X-ray Spex - Oh Bondage, Up Yours

This isn't exactly a music video as much as it is a live performance, but it should be the music video for this song.

The X-Ray Spex were a short-lived teenage punk band from the late 70s in the UK.  They are sometimes credited as the first grrrl rock band more than a decade before the riot grrrl movement and this song could easily be considered the first riot grrrl song.  Poly Styrene, the woman screeching and wailing, paved the way for decades of feminist rock.  See the Raincoats, Sleater Kinney, Patti Smith, and Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

This song is manic emancipatory rock.  Poly Styrene starts the song, "Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard.  Well I think, OH BONDAGE, UP YOURS!" and never relents.

Hot Chip - I Feel Better

Hot Chip - I Feel Better

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YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaCZN2N6Q_I

Hot Chip is one of the electronic rock bands that prominently features vocals. While the lines are blurry, they are also considered dance-punk or disco-punk or indie-dance or synth-pop or synth-rock or any number of mixtures of those words.

They have gone from a small English band self-releasing albums in 2000 to a major label grammy-nominated artists. EMI might have signed them, but they still release records in the US on DFA. In case you are wondering, DFA is the biggest indie label for this modern mix of rock/punk/synth/electro/ect. They were one of the first and they are still the most biggest in the genre. LCD Soundsystem is the other big name on the label, but there are reams of others.

So, about the video...its is amazing. I actually like the video more than the song. The video starts out as if it is a boy band video with primped and toned metrosexuals doing group dance to a crowd of screaming girls. Then a bald Christ figure shows up and havoc ensues. I don't want to ruin the rest of the video, just make sure you watch the whole thing. You don't want to miss the laser and the floating head.