Thursday's Slew Of Videos

Featured:
PUNCHLINE "The Hit"
ANNUALS "Confessor"
JIMMY EAT WORLD "Beautiful Day (Yo Gabba Gabba)"

Today's On The Blog Reel features men in drag, men drawn as storybook characters, and men riding through clouds on puppies. Excited yet? First we bring you Pittsburgh pop-punkers Punchline (say that three times fast) and their raucous new video for their hit single, appropriately titled "The Hit." The video follows the band living out their 1990s cliche-sitcom fantasies, starring in their own show, whose opening credits look conspicuously like those of Full House. (The proof is in the font.) While there's no John Stamos as Uncle Jesse, there is bassist Chris Fafalios as Hank the Mechanic. Drummer PJ Caruso, above, moonlights as the chatty sister; a Stephanie Tanner, if you will.

We've also got the new one from Annuals, for "Confessor", which features drawing-versions of the actual band. You know, if they were traveling woods-guides and prison torturers living in a storybook that takes place during an ethereal version of the Spanish Inquisition. Lastly, we've got the most bewildering of all, a clip from today's episode of Yo Gabba Gabba on Nickelodeon featuring emo pioneers Jimmy Eat World. They're performing an original children's song, "Beautiful Day", and they're doing so on the backs of dogs and cats. Honestly, to describe it any further wouldn't do it justice.

Videos after the jump!

Punchline - The Hit from absolutepunk.net on Vimeo.

Punchline
"The Hit"
Just Say Yes
Modern Short Stories
Directed by Thom Glunt
via Vimeo



Annuals
"Confessor"
Such Fun
Canvasback Music
Directed by Daniel Auber
via Subterranean

Jimmy Eat World-Beautiful Day-Yo Gabba Gabba


Jimmy Eat World
"Beautiful Day" on Yo Gabba Gabba
via Myspace

Punchline

www.myspace.com/punchline

Steve Soboslai's (Vocals/Guitar) Top 10 Albums of 2008:

1. Nada Surf "Lucky"

2. Ben Folds "Way To Normal"

3. Avett Brothers "The Second Gleam"

4. The Streets "Everything Is Borrowed"

5. Nightbeast "Inside Jokes For Outside Folks"

6. Justin Oliver "For Rose" (unreleased but incredible)

7. Death Cab For Cutie "Narrow Stairs"

8. The Promise Hero "Wait For The Sun"

9. Mitch Hedberg "Do You Believe In Gosh"

10. Triangle Shirt Factory "Widening"

Chris Fafalios (Bass/Vocals)

(I'm very aware that a few of these came out in late 2007, but i'm counting them for 2008 anyway!)

1. The Streets "Everything is Borrowed"

2. Bjork "Volta"

3. Triangle Shirt Factory "Widening"

4. Ween "La Cucaracha"

5. Death Cab for Cutie "Narrow Stairs"

6. Ben Folds "Way To Normal"

7. Jimmy Eat World "Chase This Light"

8. Kanye West "808s and Heartbreaks"

9. Weezer "Red Album"

10. Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer "Schematics"