The first time I saw it, I didn’t get it. At least, I didn’t understand what was so damn special about this video.

I could have made that!

My brother first told me about “Bastards of Young” and how it was some grand punk rock fuck you to every video on MTV, plus the music industry in general. It took a few years to kick in—for the genius of both the song and its visual component to properly settle in my teenage brain—but once it did, I swear my life was never the same.

Oh, the Cribs’ version last night was pretty good. Fast, sloppy, and not too British. It’s hard to screw up a ‘Mats song, unless, of course, you turn one of their most sincere tunes into a video montage from One Tree Hill.