(154/?) And when they drag the lake there's nothing left at all...
I think video essays, especially those that concern entertainment, need a little check-up really bad. A ton of podcasts have fucking poisoned the landscape at large with their predisposition towards meandering, and the thing is that using certain stuff as "background noise" while you do other activities is hurting media at large.
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...was that too "old man yells at cloud"-y? It was, wasn't it? Fuck! Look, unless your topic is specifically concerning that, it ain't rocket science: If you are going to write essays and then film a video around said essays, trust me that there's nothing wrong with having the guts to make hard cuts. That, or have the guts to admit that your voice/presence is not good enough and have someone with actual charisma tackle the topic.
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"But why go through all that bullshit?" you ask, expectedly (listen, I know you don't exist, strawman-I-just-made-up, so just bear with me here, a'ight?); well, that's simple! Unless you're there to educate and you're actually qualified to teach something, if you're on YouTube or Vimeo or whichever video-sharing website, you probably want to be entertaining and keep the viewers attention.
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Do you know why something like this...
(not a Scooby-Doo guy, by the way, but is it ever entertaining to hear this dork go on and on about it)
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...actually manages to work while something like this...
(listen, I generally enjoy the games, but no character in the franchise needs a feature-length documentary about them. Come on)
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... just kinda makes you wonder if the guy bothered to actually listen to his editors about making hard cuts (and yes, I am aware that the video essay/"documentary" about Edelgard is around 40% longer). And I know that a tremendous amount of effort went into both of these videos before they saw the light of day, but I legitimately think that the approach in both of these is like night and day.
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Neither of them have a particularly good voice, but the guy in the scooby-doo video at least seems aware of his limitations and manages to make up for them in other ways and by playing to his strengths and the topic's strength to make for an effective, infectious and fairly entertaining video.
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The Fire Emblem guy has been doing this sort of thing for at least half a decade and, while he's always been a little janky on his delivery, some of his previous content was bearable/even entertaining (even if literary analysis has never been his strong point). So again, please: Even if you're making longer format content, have the guts to cut.
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If it worked for Elmore Leonard and Kurt Vonnegut, it should reasonably work for you. Have the guts to cut and get out there and start kicking much ass! See ya' later!
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loose top 145 chart - list under the readmore
1. Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
2. Car Seat Headrest - How To Leave Town
3. The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2
4. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
5. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
6. Earl Sweatshirt - some rap songs
7. The Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage: Animation Music
8. Bladee - ICEDANCER
9. Prince - Purple Rain
10. The KLF - Chill Out
11. Cardiacs - A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window
12. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
13. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
14. Animal Collective - Feels
15. desert sand feels warm at night - 夢の砂漠 (Dream Desert)
16. Hiroshi Yoshimura - SURROUND
17. Duster - Stratosphere
18. bedbug - If I Got Smaller Grew Wings and Flew Away for Good
19. Prince - Prince and The Revolution: Live
20. Mike - WEIGHT OF THE WORLD
21. The Weeknd - After Hours
22. Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes
23. Radiohead - Kid A
24. of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
25. of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
26. Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
27. Car Seat Headrest - Teens Of Denial
28. The Microphones - Mount Eerie
29. Mew - Frengers
30. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
31. The Beatles - Abbey Road
32. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
33. Ride - Nowhere (Expanded)
34. Ween - The Pod
35. Radiohead - OK Computer
36. Fishmans - 宇宙 日本 世田谷
37. Fishmans - 98.12.28 男達の別れ (Live)
38. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
39. Stereolab - Dots and Loops
40. George Clanton - Slide
41. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
42. Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy
43. Car Seat Headrest - Nervous Young Man
44. Indian Summer - Giving Birth to Thunder
45. Moss Icon - Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly
46. Jane Remover - frailty
47. Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring
48. The Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk at Cubist Castle
49. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
50. My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise
51. Bladee - Spiderr
52. 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs
53. Bomb the Music Industry! - Get Warmer
54. DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues
55. Alvvays - Alvvays
56. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
57. Brave Little Abacus - Masked Dancers: Concern in So Many Things You Forget Where You Are
58. Julia Brown - An abundance of strawberries
59. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....
60. Modest Mouse - Building Nothing Out of Something
61. Tyler, the Creator - Igor
62. Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy
63. David Bowie - Blackstar
64. Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch
65. The Beach Boys - SMiLE
66. Animal Collective - Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished
67. Nana Grizol - Dancing Dogs
68. Nana Grizol - Love It Love It
69. Gorillaz - Gorillaz
70. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
71. Pet Shop Boys - Introspective
72. Glass Beach - Plastic Death
73. Death Grips - the powers that b
74. Junior Delahaye - Showcase
75. Slowdive - Slowdive
76. Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
77. Global Communication - 76:14
78. Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
79. Car Seat Headrest - 4
80. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
81. The Music Tapes - Mary's Voice
82. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
83. Ween - Quebec
84. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
85. Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside: An Album by Earl Sweatshirt
86. Virtual Self - Virtual Self
87. Lil Ugly Mane - Singles
88. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
89. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland
90. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Live in Brisbane '21
91. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
92. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
93. Frank Ocean - Blonde
94. The Cure - Disintegration
95. Nirvana - In Utero
96. Death Grips - Bottomless Pit
97. Mike - renaissance man
98. Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
99. The Microphones - It Was Hot, We Stayed In The Water
100. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
101. Cardiacs - The Seaside
102. Gorillaz - Demon Days
103. Duster - Duster
104. My Chemical Romance - I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love
105. Thursday - Full Collapse
106. My Bloody Valentine - m b v
107. Black Dresses - Peaceful as Hell
108. Porter Robinson - nurture
109. of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks
110. bob hund - Bob Hund
111. Teen Suicide - i will be my own hell because there is a devil inside my body
112. Slowdive - Souvlaki
113. Cursive - The Ugly Organ
114. Ween - God Ween Satan: The Oneness (Anniversary Edition)
115. Kleenex Girl Wonder - Ponyoak
116. Sweet Trip - Velocity: design: comfort.
117. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
118. Guided by Voices - Under the Bushes Under the Stars
119. The Beatles - Revolver
120. Jane Remover - teen week
121. Glass Beach - the first glass beach album
122. blackwinterwells - Stone Ocean
123. The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - Formlessness - EP
124. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
125. Jordaan Mason - earth to ursa major
126. Weatherday - Come In
127. The pAper chAse - Hide the Kitchen Knives
128. Kylie Minogue - Aphrodite
129. Yung Lean - Starz
130. pilotredsun - Achievement
131. Bomb the Music Industry! - Album Minus Band
132. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
133. Doss - Doss
134. Kitty - Frostbite
135. Bob Drake - Medallion Animal Carpet
136. Parannoul - After the Night (Live)
137. J Dilla - Donuts
138. Ashley Ninelives - Eagle Creek
139. Vangelis - Blade Runner - Esper Edition
140. Akira Yamaoka - SILENT HILL2 (Original Soundtrack)
141. C418 - Minecraft - Volume Alpha
142. C418 - Minecraft - Volume Beta
143. Disasterpeace - Fez
144. Toby Fox - UNDERTALE Soundtrack
145. Kero Kero Bonito - Time 'n' Place (background)
honorable mentions to round it off to 150:
146. Julius Eastman - Femenine
147. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
148. Dinosaur jr. - You're Living All Over Me
149. Flipper - Album Generic Flipper
150. DJ Rozwell - NONE OF THIS IS REAL
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