Originally published at: One of the weirdest videos of the 80s | Boing Boing
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Prefab Sprout and ironically self-declared “voice of a generation” Paddy McAloon have been favorites of mine ever since I read the NME one line review of Swoon: “Wine bar music. You can hear the ferns growing”
Paddy is a wizard now
ETA: I consider them to be an honorary Scottish band who were somehow from England, because they are that great
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Ah, Prefab Sprout…
A couple of their songs are in my “forever” mix.
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No weirder than the average ‘80s Tom Petty video.
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True, but far less menacing
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I liked him in Forbidden Zone.
What about Lou Reed?
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I couldn’t figure out what was off about it until I looked at the trees in the backround. Not a leaf among them. Sadly for the bronzed guy on the diving board they must have filmed it in the depths of winter.
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Lou was in a weird place, ok?
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Also one of the weirdest videos of the '80s…
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What fascinating teeth Paddy McAloon has.
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The better to eat you with, my dear
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Always kinda dug this song.
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This has always been the weirdest, most 80s video to me:
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And then there was this MTV gem, which was actually a pretty genius video for a pretty genius song by a pretty genius band:
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Trevor Horn is the glue that holds my entire history together, I am pretty sure that without him I would not exist
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In the early 1980s when music videos were new and there were no rules was a wild time for the medium.
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MTV played videos by THE RESIDENTS because they had no other options. It was the best of times
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Tell me you’ve seen this virtuoso live performance of Close to the Edit, played slightly faster than the studio version. Trevor Horn crushes the bass line live!
Can I just say that I love Anne?
Yes, of course I know this
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