Man Man recently did a five-song “Take Away Show” for La Blogothèque. A few are labeled as “warm-ups” — the fragments should be recognizable to fans of the band (“Warmup 2 – The Deal” = “Doo Right,” etc.). Each of these bits is enjoyable in its own way (there’s a Metallica cover in Warmup 3), but the most sustained clip is the epic epilogue, “A Day at the Races and a Night at the Opera,” where Honus talks about a broken heart (the dude she married has a mustache) and that the show must go on. And it does: They turn the city into their drum set. As far as the explanation for all of this Parisian vagabond rock, I can’t make out all the French, but the words “Tom Waits” are in there somewhere. Whatever the case, it’s definitely more spacious than when they recently crammed into the Black Cab.
These guys could have their own reality show. Watch the four other clips here.
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haven’t there been more than enough lifestyle profiles on this band? is anyone watching these?
agreed… I like man man as much as the next guy, but these take away/black cab deals are all a little pretentious. you’re an artist that breaks boundries and isn’t afraid to play your music in bold new venues… we get it.
a little pretentious?..that’s subjective.. but breaking boundaries? I don’t see it, if anything it’s going back to the basics of playing music where ever and whenever. In any big city you’ll see street performers/ troubadours and I don’t see the Take Aways too far from that. Though, with the camera, that’s another story.
“there’s a Metallica cover in Warmup 3″
I didn’t hear this. What I did hear was a Modest Mouse cover of “Doin’ The Cockroach”. Perhaps I missed something.
Take another look. There’s some “One” … not much, but it’s there.
i think it’s great. even if it’s not new or ground breaking, it’s still pretty friggin’ cool.
we get it. you like captain beefheart.
people who think it’s pretentious are making a bigger deal out of it then the artists are. don’t be jealous.
Holy shit, are people seriously calling this pretentious? I find these performances much more captivating that some overproduced music video. The guy who does these has really found a way to capture those serendipitous moments of some of this generations most talented musicians…
I’d just like to ask then, for those calling it pretentious.. what mildly scripted or otherwise music video is less or not at all pretentious?