Spike Jonze is a slightly different prospect to his DVD series colleagues Chris Cunningham and Michel Gondry, though in his own way no less valuable. He doesn’t dig deep into the tune and excavate, he doesn’t manipulate imagery with technology to any fantabulous degree, he doesn’t turn a concept upside down and shake it beyond normality. He’s more likely to just turn the camera upside down if he thinks it’d be, like, cool. His own gift is his angle on situations, the giddiness with which he often shoots, his lack of respect for conformation, and his ability to make his characters and subjects shine. And of course his, like, umm, really cool ideas. He’s more prone to slip into normality than the other two and for that the two discs may be stretching things a teensy bit. Stuff like the golf across New York narrative to Dinosaur Jr’s ‘Feel The Pain’ would be fine throwaway stuff for a Weezer clip, but doesn’t cut the Marmite here. But then Weezer have got the smile-guaranteed world-conquering Happy Days ‘Buddy Holly’ vid, so you won’t be hearing a grumble about their side of the deal. And on top of that one there’s the Beastie’s celebrated ‘Sabotage’, The Pharcyde’s excellent ‘Drop’ (predating Coldplay’s backward ‘The Scientist’), Fatboy Slim’s ‘Praise You’ dance troupe and the Christopher Walken (and dancin’) starring masterpiece ‘Weapon of Choice’ and Bjork’s (incidentally the only artist to appear on all 3 DVDs) gleaming showpiece ‘It’s Oh So Quiet’. If he wasn’t making videos and films he’d probably be sat at home watching Jackass. So just thank god it didn’t start in the 80s.