What do you think of when you hear Midlake’s instant classic, “Roscoe”? Is it horses and wheat fields and log cabins? We think of M*A*S*H and Fleetwood Mac, but director Dan Fernbach obviously has better instincs than do we. Check the premiere of the clip for the tune that got things moving faster than ever before for the Texan band. It’s true to the tune’s “houses of cedar” in “1891,” and was shot in Oxfordshire, England — ’cause Denton just wouldn’t do.
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It makes you think of MASH beause the opening is stolen from the theme song, full stop. Seriously, stop falling for this shit. It isn’t that hard to be original.
Denton County in the area! As a former Denton County rocker I will beg to differ…there are PLENTY of woods to clear around there. Start choppin’.
instant classic?
i don’t really like midlake. at all, really. but i’ll always remember this roscoe song — it’s much better than the band will ever be. it’s pretty fucking good.
This is my album of the year. I wake up in the middle of the night with it drifting in my head. Never had any band do that before.
Has anyone heard the cassettes won’t listen remix of roscoe? just heard it on sirius blog radio. frikken awesome
single of the year. nice vid too.
it is SIMILIAR to Suicide Is Painless (the MASH theme song), but hardly “stolen”). play them both on guitar if you don’t believe me.
Everybody rips off everybody. Doesn’t make this song bad. In fact, I say it’s one of the best of the year too.
Yeah, it’s a great song. One of the best of the year. Get over the similarity to Suicide is Painless–it’s a pretty standard progression. The video is barely decent. It’s fittingly pastoral at best; completely uninteresting is a more appropriate assessment.
Anyone else hear Zeppelin’s “No Quarter”?
I thought the video was drab. After the first few leaks I was ready for Van Occupanther to be one of my year end best ofs, but the rest of the album fell short. Personally, my fav was the storyboard version of the video for “Young Bride”.
Can still be found at
http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/2006/03/exclusive-new-midlake-young-bride.html
Worst Video Ever.
unbelievably boring, uninspired, tedious.
too bad, because the song itself paints a pretty cool picture
Great song, the rest of the album is painfully boring, and this video is even MORE boring and really does nothing. It’s a gigantic disservice to the song. I hope that this video is nobody’s first exposure to the song, because they’d never make it through…and that’d be a shame.
everything was influenced by what came before it, and after so many years of rock-n-roll creation and consumption, it’s not impossible to duplicate a progression by accident. it’s similar to M*A*S*H, but not exactly the same thing.
besides, I like the song b/c the harmonies are sad and beautiful and it gets stuck in your head. these guys remind me more of the asthetic of “The Band” than “Fleetwood Mac”, at least lyrically. dig it.