The Ruffled Crow

Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things

Category Archives: Music

Idiologie – Siriusmo

Why I Am – Dave Matthews Band

Time To Go – Oh Yeah Wow

Eye of the Storm – Lovett

The Trial – Pink Floyd’s The Wall

Let’s start off the weekend right, shall we? (i said weekend, this is not safe for work at all. i mean it, nsfw. wait till you get home and actually start your weekend, ok? good)

Pink Floyd’s album The Wall, like The Who’s Tommy, pretty much defines what a ‘concept album’ is. In the film, animation director Gerald Scarfe gets a lot of time and uses it masterfully to reinforce the air of profane corruption.

Putty Boy Strut – Flying Lotus

Yellow Bridges – El Ten Eleven

Red Ocean – Tinspider

Songdo

Verbal – Amon Tobin

I’ve had Mr Tobin’s Out From Out Where album in my car for a few months now and I know this track well. I came across the video a few days ago, and as is my usual, I watched it with the sound off. I always do that first time through an animation, to get a ‘feel’ for the art of it, if that makes any sense.

It looked like a fairly mundane car chase, maybe even a machinima, three minutes of it. Uh, ok.

Second time through, this time with sound. I know the track and what to expect – and I was riveted for the entire three minutes twenty. The colors trailing over the cars, the occasional road hazard, the details were all in perfect synch to the music.