like they are purposely playing badly to THIS song to be really abstractly funny, in which case , brilliant… OR they are bad on so many levels (timing, tonality, image…) that it’s not funny at all. But I simply cannot imagine this being serious. I really can’t.
*sigh*
I started watching this and was laughing histerically… then I realized they are from my home town and went to my high school, awesome.
Evidence it is real:
-Copyright claim out of embarrassment
-I know people like this
-The lyrics are not satirical enough
-http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/final_placement/
Evidence it is fake:
-White guy under-bite while playing guitar
-They line up and do the Broadway foot shuffle
-I don’t know how someone could possibly be proud of this song enough to make a video unless it was a joke
“Whats up man?”
“Oh just hanging out at the ATM.”