| Author | Message | ||
     spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 372 Registered: 05-2005 |
I saw the Cattle and Cane vid for the first time yesterday. Its great, i love it, there's something about it, the look, the environment that suits the song. I suppose one could expect flashing intermittent imagery of cattle etc golden sunburst horizons etc, similar to the sort of thing tha was the alternative Streets vod with the young lad, but this is ace. It reminds me of some REm video, early period REM. Anyhow, would love to hear what other vids people like, I haven't seen any from the SORW or BYBO periods? | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 296 Registered: 04-2005 |
The only recent videos I've seen are "Caroline and I" (yet another nostalgia video with a young boy) and "Here Comes a City" (faux performance clip). Nothing special. Of the older videos, I like "Spring Rain" the best. "Head Full of Stream" is, um...interesting. The videos featuring Grant and Amanda mugging are rather embarrassing. | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 345 Registered: 03-2006 |
I have a moldy old VHS tape that features 6 old videos - I guess I should hang on to it too... The thing is, even when they're being silly, there's always something endearing about it...(damn, I sound like a teenage girl)...so, there's always some entertainment value, even when they're being goofy. As wacky as it is, the "Head Full of Steam" is fun to watch, maybe for that very reason. All in all, of the ones I've seen, I really like the one for "Bye Bye Pride"...it's got all kinds of great, mysterious and evocative imagery, that perhaps wouldn't be so alien to me if I were an Aussie...plus, it's got some strange, rather butch looking, female boy scout troop leaders that oddly enough fit in with the whole air of the thing...I don't have the vocabulary to describe it properly, but I love the way the pace of the footage matches the tempo of the song and conjures up a loverly floating feeling... Of the new I've seen, the one for "Here Comes A City" is a decent, almost straight "performance" clip that's spiffily edited and has the GBs looking a little polished, even glamorous...Adele even looks a little like a badass rocker chick in it... In any event, I'm ready for more. They need to put out a new compilation of all of their videos...we could guarantee them, what? 24 or so copies would be sold... | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 312 Registered: 10-2004 |
for me it's spring rain by a mile. i just think it's their coolest looking video. visually, it fits the song, some of it's really funny (that part with forster driving a muscle car with those trashy looking people making out in the back seat), and robert's stiped shirt looks fabulous. plus, forster's lip-synching performance in that one is classic. the whole thing just works perfectly for me. i also like the video for head full of steam. i mean, it's got vickers dancing up a storm, with forster doing a hilarious prince immitation while cutting a serious rug as well, and then you've got grant done up in full drag (probably to highlight the prince thing, given that prince used to have a heavily made-up female guitarist featured prominently in his mid-80s videos). so hilarious, but it's great. i kind of like the cattle and cane video. i think there are two videos, but the only one i'm familiar with is the one that came with the 2-disc Before Hollywood reissues, where they're standing around inside an old barn. i guess it's nothing spectacular, they just look cool. and although i'm not a huge fan of the song or the video in general, i like the part in 'was there anything i could' when grant sings the line "she comes home and she's happy," and the camera flashes to lindy for a split second where she's playing the drums and wearing a silk teddy. just a nice, subtly perverse sense of humor. | ||
| Hamish Walke Member Username: Hamish Post Number: 9 Registered: 05-2005 |
I went to the screening of a load of the videos before the Barbican show a couple of years ago. I didn't remember the videos from first time around and was shocked to see how bad most of them were - quite funny at times, interesting to those amongst us trying to read things into looks between Grant, Robert and Lindy but generally not very stylish or timeless. I thought with Robert and Grant's interest in film they would have been far more adventurous but perhaps money dictated otherwise? Spring Rain is definitely the exception - a cracking video capturing the feel of the song brilliantly. My daughter loves the Robert's umbrella-work too!!! |