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The Fire Engines: Candyskin Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 160 seconds The Fire Engines...... On fire!! Related: alun, armstrong, blood, body, clemens, dennis, engines, fire, peter, postcard, postpunk, scotland, thriller, vaughan, waterman, witch |
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Phew: Closed (1981 with Holger Czukay / Hiromi Moritani) Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 136 seconds Phew Stew cooked up by Mother Sky.... After Aunt Sally, Phew hooked up with Czukay & Liebezeit to make one of the best (and most unfairly forgotten) albums of 1981... Footage taken from a very poor VHS copy of SKY, a 1970s eco-themed thriller for children.... Long overdue a DVD release Related: 1975, 1981, alien, blond, can, coat, conny, cult, cut, czukay, electro, flash, forest, gaia, hands, htv, japan, krautrock, leaves, liebezeit, magic, mine, mother, nature, new, phew, plank, post, punk, retro, sing, sky, trees, wave |
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The Feelies: Loveless Love (CRAZY RHYTHMS 1980) Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 122 seconds A classic Feelies track from Crazy Rhythms fused with The Trouble With Our Ivy, An Armchair Theatre masterpiece. Related: armchair, crazy, dandy, eastenders, feelies, gretchen, ivy, jungle, loveless, monkey, new, post, punk, rhythms, theatre, trouble, wave |
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Wire: Dot Dash Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 117 seconds Dot mash. Wire meets Devo meets the dancing bear.... Related: archive, bears, casale, dash, devo, dog, dot, flying, german, lewis, mothersbaugh, punk, shepherd, smith, victor, whip-it, whippet, wire |
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Fleetwood Mac: Never Going Back Again (RUMOURS 1977) Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 134 seconds Stalking rumours...... Thriller by Brian Clemens - here Robert Lang in "I'm The Girl He Wants To Kill" Related: 1970s, acoustic, brian, chase, clemens, elevator, fight, fleetwood, folk, kill, knife, lang, mac, robert, rumours, run, stalk, thriller |
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Ivor Cutler: Walking To A Farm (Dandruff 1974 folk avant classic) Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 144 seconds The intelligent ITV drama serial Timeslip fused with a lyrical Ivor Cutler classic in the style of a Negro spiritual. Related: 1970, ambient, and, andy, banks, base, bbc, benfield, billy, black, blue, boswell, cheryl, chris, connolly, cutler, dandruff, danger, dennis, derick, eccentric, fiction, flies, folk, frozen, hat, ice, in, insects, itv, ivor, jam, john, kershaw, live, loop, minimalist, morris, north, organ, peel, peril, poetry, quilley, room, ruth, sbs154, science, scotland, scottish, sitting, snow, spencer, spoken, stanshall, surreal, time, timeslip, travel, vivian, white, wife, word, writer |
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Ravi Shankar & Philip Glass - Passages (1990: excerpts) Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 179 seconds Shankar & Glass are a pretty fearsome double act. Here images from Anne's dream in the Lotus Eaters (eat your heart out Bergman & Fellini) with selections from Passages... Related: bird, dream, eater, glass, greece, horse, lotus, michael, passages, philip, ravi, riteli, sbs154, shankar, sitar, ventham, viktor, wanda |
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XTC: Spinning Top (White Music 1978) Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 171 seconds The Helium Kidz vs Ace Of Wands... But watch out for Mr. Peacock. As smart as Mr. Partridge. Related: 1970s, ace, andy, brian, dukes, hypnosis, magic, moulding, new, partridge, peril, punk, rip, skin, tarot, wands, wave, wilde, xtc |
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Can: Peking O (Tago Mago 1971) Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 120 seconds Images from the truly odd short British movie, 'The Stranger Left No Calling Card'. Music from Tago Mago Related: calling, card, czukay, damo, irmin, jaki, karoli, kraut, left, magic, mago, murder, no, policeman, sbs154, stranger, suzuki, tago, train |
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Arthur Russell: Sketch For The Face Of Helen Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 158 seconds Magisterial ambient from the late Russell, with images of the 80s BBC spook series, West Country Tales, The Visitor. Related: ambient, arthur, baby, bbc, cliff, cornwall, country, disco, ghost, nypunk, pram, russell, sbs154, sea, supernatural, tales, tide, west |
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This Heat: SPQR (Deceit 1981) Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 140 seconds A failed attempt to film I Claudius in the 1930s, left behind some amazing footage of Charles Laughton (who clashed with director Von Sternberg) Here the images are accompanied with the brilliant music of This Heat, one of the great post punk bands Related: charles, claudius, cold, deceit, emlyn, flora, heat, laughton, merle, oberon, robson, rome, sbs154, stenrberg, storage, this, williams |
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Talking Heads: Double Groove (1980 Remain In Light - cut track) Brian Eno Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 155 seconds Remain In Light is the greatest album of the last thirty years........... Here is a wordless vocal track (in the I-Zimbra afrobeat tribal chant style) with Fela Can like harmonies and grooving. I think I can hear Byrne, Eno & Tina Weymouth doing the warbling....... Footage from an OTT Hollywood 'party spectacular' short that borders on a Daliesque nightmare. Related: 1980, afrobeat, backwards, bicycles, bikini, blondie, bowery, byrne, can, cbgb, chant, dance, dummy, eno, fela, floppy, frantz, funk, harrison, heads, hell, hilly, hollywood, kristall, light, music, new, patty, punk, ramones, remain, richard, robert, smith, speed, sunshine, talking, tribal, ventriloquist, weymouth, york |
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Fela Kuti: Opposite People Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 167 seconds The Afrobeat bicycle club. Related: 420, 50, afrobeat, bfi, bicycle, bike, egypt, fela, femi, funk, jazz, kuti, music, nostalgia, saxophone, sbs154, spliff, transport, world |
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Big Audio Dynamite: Esquerita/Champagne (Tighten Up V88 BAD) Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 189 seconds Mick Jones made some great electro-pop songs after The Clash. Here is Esquerita with a sup of Champgane. Footage from Panic In The Streets (RIP Richard Widmark) & Mr. Brian Clemens sublime trash classic Thriller... A TV series that re-uses sets like no other. Related: audio, bad, big, clash, don, donovan, dynamite, jack, jones, letts, mick, mostel, palance, panic, richard, sbs154, streets, widmark, zero |
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Can: Vernal Equinox (Landed 1975 Czukay, Schmidt, Karoli) Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 107 seconds Can invent techno (sort of) here mashed up with some grindhouse and James Burke. Related: 42nd, beard, burke, can, connections, exploitation, forever, grindhouse, hanley, james, jenny, krautrock, landed, prog, street, weirdo |
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Material: Secret Life (Temporary Music) Bill Laswell Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 102 seconds A near watery death for Judy Parfitt at the hands of a very mad John Neville in Shadows Of Fear.... Funky, post-punk house grooves from Mr. Bill Laswell's gang. Related: bill, disco, drown, fear, funk, house, john, judy, laswell, life, material, neville, parfitt, sbs154, secret, shadows, straightjacket |
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Harry J All Stars: Liquidator (1969 Reggae Classic Trojan Records) Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 98 seconds One of the great reggae singles, Liquidator made the UK top 10 in 1969. An instrumental like other with a chugging rhythm and unforgettable keyboard riff... Footage from a beat-up old safety film from a UK electrical plant, with spliced in weirdo circuit board noises & jerky dancing from a middling Hollywood effort Best Foot Forward......... Related: 1969, accident, achtung, ball, beard, buzz, currents, dance, danger, dentist, diagrams, electric, experiment, harry, levers, liquidator, lucille, man, plant, power, records, reggae, roots, sbs154, shock, ska, skinhead, stars, surge, tone, tools, trojan, two, women |
