Arcade Fire - “The Suburbs” (Pop-Up Video)

VH1′s blessedly reactivated Pop-Up Video show is back on the air, and one of its most recent selections is Spike Jonze’s kids-in-the-apocalypse video for Arcade Fire’s “The Suburbs.” If you were reading music blogs around the time that video dropped, then many of the Pop-Up Video fun facts will be familiar, but not all of them. The Dairy Queen from that video, for instance, was also a location on Friday Night Lights; I sure didn’t know that.

For more clips from the reactivated Pop-Up Video, check here.

The Cribs – “Glitters Like Gold”

The Cribs new reference-heavy video for “Glitters Like Gold” may indeed exhibit VHS-like production qualities on the surface, but what’s kind of novel about the video is that the Pop-Up Video insets that they co-opt link out to other clips. The pop-up graphic about Ryan liking bowling links out to a video of someone (presumably Ryan) bowling for two hours. The one about Ross liking sandwiches without crusts links out to a video of Ross making a sandwich and cutting off the crust. And, so forth. Andy Knowles and Stephen Agnew direct.