hmm i dont watch mtv.. so this one is maybe the only thing i 've missed so far :P

i saw it on MTV too

amezing MV i have ever seen

...i just think that most of the music video these days are the same

yea... it was probably really hard to make

looks like it was all done in one take :thinking:

yeah, i think so

they have to practice really well to make that happen

yeah..who ever came up with that idea is genious..

 

Every move is important! I love it :nice:

I bought their new album. It's really good. EVERYBODY SHOULD OWN IT.

"you don't have to be alone to be lonely, you might as well give in"

 

Ah I bought their album on Sunday and I can NOT stop listening to it. It's not one of those super great future-classic albums, but it's just so catchy. :D

lol that's actually what got me reinterested in them. haha

 

 

hahah! thats what got me DISinterest!

OK GO ....i love their MV

....really well performence

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34097

I bought their new album. It's really good. EVERYBODY SHOULD OWN IT.

 

You have an upload for us, then?:rolleyes:

You have an upload for us' date=' then?:rolleyes:[/quote']

 

 

You know, you can buy something to own it :rolleyes:

You know' date=' you can buy something to own it :rolleyes:[/quote']

 

Would you like to make a donation?:rolleyes:

I really like the song and the music video. I might just go out and buy it.

Would you like to make a donation?:rolleyes:

 

 

No :rolleyes:

 

I might upload the album sometime tomorrow though if you really wannit.

OK Go tries to break free

 

CALGARY — Whether they go on to be rock legends or they’re never heard from again, power pop group OK Go will always be remembered as the first band to make it big on YouTube.

 

C’mon, you’ve heard them by now, and, if you were anywhere near cyberspace last summer you’ve almost certainly seen them.

 

The rock foursome from Chicago became an Internet phenomenon last year when their irresistible video for the song Here It Goes Again was uploaded onto the free video sharing website YouTube.com.

 

The unique low-budget clip, which featured the band doing a smile-inducing choreographed dance on treadmills, was a sensation, garnering over 17 million views to date, making it one of the most watched videos of all time on YouTube.

 

Just as MTV made stars out of such artists as Madonna, Duran Duran and Bon Jovi back in the ‘80s, now YouTube had rocketed OK Go to international success. At this years Grammys the band took home an award for best short-form music video for Here It Goes Again. Last month, YouTube users awarded the band with “most creative video” for the treadmill tour de force.

 

“I think we are one of the first bands to have broken through on YouTube, and it’s surreal,” says OK Go singer Damian Kulash.

 

“Videos have existed forever, and online videos have been around for a while, too, but the architecture of YouTube has kind of carved out a new genre.”

 

“With a YouTube video, they’re not really music videos. They’re all kind of homemade and they seem to embody a certain creativity, humour, cleverness …It’s kind of like a new art form. It’s so new that to immediately be giving awards to itself, it seems kind of crazy …

 

“People are telling me ‘You must be excited.’ I want to say yes, because it is flattering, but I’m mostly just confused.”

 

While OK Go, which also includes bassist Tim Nordwind, Dan Kanopka on drums and Andy Ross on keyboards, did upload the video to YouTube before they offered it to their record company, Kulash insists that wasn’t a marketing strategy.

 

“It was more pragmatic,” he says. “We’re an indie rock band and we’ve always done things our way. Yes, we are on a label (Capitol), but they also have Coldplay and Paul McCartney to deal with.”

 

With such label-mates, OK Go realized they weren’t exactly the priority. Kulash says the treadmill concept came from his sister, director Trish Sie.

 

“We made the video with our own money on our own time,” he says.

 

“We didn’t really tell anybody about it, because who would’ve believed it? We would’ve been laughed at …No one thought we could show it to any major media outlets. It was more like a home video and it just seemed more appropriate to put it on YouTube.”

 

“It wasn’t an advertising thing or a marketing vehicle. It was a video depicting the band, conceived and made by the band …documenting something we wanted to do.”

 

Miraculously, the video, with its tricky treadmill stunts, was shot in one take.

 

“It took a lot of practice runs, and there was certainly a lot of minor injuries involved,” Kulash says.

 

“Luckily, no one was hospitalized.… We had all the treadmills in the room (positioned) at different alignments to figure out what would yield the best moves.

 

Nine times out of 10 when you hurl yourself at a mess of treadmills, they chew you up. But that last time is just an awesome move that you never could have thought of without playing around.”

 

Here It Goes Again wasn’t the first time OK Go took a humorous off-the-wall approach to their videos, nor was it to be the last. The band’s newest video for Do What You Want features them breakdancing, hula-hooping, bouncing on pogo sticks, and rocking out while covered head to toe in wallpaper, which matches that on the walls.

 

Now, that OK Go has become such a hit, MTV began giving the video big play right out of the gates. In the past the band also released such oddities as their instructional ping pong video (also to be found on YouTube), which wouldn’t be out of place on Saturday Night Live.

 

Despite all the tomfoolery, Kulash insists OK Go is not a comedy band.

 

“Yes, our band has a sense of humour, and since the time of Nirvana a lot of bands haven’t had that,” he says.

 

“It’s been sort of taboo to smile in public. You don’t want to be read as glib children’s entertainment.”

 

“We try not to subscribe to that. At the same time, we don’t see our music as a joke …When people make jokes in the context of their music, I find it very hard to take them seriously. But I also find it hard to take bands seriously if they don’t have a sense of humour.

 

“Look at The Beatles. You’d be hard pressed to find a Beatles song that is a joke, but they were also one of the most light-hearted bands you could ever dream up.”

 

Still, with such wacky videos as their calling card, Kulash knows some might miss the point that OK Go is a real rock band.

 

“You just have to hope that the music you make speaks for itself,” he says.

 

http://www.capebretonpost.com/index.cfm?sid=21319&sc=147

OK Go?

 

Does anyone else here like OK Go?

I used to hang out at their Juggling Club all the time before it closed down :'(

i love OK Go

OK GO "Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky" (NEW ALBUM!) streaming inside**

 

There's soul,funk and rock. ITS FUCKIN GOOD,believe me.

 

Listen to the whole album (songs in order)

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJqbhc7gVXI]YouTube- OK Go - WTF? | New Album : Of The Blue Color of the Sky |[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4jqbmvJQUo]YouTube- Ok Go - This Too Shall Pass (New Song 2010)[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoPPOpLbI1o]YouTube- Ok Go - All Is Not Lost (New Song 2010)[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ3dcfyjNPE]YouTube- Ok Go - Needing / Getting (New Song 2010)[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DgvsGEqk58]YouTube- Ok Go - Skyscrapers (New Song 2010)[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4XrosY2LGw]YouTube- Ok Go - White Knuckles (New Song 2010)[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-eSmCnM_lc]YouTube- Ok Go - I Want You So Bad I Cant Breathe (New Song 2010)[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8GMcEULyPA]YouTube- Ok Go - End Love (New Song 2010)[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB_zzxcQ86I]YouTube- Ok Go - Before The Earth Was Round (New Song 2010)[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvGGz7wwIW0]YouTube- Ok Go - Last Leaf (New Song 2010)[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsJvx_i_BrM]YouTube- Ok Go - Back From Kathmandu (New Song 2010)[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfQmwk5BlME]YouTube- Ok Go - While You Were Asleep (New Song 2010)[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iny6_JRAypQ]YouTube- Ok Go - In The Glass (New Song 2010)[/ame]

*superbumpkick*

 

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This is almost as awesome as the treadmill one. :D

Are they still GO-ing?:rolleyes:

Ur liek superfunniej and stuff.

Ur liek superfunniej and stuff.

 

I know. It's just a burden I have to carry......................... :P

very honda-ish!

so far my fave track of the new album is Skycrapers :D

btw it was hard to find the thread with search option :smash: