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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: Favorite All-Time Videos |
| Date | Mon, 12 May 2003 18:26:53 -0400 |
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At 03:16 PM 5/12/2003 -0700, kcronin wrote:
>Owner of a Lonely Heart: Yes. Always suitably creeped
>out by both the song and the 1984-esque video...i
>always wished "shock the monkey" was as narrative as
>"OOALH" was, but it was kind of dull.
I always liked the various videos for "Leave It," also one of the few Yes
tracks I've ever sorta liked, although I appreciate it more along the lines
of "an over the top Trevor Horn production" than "a Yes song."
>Nik Kershaw's "Wouldn't It Be Good" - disaffected
>spaceman comes to earth and wears a suit of grainy
>black and white video footage of suburban london, and
>shoes? Peculiar, mesmerizing, and very a propos of
>the song.
Bargain Bin Hint: Kershaw's HUMAN RACING, from whence this single came, is
actually one of the better late-period synth-pop albums. Not quite Scritti
Politti's CUPID AND PSYCHE 85, the apotheosis of the form, but better than
anything Depeche Mode did after CONSTRUCTION TIME AGAIN.
>asfer REM, I think Michael Stipe's unselfconscious
>grin at the end of "Stand" is about the best footage
>of him anywhere. I seem to recall a painfully arty
>video involving sheets draped around a stage and the
>band casting shadows on them as MS sang "So. Central
>Rain," but they stopped me short with the overlush
>beauty of "losing my religion," that's for shore.
Those weren't sheets and they weren't on a stage. Those were the sort of
partitions that are used in recording studios to make sure instruments
don't bleed onto each others' tracks. I've always really liked that video,
actually.
S
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