yawning fawnboy

POINTLESS YOUTUBERY OF A FAWNING FANBOY
LICK this, the 1996 video by Red House Painters for their cover of the Cars song "All Mixed Up."

holy crap! I just watched it again & I know I just said holy crap but holy fucking crap, man! This video has it all. An extremely hot chick and an even hotter song! Damnation she's fine! Gott damn! etc.

Just noticed this ancient clip of XTC "this is pop" on a tv show introduced by Peter Cook. & naturally at the end he gets the band's name wrong. Hah.

& holy feack, why have I never even heard of this before?!??!!? it's a sickeningly literal music video for the stunningly pretentious, stunningly great, neil peart crossed with a pagan ritual in a library or something. Icicle Works "Love is a Wonderful Colour,"

I swallowed hard and listened, intently resigned
beside the glow
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reality finds you fumbling for reason
when the chance comes round

etc.

& holy shit, I also didn't know this existed. a live clip of the awesome "Reaping the Richest Harvest", which features some nice over the shoulder camera work so ya's can see my man Chris Sharrock beating the living tits off his drums. HOLY SHIT!!!!! obviously you'll have to try to disregard the singer Ian McNabb who was already beginning to lose the plot by this point, sporting as he does a brown fringe jacket & a headset mic. Very ill-advised.

will i
subsequently fumble
through the reasons to be gained......

but then check out the bassist giving hell to the roto-toms in mid song

(clearly, the less said about this the better. and this. after that first album it all went pear-shaped.)

but gasp "as the dragonfly flies" live! in the pissing rain. Korgs in the rain, surely a great album title

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Here's Prefab Sprout taking the piss out of The Boss with "Cars & Girls".

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MIRANDA SEX GARDEN
I don't know why I thought to look this up, but there it is. The remix, anyway. The original was only like 90 seconds.

Here's a much better song, from those 2-3 years when they & everyone else in the world sounded like Levitation. Good times!

speaking of which, Levitation "Nadine" music video, another blueprint for my current preferred vision of dark, organic pop, check out the chick & that fucking horn part has always given my chub a chub. rock on! & the drumming, oh the drumming. Dave Francolini is like a caveman (ie savage, brutal) scientist behind the kit. I'm tellin' ya. This song is only 90 seconds & it KICKS FUCKING ASS!!!!! even though it came 8-10 years after the good icicle works shit it still seems v similar to me for whatever reason. same vibe, same spirit, if that's not too ghey a word to use.