Preface: Many people love Every Time I Die. Many people hate Every Time I Die. I don’t give a fuck where you fall on the scale. Shut up. You’re not special. Go back to Leagueing all the Legends. This post is exclusively about the band’s recent music video output. Ah, you’re going to do whateverthefuck anyway. Go have your sweaty discussion in the comments.
I love Every Time I Die. They seem like genuinely cool bros. The Buckley Brothers and Andy are super funny –Legs and whoever they have playing bass for them at the time of this writing are probably pretty swell. Honestly, if I had to Make-A-Wish, I’d give some serious thought to requesting to bro-down/beer-down with the ETID bros and totes create a real/special connection via showing THEM how chill I am. We’d exchange besties lockets and then I would succumb to the Hantavirus a month or so later; secure in my knowledge that ETID <3’s me.
Shit, that went off the rails…
Ok, so what I’m about to say comes from a place filled with good intentions and wuv:
Ur music videos, stop them.
To me, these guys perfected the “just enough zany/sick riffage/going hard formula.” Stage banter and lyrics = funny/witty. Riffs = tasty. Songs = back tard. I am a principal investor in the ETID brand, so to speak. Their music video output leading up to the newest album (Ex Lives) has been humorous or, at least, very light fare; enjoyable and consistent with the ETID “let’s have some lulz with our rockin’ good times” mission statement. Then the bed got well and truly shat…
Not even the laid-back adonises in ETID could resist the current trend of the dreaded srs! I can’t say anything more about the “srs trend” that Sarge hasn’t said in a much funnier way already, so search the archives of the site if this is the first time you came across that term — I’ll wait…
Good they’re gone. Fucking dead weight. Ok, moving on. The vibe of one of my favorite bands went from “yeerrrr, let’s slam some beers and see what gets fingered tonight!” to “You guys! We NEED to Occupy something! It is time to WAKE UP! Business are doing…THINGS, man!”
I’m being paranoid? I’m reading too much into something that isn’t there?! Fuck you, person I made up. Let me present the evidence for my “Plz stop doing da vidjeoz, etids” intervention:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1gi_aOe334&version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0]
Underwater Bimbos from Outerspace
Jesus christ. Some art school undergrad is fuming that their final project got stolen by ETID LLC. Al Jourgensen is kicking himself for not finding all this sick B-roll first! How does THAT shit feel, Al?!
The thing that stings the most is that Mr. Keith “I Have a Tattoo of Spock’s Head in a Lawnchair Dreaming About Itself With a Mustache” Buckley directed this. Mirin’ them sick Sony Vegas skills, Keith. Does typing: “fucked up public domain footage” into Google count as directing something? Egh. What does it all mean man?! Something. Is. HAPPENING. to our world, man!
Gah…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEp-Owhqbr0&version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0]
Revival Mode
Here, I made this one funny like their older videos: “After a night of LARP’ing a custom “Very Bad Things” campaign turns ironically real, the guys try and get rid of Andy’s carcass. But it’s ok, because he’s Darkman, apparently. I don’t know. (insert fart noise)”
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjr2FGdFLpk&version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0]
I Suck (Blood)
Ok, they have to be trolling us at this point. I defy you to convince me that this video doesn’t have the rejected plot from an Atreyu video that never got made in 2003. “Ok, so Jackie Earle Haley’s younger brother is super into this chick and she’s all like ‘omg creeper is super creepy and distracting me from pinning things!’ so she gets all empowered n’ shit and turns the tables on him!” Some art school graduate is super pissed that a professional video production company stole his Kickstarter proof-of-concept video test footage…he should have learned after he got his final project stolen: mail EVERYTHING to yourself!
At least we get to see some top-shelf Rain Boobs (Precipitits?). Also, consolation prize for the 4th wall-breaking shot at the end of The Dudes consoling creepvert in a desperate attempt to “keep some of the old flavor.”
Music videos aren’t nearly as important as they used to be. They’re kind of like your Xbox Live Vision Camera: they’re just…there. So, I’m not super butthurt/worked up over this… It’s just a shame to see dudes who got popular because they bet on an unlikely pony called Ol’ Southern Fried Metalcore by way of Suburban Kids From the North (people name horses dumb things) succumbing to the way the wind is blowing at this moment in time.
ETID bros: luv u. Still luv u and I kid because I luv u so much. I don’t want you to make videos that are so zany they would make The Aquabats look like Type O Negative, but please, give us a break. Do your own thing and let the damn kids do the whole tri-yearly “let’s hope no one brings up that phase of our career” facepalm circle of life.
Do you think ETID have gone srs? Are you in a ETID rip-off band? Have you asked Sarge what HE thinks of ETID yet? What Tales From the Crypt episode will our heroes plagiarize next?
I had a big lapse in ETID fandom from when Hot Damn came out, and regained interest at Ex Lives. This was most likely due to my pursuit of tr00domness at the time. I think seeing them with GWAR, of all bands, recently helped me rediscover how awesome they are.
I was kinda wondering what was up with the whole “Occupy” theme of Ex Lives’ package as well, but was happy to realize the lyrical content had jack shit to do with that.
It had everything to do with it being a random shot they saw of a guy being in a fight with police in one of their shirts.
iknowthatfeelbro
The first two seemed pretty forgettable to me, the the third one left me confused wondering what the fuck was going on. I do not get it, and I’m unsure if there was a point, but it looked more expensive. Hope it was worth it dudes.
The one Damned Things video is pretty good tho.
The Damned Things video did, in fact, give me the chuckles.
I can’t really get behind those guys as a band, though. With all the talented people in that band, you’d think they could come up with something a bit zazzier than boring radio rock. Don’t get me wrong, they got a few solid jamz up in there, but yeah…I’m lukewarm.
I mean, yeah the album was boring, but it was a standard like hard rock album. They’re lucky to get a few dece songs out of it.
Serg, if you read this comment section, can you give me your opinion on Every Time I Die?
I’m srsly curious too. HE’S NEVER ANSWERED THIS QUESTION EVER BEFORE. Don’t leave us hanging bro D:
I’m pretty sure Sarge has done an article on ETID before…
IIRC, he wants to like them but can’t get into it…
u rly got the joke (which admittingly wasn’t clever at all…)
I always thought that one of the central jokes of ETID is that they play southern style music even though they’re from upstate. I’ve never been to Buffalo but I know it’s a fairly large city and heard its pretty ghetto (they even have a mayor with one of the blackest names ever who looks kinda like the mayor in Robocop 2.)
Now that I’m actually living upstate myself however, it all makes a lot more sense: the rest of the entire state of NY is Hick Central, the only thing missing is the confederate flags and soul food.
The new record is pretty ill tho. Love dat skronk.
Band sucks, never bought the hype for a minute. Art school dorks playing bad “emotional” metalcore with shitty tacked on rock influences, like a more Hot Topic friendly Doomriders. Oh look, they have beards and tattoos and beer guts like every other ex-straightedge quasi-ivy league dork trying to look like Hank Williams Jr. Band is not alpha and neither are any of you.
I had a felling this post would conjure you up.
You seem…rustled. I always figured since they know they’re a joke, nobody needs to care about whatever “cred” they may or may not have to begin with.
lol u mad bruh #jimmiesrustled #butthurt #coolurjetsman
Quit getting your balls all caught up in a sack.
Why do you even read this site if you hate everything and everyone? What’s it like being mad at literally everything, all the time?
I merely state the facts with enthusiasm.
Bro likes D beat, will proceed to not care about existence in general.
Came here for ETID, Stayed for Precipitits.
Been noticing this too :( It all started with Wanderlust imo, before that they were all “rollerdisco HxC” and “Teen Wolf but with fat oldz” zany stuff. <3 u guyz so much, but plz stop being so srs.
Apparently the artwork for Ex Lives was incidental tho, they found a photo of some protester wearing an ETID shirt and were like "hey that's cool, let's roll with that", not "Let's get some kid to wear an ETID shirt at a protest so we can be all deep and political n' shit".
Funny how we have a post demonstrating how to make music videos incorrectly and one showing how to make videos correctly directly below it.
lol that i suck blood video was my fav.. not because of da music but bcuz of dat hot blond chick…. i had an ex that loox just like her cept w/ glasses via her being a hot band geek n shit….
that old perv guy is a fucken beta fag. wood let her rape me/10
=D
entirely convinced that the first video is just a slide show of every album cover released on youth attack.
“go back to leaving all the legends”
right in my feels, bro :(
ETID are awesome. One of the only metalcore bands I still listen to after I got bored of all the other ones. I miss their old sound tho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C29Nz7u6Yqc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOx_iSEjITc
“Jackie Earle Haley’s younger brother”- i lol’d
I am so glad I was not the only one who’s noticed this. I miss The New Black and We’rewolf and Ebolarama videos where they just tried to have fun and party as much as possible, that is how I picture ETID.
Precipitits
Wonderful!
And the ETID bros are really cool dudes, got to talk to them for a while and get a picture when they played here in the Philippines last year with The Acacia Strain who were even more chill bros
i dig that song jimmy tangos method
Sad dat dis band always brings out the imn’s :( they are my fave. New vids suck doe. Went hard in the paint for them at warped yesterday.