It’s been a while since I have tried to rhyme in my title… and I’m still pretty bad at it, but no matter, it may not rhyme but it ain’t no lie. This week we have three, yes three 80′s bands to feature with Depeche Mode continuing our live series and Duran Duran and The Human League releasing new videos (which also gives us an excuse to feature their old ones!)
We also have new stuff from Jennifer Lopez, Dr Dre and Cage the Elephant, some über cool Ones To Watch in the shape of Maverick Sabre and Armistice and some Paddy’s Day festivity fodder. Read on and enjoy!
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Hot New Videos
If this section was a curry it would be magma infused Phal, if it was a colour it would be neon gold, if it was a letter it would be an exclamation mark. This week including Jennifer Lopez ft. Pitbull ‘On The Floor’, Take That ‘Kidz’ and Jonathan Jeremiah ‘Happiness’
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This week our OPM friends have decided that Cast – Walkaway, Rihanna – Rude Boy, Rick Astley – Never Gonna Give You Up are good enough to attach their name to. Enjoy.
St.Patricks Day (UK, Ireland)
Everyone’s favourite patron saint’s day is back and what’s better than intrinsically Irish music videos being your sound and vision track to the festivities. Featuring the best Irish bands out there including U2 and Bob Geldof
Echo Music Awards (Germany)
Featuring the best videos from this year’s nominees including Helene Fischer, Ich + Ich and Kastelruther Spatzen
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Artists Of The Week
This week’s highlights are of course the incredible Dr Dre Featuring his new video ‘I Need A Doctor’ with Eminem & Skylar Grey. We also have Cage the Elephant featuring their latest video ‘Shake Me Down’ as well as Jena Lee and Aloe Blacc. See the pic’s for who get’s who!
Depeche Mode Live
Our live series continues with 80′s genius that is Depeche Mode (I freaking love them!) Featuring live performances from ‘Enjoy The Silence’, ‘Personal Jesus’ and ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’
Duran Duran Greatest Hits (UK, Ireland)
More 80′s Genius this time from Duran x2 Featuring their new video for ‘All You Need Is Now’ as well as all you old favourites (I freaking love them!… Woah déjà vu!)
One To Watch – Maverick Sabre (UK, Ireland)
London born, Irish raised singer songwriter Maverick Sabre is generating a lot of interest; check out the video for his debut release ‘Look What I’ve Done’.
One To Watch – Armistice (France)
It’s about as cool as you can get… Jay Malinowski from Bedouin Soundclash and Coeur De Pirate team up to release the video for ‘Mission Bells’
NEXT WEEK
Live in Concerts: The Best Of
To round our live series off nicely, we are featuring a selection of the best performances from our Live Series including Coldplay, Iron Maiden, Evanescence and more! We have loved this series and we hoped you have too.
Velvet Live in Concert (Italy)
As an extra bonus for all Italian Velvet fans we have a filmed performance from their Milan gig in February 2011 for your enjoyment.
Greatest Hits – Jennifer Lopez
With the release of her new video ‘On The Floor’, we thought we would celebrate all that has been J-Lo’s career with all of her greatest videos in one place including ‘I’m Real’ and ‘Love Don’t Cost A Thing’
Greatest Comeback – The Human League (UK, Ireland)
More 80′s comeback madness, this time synth pioneer legends, the Human League featuring their new video ‘Never Let Me Go’
One To Watch – Kitty Kat ft. Megaloh (Germany)
Berlin born Kitty Kat is going solo after work with Aggro Berlin and proves she doesn’t need anyone else to sound good. Featuring new video ‘Fliegen Über’
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I’m off to party like its 19-8-0
Ben
13 CommentsAdd Yours
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Posted on 17 March, 2011 at 11:27 am by deltaman-3
any chance of gettin some marillion videos into the 80′s section.plz
Posted on 17 March, 2011 at 12:10 pm by Ben Creasey
Hey deltaman-3
Good choice! They come from just near where I grew up… Not that that matters. I will ask the guys to look to see if we can get some on the service!
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Posted on 17 March, 2011 at 11:50 am by sully1311
Have we got Sony Vids today Ben??
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Posted on 17 March, 2011 at 11:54 am by TheBigAitch
I’m curious, please can somebody clarify why some songs are censored and others aren’t? Let me preface this by saying I’m not *personally* offended, allow me to elaborate…
I was watching the Dr Dre playlist… some songs had cursing etc censored, others didn’t and included N*gg*r and F*gg*t uncensored, which I thought was a bit incongruous to censor swears but not racially and sexually sensitive vocabulary.
Then imagine my surprise when one of the live videos included a load of girls getting their baps out! I actually thought this was quite funny (most of them were mingers, funny that isn’t it, always the mingers flashing their bits… anyway that’s another discussion altogether)… then imagine my surprise… full frontal flaps and gash!
Now I’m not easily shocked and again wasn’t offended, however I did think to myself, wow there are plenty of kids with access to vidzone and that’s kinda wrong.
Would be interesting to have an official explanation of this.
Also I would add I am totally in favour of non-censorship of lyrics, I’m a grown up I would like to hear it how the artist intended, however there should be some level of control because of kids using the service.
Posted on 17 March, 2011 at 12:30 pm by Ben Creasey
Hi BigAitch
I would be happy to clarify.
Under-age users content will filtered to only show censored content. As you are obviously over the age of 18 and mature enough to handle our full content catalogue you will be able to view all content both censored and uncensored so you may some videos are censored but they should have their uncensored counterparts live as well if we have that video also.
We have a strict quality and rating process so all videos should be rated so they aren’t available to unsuitable users. Anything we deem to be too extreme we will take off the service for all users as this may cause offence to users over the age of 18. We strive to show completely appropriate content to all.
Having said this, I would like to check this “Full Frontal” video out to see if it needs to be reclassified. Could you email ps-problems@vidzone.tv with the artist and title of this video so we can take a look and make sure it is correctly classified.
Thanks for your enquiry, its nice to know that people are paying attention to our service and the content on it.
Ben
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Posted on 17 March, 2011 at 12:43 pm by btz
There is a slight spelling mistake on the echo banner (musikpreis, not musikpries)
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Posted on 17 March, 2011 at 12:46 pm by rospondek
Guess what.
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Posted on 17 March, 2011 at 12:52 pm by TheBigAitch
Hi Ben, thanks for your prompt response, it was towards the very end of the Dr Dre playlist within the last few songs definitely, I’ll jump on later today and see if I can find it and email over the specifics.
Glad to hear there is an age gate and relatively transparent too. I suppose the only issue with this is the parents that don’t bother to (or who are naive to the fact that they can) set up their kids playstations themselves, but then there’s nowt anyone can do about that!
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Posted on 17 March, 2011 at 3:03 pm by ZoneKill
Hi Ben,
Seeing the Echo Musikpreis with Ich + Ich. Will there be more video’s from Ich + Ich. And hopefully also from another german singer Xavier Naidoo?
I used Vidzone at a party. People loved Vidzone, keep those video’s coming.
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Posted on 17 March, 2011 at 4:14 pm by Tenchuwoh
I still hope vidzone to come in Greece too
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Posted on 17 March, 2011 at 4:40 pm by obiadekanobi1980
please put some more muse up especially the resistance and hulabaloo(plusbonus disk)also some of the pinkfloyd concerts especially the WALL live, and if you could get some dave gilmore or mike oldfield im not that old at 30 but the music on vidzone is very teenybopper ooo im 14 also could you have a ministry of sound section and some hardcore for us happy ravers much love & biscuits
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Posted on 17 March, 2011 at 4:54 pm by obiadekanobi1980
also some star profiles would be amazing maybe 1 a week explaining the chosen stars raise to fame while there songs are played from first 1 to there current 1 this would be ace thanks
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Posted on 17 March, 2011 at 8:59 pm by didzej1
Still no Poland. Yeah, I know you’re getting bored with us complaining about that fact…
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Posted on 18 March, 2011 at 12:03 pm by way2easy
Hi Ben, quick question. I have noticed that the ‘banner’ on the bottom of the screen on Vidzone shows up a lot more then it used to. I swear it is now displayed 90% of the time, while it used to display only 10% of the time. Has this been changed recently and how do I turn this off/down?
cheers.
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Posted on 22 March, 2011 at 4:31 pm by Commandofin
Hello, please add more Prodigy tracks because we finns are missing great tracks like Firestarter and Breathe.
Also it would be nice to get more Pendulum tracks. Especially their version of Prodigy’s Voodoo people.
Or are these tracks behind pesky legal affairs which is why you can’t show them?
Could you make sub category where you could separate “fast” paced songs from “slow” paced songs. It would be easier to spot the songs I like and also for other people too, giving more visibility for said bands because of their similiarities.
Also videogame music videos would be great also because it would definitely give Sony quite big advertisment area within their own services. You have the Playstation area there don’t you.
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