Five Spike/Spangel-centric Fan Vids

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Great Buffyverse fan vids continued to appear in 2007. Here are five of my favourites. They're all Spike/Spangel-centric, as I guess you might expect.



First off there's two from dualbunny, my favourite vidder.

Tragedy which sets the events of Spike's dramatic life to a BeeGees soundtrack with hilarious and touching results.

Then They Can't Take That Away From Me, a Spangel vid with music by Ella Fitzgerald, once again very funny and beautifully put together.

Then there's Boy From the Mouth of Hell by stormwreath, which sets footage from all Spike's major relationships - with Drusilla, Angel/Angelus and Buffy - to a Pogues song with very appropriate lyrics. The last few moments of this always make me tear up too.

danegen is a new vidder (or new to me anyway) and I only watched Ruiner the first time the other day, but I had to rec it here. Set to a Nine Inch Nails song, it cleverly intercuts footage of Angel with Connor and Spike, exploring the darker sides of his relationshiips with his son and his adopted son (or protege, if you prefer).

Finally, there's another look at Spike's life by charmax in Still Breathing, a Duran Duran song, which is kind of a retrospective of his whole existence.

I hope you enjoy them.

Comments

[sueworld2003.livejournal.com]

Excellent rec love. I haven't seen the last two before so I'm looking forward to watching them next.

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The Angel/Connor/Spike one is very well done indeed, I think. Great use of similar bits of footage.

[dark-amia.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recs. Don't think I've seen any of those.

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You'll enjoy them, I'm sure.

[elisi]

Not heard of danegen before, will definitely check out the vid! (All the others are much-loved and much-watched. Excellent selection. :)

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I only came across danegen myself for the first time the other day. I think you'll like that vid a lot.

[gwynevere1.livejournal.com]

This really is a great group of recs.
I thought I'd gotten to the point where I'd seen so many Spike vids, that I couldn't possibly watch any more, but this set proved me wrong. :)

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I'm glad you liked them. I think they're all wonderful.

[debris4spike]

Thanks for those links - I haven't looked at many videos - so shall have a look at the Spike ones - Thanks for the list

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dualbunny has another vid called Black, Black Heart all about Spike, which I think you'd enjoy too, though I didn't rec it here because it's 2006, not 2007.

Happy viewing.

[debris4spike]

Thanks for that one as well

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You're welcome.

[lynnenne]

Thanks for this list! I particularly liked "Ruiner" by danegan. Thanks for reccing it.

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Glad you enjoyed it.

[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

Wow those are awesome! The Nine Inch Nails work brilliantly with Angel.

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It's great, isn't it? So well edited too.

[danegen.livejournal.com]

eep.
Yes, I'm new (minus much lurking), so thanks for the rec! And thanks for pointing out Boy from the Mouth of Hell. I haven't seen that one, but the other three are wonderful.

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They're great, aren't they? Very glad you delurked.

[yourlibrarian]

Heh, our lists are going to have definite overlap! So glad you recced Ruiner though, I just loved that!

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Had you seen it before? I've only just come across it for the first time.

[thatotherperv.livejournal.com]

man, how long has it been since I've dl a new buffyverse vid? *takes these and runs*

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I hope you like them. In fact, I'd love to know what you thought of that danegen vid. I would have thought it'd be right up your street.