Blast from the past
Sometimes YouTube is very, very bad… And other times it is very good.
Here’s a bit of a blast from the past:
Book of Love - unfortunately no ‘Modigliani’ or ‘I Touch Roses’ so you’ll have to make do with ‘Pretty boys, Pretty girls’.
Cabaret Voltaire - I’d forgotten how long ‘Sensoria’ is.
Camouflage - I fuckin’ LOVED this song. Everybody raise your fist now ‘The Great Commandment.’ Also doesn’t Marcus Meyn look like Matt Damon in that video? I lost my copy of ‘Methods of Silence’ years ago. bah!
Front 242 - Lock the target, spread the net, catch the man.
Killing Joke - cos it just needs to be here.
Lene Lovich - Doin’ it old style.
808 State - A bit of early trance, cos it may have been getting a bit industrial in the list.
Pop Will Eat Itself - She loves me, she loves me not.
Nitzer Ebb - Whether you be glad, sad or bad…
XTC - Christ Andy Partridge looks so young, but let’s end on a prayer shall we?
This has been posted in a few places; some guy has been trawling through YouTube for the best (sic) of the 80’s:
http://www.milinkito.com/los80.php
Warning: no liability is assumed for any mental anguish or loss of organ function incurred by watching anything on this list.
The video for “Sensoria” is screwed-up. As I watched it, I realised I’d actually seen it as a kid– before I knew who Cabaret Voltaire– were and it had been inhabiting an out-of-the-way part of my brain ever since… brrrr
Comment by Kesey — May 25, 2006 @ 6:40 pm
I remember when PWEI turned up on The Late Late Show and smashed the place up. I think Clint Mansell duct taped his head to his microphone stand.
Gaybo was not impressed.
Comment by Donal — May 26, 2006 @ 12:09 pm