Has Chris Ballew AKA Caspar Babypants released a bad music video yet? The answer, methinks, is no. His latest in his minimalist classics is for "Googly Eyes" from his upcoming album This Is Fun! (released Nov. 2nd). A pen, some household objects (the calculator made me laugh), and a pair of googly eyes (natch) -- that's all you need, really. Well, I suppose a good editor helps, too. Watch this video, then cheer up and smile.
Caspar Babypants - "Googly Eyes" [YouTube]
Video: "Night Mantra" - Renee & Jeremy
LA's Renee & Jeremy go back to their first album It's a Big World for this, their latest video for "Night Mantra." I applaud the mother in the simple but nicely done video for having more patience with her slow-to-sleep child than I might have. The video reminds me just how much I love the way it takes forever for the song to fade away. "Sleep now in your room," indeed.
Renee & Jeremy - "Night Mantra" [YouTube]
Video: "Robot" - The Baby Grands
Turns out their teaser video was slightly apropos. The Baby Grands, whose new album The Baby Grands II comes out Nov. 16th (even your preschooler could probably guess how many albums they've released, have produced their first video for the album. It's for the song "Robot" and features a boogie-ing robot. No surprise they prefer Android operating systems...
The Baby Grands - "Robot" [YouTube]
Video: "Jump So High" - Jeremy Plays Guitar
I'm not sure that if you have kids whose antsiness mimics that of the protagonists in "Jump So High," the first video from Jeremy Plays Guitar's album Use Your Words (out this week) they'll actually be able to watch, so perhaps you should wait 'til they're ready. (Perhaps you can even enter Jeremy Zmuda's contest and have Zmuda write a catchy tune about that very problem.)
Jeremy Plays Guitar - "Jump So High" [YouTube]
Video: "Me and My Brand New Haircut" (The Teaser) - Billy Kelly & Davy Jones
I'm pretty sure that I've never posted a teaser video here, a video for a video. But, then again, I've never had the opportunity to post a teaser video featuring Billy Kelly and Davy Jones for their awesome duet "Me and My Brand New Haircut" from Kelly's Is This Some Kind of Joke? disk. Combine found footage, lollipops, and sandwiches in a can, it's the best teaser video you'll see all day. Maybe all week. All year, even.
[Update: Watch the whole thing here.]
Billy Kelly and Davy Jones - "Me and My Brand New Haircut" (teaser video) [YouTube]
Video: "Moon Moon Moon" - The Laurie Berkner Band
This Laurie Berkner song -- "Moon Moon Moon" -- has always been one of my favorites of hers -- I sing it quite a bit with Little Boy Blue. (But I don't believe in lemon pies and don't get that far.) The video (which I first saw on the We Are the Laurie Berkner Band DVD released many moon moon moons ago) is nothing special but does feature hand motions that would work really well with preschoolers.
The Laurie Berkner Band - "Moon Moon Moon" [YouTube]
