In the 1980s, there was a series on the BBC where they got contemporary music video directors to make videos for older songs that never had them in their day. I want to find out if any of it exists on youtube but I have no idea what it was called. Does anyone else remember it, and ideally the title?
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Although to be fair, most 80s videos for bands who'd actually commissioned them weren't much better.
In the Summertime looks like a Benny Hill sketch.
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I remember that show.
They took the rather lovely Walker Bros. weepie The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore and 'put their contemporary slant' on it, according to the Hairy Cuntflake, meaning the video they put to the song was about a post-nuclear holocaust world.
It must've reflected the paranoia of the times, or something.
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Apart from the cheapness of it, it was the absurdly literal interpretations of songs that got my goat.
I swear the video for Strawberry Fields Forever was three minutes of people in a field picking strawberries.
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I remember them trying to do Whiter Shade of Pale but, because they were such literalists, DLT spent ages telling us how difficult it was to make a video for the song that just wasn't a white screen.
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To be honest, there's an idea there to put a differently interpreted spin on videos for music tracks, even in a comic vein, but The Golden Oldie Picture Show displayed a gormless approach to it and, if I remember, you couldn't really visually realise the essence of a song on a budget of £15 and a Twix.
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Not having the group or singer available is quite a handicap in a pop video. The obvious ways around it are to use experimental camerawork or animation. This however requires skill and a decent budget.
The video for the 80s reissue of Reet Petite is the obvious example. Or even the California Raisins.
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Stumpy Pepys wrote: Not having the group or singer available is quite a handicap in a pop video. The obvious ways around it are to use experimental camerawork or animation. This however requires skill and a decent budget.
The video for the 80s reissue of Reet Petite is the obvious example. Or even the California Raisins.
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Three Times A Reddy wrote: Or the Under Pressure route of stock footage and clips from silent films.
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san2sboro wrote: Our mam and dad really liked that programme, but I seem to remember the videoclip for 'Ha Ha Said The Clown' being particularly creepy.
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san2sboro wrote: Our mam and dad really liked that programme, but I seem to remember the videoclip for 'Ha Ha Said The Clown' being particularly creepy.
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- Jan 2015
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- Wrexham... ish
- R. + R. McReynold's Travelling Circus, The Jurgen Klopp Farewell Tour XI, Page's Boys
- Ginger Nut
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San Bernardhinault wrote: I remember them trying to do Whiter Shade of Pale but, because they were such literalists, DLT spent ages telling us how difficult it was to make a video for the song that just wasn't a white screen.
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Didn't the Old Grey Whistle Test used to do that? I have dim memories of music played to clips of Felix the Cat and suchlike.
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Stuck in the Middle With You is about a wrestling referee. Brilliant!
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Three Times A Reddy wrote:Originally posted by San BernardhinaultI remember them trying to do Whiter Shade of Pale but, because they were such literalists, DLT spent ages telling us how difficult it was to make a video for the song that just wasn't a white screen.
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