Writer's Block: See the music

[uberreiniger]

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I think this is like, the third time I've posted this video. And I'm gonna keep posting it until you all appreciate how fucking brilliant it is! Shriekback are so criminally unappreciated and this is what music videos should be. This was released in 1985 and the world would not see this much effective usage of surreal imagery and sexually ambiguous hairless men until the coming of Lady Gaga over twenty years later. WHY IS THAT? WHY IS THE WORLD WE LIVE IN LIKE THAT! DAMNIT, SHRIEKBACK WERE RIGHT! WE ARE GOING TO WIND UP WITH THE GREAT BIG FISHES UNLESS WE START BEING MORE AWESOME RIGHT NOW!

Comments

[whiskeychick.livejournal.com]

that's why I loved the 80s. I thought then we were on the verge of a progressive evolution. But it seems like 70 percent of the population wasn't paying attention.

I do remember this video. We were so visual, storytellers in the early MTV time. Not all the sex and commercialism of now (well and barely any music).

"Karma could take us at any moment"

[lucretiasheart.livejournal.com]

Right on. I love this video. I even own the album! The weird all-instrumental dirge at the end still haunts my dreams...

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Yes. "Coelocanth" is very unpleasant. And yet I can't stop listening to it.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

But my how we are living in the world the song prophesied. "No one move a muscle as the dead come home."

[lucretiasheart.livejournal.com]

You know it!! Cool! I don't know anyone but my husband who knows of and loves that song. =^D

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Also, all internet lyric sites I have visited agree that the first verse of the song "Hammerheads" contains the lyric "This is our mission, to be the darlings of God." But I could swear when I listen to it that he says "This is our mission, to be the DALEKS of God." I think it would make more sense given the overall lyrical theme of the song. Plus their core audience of British post-punks would most certainly have gotten the reference.

[lucretiasheart.livejournal.com]

Dr. Who-- how we have love thee...