Today we’re diving into the music industry and reviewing seven stone age music videos: from Pearl Jam to Wu-Tang Clan, from folk to metal, musicians seem to love the ancient past. We explore the intersection of art and science, the way every generation projects their own ideals onto the past, and the disturbing amount of sperm in these videos!
Featured music videos:
Fatboy Slim – Right Here, Right Now (1998): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub747pprmJ8
Pearl Jam – Do the Evolution (1998): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDaOgu2CQtI
Stoner Kings – Cro Magnon (2019): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8HpWcF1tL0
Wu-Tang Clan – Gravel Pit (2000): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of-lpfsBR8U
Josh Ritter – The Curse (2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxWxiuJRApU
Caroline Polachek – Welcome To My Island (2023): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxgcz_6GKX0
Hotlegs – Neanderthal Man (1970): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e0qYP_PTlY
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In this episode:
A new placoderm fish was just published with a huge underbite like the one in the Fatboy Slim video! https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.231747
The Miller-Urey experiment: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment
The myth of the 1929 stock market crash suicides:
Cro magnon 1 had a tumorous face: https://www.newsweek.com/cro-magnon-1-had-skin-disorder-causing-face-be-covered-tumors-867225
Stoner Kings: Alpha Male (2019): https://stonerkings.bandcamp.com/album/alpha-male
Michael Majalhati, the Canadian Rebel Starbuck: https://majalahti.com/
Hevisaurus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXhhlYdySqQ
Winds of Genocide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br19bey-TPA
Cemican: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UTRDQtpgL8
Heilung: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVbc_Fwbt50
Jurassic Park Scarf: https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Jurassic-Park-Large-Knitted-Scarf-When-Dinosaurs-Ruled-The-Earth/PRD77TLFPB7K79C
Josh Ritter on Q (2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-vLDmvvjHY The Chimera of Arezzo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_of_Arezzo
Caroline Polachek visits a Przewalski’s horse with Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/article/caroline-polachek-desire-new-album-profile.html
