OK Go

I'm sure all of you have seen Here It Goes Again music video. You know, the treadmill one.  This is video that first got me into the band OK Go, and I've pretty much been obbsessed with them ever since.

Their music videos are crazy and inventive, and I could literally just look them up for hours.  Damien Kulash, the lead singer, and Tim Nordwind, the bassist, met at Interlochen Arts Camp when they were 11 years old. They kept in touch after camp because of their similar tastes in music, and often sent mix tapes to each other.  They met Andy Duncan, who was to be OK Go's first guitarist and keyboardist, in high school (He would later be replaced by Andy Ross in 2005). They met their future drummer, Dan Konopka, in college.  OK Go was officially formed in 1998.  Kulash and Nordwind's art teacher at Interlochen would always say, "OK...Go!" whenever she had them start an art project, and this was the inspiration for the band's name.

So far, OK Go has released three albums. Their first album was released in 2002 and it was self-titled.  Their second album, Oh No, was released in 2005, just before the departure of guitarist and keyboardist Andy Duncan.  Then, with Andy Ross under their wing, OK Go released their third album, Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, in 2010.

So far, I have like their first self titled album the best. The others are good, but I just like their sound the best in their first album.

Some really good songs from their first album you should listen to are:

• Get Over It
• Don't Ask Me 
• What To Do
• 1000 Miles Per Hour

The whole album is defintely worth listening to, but those are just my favorites :]

My favorites from the album Oh No are:

• Invincible
• Here It Goes Again
• A Good Idea At The Time
• A Million Ways

A Million Ways was sort of what kicked off OK Go's popularity. People saw their simple music video online and it started sort of and "internet feud" where thousands of people posted videos of themselves doing the dance.

And just another sort of interesting side note, Kulash, who is the official lead singer in the band, does not appear to be singing in the music video for A Million Ways or Here It Goes Again, but he really is.  They had the bassist, Nordwind, lip sync over Kulash's recording for these two videos.  Nordwind does get that chance to express his vocal talent, though, in the song C-C-C-Cinnamon Lips, which appears on their first album.

And, finally, my favorite songs on the album Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky are:

• This Too Shall Pass (the band also released another music video to go along with the song. Click here!)
• All Is Not Lost
• End Love
• Last Leaf
• White Knuckles

And, when they released a remastered version of the album later on, they included several bonus tracks.  One of these songs is called Shooting the Moon, and I'm OBSESSED with it.

So, I hope you enjoy their music as much as I do! Sadly, OK Go isn't touring anytime soon, because I can only imagine how AWESOME one of their concerts would be.

That's all for now :]

~Emily