Originally published at: The video for M|A|R|R|S' "Pump Up The Volume" is a treat | Boing Boing
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Great clips from early NASA days. Great tune too.
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Another recommended example of the found footage music video:
ETA: Apparently not the original 1981 Bruce Conner version, though.
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Please take me back to a time when sampling, quoting and transformation was a freely creative process unhindered by the un-creatives in global media companies.
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I was addicted to that tune at the time, and still bust it out on occasion. Gotta love a video made entirely of public domain footage edited together. Low budget pop at its finest. 
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The moment it drops to The Bar-Kays “Holy Ghost” and cuts to a 1st-gen CGI Voyager flyby of Saturn, that’s when 8 year old me realized what music does to people
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Oh man, take me back to my young adult club days. The song and the video were played often. Love it.
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Man I remember that. That has to be 30 years old? Or older?
Anyway I rember that video from back in the days when MTV did actually play music videos.
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And we all know what it pushed off the number one slot, don’t we?
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God, that tune is amazing. At about 4:30 when the fender Rhodes kicks back in it made my toes curl in funky funky, funky pleasure. Damn.
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Well played, well played.
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There are some videos that should go directly to play… and this is the one.
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aww yeah. i miss this kind of stuff. and this footage is GREAT.
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I first heard this on Now That’s What I Call Music volume 10.
For Christmas that year my parents bought me and my sister a stereo portable cassette player/radio each. And an accompanying copy of Now! - I got volume 10, she got volume 12. No reason behind those choices - they were assigned randomly.
I had heard music, but wasn’t massively into it… But now I had a small library to explore. And much of Now! 10 was familiar.
This track though - well, I just didn’t know that music could be like this. I played this song a lot. Along with Crazy Crazy Nights, Here I Go Again, Barcelona, Sweet Little Mystery, La Bamba, Crockett’s Theme, Wipeout, My Babe Just Cares For Me… Look, I don’t want to say that music was better back then, but you have to admit that those early Now albums sure make it look that way…
Anyway, back to my point - I’d never heard music like this. Nobody I knew had. This was new. This was fun. Yet somehow, nothing seemed to follow immediately. In mainstream terms - and as a child that was all I could follow really - nothing followed up on the massive success of this track. It was as though the art world had been full of nothing but Renaissance paintings, and suddenly a Van Gogh turned up and everyone marvelled at it. Then everyone just shrugged and went back to painting Renaissance paintings.
Honestly, I just can’t account for it. People are weird.
A few years later in my teenage years I went full on for rock and metal, and eschewed electronica for a while. Eventually I was shown my folly, and then I recalled this song. Even to this day I still play it far too often. If such a thing is possible…
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It’s good. But my favourite still is…
I remember the original. My kids and their friends have seen PSB live. Everyone shouts ‘GO’ or ‘STAY’ and they say it is amazing.
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Definitely one of the first songs exposing me to electronica and mixing elements - even if I didn’t understand the concept at the time, and I loved it.
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Here is their 2019 BBC Proms concert - 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing. I was lucky enough to be there.
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Too bad Colorbox and A.R. Kane hated working together, and refused another collaboration. 4AD was an amazing label.
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