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Ivor Cutler: Walking To A Farm (Dandruff 1974 folk avant classic) Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 144 seconds Global video hits: 8379 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 Global video hits: 5232 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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Arthur Russell: Sketch For The Face Of Helen Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 158 seconds Global video hits: 4919 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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Can: Peking O (Tago Mago 1971) Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 120 seconds Global video hits: 8890 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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This Heat: SPQR (Deceit 1981) Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 140 seconds Global video hits: 5819 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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Fela Kuti: Opposite People Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 167 seconds Global video hits: 4291 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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P-Model ?????: Roomrunner ?????? (In A Model Room 1979) Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 122 seconds Global video hits: 5339 Model vs Model...... A BFI classic train film with their futuristic stylings in a soup with the mighty P-Model. I made this video in a state of joy (after a great holiday where I seemed to repeatedly listen to this magic, but obscure Japanese new wave album)..... Related: 1950s, 1979, bfi, british, channel, collections, cool, dance, design, drama, drum, dvd, electronic, energy, figures, films, fire, flash, graphics, guitar, hirasawa, hornby, indie, japan, japanese, kids, light, lights, magic, mandrake, models, moustache, music, new, nostalgia, p-model, past, phew, pop, post, punk, sbs154, scale, speed, susumu, synth, tanktop, the, tokyo, traffic, train, trains, transport, tunnel, wave |
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Big Audio Dynamite: Esquerita/Champagne (Tighten Up V88 BAD) Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 189 seconds Global video hits: 2474 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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Harry J All Stars: Liquidator (1969 Reggae Classic Trojan Records) Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 98 seconds Global video hits: 6513 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 |
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Material: Secret Life (Temporary Music) Bill Laswell Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 102 seconds Global video hits: 3886 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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Glenn Branca: Structure (1981 The Ascension no wave noise) Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 177 seconds Global video hits: 1277 Footage lovingly lifted from a truly great British horror short, Where Has Poor Mickey Gone? starring a young (yet old) Warren Mitchell.... Music from the pioneering no-wave artist, Mr. Glenn Branca - here making a modern classical masterpiece with four guitar parts, including axe-man Lee Ranaldo from Sonic Youth. Related: arcade, ascension, black, branca, game, glenn, gone, has, magic, mickey, mitchell, mods, no, poor, post, punk, sbs154, warren, wave, where |
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ESG: Chistelle (A South Bronx Story compilation) Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 111 seconds Global video hits: 1966 The Scroggins Sisters (Renee, Marie, Valerie & Deborah) created an astonishing hybrid of punk / funk / disco / soul / synth pop etc.... Here Chistelle grooves along with a dream sequence from the Brian Clemens show, Thriller. Related: brian, clemens, deborah, esg, factory, funk, marie, no, ny, punk, records, renee, sbs154, scroggins, sisters, thriller, valerie, wave |
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Eroc: Kleine Eva (1975 Eroc Kraut electronic progressive) Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 217 seconds Global video hits: 697 Excellent drifting electronica from Eroc's 1975 debut.... Accompanying this seminal synth piece are images from the first episode of Doomwatch - The Plastic Eaters, featuring the mesmerising sight of decaying plastic and a jet plane melting mid flight. A classic 1970 BBC production that deserves a handsome restored DVD release. Related: 1970, 1975, bbc, crash, danger, doomwatch, eaters, eroc, gerry, kit, krautrock, melting, panic, plane, plastic, powell, robert, sbs154 |
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The Kinks: Where Did My Spring Go? (1969 BBC Riverside) Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 128 seconds Global video hits: 1514 Ray Davies wrote this song for a TV show called 'Where Was Spring?' and it was recorded shortly after the Village Green sessions. Footage of energetic kilt-wearing dancers (and peppy painter) from a horrible, yet wonderful Hollywood short, The Knight Is Young.... Related: 1969, allyson, bbc, dance, davies, green, hollywood, june, kinks, mgm, paint, ray, riverside, sbs154, studios, tartan, village, window |
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Can: Mother Sky (Soundtracks 1970 Krautrock classic) Posted by: suburbanbatherson
Video duration: 183 seconds Global video hits: 688 Soundtracks bridges the Mooney & Suzuki phases of Can, and in lesser hands such an album could potentially sound uneven.... But CAN ended up producing some amazing film music with both singers getting a chance to shine. Here the thunderous, majestic Mother Sky accompanies a sci-fi junk-gem from a more simple era. Jaki's drumming here is some of the best you will ever hear in rock. Related: amon, can, czukay, damo, duul, faust, fiction, kraftwerk, krautrock, mother, rocket, sbs154, schmidt, science, sky, soundtracks, suzuki |
