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David Fincher Music Videos

🕑 Added 2023-10-11 04:00:03 +0000 UTC

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JC9000

two of the vids aren't available in my current location, the wonderous and wildly remote territory known as "ca-na-da". Obv none of this has to do with you guys, I just wanted, for the thousandth time to say the way media copyright laws work between US and Canada is fucking stupid, the concerned parties should be forced to figure out the minutia of compensation and contracts behind the scenes so the rest of us dont have to deal with it.

Nicole Journal

Retroactively screaming HARPER SIMON into the void.

David Figueiredo

Nine Inch Nails is the best band still performing on the planet, this will be amended if The Talking Heads ever reunite. suit & tie is the last decent Justin Timberlake track, his "comedy" is terrible

Ataricat

Hi all, new member here. I've listened to the main feed for quite some time now. Came to check out the Patreon and when I saw this episode I signed up right away. This was a great idea for a show's topic. Keep up the creativity. I love the show and now, after all this time, I'm more than happy to show my support. Thanks guys, keep it up!

Anthony Pierre Coco

4:44 was a big deal

Korey Freeman

We had The Box in the US

Thomas Cushing

I don’t think I’ve ever commented on anything ever but - does Ben ever finish his Mink DeVille anecdote??? Love Mink DeVille, love Ben, felt like his story had real heat and my man got RAILROADED

Harry Kolmer

Winning Time is incredible. What an L take from Griffin. One of the best shows I've ever seen. I'm not a basketball fan at all but it had me fully engrossed

Jonathan Bryan

I loved the role reversal at the end, where David is all manic and endlessly pursuing tangents, while Griffin is exasperated and desperately tries to end the episode. Classic!

Anthony Regina

The energy of this episode is so chaotic.

FrancescoTakesItEasy

Never liked Beavis & Butthead, but Daria is very likely my favorite animated show of all time. I watch all of it, like, every other year.

Jon Arnold

For some reason my podcast app is having trouble downloading this episode. I even re-added the feed and now it’s just gone from the feed!

AlsoNamedB0rt

Please stop with the nostalgia. It is a toxic impulse. MTV barely played music and when they did they played the same 20 artists. Music videos are viewed now more than ever before and there’s virtually no barrier to mass distribution or audience engagement. You would trade that for David Fincher to direct another $15 million dollar Madonna video that nobody can watch?

Tony Jennaway

He fairly recently referenced Going Underground (The Jam), which I know being half English and whatnot shouldn’t be very surprising, but still impressive. ✌️

Tyler Duggan

Honestly, there’s enough directors who did music videos that they could easily have these. I also would love shorts, if they ever do someone like Wes Anderson or Stevey Sodey

Alejandro G

This just might be my favorite Blank Check episode ever. Please consider making another ep like this just with music videos you like

Jordan Gibson

Best part of this is poor Ben trying to be helpful and realizing all his filler songs are awful

Mike Ostrov

Honestly, the rolling stones are underrated. I don't count the same 5 songs being played on classic rock radio for 40 years as rating -- that's just overexposure and lazy corporate DJs.

Tyler Duggan

I’m gonna pause this and come back to it. 4am is too early (read: late?) for Griffin’s rambling. Love this guy, genuinely, but oh lord. Also, Patreon folx don’t get any David Sims shirtless pics? What are we even paying for?

Philip Ehlke

The tidbit about Rick Springfield being an avid Star Wars collector is just an absolute gem. I’m sure I’ve heard it before but in this case I love how Rick’s passion might have influenced Fincher’s style like the lead domino on the path to Alien 3

Zeke E

I like Griffin asking Marie about the Grammy nominees like she remembers things like they do.

fartinscorcese

“That feel when they say ‘Bomboleo’” killed my ass

Rob Farnham

Betsy Lynn George, lead of the Billy Idol "Cradle of Love" video, makes her triumphant return to Blank Check! (She had a small part in "Point Break")

FiddlersGreenDay

Yeah talking about how the first sound of the album is a helicopter. Love that song.

FiddlersGreenDay

Nice KMFDM pull David! My sister played me Closer when it came out and I've never been the same since.

Austin McDougle

KMFDM kicks ass, David consistently proving he has the best music taste. I remember he defended Be Here Now once, that’s a good take too

Dan Johnson

Was it? I don't feel like their music taste is any snobbier than movie taste.

Austin McDougle

everytime they’d say “THIS IS THE BEST” I’d be anticipating George Michael but they kept giving Madonna

Austin McDougle

I don’t really like The Doors but hating on them is a super millennial trait.

Scott CineRam

Similar playlist names... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAcRDh7oIw2WdYrC2Puwjkf_spLVI9pSm

David Dein

Brent Bourgeois and Larry Tagg were in a band together. That's where the name came from.

Billnetherlands

I'm glad Griffin mentioned the Vinyl cape Jawa. I have one, and I remember a kid was trying to get me to trade it to him in middle school. Still got it!

CT

2 Madonna takeaways…1: I never really appreciated how fantastic her music and videos were (her videos were the true highlight of this collection) 2: That image of her dead mother’s mouth sewn shut really is one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen

Sam

My music nepotism proposals: Miley Cyrus, Willow Smith.

XTINABE

Marie is 100% right about Justin Timberlake’s acting. Love him and NSYNC til I die, but it’s a hard pass on him as an actor.

Sarah Palmer

I appreciate all the Madonna love.

Don Knott Steiner

Well the weirdo smelling other people in the bathroom saved this.

Don Knott Steiner

This was a very snobbish music episode. I don’t know if I want to hear something like this again.

Stephen Ayres

Shirts Off Sims

daniel newfield

Wow Michael Bay really really loved the L.A. Woman video when he was following around Fincher didn't he?

Eric Morris

Wilson Phillips

Dean Carrano

NYC did have The Box. It was probably only certain cable providers (and not everyone even had cable at all at this point), but it was a channel. "Ice Ice Baby" was the only thing that got played for months

Douglas Wykstra

Yes! I feel about Mark Knopfler the way the Achewood gang feels about Chris Isaak. "Man, listen to how nice all his guitar notes are." I respect him for finding the ZZ Top-esque overdriven guitar tone in "Money for Nothing," but the true joy of Dire Straits is listening to a guy with jazz-guitar chops play rock 'n roll (though the rowdy young boys dressed in their best brown baggies and platform soles might disagree).

Douglas Wykstra

Ben discovering that Billy Idol's "Cradle of Love" video was followed by Billy Idol's "L.A. Woman" video very much reminded me of, "Next up, an encore showing of 'Daddy's Boy.' No! You promised!"

Dean Carrano

Bourgeois Tagg was named after founding members Brent Bourgeois and Larry Tagg

Matthew O'Reilly

9 videos locked plus I have YouTube ads, this will be my finest aural weaving project

Joel Barber

Winning Time needed one more season

Christopher Teuma

3 in Australia. Rick Springfield can be found, but now I'm off to search the rest of the internet for Loverboy's Notorious!

Nikki Lev

loll the lack of dire straits knowledge was rough

Manish Agarwal

Jermaine Stewart 🖤

Fred Mercado

The Toy Story 2 bit was incredibly funny. Its the most outwardly aggro I have ever heard Griffin. Love it.

Charlie

Judith absolutely slaps though

Dustin

I love Dire Straits, will die on the hill that Mark Knoplfer is a top 10 guitarist of the past 50 years, and totally understand if people have no time for them. They have a cilantro sound. Self-titled debut is a good place to start. Fun album, Down to the Waterline is a very confident debut opener, Sultans of Swing is committed to the sausage asylum for being a crazy banger, and Wild West End is a more than adequate wanna-be-Dylan romp. But it’s all twang all the time. If you like that you’ll probably like the rest. Except for Love over Gold. No one has ever heard that album, it’s weird, completely non-existent. Making Movies is perfect though, no notes