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A Scars two-fer: First up, a straight-up YouTube of the rerunning of their performance of "All About You" on the OGWT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56iWVP7I-n8

Next up: A fancified, modified version of that "All About You" rerun, featuring the Author! Author! cover.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh36OZo1IA8

Now to find the holy grail: the actual MUSIC VIDEO for this song.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Re: XTC -- this guy has a whole concert chopped up in his videos (lots of Drums and Wires stuff), and here's "Scissor Man" --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTCDB8xhkh8

-- and good lord, all of them are really exciting, especially in terms of being reminded how good these guys were in terms of instrumental skill. It's even better if you know these songs well: e.g., above and beyond Dave Gregory's incredible lead on "Scissor Man," Colin and Andy start throwing in vocal and guitar harmonies that aren't on the recorded version. Same goes for D.G.'s lead embellishments on "Helicopter."

― nabisco (nabisco), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Also in "wow, Dave Gregory is a very good guitar player" news, there's "Burning with Optimism's Flame" on TV:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRrm22b__vA

― nabisco (nabisco), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Anti Nowhere League, "Streets Of London"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj3HBwp3cps

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Gazebo, "I Like Chopin"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-41pZhGEBgs

(actually more like late '80s, but I'm obsessed with them this week)

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks so much all. This is all I want to do anymore is watch videos like this. Who needs CD's?

Also about XTC - yeah they really blew my mind last night - there are quite a few XTC live videos on YouTube. And I confess, even though it was not post-punk at all, the one that moved me the most was "King For A Day" live on David Letterman 1989.

― Sexydrummachine (Bimble...), Sunday, 7 January 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

HOLY SHIT THERE'S FIAT LUX ON THIS THING!!!! FIAT LUX!!

Fiat Lux - "Blue Emotion" my favourite song of theirs probably:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZE5pLBUTDY

I've never even seen what they LOOK like!

― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Sunday, 7 January 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

The Jags, "Back of My Hand," TOTP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y8JKBFQ0MI

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Squeeze, "Cool For Cats"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eNY5KzP9BI

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Sniff N The Tears, "Drivers Seat"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeN4UAdNX6s

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Flash And the Pan, "Hey St Peter"!!

(1976, though??? Must be the Aussie year; in the US it was '79...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLoOln4bGgM

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Skyhooks, "Blue Jeans"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBX6C2irFiU&mode=related&search=

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link

And yeah the PIL American Bandstand thing..."Poptones" followed by "Careering" - I haven't watched that in a year or two but looking at it again I mean how is it that no one stopped him/them? It's so surreal. He invites all the kids up into the audience, refuses to mime the words but runs around with a great big smile on his face...and then there's the problem of the music, which couldn't really be less commercial or family-friendly...Isn't "Poptones" about getting raped in the woods? How did some American TV producer allow them to get away with all that? You really expect the authorities to stop it at any time! How many parents heard their kids watching that and said "Turn down that racket!!!"

― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Sunday, 7 January 2007 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link

thanks again for stretching those genre boundaries for us Chuck! Surely you figured when the original poster said late 70s/early 80s post punk new wave he meant it to include everything you've been posting!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 7 January 2007 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, I have no problem with Chuck's posts, you silly wabbit!

― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Sunday, 7 January 2007 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah Dan, don't be a party pooper!

Fisher Z:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2nH0W_cam4

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 23:59 (seventeen years ago) link

"Cool" by Pylon!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjGP1nthuvI

OKAY ARE YOU HAPPY NOW???????????????

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Lovely to see Suburban Lawns "Janitor" again though! My friend played me a little of that video once and switched to another band very quickly and I wanted to kill him.

xxpost

― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Fuck yeah! Pylon!!!!

― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Der Plan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuVnpXc6Afk

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link

More Der Plan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUb66v3rsAo&mode=related&search=

(and there's lots more where that came from)

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Fehlfarben come up when you search for Pyrolator videos; not sure when this is from:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLoWBCZyF5k

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Some band I never heard of covering "Bum Bum" by Trio:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv7Gl2_46LQ

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Pigbag, "Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag," TOTP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHhzgeBoAWU

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Medium Medium, "Hungry So Angry"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whJ1uX4UMbc

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Teenage Jesus and the Jerks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTo1Z0YYvPs

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Fun Fun, "Baila Bolero"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6iJEZTmYlA

oops, sorry!

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Ledernacken!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFyaa-Zuc1M

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Cabaret Voltaire, "Nag Nag Nag"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-IixtxKETU&mode=related&search=

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Virgin Prunes, "Pagan Love Song"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgoJn5SUa_4

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Madonna allegedly dancing to Konk, 1982 (no sound though)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlTDGu1ncrI

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm overwhelmed for the night, I'm sorry. Must leave the board again.

― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Z'ev, live in Frankfurt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p7E84PxwuA

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Skafish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfRTKo1tca4

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:49 (seventeen years ago) link

be careful what you ask for Bimble!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:52 (seventeen years ago) link

This one is especially for Dan:

Eddie and the Hot Rods

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhyG2OeBH8k

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I fear you're right Dan!

― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, I say that there is no handy category for this, so here is "Paralysed"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuX8Rj8XGkM

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:02 (seventeen years ago) link

The Inmates, "Dirty Water," live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqY9BopIGwc

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahaha. Good heavens Mr. Grout! Has it all really come to this?

― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:20 (seventeen years ago) link

The Comateens- "Ghosts"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQt1vKJBbrk

― chamomile (chamomile), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Some noisy insane funk-punk art band with bagpipes and weird costumes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-D6iI_3LHE

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Bimbler: Apparently Dick Clark really liked that PiL performance, so much so that he ranked it as one of the top ten moments in AB history. Combine that with his extremely lengthy professional partnership history with ABC and his overall reputation as one of America's beloved personalities and I'm sure his approval quashed any possibly nervous producer's/programmer's ideas of editing out or censuring. Plus, the AB kids appeared to be having a great time during at least the "Careering" segment, when they were all invited back to the dance floor to dance. As for how they got on the program in the first place: I don't know. Maybe the AB kids had some input on what got put on the show; if so, perhaps that New Wave boy requested PiL. It was apparent he was a fan. And maybe Dick Clark allowed it because he wanted to have the program stay relevant. That program covered a huge variety of musical artists; Squeeze, Devo, and the Talking Heads also appeared on the program.

Back to videos. OH, and you guys should check out everything Rubellan carries. Really impressive list.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:28 (seventeen years ago) link

xhuxk: Millions of thanks for linking the "Cool For Cats" video. :)

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:30 (seventeen years ago) link

The Gang of Four can kiss these guys' dust (1980):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0NLz4ymRsk

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Um, hello? The ZZ Top clip? Yeah, frankly that kind of thing's too boring for this thread. By the time they got to the guitar solo (!!) I had to stop the video. I'm looking for something more dissonant, less rooted in trad rock & roll, nothing like that really.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:40 (seventeen years ago) link

"More dissonant," ha ha

Vom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VExv2qGEdHI&mode=related&search=

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually I don't know this band very well, but this is really cool:

Palais Schaumburg - Wir bauen ein neue stadt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSFznM6CgxM

Yes and I wanted to mention that Eddie & The Hot Rods are about as post punk/new wave as George W. Bush is an honest man.

― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:47 (seventeen years ago) link

The Gang of Four can kiss these guys' dust (1980)

I have always believed that Belew-era King Crimson was just theme and variations on "Manic Mechanic."

― J (Jay), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Vom is strange.

I appreciate the "Hungry So Angry", Telex, and 999 videos, BTW. Especially 999's "Homicide". I've been aware of that song for as long as I've been aware of Combo Audio (I think they were on the same Just Can't Get Enough compilation) and I wasn't aware there'd be a video clip of that available anywhere.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:54 (seventeen years ago) link

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/arts/music/new-york-new-music-post-punk.html

circa 1980 video from Ivers and Armstrong and others is on exhibit at the museum of the City of NY

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 05:06 (two years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ7nZv4molg

The Plugz on New Wave Theatre in 1982

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 05:13 (two years ago) link

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Lizzy Mercier Descoux

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