They’re most famous for their treadmill video (which is probably responsible for more broken bones in college town gyms than any other pop culture contribution in history).
It’s like so much of their other work. Fantastic visuals, forgettable-at-best music. I like OK Go enough to have bought one of their albums, but it’s an inescapable fact.
About the only songs of theirs I like well enough to listen to without video are Here It Goes and Do What You Want.
That’s interesting, I’d like to hear that.
I was thinking more along the lines of the Squirrel Nut Zippers. I say this because the Andrew Bird’s rendition of “Being Green” keyed into the core of that bittersweet tone of that song. Accordingly, the Muppet Theme set the tone for their retro vaudeville theater acts, I feel like a bigger band that knows that bursting-with-energy retro jazz showmanship element would be what this song needs.
I love OK Go, but I feel like the narcoleptic modern rock approach doesn’t do anything for what this song is supposed to be about.
[reading what I just wrote] I take my Muppets way too seriously. :smack:
I didn’t find it as satisfying as I felt it should be. I think trying to divide it fairly between OK Go antics and Muppet antics ended up diluting both.
I like that.
Also, one of the related videos on that page seems to be a German rap video about a man on a penny-farthing chasing a magic butterfly, backed by a brass ensemble. I’m not sure I actually like it so much as being pleased that such a thing exists.
I listened to the preview on NPR and I agree that it was crap. Well it was half great, half crap.
“Halfway Down the Stairs” was awful. Like some kind of 90s Enya garbage. I’m not familiar with “The Wishing Song” but it was also awful.
“Rainbow Connection” would have been good if it was just Weezer, since so many of us grew up with Weezer and the Muppets. But they threw in some chick that nobody’s heard of.
I’m not a fan of the OK Go song. Video is cute tho.
I’m glad they got someone super talented for “Bein’ Green” otherwise it would have been a serious affront to Jim Henson.
“Movin’ Right Along” was fan-fucking-tastic!
Oh, I was able to Google them quickly enough, it’s just that every time I see this thread title pop up I think, hmmmm . . . Kermit? Fozzie? Beaker? I can’t see doing *any *of them, really.
Although Gonzo has that nose with the wicked-fun curve. Am I right ladies?
Did nothing for me. (And I liked the movie trailer.)
I expected more from OK Go.
It was jarring (when the Muppets were puppeteering the band) to see the band members playing their instruments right handed. The regular Muppets play instruments left handed since the puppeteers are right handed and it’s easier that way.
Well yeah. The puppeteers are right handed, which means the Muppets are left handed, which means OK Go will end up being right handed again. See, simple.