MTV2 loses head over new Cribs vid
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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understandable given the favoured Iraqi torture method
It is quite a shite video
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"
^ erm
dunno where you saw the video, but trust me she is starkers
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.
bf
watching the video now.
Had to turn the sound off, the song is fucking horseshit.
no boobs either. Big black blocks of censorship
hurmm
this is actually the first song i like by the cribs.
people actually complain about mtv2? wow. unless its parents.. people are silly.
...
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.
i'd actually managed to avoid the cribs
up until i saw i that video. they're a lot better than i thought they would be. but they're still shite.
the "dirty" version of the video is here:
http://del.interoute.com/?id=0608ec2e-59af-4a09-a4d1-f9606469e462&delivery=stream
which one is the fucking retard that was on nevermind the buzzcocks?
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.
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
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.
bf
hehehehe
truth
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.
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Not much of a ban, I saw it at 7 today.
saddest thing ever is
I am addicted to this song
WHY THE HELL!!!!??!?!?!??
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.
I'm
certainly not a big Cribs fan, but this song as actually really good.
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'?
i dont understand
this cribs backlash...
new fellas was f'ing brilliant.
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.
^
It's hard to call it a backlash when they've always been poor.
^ 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.
I must admit
While I couldn't give tuppence about whether the video is 'offensive' or not, I was surprised when I saw it that they were playing it in the daytime, given their usual conservatism...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCNTYi9fHuo
for a split second at the end of the video you can see she is naked when the 'censored' black bars disappeared.
I am cool to notice that aren't I?
Torture?
Are you sure? "You will talk, infidel scum" *Zip! Thud!*
"....bugger"
Does that mean tits are okay...
...in videos?
The Down I Go video has tits and even some balls in it, so we were guessing it needed to be censored...
absolutely
Both their albums are amazing!
Fantastic, ofriginal witty songs all the way through.
I think people don't like em cause they think they're dumb Oasis types. But there's alot goin on a Cribs record.
I've always got "The Watch Trick" buzzin around my head somewhere.
Cribs
He was hilarious on Buzzcocks! Much funnier than the usual shite on there. The Geldof/Live 8 story is genius.
Completely agree
It must conform to all the indie sensibilities. We'll be told that Alex Turner is a socially-unaware troglodyte next.
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