i love how every action in the video corresponds to the music. Each head movement, the way each character walks, the match on action with the instruments, the sound when the guns are shooting, the color/mood change once the verse kicks in. I could go on and on. This is truly a work of art.
This is fantastic. The quality of this video is way past the league of most MTV tripe. The producer of this deserves some award, but I'm not sure which one. Excellent. Outstanding. Of lasting value. Thank you, dear sir, for your valuable contribution to the media arts.
The video has 2 ladies roll into town and use the fever on a man to make him hunt the eagle. The eagle is paid to steal the human heads that the animals like to wear. In the end, the eagle and the man duel and the eagle dies. (PS: The man is a bunny) The song is kind of a sad story about two people who choose to wait and after time goes by they find they missed their chance to be together. You're right, it's beautiful together and I think my favorite music video.
a good music video is a complement to good music, this is a shining example of just that. An auditory artist fueling the the vision of a visual one who found something profound in the music and expressed their own impression and complemented the original work with one of their own, all art throughout history has been an iterative process and the relation between musician and music video producer is no exception from that. This music video, if anything is an exemplification of that truth, awesome
Every once in a while I stumble across a gem like this and my faith in humanity is somewhat restored. The artistry in this--musically, visually, and conceptually--is incredible. That there are people out there who want to and do make stuff like this is very reassuring. Then again, it also makes me want to give up in my own attempts. Double-edged sword, I guess.
Reminds me a lot of Jose Gonzalez's 'Hand on your Heart' video. Brilliant! The masks covering the animal heads is such a great metaphor for civilization's straining hold on our animal tendencies, lust, violence, greed, etc.
I can't stop watching this. It is so amazingggggg seriously I haven't been this obsessed with a song/video since Momma Sed set to Fantastic Planet... if you haven't seen that you should look it up...
This video is SO cool! I have tried to figure out the storyline and so far this is what I have... The old lady and young woman have perfume that causes a fever. A man (the protagonist) falls under the woman's spell ("fever") and is forced to love the woman and do anything for her. He has a fever for five years (lyrics). Meanwhile, the eagle collects masks that animal people like to wear, and are valuable because the animal people buy them. The protagonist does the young woman's bidding because of the fever (spell) and must hunt down the eagle to get the money that the eagle gets for selling the masks. Once the eagle man sells the masks and has the money in the bag, the protagonist under the fever kills him and gets the bag. Once the masks are off we see that the man who sold the masks is the eagle, and we realize that the protagonist is a helpless and clueless rabbit. Then the young woman attacks the protagonist and he tries to shoot her, taking off her mask and revealing that she is a wolf, and she kills him. As she drives off in the carriage there is a crazy plot twist where we realize that she was also controlling the eagle by saying she will pay him for the masks. (The man who handed over the money is driving the carriage. She gets both the masks and the money in the end. She is the evil mastermind. Lyrics Meanings: 1. "Found my ploughman, chased the piper." The woman is the "piper." In the story of the pied piper, he takes the rats and children from the city with his magic flute. She uses magic perfume to make people do things like the piper does with his flute. The eagle is the "ploughman" who does all the work. 2. "Hold my heart like a hot potato." The woman isn't being careful with his heart. 3. "Before she met me she told herself to wait five years. After I met her, her teacher said 'Best wait five years.' I ask my neighbors, they said it's wise to wait five years." She thinks it is best to wait five years and let her victim recover from the fever enough to be able to do what she wants. Her teacher and his neighbors tell him to wait 5 years and recover before he tries to win her over. 2. "I told a friend how I'm feeling and this made her sad 'Cause she fears that no man will ever desire her so bad." The protagonist is under a spell and loves the woman deeply. While he is bedridden with fever he is cared for by a girl who is a friend, and she fears no man will want her that bad like he wants the woman. Meanwhile the woman looks on. 4. "The first five years go by and we are no longer here. I blame myself for not taking steps to draw her near. I try to decide what to do now based on love not fear." He feels like he should have tried to win her over while he was convalescing for five years. Now he is willing to do anything for her... he "needs her to kiss him." He wants to be loved back. 5. "Push the clock for an hour later." The eagle is an hour late delivering the heads. 6. "This is just code to decipher" FIVE YEARS = I S A Y F E V E R (These are anagrams). *If you have anything to add please do.
Wow... I agree with the post by Eric Johnson. Definitely at least one of the best music videos. This was so captivating and as unique as um a really unique thing. Beautifully done and so clever. Kudos to Ramona Falls and whomever came up with this video. Brilliant!
I've been trying to figure the plot of this out forever, but I've only got the symbolism of it up to this point, ie what each animal represents what characters of the personality of the individual. Hawk being a hunter, priest being cattle, the old woman being Beelzebub, etc. Thanks :B
I just touched base with what Menomena has done recently after a few years. When I read that Brent left to concentrate on Ramona Falls I thought "this Ramona Falls project better be really good or I'll be really disappointed" Much to my surprise I am not disappointed. Though I will still miss him being in Menomena
Now the world's a better place since this video has been made. Seriously, one of the most amazing pieces of art I've ever seen. To all the team behind this video: thank you.
So far, it's the sickest clip animation I've ever seen. It is nonetheless exactly what I'm looking forward despite our lack of budget. I wish someone this talented would work on us! If you loved this, you might be interested on this work, it's a french Canadian band from Montréal. Malajube - Ton plat favori Enjoy!
Jessica Lee Agreed. I'm a video producer with 30 years in the industry and this is the best I've ever seen too. Nadelman added so much with the video it elevated the song to a new level with a new storyline. Everything works perfectly. Yah, I'm jealous. :-)
6 years later and I still find myself coming back to this song and video quite often.
+Joe LaRiccia Ditto.
Wait 5 years and repost this.
@@SuchPlaneWeather 11 years strong so far
man im obsessed with this video.
it does sooooo much for the song.
Hey its shoeonhead
The video absolutely elevates the song. It's a cheek clapper on it's own but, with the video? Absolutely mesmerizing.
Wow, a feral Shoe0nHead before she became an e-celeb. And only 15 likes.
No idea how many times I've watched this! New discoveries on every viewing. Amazing work.
Not every day you find a music video that goes with the music so perfectly and enhances it so much. Definitely one of my all time favorites.
simply one of the best music videos i have EVER seen.
The best music video I've ever seen by far.
the best part is when you think it's a classic western then and a falcon starts shooting people with birds while the music is rocking out
There are no words to describe how much I love this music video. The song is fantastic and the keyboard is too amazing.
i love how every action in the video corresponds to the music. Each head movement, the way each character walks, the match on action with the instruments, the sound when the guns are shooting, the color/mood change once the verse kicks in. I could go on and on. This is truly a work of art.
This is fantastic. The quality of this video is way past the league of most MTV tripe. The producer of this deserves some award, but I'm not sure which one. Excellent. Outstanding. Of lasting value. Thank you, dear sir, for your valuable contribution to the media arts.
Wow, this is amazing! Seldom have I been so disturbed by a music video. I actually had to sit for awhile and process what I saw....very hip.
In assoluto uno dei video più fighi che abbia mai visto... immagini e musica in perfetta sintonia... Geniale!
The video has 2 ladies roll into town and use the fever on a man to make him hunt the eagle. The eagle is paid to steal the human heads that the animals like to wear. In the end, the eagle and the man duel and the eagle dies. (PS: The man is a bunny)
The song is kind of a sad story about two people who choose to wait and after time goes by they find they missed their chance to be together. You're right, it's beautiful together and I think my favorite music video.
I can't get over how mind-numbingly beautiful and clever this is.
i have never been so mesmerized by a music video.
I'd venture to say this is the best music video I've ever seen.
I wish I could like and favorite this video a billion times.
a good music video is a complement to good music, this is a shining example of just that. An auditory artist fueling the the vision of a visual one who found something profound in the music and expressed their own impression and complemented the original work with one of their own, all art throughout history has been an iterative process and the relation between musician and music video producer is no exception from that. This music video, if anything is an exemplification of that truth, awesome
Every once in a while I stumble across a gem like this and my faith in humanity is somewhat restored. The artistry in this--musically, visually, and conceptually--is incredible. That there are people out there who want to and do make stuff like this is very reassuring.
Then again, it also makes me want to give up in my own attempts. Double-edged sword, I guess.
I can't stop watching this.
The lyrics, the video, the music, it just combines to the perfect brew!
I can't stop watching this. Love it.
I've lost count of how many times I've watched this today.
Sublime.
This is brilliant, can't believe I haven't seen and heard this before. Fantastic.
this is superb love this the music and video go hand in hand
I LOVE THIS.
I cannot stop watching it.
Coolest music video, ans the song is great too, I don't understand how this isn't WAY more popular....
I can't get enough of this damn song. Or this freaky-ass video.
anyone else notice "five years" and "I say fever" are anagrams?
Somebody pointed that out like a year after I listened to this song
Reminds me a lot of Jose Gonzalez's 'Hand on your Heart' video. Brilliant! The masks covering the animal heads is such a great metaphor for civilization's straining hold on our animal tendencies, lust, violence, greed, etc.
I can't stop watching this. It is so amazingggggg seriously I haven't been this obsessed with a song/video since Momma Sed set to Fantastic Planet... if you haven't seen that you should look it up...
This video is SO cool! I have tried to figure out the storyline and so far this is what I have...
The old lady and young woman have perfume that causes a fever. A man (the protagonist) falls under the woman's spell ("fever") and is forced to love the woman and do anything for her. He has a fever for five years (lyrics). Meanwhile, the eagle collects masks that animal people like to wear, and are valuable because the animal people buy them. The protagonist does the young woman's bidding because of the fever (spell) and must hunt down the eagle to get the money that the eagle gets for selling the masks. Once the eagle man sells the masks and has the money in the bag, the protagonist under the fever kills him and gets the bag. Once the masks are off we see that the man who sold the masks is the eagle, and we realize that the protagonist is a helpless and clueless rabbit. Then the young woman attacks the protagonist and he tries to shoot her, taking off her mask and revealing that she is a wolf, and she kills him. As she drives off in the carriage there is a crazy plot twist where we realize that she was also controlling the eagle by saying she will pay him for the masks. (The man who handed over the money is driving the carriage. She gets both the masks and the money in the end. She is the evil mastermind.
Lyrics Meanings:
1. "Found my ploughman, chased the piper." The woman is the "piper." In the story of the pied piper, he takes the rats and children from the city with his magic flute. She uses magic perfume to make people do things like the piper does with his flute. The eagle is the "ploughman" who does all the work.
2. "Hold my heart like a hot potato." The woman isn't being careful with his heart.
3. "Before she met me she told herself to wait five years. After I met her, her teacher said 'Best wait five years.' I ask my neighbors, they said it's wise to wait five years." She thinks it is best to wait five years and let her victim recover from the fever enough to be able to do what she wants. Her teacher and his neighbors tell him to wait 5 years and recover before he tries to win her over.
2. "I told a friend how I'm feeling and this made her sad 'Cause she fears that no man will ever desire her so bad." The protagonist is under a spell and loves the woman deeply. While he is bedridden with fever he is cared for by a girl who is a friend, and she fears no man will want her that bad like he wants the woman. Meanwhile the woman looks on.
4. "The first five years go by and we are no longer here. I blame myself for not taking steps to draw her near. I try to decide what to do now based on love not fear." He feels like he should have tried to win her over while he was convalescing for five years. Now he is willing to do anything for her... he "needs her to kiss him." He wants to be loved back.
5. "Push the clock for an hour later." The eagle is an hour late delivering the heads.
6. "This is just code to decipher" FIVE YEARS = I S A Y F E V E R (These are anagrams).
*If you have anything to add please do.
I have one thing to add... you might be a genius.
Thank you! That is really nice. :)
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This very well could be the coolest music video I have ever seen.
Wow... I agree with the post by Eric Johnson. Definitely at least one of the best music videos. This was so captivating and as unique as um a really unique thing. Beautifully done and so clever. Kudos to Ramona Falls and whomever came up with this video. Brilliant!
We used this as one of the bases for my VFX and Motion Graphics classes. Expertly executed.
Can't help but wonder if this has anything to do with the Samuel Johnson quote "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man"
I can't stop watching this!!!
That was brilliant, love the idea, the feel, the mood. Just awesome.
Everything here screams pure genius. The writing, the arrangements, the amazing production work, and that more than brillant video. Art that is.
I've been obsessed with the song for a few months now- keep passing it on to friends &, so far, no one has denied it's awesomeness.
unbelievably awesome song and fantastic video!!!! excellent job!!! love it!!!!
this song took me to very strage places. I never want to leave them now.
great song! great video! I also watched this 30 times. I guess it's fever!
That bird has some serious swagger.
Bizarre, but at the sametime incredibly capturing!
Honestly, the most amazing music video I have ever seen!
Wow, that was exactly what I'd have imagined an animated Wondermark strip would be. Awesome.
This really does capture the feeling of fever dreams remarkably well.
By far the coolest video I've ever seen.
So much energy, and it's so uncannily eerie, this is what music videos should be like.
Can't get this song out of my head
i didnt know about this band until i saw them this morning on mtv U and i have to say i really like it alot, the song the vid all of it
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great, nice, fabulous, stunning, beautiful, incredible
This video and song are fantastic. I'm excited to hear and see more.
FAN-TAS-TIC!!! The best animation videoclip of the last times!
Excellent work.. both music and animation.. absolutely creative...
This video is so completely amazing. It is a consuming journey into land of awesomeness. Y E S.
Awesome ... I can't stop watching
I've been trying to figure the plot of this out forever, but I've only got the symbolism of it up to this point, ie what each animal represents what characters of the personality of the individual. Hawk being a hunter, priest being cattle, the old woman being Beelzebub, etc. Thanks :B
классный клип, да и песня тоже очень хорошая.
The video is mesmerizing! The song is really good as well. This is just brilliant work. What a fantastic collision of image and sound.
this might be the greatest music video i've ever seen
I absolutely love this new band.
This is stunning, the song is so powerful and yet the video backs it with just as much force. Well done.
AWESOME!!!! One of the best video ever!
Really great song. Really great.
Anyone notice the Grim Reaper off to the right at 3:18?
yeah, I had watched the video for years without seeing it. Then I finally caught it and was like holy shit!
this song and video is so amazing. i love it
I've had this song in my head for a month.., couldn't be happier.
Fantastic! This song and video saved my day!
yeah this is probably the coolest music video that i've ever seen
amazing work. I shared this on july 10th 2010 and now i see it again and its better!
Perhaps my favorite music video.
Amazing video. Form fits the content way more than most of the stuff I'm seeing these days. So good.
I just touched base with what Menomena has done recently after a few years. When I read that Brent left to concentrate on Ramona Falls I thought "this Ramona Falls project better be really good or I'll be really disappointed"
Much to my surprise I am not disappointed. Though I will still miss him being in Menomena
i'm addicted to this. seriously
Now the world's a better place since this video has been made. Seriously, one of the most amazing pieces of art I've ever seen.
To all the team behind this video: thank you.
Still so amazing!!! Saw Ramona Falls live in San Diego and they were fantastic!
Absolutely amazing. Bravo.
incredible music video. only serves to enhance an already amazing song.
So, So, Sooooo amazing.
hollly fuck i can't stop watching this video. The animation style, the editing, and the song it self, ohhhh god i love it. So damn amazing
Amazing music video! Amazing song!
It's kickin'...and frightenin'.
GOD DAMN SICK SHIT RIGHT HERE.
This instantly became one of my favorite song/video combos of all time.
What a perfectly menacing love song.
Sweet tune ... i love this one;)
I LOVE this.
Damn, I was mesmerized! great animation and music!! bravo!!!
3:18 - 3:19 Behind, on the right.
It is like death?
WOAH DUDE THAT'S AWESOME
Yuuup was going to tell people about that
chills, every time
So chilling, I love it.
So far, it's the sickest clip animation I've ever seen. It is nonetheless exactly what I'm looking forward despite our lack of budget. I wish someone this talented would work on us!
If you loved this, you might be interested on this work, it's a french Canadian band from Montréal.
Malajube - Ton plat favori
Enjoy!
I agree with coolhandluke94. Amazing Song by far my favorite from Ramona Falls, but the music video really makes the song.
Goosebumps......
Great music!
Why is this not more popular?
wow. this is really something else. a good video goes a long way.
Absolutely brilliant!
this is the best music video I've ever seen. So much depth
Jessica Lee Agreed. I'm a video producer with 30 years in the industry and this is the best I've ever seen too. Nadelman added so much with the video it elevated the song to a new level with a new storyline. Everything works perfectly. Yah, I'm jealous. :-)
Nadelman is a genius. "Evil Bee" by menomena too.
i love this...
please tell me I'm not the only one disturbed by this video though.