Steampunk in music.  Discuss!

The video below is a music video created/directed by Christopher Alender for a song by Ben Lovett.  It has been incredibly well-received by many within the steampunk community, and with good reason.  Check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1mX8ptsmBM

I see your video and raise you a song by the band that put the punk into Steampunk... The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing.  This band not only talk the talk but walk the walk as well.  In 2009 they were the first band to release a record on wax cylinder since 1922.  They had to include instructions on how to make a device to play it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnafU6wiCFU

I would be remiss if I didn't point everyone towards Abney Park: http://www.youtube.com/results...=Abney+Park&aq=f

Abney Park always makes me think of a marvellous Victorian Cemetary in Stoke Newington (North London).  Probably because the cemetary is also called Abney Park.

Fascinating :)

Hah.  A wax cylinder, that's awesome. :D

and  I feel obligated to let everyone know, Abney Park has a marvelous new album out called End of Days. I have acquired it, quite amazing. Also a good band, though I've been able to find little music to have in my music collection, Clockwork Quartet is very good as well! I'm constantly researching for more bands..when I find 'em I will share 'em with you all!

oh and I almost forgot. The soundtrack for 2009 Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr. It sounds VERY steampunk.. I know, I have it!

I hope this works for our colleagues in the colonies...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2NFpwlHx68

The New York Dolls are not by any stretch of the imagination a steampunk band, but this video for "Fool for You Baby" has a definite steampunk feel, not least because it seems to have been filmed in the nineteenth century tunnels under Waterloo station, London - part of the long abandoned Necropolis Railway, which was built solely to carry corpses from central London to a cemetery some miles to the South.

I recently discovered The Cog Is Dead.  AMAZING steampunk band.  Their album, Steam Powered Stories, is presented as a radio broadcast and varies from a quirky, Beach Boys-esque sound in "Mechanical Menagerie," to the tear-jerkingly sweet "Time Machine," to--wait for it--reggae in "I Want Only You."

Here's the first track, and the rest of the album is available from the same user, so YouTube can hold you over til the CD arrives in the mail. http://youtu.be/VJ-JZeYCEeU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnaphJb5jQg vernian process always gets my gears turning. ^^ the video is from the short animation 'a gentlemans duel' if one wishes to watch that fun bit of excitement as well.


Another fun example of their work can be shown in their cover of the maple leaf rag which as the song progresses develops from a very old style into a jazzy swing esc number. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb5oMKyU0YA

Thanks for this! I'm totally enjoying their music as I type.

Here be's a good'un: Abney Park - Building Steam

^^ I love abney park, even met them at salon con once. ^^ have a picture of me along side them I keep close to my heart.

Sounds like something worth sharing :P

That one isnt on this comp but I shall endevor to get it to you *the printout is in a little frame lol yes pathetic* but heres a moment I caught 'thanks to me helping as well and because me and my friend along with the armorer were the only people in the room at the time. Here is a fine moment.

Lookie what I found. http://www.steampunk-music.com/

Clearly a funky collection there. Thanks for posting.

Steampop anyone?

Might I present Alex the Kidd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa5e9COBTb4

I've got a youtube playlist of steampunk music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...Ov0R8hGbUbSpk_t_sFbm

Another one for you:- http://theextraordinarycontraptions.bandcamp.com/

That is really cool!

I wish I would have checked this out earlier bravo sir, bravo!

Steampunk Music Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jjq-PbcsbU

The music isn't steampunk, but the visuals in the video certainly are.

Does
Raygun Gothic by Infocalypse (https://www.jamendo.com/album/88822/raygun-gothic) count?
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One of the things that brought steampunk back into the fore front of my mind recently is this Abney park video based around an anime called The Last Exile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdLkwKM0-fk

  I was thinking, I might have a chance at designing a multitonal Didgerido in a steam punk fashion.
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I've recently bumped into these guys on YouTube.  The kids absolutely love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDRHx4cPgbE

Uh...

+1 performance
+1 Makeup
+1 Actually a jazzy tune

-1 Somehow Im cofused

Overall yeah, that was... neat.

It has a fantasy backstory that's on the "out there" side.  Read the lyrics and you'll understand better.

Still 2 outa three aint bad.

Lets try this one for a vid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl00LrDVngU

Hmmmm ... both have a very Steampunk videoclip.  I wonder if the two clips were made by the same person?!?

Most steampunk fanatics probably know about these guys, but I didn't see anything on this thread about em so I figured I'd make sure in case anyone hadn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDRHx4cPgbE

Face Palms

They aren't the only new age Steampunk band though they do it very well. Its kind of good sign actually. For the genre anyway.

It happens a lot on RPoL, friend.