Pros slash fanvids - a list

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

Under the cut is a list of the Pros slash fanvids I know that are accessible online. I'd be very grateful for reccs for any more...

Discovering Pros fanvids on Youtube was 'the door in the wall' that let me in to the secret garden of slash/fandom/Pros, in summer 2008. I still adore the vids, but now I keep watching the same favourite ones over and over. After a year and a bit, I found myself wishing for more slashy ones to add to my collection. Yesterday saintvic got me thinking that I should make a list of the vids I know, and ask for reccs for more.

At the start, I was thinking in terms of maybe half a dozen Pros slash fanvids, but when I thought harder my list soon grew to nearly 20. The exercise of finding links for them all was quite inspiring and led me to yet more…

 

The utter and complete list of Pros fanvids (slash, gen, whatever) is at the Hatstand: http://hatstand.slashcity.net//vids.html.

 

My list is based on what is readily available online.  Let me apologise in advance if I have infringed any vidder's wishes regarding distribution of their vids by including links, and I will remove them at once if asked. Since I have found these vids  either through YouTube or the Hatstand, I assume they are in the public domain and I can list them with links here.

 

My list is also a subjective one because, in the process, I’ve found it isn’t always clear whether a vid is made with slash in mind. I imagine a vidder who did not care for slash or intend to depict it would not be pleased if their work was received as such. Hence I took quite a narrow view, but still there are caveats below.
 
Any corrections of course will be gratefully acknowledged.

And I must say a huge thank you to all the vidders, who put so much technical skill and artistry, time and effort, into these confections. 

If there is any point to this list, it is to identify the slashiest (online) vids from the Hatstand list. In return, I hope for reccs for any good ones I’ve missed.

 

The “Gay” Trilogy -

Mel (crimson_37): Avenue Q “If You Were Gay”

http://archive.nu/crimson/cgi-bin/dir/fanvid.htm

 

Enednoviel: Stephen Lynch “If I Were Gay”

http://www.bistokidsfan.net/videos.php

 

Bistokidsfan: “Keep it Gay”

http://www.bistokidsfan.com/videos.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEbCsIsiqk4

 

 

Ancasta: Damien Rice “Cannonball”

http://www.ancastascorner.com/cannonball.html

 

Ancasta: “Reasons to Love The Professionals”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHQ27AST870

http://www.ancastascorner.com/reasons.html

 

Ancasta: The Bangles “Hazy Shade of Winter” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz_YqZ3ugXc

 

Ancasta: Psychedelic Furs “Heartbreak Beat”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh9gqLrkG5A&feature=fvsr
http://www.ancastascorner.com/hbeat.html

 

Ancasta: Savage Garden “I Want You”

http://www.ancastascorner.com/i_want_you.html

 

Bistokidsfan: The Beatles, “All Together Now”

http://www.bistokidsfan.com/videos.html

[NEW! July 2009, and completely delightful]

 

Bistoprofi: Bush “The Chemical Between Us”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyUc1HIMgqg

(particular apologies to bistoprofi if this isn’t intended as slash, but… the music!)

 

Crimson (Mel) all vids at http://archive.nu/crimson/cgi-bin/dir/fanvid.htm

Mel: Abba "Summer Night City"
Mel: Annie Lennox "Why?"
Mel: Avenue Q “If You Were Gay”
Mel: Bodyrockers "I Like the Way"
Mel: Poets of the Fall “Carnival of Rust”

Mel: Sarah McLachlan “For a Winter’s Night”

Mel: Sarah McLachlan “For a Winter’s Night”, part deux

[There may be a couple more to add, I haven’t managed to download all of Crimson’s luscious vids from this site yet.]

 
Culf: Billy Joel "Only the Good Die Young"
http://culf.livejournal.com/284763.html
(gen, or a little bit B/D)

EmptyMirrors (own website):
Hawksley Workman: "Striptease"
Jose Gonzales: "Heartbeats"

Josey (EmptyMirrors): Ohio Express “Yummy, yummy, yummy, I’ve got love in my tummy”

[online?]

Ened noviel: Elvis Presley "No room to rhumba in a sports car"
http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/vids/NoRoomtoRhumba.php
 

Kat-byrd: all vids at

http://almostpuresentinel.popullus.net/TheProfessionals.html

 

Bruce Hornsby and the Range “Every Little Kiss”

 Seven Channels “Breathe” (extremely moving, and stylish too)
I Know You're Out There Somewhere
Roll With The Changes
Assemblage 23: "Let Me Be Your Armour"
Garth Brooks: "Standing Outside the Fire"

The Modette: The Buzzcocks “Ever Fallen in Love With Someone (You Shouldn’t’ve Fallen in Love With)?”

[online anywhere? This is possibly my favourite, but it’s gone from Youtube and I’d really love a better copy.]

 

The Modette: Cream “Sunshine of your Love”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7mAGfupMBw

 
Orypeci
And So It Goes: Billy Joel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRVnoD02GcQ&feature=channel_page

Orypeci
Slow Hands: Interpol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztx0iCdQjjI&feature=channel_page
("I consider Interpol to be slashy, but some might not." Orypeci)

Rhianne: Billy Joel “And So It Goes”

http://www.hidden-muse.com/viewstory.php?sid=19&PHPSESSID=163c86d482f6eecf98ee5da67c78eb38

 

Sunshine: Queen "You're My Best Friend"

Sunshine4537: Ronan Keating “When You Say Nothing At All”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf7zSUWNpJ0

 

Sunshine4537: The Troggs “Wild Thing”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VDA7WDTD7I

 

Sunshine4537: Showaddywaddy “I Wonder Why…”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emu-vsGpYOs

 

Sunshine4537: Showaddywaddy “You Got What it Takes”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6ZVBnADx6s&feature=related

 

All sunshine4537 vids are also at http://ci5-finest.com/vids.html.

 

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Comments

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

*rubs hands in glee*

Thank you for this list, I'll have to have a proper look through and watch when I get home tonight. And I'll check my bookmarks/downloads to see if I have anything to add.

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

Having mentioned it to you, I thought I'd better get on with it...

Was just looking on the BBC website about flooding in the north - sounds like you're lucky to have a home to go to. Hope it's better today.

[londonronnie.livejournal.com]

Don't forget all the vids that are listed at the Circuit Archive too:

http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/vids.php

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

Oh, I did forget there - thanks!

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

These are only vids that were/are taken for downloading, and reflects a very limited number of the great vids that are out there.

The Circuit list is intrigrated into the main listing at The Hatstand.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Only half a dozen Pros slash vids? I know we watched more than that at mine, that time! *g*

empty_mirrors (Josey) has got more vids here (http://www.emptymirrors.org.uk/amateurs/graphics.html), and they're ace...

hisluvpet/Bistokidsfan has got 13 Pros vids up at her website (http://www.bistokidsfan.com/videos.html)

I think of all those vids as slash, and I know their authors are slashers, so...

Have you been through these tagged entries (http://community.livejournal.com/the_safehouse/tag/songvids) at the_safehouse? I know enednoviel had some cool Pros vids up, and she posted them there...

What Londonronnie says about the Circuit Archive links too...

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

"Only half a dozen Pros slash vids?" Just stuck in a rut, really, I was surprised how many I actually had (or knew how to access) when I thought about it. So it's been a great exercise in getting out of said rut. Yes, I have you to thank(?) for "Yummy, yummy, yummy" (hee!)

"I think of all those vids as slash..." This is what I mean about subjectivity, and I did take a narrow view. This is my fault for not defining the subject...
If the vidder is into slash, but one of their vids is mainly about car chases, or shooting, or some other theme, where neither the lyrics/music nor the editing is particularly suggestive about the lads' relationship, does one define it as slash because you know the vidder sees them that way? Alternatively, there are vids that deal with Bodie and Doyle's relationship as friends and partners, but where does that become slash? Knowing the vidder's point of view seems to have a lot to do with it.

An example of one I'm not sure about is Culf's recent vid of Billy Joel "Only the Good Die Young", where Bodie seems to be set on corrupting Doyle, but I think it's to do with Doyle relaxing his lofty principles, not seduction.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've seen Culf's Good Die Young vid, though I'm sure I've seen a Pros vid to that song...

but one of their vids is mainly about car chases, or shooting, or some other theme, where neither the lyrics/music nor the editing is particularly suggestive about the lads' relationship, does one define it as slash because you know the vidder sees them that way?
Are there many vids like this, I wonder? Certainly almost all the vids I knew up to last year (I've not been keeping up with the Youtube ones, I'm afraid) came across as "slash" to me, although I guess there were a few that weren't... "Fields of Marigold", for instance. Hmmn, Mary Van Duesen's (sp?) I rarely think of as slash... did we watch The Hunting Song? It's really the one of hers that I do like, though I don't think I've seen them all...

I dunno - because I see the slash in the series, I guess I tend to see it in the same way in other things, just as a result of the lads' relationship. They aren't meant to be slashed in the eps, and BC would perhaps be horrified (and/or MS/LC, who knows really?) but it doesn't stop us doing it... (Hmmn, totally other subject, the way we treat people who identify as "fans" somehow differently from those who might not - or at least not in our "own" communities... *gets all Friday-afternoonish-philosophical...* So I don't think a vid's story has to be overtly about slash for it to be included in a slash vid list... *g*

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

Bodie seems to be set on corrupting Doyle, but I think it's to do with Doyle relaxing his lofty principles, not seduction - Culf (http://culf.livejournal.com/284763.html) describes it more as Bodie trying to persuade Doyle to live a little and tags it as either Gen or a little B/D, so I imagine that depends on how strong your slash goggles are I suspect. When I watched it I thought it was more gen.

Knowing the vidder's point of view seems to have a lot to do with it - I think that can be why people read it as slash but that doesn't necessarily translate for me. For videos to be slash can be a very tricky thing, all down to the editing and the song and the juxtaposition of the lyrics and images. After all the show is gen, for all that we slashers read more into it and add extra layers, that is how it was filmed and presented.

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

The Hatstand has an excellent reference list of fan videos - Youtube ones are marked (YT) - the only problem is that there are no links to websites or downloads, probably due to resource limitations.

http://hatstand.slashcity.net//vids.html

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that. But there are so many vids in the Hatstand list, and where they're not online or date from 1980s or 1990s I fear I have little chance of ever seeing them. Which is a shame because I bet there are/were some brilliant ones.
It's almost as bad as the fic - so much to read and so little time...

Have a good weekend!

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

When I first post my vids, I indicate whether or not they're slash or gen. I should put that on my website as well. Another thing on the list.

My slash vids:
Every Little Kiss
Breathe
I Know You're Out There Somewhere
Roll With The Changes
Let Me Be Your Armour

I think that if a vidder says the vid is slash, then I accept that. Just as I do with a story. I don't argue with the creator. *bg* Now I might read something else into the vid, but I believe the creator if they say it's gen even if I find it slashy.

As a note, when vidding, I think it's pretty hard make it "slash" with just clips from the show unless you have suggestive lyrics. Sure, you can cut some clips close enough with longing glances, but generally I think the lyrics tell me whether or not the vid is slash. Unless one cuts a vid like "Every Little Kiss", where there ain't no problem telling.

I do have "gen only" friends who will watch slash vids because they feel that even with suggestive lyrics, it's only wishful thinking on the slasher's part! Other than adding slash art, of course. *g* Or vidding QAF. *snirk*

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

Hooray to hear from a real life vidder. And apologies for not listing all your vids. When you first posted "I know you're out there" I had trouble opening it (my software's more up to date now) but I haven't caught up with that or the other 2.

"generally I think the lyrics tell me whether or not the vid is slash". That is very candid (it's not just the song that sells it, it's your editing too), but I wouldn't argue. The slash vids I find most effective are where the lyrics seem to be the interior monologue of Bodie or Doyle thinking of the other. How you (vidders) do is quite beyond me!
Hence, the vids I like best tend to be songs with male vocals, because they fit the characters. (I do like Jaicen's "Sweet about me", but that girl Gabriel Kilmie has a wonderful voice. And it's not slash, Jaicen doesn't seem to do slash, she just has the lads oozing sex appeal).


"I believe the creator if they say it's gen even if I find it slashy." But what takes precedence, the creator's intention or the viewer's interpretation? And do such vids exist?

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

I just came across the list of vids and watched "Breathe", which I hadn't ever seen before!

I practically burst into tears; the vid had such an impact!
Your vids are masterful!

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful idea!
Thanks for sharing this list!
There were a few gems I hadn't added to my (rather disoranized) collection, and I had a great time revisiting favorites.

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

Thank you, glad to be of service. It's made me organise mine a lot more too.

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Where I came to tea and didn't thank the host. *bad kat* Thanks, jaycat! I appreciate that you've gone and gathered up these links. I know that individual posts sometimes go astray, so it's great having this nice list that you've done.

And thank you for the kind words about "Breathe".

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

My pleasure entirely.

My reaction to "Breathe" was the same as Siskiou's, I found it quite unbearably sad when I saw it first (I will go a long way to avoid partner death in fic, too). Only watched it again yesterday for the second time, and found it a bit easier. But I do love the way you've edited it.

And this is a good example of what we're talking about - you label "Breathe" as slash, but if you hadn't, I could see it as about close friendship too. Should one draw such distinctions between love and friendship anyway...? (it's late, I'm falling asleep).

[ankaree.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for this great list! It's much appreciated!!

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

You are very welcome. Enjoy rewatching the vids.

[ladyhawke2.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the list, there are a few on it that I don't have and I love music vids.

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

My pleasure entirely.
Can't wait to watch properly some of the 'new' ones I've found while doing this.

[orypeci.livejournal.com]

*cough*
-WARNING, SELF PROMOTION AHEAD-

I uh, (Christ I'm not good at this)...have a couple...that I made...

And So It Goes: Billy Joel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRVnoD02GcQ&feature=channel_page

Slow Hands: Interpol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztx0iCdQjjI&feature=channel_page
(I consider Interpol to be slashy, but some might not.)

You might wanna check them out...and uh, maybe...comment...

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

Such blatant self-promotion... but thanks! *vbg*.

I had seen 'And So It Goes', and found it unbearably sad - so you can be pleased that it had the intended effect. Not one to watch often, as I want Pros vids to make me happy.

Interpol - I LOVE this, it has everything I like best in a Pros vid - fast rock music, lots of bass, male vocal. And the image quality is brilliant, don't know how you got it so clear compared to most vids I've seen in the past on youtube.
Now I watch it closely (unlike the first time I watched it, when I must have been just watching the action scenes) it is undeniably slashy - it just isn't so obvious because there's lots of action too. Maybe it should be characterised as a Pros action vid, which just happens to have romantic moments too because that's how the lads just are with each other, rather than a vid that focuses on their relationship - I'm not making myself clear, am I?

It's past my bed time, now, I will update my list tomorrow to include these two treats.

Soon after I posted my list, my computer broke down, and the one thing that worried me the most was losing all these vids - most I could download again, of course, but it would take a long time. Fortunately the computer man saved all my data (I hope he didn't look at too much of it!), but as of today I now have an external hard drive to use as back up. Yay.

Any more of your nice Pros vids planned? Please? I don't suppose you fancy doing one with McFly 'Corrupted'? I want to see a Pros vid to that song SO MUCH that I'm tempted to try it myself, but I really don't know where to start.

Thanks again for these!

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

RE: "And so it goes", I have done you a grave disservice, because the vid I was thinking of was the same song by Rhianne. That one is sad, it is a narrative where Bodie sadly watches Doyle's various disastrous relationships with women.
My excuse is that yours is so shiny and new. It's really exciting (for me) that there are new Pros vids being made.
Yours is just beautiful (that wonderful picture quality, too), and sort of haunting, very well chosen scenes, and definitely slashy.

I really like your "We Will Rock You" vid too, and your comment on youtube, about it fitting Pros.