> > What are the fave videos of other Auditeers?


'Round these parts we had Friday Night Videos, for our
Lionel Richie and Phil Collins fixes, and Nite Flyte
(the first place i saw TMBG was on dr. dimento's video
show for "Don't Let's Start," prompting my brother to
say, "We better find a way to party with those guys
before they're too huge.")  I believe there was some
other TNT-type show that I remember seeing Sonic Youth
and Sham 69 videos on at a tender age.  But much
better, a couple of off-the-dial UHF shows MV60 and
MV3 (one of which is featured in Less Than Zero, the
book, when one of the characters whines about another
one getting to be on camera during the American
Bandstand-like portion of the show).  While I'm not a
big video fan now, these were INSTRUMENTAL in bringing
me music i simply would not have seen or paid
attention to when i was still a youngster - to wit,
adam ant, duran duran, kraftwerk, art of noise, nina
hagen, REM, etc, etc, etc...I'm a member of the
videos-before-1989 crowd, and of those i'd pick:

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.

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.

Clues: Robert Palmer.  he's a weirdo, and he's dancing
all over those big blocks.  

my prepubescent self was both attracted and repelled
by Laura Branigan's "Self Control" video, which
involved alot of people in masks and tortured
pseudo-acting by LB.  I think they were going for
something Jungian?

Prince always had cool videos back then.

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.

really bad videos - oh, unfair, i know, since there
were so many:  "say, say, say," "touch of grey,"  and
most of the hair metal songs.  Journey, since Stewart
brought them up, never failed to make me giggle with
their incredibly coked-out performance in the
needlessly intense video for "Separate Ways/Worlds
Apart."  

First video seen:  Asia - Heat of the Moment
First video loved:  U2 - New Year's Day 

oh, yeah: the year "Sabotage"'s video came out, ALL of
my indierock guy friends dressed as those cops for
halloween...and i like that foo fighters video where
the couple is asleep, and dreaming, and everytime the
chorus hits david grohl suddenly has a giant hand. I'm
...I'm sorry...what?

--kelly

np: dolly varden


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