MTV2 loses head over new Cribs vid

by Alex Denney [Edit this content] ▾ 29 comments 17:45 May 10th, 2007

The video for The Cribs single ‘Men’s Needs’ has been banned before 9pm on MTV2 after complaints from members of the public and OFCOM.

The video, which is quite rubbish actually and features a naked lady prancing around while the band try and get on with the song, will now only be featured after the watershed.

But get this, right, it was actually banned because of the bit where Ryan Jarman gets beheaded in badly-rendered fashion and not because of the flapping starkers bird. How mental is that?

God, I’m uninspired.

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hmm

understandable given the favoured Iraqi torture method

beautiful_balloon | 10 May '07, 17:48 | X | Reply

the girls not even naked. Infact, this is a good sign if anything, that it was banned for violence and not tits 9although everything's barred out anyway...), Lenny Bruce style "tit covered in blood...thats ok" "tit...BAD BAD BAD"

Jesus_Quintana @beautiful_balloon | 10 May '07, 17:50 | X | Reply

^ erm

dunno where you saw the video, but trust me she is starkers

moodiejg @Jesus_Quintana | 10 May '07, 18:05 | X | Reply

there are two versions

there are two identicle versions but in one the woman is wearing a skin-tone swimsuit. and in the other she is starkers.

ganners @moodiejg | 10 May '07, 18:13 | X | Reply

bf

watching the video now.

Had to turn the sound off, the song is fucking horseshit.

no boobs either. Big black blocks of censorship

grockle | 10 May '07, 18:14 | X | Reply

...

Oh no.

Of course, what I realise at the end of my 20 second odyssey to find this clip is that channels like MTV 2 are now a tiny bit redundant in the age of Youtube.

Stealthy | 10 May '07, 18:33 | X | Reply

ha

no loss. what a crap video :/

I think that's the first time I've listened to them too, I'm reallly not impressed.

vickeh | 10 May '07, 19:20 | X | Reply

well,

in a sense, but music videos on tv are A LOT better than when seen on youtube or streamed from other places. Plus mtv2's 120 minutes is very good for just sitting there and listening and seeing new music

bobj @Stealthy | 10 May '07, 19:40 | X | Reply

This videos not that bad...

...if you turn off the sound, pretend that the 'musicians' were hot chicks, pretend that the girl was also a hot chick, and if you take of your trousers.

whacksiddy | 10 May '07, 20:27 | X | Reply

bf

hehehehe

truth

grockle @whacksiddy | 10 May '07, 21:40 | X | Reply

This song

is actually worse than I remember them being.

I was about halfway through their first record when it dawned on me how fucking shit they were.

Well done, guys! Great lead single from the records. Now fuck off, please.

Jakc | 10 May '07, 22:23 | X | Reply

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Not much of a ban, I saw it at 7 today.

KayB | 10 May '07, 22:42 | X | Reply

saddest thing ever is

I am addicted to this song

WHY THE HELL!!!!??!?!?!??

pieces_of_reece | 10 May '07, 23:07 | X | Reply

Because...

...it's great pop! Can't people just fucking RELAX and enjoy the tits!? It's a fun video and that's all it aims to be. Anyway, I'm sure the naked lady iS an ironic gesture, being that The Cribs are well into early 90s Riot Grrl shit like Huggy Bear, Bikini Kill et al.

Grammar @pieces_of_reece | 11 May '07, 01:15 | X | Reply

I'm

certainly not a big Cribs fan, but this song as actually really good.

mixmaster_a @Grammar | 11 May '07, 09:36 | X | Reply

do painfully dull bands like this

have a list or something?

1) get drunk at awards ceremony
2) go on buzzcocks
3) have video banned

and how far down the list is 'realise we're shit and give up'?

sadpunk | 11 May '07, 11:26 | X | Reply

i dont understand

this cribs backlash...

new fellas was f'ing brilliant.

kanefulton @sadpunk | 11 May '07, 13:05 | X | Reply

I get the impression

with this video that they were either thinking "I wonder what we can do to get a video banned" or thinking "Wouldn't it be funny to take the piss out of people that think like that". Either way it is very silly.

BUT the drum was filled with milk teehee!

So all in all, a brilliant video, but only for milk drum.

bob_saull | 11 May '07, 15:37 | X | Reply

^

It's hard to call it a backlash when they've always been poor.

Jakc | 12 May '07, 01:37 | X | Reply

^ haha

bla bla

hardly anyone would be saying this is they were from wisconsin on sub pop. instead they are from yorkshire and therefore cunts.

the irony.

moodiejg @Jakc | 12 May '07, 02:29 | X | Reply

PeteDIG | 13 May '07, 10:53 | X | Reply

Completely agree

It must conform to all the indie sensibilities. We'll be told that Alex Turner is a socially-unaware troglodyte next.

st_nick_ @moodiejg | 15 May '07, 13:28 | X | Reply