I Was Just Watching It For A Friend

We are two friends who share a fondness for terrible music videos of the past. Alas, Youtube is banned in the country we grew up in and where one of us still lives. The other now lives in America and watches a few videos each day and describes them for posterity. The descriptions are more interpretive than accurate.

[justwatchingforafriend]

Clan of Xymox - Obsession 

The words clan of xymox appear in white font on a black background. They are sort of floating in and out the way you used to do in powerpoint when you wanted to make your presentation funky. Now they sort of kaleidoscope effect away and the word obsession replaces them. It too fades away. Now there is a sort of handheld shaky cam running through some ruins. Everything is sepia tinted and resembles one of those first person shooter horror games. The camera zooms into a dark photograph on the wall. I think it is of a man? Now we have cut to what appears to be the same man standing... somewhere? Near a low stone wall, now it has cut away to someone's shitty house

Is it shitty because it is built shoddily? Or is it actually covered in shit?

I mean it was probably nice once but it appears to have fallen into disrepair

Ah

Now we are in what appears to be a cave? With two blokes in 80s goth kit sitting around a fire and sort of bopping their heads to the music.

They should be careful their hairspray may catch fire

It zooms very suddenly into a lizard on the wall. At least I think it was a lizard. It went by very fast. This while video is all sped up. It makes the eyes flicker

In that case can it have been a tiny dragon?

It might well have been!

Splendid

Now the camera is moving very fast through a forest of cactuses, possibly running away from the tiny dragon?

Or to it

Now we're back to the bloke in the cave. He is singing. He gazes longingly out through a hole in the cave. Maybe he wishes to go outside but the desert climate disagrees with his goth aesthetic. Oh it is not a cave but one of those ruined desert forts made of weird crumbly yellow rock. The kind that look like full sized sandcastles. You know the sort?

I do. Perhaps he is the last of the goths after the rest have been killed by the army of invading cactuses and tiny dragons.

But cactuses are such a gothy plant! With all their spikes

Then maybe they think these goth lads are imposter goths!

Now the singing man from before is outside! He is in a courtyard of some kind surrounded by ruins. He has decided “Goth aesthetic be damned I must dance in this blistering heat.” He looks very sweaty and sunburned and his goth coiff is drooping He has removed neither his jacket nor what appears to be a leopard print scarf though it may just be a ruffly shirt. He will probably die of sunstroke soon

Ruffly leopard print shirt?

Yes

That is commitment

Now it has cut to a lady with short silvery hair and a black and white high necked coat dress. She looks a little less overheated, though her face is very red.

These people really do not know how to dress appropriately for the weather

surely there is summer goth fashion.

Perhaps they were abandoned here somehow and have been living in the darkness of this fort ever since now there are lots of shots of these two standing about/singing while the ruins rotate and spin around them.

And the cactuses are attacking because they are top goths in this neighbourhood?

I haven't seen the cactuses since. Maybe the person manning the camera is a lost goth seeking their heat damaged brethren and the cactuses are from earlier in their journey.

That makes sense

Now we have the first person shooter cam of various landscapes and ruins. Now we are back to the singing man in his cave/fort. Now he is outside again with the ruins spinning around him. First person shooter cam again. Oh look there are some goats! And the man from the photograph earlier drinking some liquid from a canteen while the goats mill about.

Is he the one who misplaced the goths in the first place?

Maybe he did and decided to replace them with goats. There is only one letter's difference after all.

Now we have come upon some kind of gate? It is all very dark and everything is blurring together because the camera is moving so fast. Now we are indoors somewhere

we keep looking through some wrought iron bars at something

but I cannot see what

More bars?

Yes. Now the gothy man is walking through some ruins. We have the shaky first person camera again. Oh now the camera reveals him and his silver haired friend running away and leaping over the scrub and bushes.

Perhaps they have seen goat man in the distance and are running towards him.

So maybe they are running away from whoever it is holding the camera. Probably goat man, yes. Here he is again! He has a yellow dog now, he is waving his stick. Now the camera is moving through a series of arched doorways and comes up against a brick wall and it ends.

After Thoughts

That was a very strange sounding video

It was. Everything was moving very fast. So I couldn't get a good look at anything.

Probably made more so by my insistence that the cactuses were up to no good

The cactuses returned again briefly! towards the end, right after the goat man so maybe he was returning home after seeing his goths romping about in the wild. He thought “They have a better life out here. I shall go back home and acquire a yellow dog and be satisfied with my goats.

Perhaps the freed goths shall join up with the free cow from the previous video

and they can swap stories.

And together urge more trapped creatures to freedom.

Who knew 80s music videos were so full of messages about revolutions.

Well wherever there are shoulder pads and power ties, there is also dissent.

[justwatchingforafriend]

Echo and the Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses

The video opens with like, something akin to the Metro Goldwyn Mayer logo with the roaring lion in the circular banner only it is a cow...

Is the cow lowing?

...and the banner proclaims Echo and the Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses

Um no. But there is a neighing sound? As if the cow is neighing?

Ok..

Like a horse

I was not aware they did that but ok

Now the music starts! And we cut to a peachy pink cloudy background. The cow walks into frame. A man comes up. He has a rope and is leading the cow. Now it is a close up of the cow's face. Looking apprehensive.

Probably it knows it is being led to slaughter. Or to be sold for beans.

Now the man and cow are in sillhouette against the peachy pink clouds. And there is a man with what appears to be a studio light on a stand? Like for film and photography

Are they going to make the cow a movie star?

The man is walking in place and the cow is just standing still. Not even pretending to walk. 

It will never get into the pictures that way.

Now a cardboard cutout of an angel flies overhead. Now another man has come to adjust the lights. Oh my, now the words FISH are emblazoned on the side of the cow

Oh dear

Perhaps it is a wondrous neon sign cow and that is what it is famous for. A cardboard cutout of a smiling fish flies overhead

Is it a magic cow that can summon things by flashing neon lights?

Maybe? Now the background is blue with white clouds. The writing on the cow now says HORSE. The screen is split horizontally. The cow sillhouette is on the top half and on the bottom there is a group of gentlemen in grey suits carrying either a very long rug or a tree trunk.

Or a dead person rolled up in a rug. 

Maybe this is a film about the cow's search for identity?

Maybe? Is the cow confused about what species it is?

Oh it is a long rope leading a white horse on wheels. Not a rug or a tree trunk. I couldn't see what they were holding due to the large number of men. Maybe this is the cow's dream; to be a horse made out of paper mache.

Wait, the horse itself has wheels? I thought it was a real horse on a wheely cart like thing.

No the horse itself has wheels. It is a fake horse.

Maybe the cow is tired of being used in these men's silly antics and it is asking them to bring dancing horses to replace it so it can be a free cow.

Now there is a man singing in front of the cloudy blue sky. He is a small man it seems but he has puffed his hair up to make his head seem twice its natural size possibly to frighten away predators.

He should flap his arms, that does wonders

Now we have cut back to the split screen of the man sillhouette walking in place with the cow and the men and the rope. Only now they are leading a floating paper mache heart. It does not appear to be on wheels or perhaps it is and I just cannot see them because it is too dark.

They've been at this all day?

Apparently. These other blokes have managed to haul all manner of things while this other dude cannot even get the cow to walk one step.

I agree with you that this is a dissatisfied cow starting a tiny revolution in its own heart!

I stand by this cows decision to refuse to be part of this charade

Now the paper mache horse is moving through a crowd of people. They are all wearing black shirts and standing in rows. Oh it is not rolling. It is a human wearing a giant paper mache horse's head. Or a unicorn?

Oh man

It appears to have a horn

Unicorn!

Indeed!

Most excellent

Now the unicorn headed person has walked into an area with more studio lights. They attempt to look at the camera but the head is somewhat lopsided so they have a hard time getting it to point the right direction. Now it has cut away to the grey shirted men leading the unicorn person away. They are all tied up.

The men or the unicorn fellow?

The unicorn fellow. 

And we are back with the man and cow. He is tugging on the cow's rope but it refuses to budge. I think it is actually an inanimate cow. Like a cutout or a model. Even though there was a real cow at the start.

Shh do not deny the cow its revolution

Perhaps the cow has replaced itself with a decoy and made its escape!

Oh hurray! That is a clever bovine

Now another man is shoving at the back of the cow while the first bloke tugs at its rope. A heart flies over their heads as the man tugging on the rope pets the fake cow. Now he is back to tugging again. They are not very bright these men, I don't think. The cow has certainly pulled one over on them.

Now it is the singy man with the giant hair again. He sings for a bit. Now he is accepting a cutout of a heart from the unicorn person. He flings it into the air!

Oh no rejection!

Perhaps his heart belongs only to the cow, who could not stand his jealous and controlling ways.

Well he ought to have treated it better.

I agree! Now there are the silhouettes of a number of men running off across the screen

The cow has returned to take its revenge!

And now the unicorn person is standing alone in the middle of the screen rotating sadly

Aw

The heart falls to the ground and breaks. Now the unicorn person is sitting at a table. The walls have horse wallpaper and there is a wooden horse's head mounted to the wall. It keeps cutting back and forth between the unicorn person shaking their head and a rocking horse rocking. Now we are back to the silhouette of the walking man leading the unicorn person only they are standing still so maybe they are now in an abusive relationship.

Walking man is always chastising him for not being the cow.

Now the cow flies through the air above them! Free at last!

Huzzah!

The unicorn person's head is hung, I do not know whether out of sadness or because of the aforementioned lopsidedness.

Probably both. The lopsidedness maybe from physical abuse.

Now there are a number of dark suited men looking off at the sky. Now big haired bloke is singing into the camera. And we have cut away to the cow! The live cow, chewing and looking pleased with itself. Now the background is a sort of muddy mustard colour.

Like old man trousers?

Exactly like old man trousers, and the unicorn person is in the center of the screen, rotating menacingly. Maybe the unicorn person is threatened by the appearance of the cow.

Either that or its planning its escape too.

Now there is a creepy horse puppet making faces at the camera. It has eyes that roll about terrifyingly.

For a song about horses all the horse bits sound very frightening.

Now there is a group of men in silhouettes walking along in a row, neither horse nor cow in sight. A bicycle flies by overhead.

Oh good, these men clearly did not know how to treat their animals

Perhaps they have worked out that they cannot abuse a bicycle until it runs away from them.

Not unless its a bicycle out of Flann O'Brien novel

Now the big haired man is singing. The paper mache horse the men in grey were leading earlier zooms by behind him. Now two men on a bicycle ride behind him, maybe chasing their runaway inanimate horse. Now two people in a horse costume ride back on the same bicycle but in the other direction.

So it wasn't the cow back for revenge but this unicorn horse man

Now we just have silhouettes of four dudes standing in front of the blue sky background. As it turns mustardy again the light comes in and reveals their faces. Big haired dude is among them, and the men staring off at the sky. Now the sky is black and has a moon in it, the unicorn person walks past in silhouette. The mens faces fade away and a cow jumps over the moon. The end!

After Thoughts 

I am glad the cow found its freedom

And the unicorn person

Aye them too

It just goes to show one cow can rebel and start a chain reaction that frees many other creatures such as unicorn people and paper mache horses.

And potentially bicycles.

And potentially bicycles. A horse did make off with it near the end, maybe that was meant to symbolise the liberation of the bicycles.

Free from the yoke of silhouetted men!

I think the moral of this video might be: do not oppress your means of transport and also probably other people also

That is a good message. One for the books

[justwatchingforafriend]

The Human League - Mirror Man

We're walking through some narrow streets at night. There is some fog. The camera moves past a lady in a grey coat with very silvery hair. She turns and glares at the camera. Perhaps the person holding it has stepped on her foot.

Now three hoodlums in very shiny leather jackets have stepped out of an alleyway.

Oh dear.

They exchange looks. Evidently they are up to no good.

The camera comes to a door; it has a sign on it saying no visitors beyond this point. The doors open and we go through them.

Is it a hospital?

I don't know. It just looks like an apartment block. Like a brownstone building with no more than four units.

Sorry, I meant hostel not hospital.

Maybe. Everything is made of that sad grey brick they used so much of in the late 70s.

The silvery haired lady in the grey coat is here. It is a fur coat!

Oh man.

She is standing with another lady with dark hair in a brown fur coat. They exchange a look as well.

Now we've gone through a door into…a bathroom? I think.

It has cut away to a door in a white room with a little desk. It probably is a hostel. There are a bunch of photos and stickers stuck to the wall above the desk.

Of anything in particular?

I can't really tell. There is a person's face, like a photograph of one. And some sort of red thing, maybe a camera of some kind, sitting on the desk.

Now everything is in black and white and we're in a different room. It is the room from before only it isn't a bathroom. There's a large sink in the corner and then a hamper and an ironing board. So it's a laundry room, I think.

There's a nice desk in the background and a table with a phone on it.

Why not just put the phone on the desk?

There’s a man sitting at a table in the foreground and there are light bulbs sticking out of the wall. I think the camera is technically where the wall is meant to be. Oh, it's one of those mirrors with the light bulbs all around. Like in that Psychedelic Furs video.

I don't understand what is happening at all. Is the mirror behind the man and his desk? Or to the side?

No, the camera is the mirror, you see. So he is facing the mirror. He is in the foreground and the room is behind him.

Oh ok, I understand now.

The man is just hanging out here singing into the mirror.

Now it has cut to a boat on a lake somewhere. It makes a big splash.

And we're back to singy man. The door behind him swings open. He is startled and nearly leaps out of his chair. It is the fur coated women coming into the room.

Are they up to no good? Like the hoodlums?

The film is in colour again, now. So maybe the colour footage signifies hooliganism.

The man has disappeared. They don't see him in the room at all. They sit in front of the mirror and set about maintaining their extensive 80s makeup. Like, he's nowhere to be found, the man. Maybe the black and white place is a ghost dimension that only he can see.

Did he disappear into the mirror?

Maybe!

Is he pulling some Looney Tunes-esque shenanigans by pretending to be their reflection?

Perhaps he is the eponymous Mirror Man!

Now we're in black and white again and he's lurking in the empty room. There are some masquerade masks on the table now and some sort of note. He is reading the note.

Does he look happy? Sad? Indifferent? Gassy?

Sad, I suppose. But that could just be the black and white. It makes everyone look somewhat maudlin.

Now we're back to the boat. Oh the big splash was the boat crashing! Something small is hurtling along the water making many smaller splashes before eventually sinking.

A life raft maybe?

I suspect it was the driverer of the boat dying horribly.

Oh dear. Poor pilot.

Now the man from the mirror is looking at the note and singing some more.

And now we're back in colour and on a fire escape, I think? Yes, it is. The hooligans are standing in the alley outside the hostel.

Harassing the Fur-coated Ladies?

No, they're just loitering there. The camera is inside the building again moving down a random hallway. There are fire extinguishers on the wall so we know where they are in case the hooligans set the place alight.

Its good to know they care about fire safety at this hostel.

Now we're back in the mirror room with the Fur-coated Ladies. One of them is putting on a cat mask. She smiles at her reflection; the fair-haired one smiles too.

Then we cut away to the camera moving down a hallway with a single flier on a white wall. And it goes through a door into the room with the Fur-coated Ladies. The dark haired one turns around and looks alarmed.

Is it Mirror Man? Has he come to haunt them?

It cuts away suddenly.

Meanwhile back in the alley, the hooligans appear to have set up some keyboards

Hooligans: The Musical.  It’s a grand old time.

One of the Fur-coated Ladies walks up! She removes her fur coat. The other one has turned up now. They fling their fur coats over the keyboards and sit down.

That seems a bit rude, tossing your clothes on the instruments. Those hoodlums probably spent a good bit of time thieving them.

Now they're just sitting there glaring at the hooligans. They are a stroppy lot, these people. They're just hanging about glaring at each other.

No wonder Mirror Man runs away when they appear.

Now we're back to the room with the Mirror Man only he's in colour now! Since they've all left him alone. The piece of paper he was looking at earlier wasn't a note, it was a photograph of the boat that eventually exploded. It looks like a screenshot from the clips we saw earlier.

Now we're back in the alleyway with the hoodlums and the ladies. Suddenly they all look off to the left. A bright light starts emanating from wherever they are looking.

Is it Mirror Master, back from the dead?

I think so! It is a doorway filled with light and the silhouette of a man. He must be the Mirror Man because someone is singing, "Here comes the Mirror Man" as he walks towards the camera.

Then it is just a loop of the horrible boat crash playing over and over.

And now it is over.

After Thoughts

I am concerned about this haunted hostel and the sort of people that hang about it.

Well it just houses stroppy layabouts so I guess its ok. And they do care about fire safety and laundry. What more could you want?

Why is there a dressing room mirror in the laundry room? Did they move it down from another part of the house since it is haunted by the Mirror Man?

They might have. But then why not just chuck it?

Whoever owns the hostel was all, "Put him in the laundry room where he won't bother anyone." Perhaps they went to school together and the landlord feels a sense of obligation.

I suppose it’s true no one would do laundry. The ladies would go to a dry cleaners for their coats and the hoodlums seem like they would just break into someone’s house to wash their clothes.

Or steal new clothes.

That seems more likely.

[justwatchingforafriend]

Elastica - Line Up

Okay, we are seeing footage of a street with people all walking about. It is sped up so they are all moving super fast and choppily. It is also raining so many of them have umbrellas.

Of course it is.

A number of them appear to have gone into a restaurant or cafe and are sitting around a table. Now they are eating food, chatting and drinking their teas. They pay at the counter and now they have left.

Now we're inside somewhere and there is a little cabinet with a photograph of a lady pasted to the outside.

Holy shit a creepy man just climbed out of the cabinet! He is made of plasticine.

Wait, what?

Now a different plasticine man is punching through the wallpaper. They are very realistic in the face, these plasticine people. Their heads are two dimensional and photographs of the band.

Are the photographs pasted on where the faces would be?

Aye. Two more are in another room, one is sitting on a desk drinking out of a tiny blue cup and the other is getting out of bed. Now another one has appeared, driving a toy tractor into the room they are all in. I assume it is in a dollhouse somewhere.

Now the four of them are standing facing the camera holding signs.

What do they say?

Each sign reads as follows: Dri. vel. He. ad.

So drivel head split into four cards.

Okay...

Now the band are in their human forms playing in a club somewhere. They're no longer made up of plasticine and photographs - now they are in high contrast black and white! One of them is playing the guitar. Another is poking at what looks like a single drum on a stand.

Now one is dressing and undressing very quickly. From his underpants to a tidy shirt, blazer and trousers and then back into his underpants.

He can't go out like that.

Now it is just one leering down the camera. The high contrast black and white is making this all seem much more serious than it probably is.

Now they're just chilling around someone's flat, listening to music and chatting. It is a tiny flat.

They often are when you are poor.

Now it is just a line of high contrast black and white figures filing across the screen.

Now it is Leery Face making a startled expression.

Now it is a lady in black playing bass.

Now we're back to the plasticine people. They are all jump cutting around the room except for Leery Face who remains in the center. Leering. Oh, now he has joined the rest, they are standing in a row on the bed. And now they are back on the floor.

And it is the high contrast line of people filing past again. Leery Face makes some more expressions. Now three of them are just jumping up and down on the spot.

Are they throwing a tantrum because Leery Face won't stop making faces at them?

Maybe.

Now we're back in the plasticine world. The plasticine figures are jump cutting around the room again only this time it is the bass player sitting still. Maybe they were just cross he wasn't letting them have a turn.

I have just noticed there is a plastic cat on the mantelpiece in this dollhouse. It is a black and white cat.

Now we're back to them with the drivel head signs. Leery Face climbing out of the cabinet again and the other dude punching through wallpaper.

Now the screen is all black and there is a strobe light going off with a dude in the middle dancing about.

Is his dancing any good?

Not especially. He looks ill, to be honest. Maybe the strobe lights disagree with him.

Now we're back to the high contrast black and white. There are two people kissing.

Oh dear, now Leery Face is back. Leering into the camera.

Ruining everyone’s fun.

He is very close this time maybe the kissing excited him.

Now we're back in the strobe light room only the rest of the band is dancing now too.

And now we're in the club again with them playing live.

Now we're back in the dingy flat. One of the band is shaking her head no at something one of the men has said. It is probably sexism and she is affronted.

It might be an offer of toast…?

Now we're back to the plasticine people holding drivel head signs.

Now we're in the flat again. There appear to be more people here than before. Maybe that is what she was objecting to; inviting more people to their tiny flat. Clearly she has lost this argument.

Aye, perhaps if she had said something instead of just shaking her head and looking sulky.

Now there are two black and white people filing past.

Where'd the others go?

Who knows? These two are now filing back.

Now we're in the dollhouse again. The plasticine people are all sitting on furniture. The furniture is moving about as if propelled by doll poltergeists.

I see the cabinet again. I shan't be fooled this time; I know Leery Face is going to pounce any minute. No, it isn't Leery Face! It's one of the girls sitting on the cabinet with her arms folded. Maybe she is keeping Leery Face at bay. She is sitting on the cabinet so he can't get out this time.

Good thinking.

Now there is a whole line of black and white people single filing again. Maybe they're back from lunch and the two from before had some sort of detention so they couldn’t go out.

There's Leery Face again. Now the other three are jumping up and down once more.

Now the plasticine people are painting Elastica on the dollhouse walls with red paint. And now they are all sitting on the floor.

The end!

After Thoughts

Was Leery Face Justine Frischmann this entire time?

No, she was the one shaking her head no. The black and white makes it hard to tell, to be honest.

I would assume so. And they all do appear fairly androgynous.

It was the way with all the best bands of the 80s and 90s.

Indeed.

[justwatchingforafriend]

Malaria! - You You

There are two people with 80s hair and makeup, one with short red hair and the other with fluffy black hair. They are facing each other and slowly rotating as if on a potter’s wheel. Standing against a blue background.

Now we're... somewhere else. It is a sort of creepy basement, I think?

Is it cement?

It is. Everything is cement.

Those are the creepiest of basements.

I might be able to see stairs in the background but I can't tell. The one with the black hair is still rotating but the other one is standing in the background with one hand on their hip.

Is she like a mannequin?

I don't know? She seems very much made of meat. Maybe she aspires to be a mannequin. Now there is a close up of the one with the shorter hair staring at the rotating one.

Now one of them is standing near an ocean singing. It keeps cutting back and forth between her on the ocean and the two of them rotating against the blue background. The one near the ocean keeps singing "You. You."

Now a pair of hands is sifting sand from a beach.

Are they floating hands?

Yes. They appear to have found a string of something? Some sort of necklace maybe?

Now we're back in the basement

Now we're somewhere else entirely and there is an extreme close-up of some singing woman. I can't tell if it's the one from before. Honestly their hair and makeup keeps changing and it is confusing me. There is a tower in the background and she has her nose very close to the camera.

Is she still singing "You. You?"

No she is singing something else.

Oh, now there is one of them standing on a roof somewhere. There is a road in the background with cars driving on it. She is doing a little fist pumpy dance like she has won something.

Rooftop access maybe?

Now we're back in the basement and one of the ladies is holding a cat. So maybe she was looking for her cat and somebody just called to tell her they found it.

Was it on the roof all along? Or is that where she went to celebrate after she had located it?

It appears to have been in the basement!

Well then, she can't have looked very hard.

This other lady looks quite sinister to be honest. Maybe the first one was trying to get rid of her cat because it was evil and this menacing woman has taken it off her hands.

Now we're back to rotating against a blue background. Occasionally these two rotating women seem like they are about to make out but it appears the rotating platform is disruptive to this exercise.

We're back in the basement again. There is no cat anymore, just the two women.

Perhaps this is a flashback to when the cat was still lost.

More rotating. Maybe they are using this rotating method to locate the cat?

Easier than walking about I suppose.

Now one of the women is walking mournfully towards the camera wearing a veil like the kind you see on funeral hats.

Oh no the cat is dead!

It is just a loop of the same shot of her walking towards the camera. Oh, now we're rotating again.

What are they looking for now? A burial spot?

Now we're back on the roof again. The lady is still doing a fist pumpy dance but it seems angrier now. Maybe she was letting her friend watch the cat and then it died. And it has resulted in a rift between them.

Or she's glad the evil cat is gone but sad it had to die?

I do not know. It is getting increasingly incomprehensible.

Yes, yes it is.

Now they're in the basement again. The rotating woman has stopped rotating and is walking towards the other one who is standing with her hand on her hip.

Now they're against a blue background again but they're hugging! Maybe it was the cat that was keeping them apart and now it is dead their love can be free.

Now the pair of disembodied hands is pulling the string out of the sand. Oh, the more the hands pull the string the closer the two on the blue background slide together.

They are puppets?

Maybe it is the string that operates their rotating plinth. Who put these rotating platforms there, anyway? They seem like a hindrance.

The floating hands have strange ideas. Perhaps on account of not being attached to a head.

Now we're back to the woman on the beach singing "You. You."

The hand is pulling the string again and the rotating people rotate some more.

Now we're back to the lady singing very close to the camera with the tower in the background.

And now rooftop woman again, telling us to declare our needs while fist pumping.

Maybe she wishes to incite a riot

Now it is just going back and forth between shots from earlier in the video, of the basement and the rotating, only it is sort of skippy. Occasionally it cuts back to the lady on the rooftop yelling.

And now it is the floating hands again. They have reached the end of the string and it appears to just have some seaweed stuck to it.

Well that was anticlimactic. Unless its magic seaweed?

Now the lady on the beach is singing "You. You." once more.

And it is over.

After Thoughts

So I suppose we will never know the true nature of the seaweed.

No, I guess not.

I liked that song the vocals sounded simultaneously like Robert Smith and Siouxsie Sioux.

[justwatchingforafriend]

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Souvenir 

The screen is full of red stuff it is shiny. I suppose it is the red convertible from the thumbnail but it looks a lot like a draped curtain. We are super zoomed in. Oh it is definitely the car I see a wheel and bumpers and such.

Are there stickers?

None that I can see. Maybe he is too snobby for stickers. He is certainly very enamoured of this paint finish.

Now it has zoomed out and the car is driving down the road.

What sort of road? Is it paved or dusty?

An English country road it looks like; there is a lot of foliage about.

There is a bloke in a red plaid shirt and one of those very bony faces driving the car. He has his seatbelt on and looks straight ahead very seriously. Clearly road safety is important to him.

Seems like a sensible driver the kind mums would let their daughters go out with.

The car drives along.

Now we are at a large pond or a lake of some sort. And there are some pillars.

Are the pillars supporting anything?

Not that I can see. I reckon it is some sort of park pavilion and the roof is just out of frame.

Now there is a different dude with an equally bony face singing. He is wearing a black shirt. His hair is parted to one side and is shorter which is the main way I can tell the difference between him and the other pointy faced white dude.

Now we have cut back to the car driving along. It is definitely a different dude, the black shirted singing bloke has fairer hair. Maybe he got left behind while camping and is waiting for his mate with the car to come fetch him.

I figured this one was the chauffer.

Now we're back to singy dude. He is wearing white pants.

They were very keen on white pants back then.

Now they are fading slowly between the pond and the car. Oh, it is a covered bridge, one of those ornamental ones in the Georgian style.

An aqueduct?

Aye, with the arches.

Now close ups of the paint job again.

I reckon they spent most of the budget for the video on that car.

Driving dude is driving along through a field with a tidy road bisecting it. Oh, now he is driving through the trees again; it has gotten rather dark.The camera's behind him now and the music has taken an ominous turn.

A close up of the car speakers and one of the gearshift. Now we're looking at the windscreen again only it is very reflective so I can't see his face at all.

Out of it?

Aye, we're facing the windscreen over the front of the car. Lots of close-ups of the car again.

Now back to the dude walking along the bridge singing mournfully to himself.

His only friend gone with the car.

His friend is just driving along these dark roads through the woods. Occasionally we go back to singing dude looking into the camera and pouting. He does seem to be pouting more than singing. Maybe it is just the way his face is shaped.

All bones and pouts?

Aye, just like the other one is all bones and Byronic nose.

A frightening combination if you happen upon it in the dark.

Oh now he is driving along what looks like the same bridge. It is the bridge; his friend is sitting there waiting. Now they are driving off together.

Hurrah they found each other again.

The ominous music and darkness was just a red herring!

They have driven off into the distance and it is over now.

After Thoughts

I think the moral of that video is if you drive carefully, it doesn't matter how long it takes to fetch your friend you won't die horribly in a copse somewhere.

That is a good thing to know especially if you are afeared of driving, like I am.

Aye, I suspect in this story we would be the friend waiting on the bridge. Only neither of us can drive so we'd probably have to walk to the nearest bus station.

Do buses even come that far out?

And nobody we know has a car as nice as that so we're probably like a different video with worse production values.

Where the driving friend would just have a bicycle and the bridge would be a filthy underpass.

That sounds exactly right.

[justwatchingforafriend]

The Bangles - In Your Room

It opens with the camera moving down a hallway. Everything is painted a sort of lurid indigo. There is a lantern on the wall and lots of doors with contrasting paint in like red or green outlining the doorjamb and the indents on the door. There are giant keys mounted to each door.

We go through one of them and now the screen is blue tinted and there is an orange spiral spinning in the center.

Now we're through the door and into another corridor with similar doors. The ground is like a magenta colour.

As we approach a new door the screen is once more filled with spirals this time green and orange, or like a reddish orange, the last one was just orange this is more a vermillion.

Now we are looking through a giant keyhole and there is an ominous eye. It blinks at us or maybe it is a wink. As I can see only the one eye it is impossible to know for sure.

Back to the corridor and now we're zooming into another door this one doesn't have a key mounted to it.

We go through it and we're in a white room! The band is here. There is a large circular window behind them through which you can see a very neon blue sky. The window is emanating some sort of glow. The band is in black and white, I thought for a second they were just pale but this is not the case. The singer is singing and playing her guitar. We have cut to the drummer looking mutinous. She is pursing her lips and her jaw is set. There are weird coloured leopard spots jumping around her.

Maybe she wanted to go through a different door?

Now back to the singer. The coloured leopard spots have turned to swirls and smears; it appears someone is finger painting. You can see the bass player in the background her hair is very frizzy. Now we have the other guitar player, she has Rogue from the X-Men style bleached sections near the front of her hair.

There are finger-painted keys floating around among the swirls and spots. Rogue, the guitar player is surrounded by pink and turquoise swirls

That's a nice colour combination.

Now they are all playing their instruments and bopping their heads. The camera is blocked by a random Grecian pillar. It moves around it and finds the band again.

Now we cut back to the same door as before dark purple with glittery red outlines. The door opens and there is a blonde lady, possibly the drummer, dancing about in some sort of spandex rhinestone sparkle jumpsuit. Everything is tinted a dark blue. Oh no, those aren't rhinestones they are paint swirls they're just glowing under a blacklight. And it is the drummer, I recognise her face. She looks much happier now that she can dance. Maybe this is the room she wanted to be in the first place.

Now we're back in the corridor, there is a strobe light. Now another door is opening this one blue with green outlines.

I am starting to feel like we are on some kind of bizarre game show in someone's mind.

The kind where you pick what's behind door number 2?

Aye, that kind.

Through this door is a bedroom! The band is finally in full colour. They're just hanging around, flipping through magazines and tossing a ball.

The singer is standing at a rack of clothes selecting an outfit. She is wearing a blue button down shirt and no pants. The clothes rack seems primarily composed of shirts and jackets so maybe she is not concerned about trousers at all. Perhaps this mind game show takes place in a warm climate.

Now we're back at the red and blue door from earlier. It opens again to reveal… another door with the giant keyhole.

Is there another eyeball?

No. Through the keyhole we can see the singer in a leotard doing sort of dancey aerobics gestures with her arms.

She found a way around trousers!

The 80s were a sympathetic time when it came to hating trousers.

Now we're at another door with a keyhole and it opens to reveal the white room with the giant window and inconveniently placed pillar. Only the band aren't black and white anymore! You can see the red hair of the bass player.

There's the bloody pillar again. Just stand in FRONT of the pillar, dammit, cameraman.

They are all rocking out on their instruments. Here is a close-up of the bass player looking very pouty.

Sexy pouty or sulky pouty?

It is a noncommittal pout. Her eyes just look tired. It also might just be the shape her mouth takes on while saying, "do do doo"

Now we're in the corridor again! Approaching the self same red and blue door. It opens to reveal…a wood!

Just one?

The band are in a wood somewhere dancing and playing their musics. The singer has found some leggings to protect her from insect bites, which are a constant problem when you hate trousers. The drummer appears to finally be having fun. Maybe she likes the outdoors and was sick of being stuck in the endless corridor house.

Wasn't she having fun earlier whilst dancing?

Sort of but now she is actually smiling. Before she just seemed determined.

To enjoy herself despite being trapped in a never-ending maze?

Now we have gone through another door and it's a sort of psychedelic 70s room with lots of paint on the walls and everyone doing that weird arm wavy swimming dance that was so popular once.

Where they hold their noses with one hand?

Aye, only we skipped that part and are just at the hand waving. So maybe this is the drowning dance while the official version is the swimming one.

The bass player appears to be playing a sitar.

Oh we're definitely in the 70s now.

There is a record player spinning a record that is covered in spirals. The band is just having a 70s time; lots of languid arm waving.

Now we're at another door, again red and blue. It opens to reveal a second door! This one an army green. Which opens to reveal YET another door!

It’s red and blue and looks suspiciously like the door from before. This just keeps going on. It is just doors within doors.

Who built this house? It's very poorly designed.

Now we're back in the white room. Everyone seems to be enjoying this room more now that they're not in black and white. The singer seems to be anticipating all the nice things that will happen in some person's room provided they ever find it in this bloody house. Presumably they have lost the room they are looking for and are just singing in every available room in the hopes that someone will fetch them.

Now the other guitarist is wearing a large hat and dancing in front of a swirling spiral.

Now we have reached a door I haven't seen before! It is pink and has gold outlines. It opens to…just a white room. I can't even see any floors or walls just white with a woman in a floral dress and hat standing still.

She keeps jumping from place to place!

How? There is no floor?

Like she will disappear and reappear a few paces to the left or right.

That's some ghost nonsense, right there.

Look, if I could explain this I would. I'm just here to witness.

Haha, alright.

Now we have cut back to 70s room with no doors in between this time. Perhaps they think we've gotten the message with the doors.

Ghost lady is leading them through the walls now.

They're partying in the 70s room. Now another door. Now we're back in the woods and now back to the hallway with another door! It opens to the white room.

Wait a minute. The white room had a different door before. This time it is behind the red and blue door before it was behind a green and blue door with a giant keyhole.

Maybe there are many white rooms to confuzzle you.

No wonder these poor people are lost.

Now it has cut to what looks like the ceiling of a tent? And now spirals. Back to the white room. It keeps switching back and forth between black and white and colour. When it is in black and white the paint leopard spots and swirls start up.

Are those also b&w? Or do they appear in colour?

Nope the spots and swirls are in colour.

They're just rocking out now. A pink key is moving around them. Now the singer is looking sexily at the camera and dancing about.

And the door closes on her. We back up again down the hallway and another door, a plain blue one this time, closes. And it fades to black.

The end!

After Thoughts

I should like to point out that at some stage she is singing about how no one else has ever made her “Feel this way in your room” and it has me thinking why would you go canoodle with a stranger in a third person's room when that person isn't even involved. Doesn't seem right.

Maybe that is why this person designed their house to be a confusing maze mess. So the singer lady wouldn't use their house as a hotel.

This seems the only explanation. Maybe he got tired of her having affairs in his bedroom and built a maze of rooms around it to put a stop to this. Hoped she would get distracted enough by the indoor wood and the 70s room to not keep having sex with other people in their bed.

That seems like a reasonable way of dealing with it.

If passive aggressive. Maybe they already told her to stop it and she was like,

"No!"

"I do what I want!"

It might explain why her bandmates are sulking as well. Now they have to put up with this absurd maze every time they want to practice.

Precisely!

[justwatchingforafriend]

Ultravox – Dancing With Tears In My Eyes

It opens with a title card.

What's it say?

The title of song and the band.

Now we rotate around a blurry room. The room is blue and quite well lit! However, blurry. We see a person they have very gingery eyelashes.

Is the rest of them ginger too?

I do not know. I've not been able to see the top of their head yet. When we first see them it is just their nose and eye in the frame.

Oh it is now a close-up of their eye.

Now they are tapping their lip with a pencil and back to their face. We still can't see the top of their head but they have a very pointy nose and look a bit like Charles Dance.

Now they are tapping on something metal, possibly the arm of their chair, chewing on the pencil and back to their face. I can see their hair now! They are balding and have tufts of nondescript, slightly gray looking hair sticking out of either side of their head! They look frightened and concerned.

Like some sort of mad scientist?

They are a scientist!

Here is a wider shot of folk sitting in chairs in lab coats I reckon our friend here is one of them. Yes, the camera seems to be zooming in onto one of them. He is rifling through a stack of papers and chewing on his pencil.

Whilst everyone sits in a circle?

Nope, they just appear to be sitting in chairs at random intervals in a room full of giant machines.

Now another person in a lab coat walks up to him. The other person in the lab coat, perhaps his supervisor or somesuch, is talking to him. He points off-screen with his pencil.

Now there is a hand pushing buttons, the whole screen is just buttons and blinky lights!

He flicks a switch.

The supervisor?

I think so?

Or Charles Dance?

I can't really tell it is just the back of them.

Now the singing starts!

That took a very long time.

The switches and buttons and lights are on a large machine with screens all round the top. We see a row of screens now and they've got computerspeak written across them, rows of bright green numbers. A different man, in a lab coat, with short, curly dark hair is there. He looks concerned.

Now we have two men in lab coats walking and talking. There is a man in a business suit apparently standing guard in front of one of the machines. We zoom into his face. He is gazing listlessly into the middle distance.

Back to Charles Dance flipping through papers on a clipboard.

Maybe he left his important papers on his other clipboard, which is why he cannot find them?

Maybe.

He has a little ponytail at the back of his head.

I thought he was balding.

He is, he is one of those folk who has no hair at the top of their head and has grown the rest of it long to compensate.

Now the computer screen proclaims DANGER in bright red letters.

Oh no!

Charles Dance looks up in surprise. Now the screen is saying "Reactor core overheat" Charles Dance jumps up in alarm, flinging his clipboard to one side. He pushes a button and a red light begins to flash.

Now the computer screen is saying "DANGER! This is not a drill" Not has been underlined for emphasis.

Now the red light is flashing throughout the room. Men in lab coats are just freaking out, typing furiously and clicking buttons. The man in the business suit is on the phone and one of the scientists takes the phone from him. He is an old dude with a pencil moustache.

Now the computer is flashing "Explosion Imminent" It is fading into the screen just flashing DANGER, in case our scientists missed that.

I would think the other warning was more relevant, they can probably surmise that there is DANGER.

Now we are somewhere else and a black car is driving very fast. We see a close-up of the man driving. He looks very calm considering there is a power plant about to blow up somewhere.

Is it Charles Dance again?

No, it is some other dude.

Oh, well he probably doesn't know about the power plant then.

We are looking out through the windshield and a bunch of people are running up the road towards him in a panic. He stops the car and looks out his window. There is a TV mounted on a wall somewhere outside his car. It is proclaiming "NEWSFLASH. Nuclear explosion imminent. Stay indoors and await further information"

Because walls will save you from radiation!

The bloke gets out of his car and begins running. He is running in the opposite direction as the people running away so he is probably running towards the explosion out of some misguided sense of heroism.

The fool!

A man falls; the man from the car helps him up lest he get trampled.

How heroic.

Now he is running again.

Now it cuts back to the lab. There are toys scattered around the floor for reasons that I can't fathom. There is a large white phone a lady is using it, she has one of those mushroom haircuts that were so popular around this time. Now we have cut to a close-up of her eyes. She weeps!

Is it her eyes the song speaks of?

Oh, this isn't a lab at all this is someone's house! And she doesn't have a full mushroom haircut she just has her hair back in a messy flouffy ponytail so her bangs look mushroomy. The bloke from the car bursts into their nice 80s flat and hugs the lady. She is wearing mum jeans so maybe that is what the toys are signifying, that she is a mum.

With a child that doesn't know how to put away it's toys.

The hug is going for a long time with a lot of cutting back and forth to their weeping faces.

Now they are playing music’s.

Wait, the car guy and this mum? Or the band?

The car guy and this mum.

They are playing musics on a stereo using a music format I don't recognize. It looks like a mini record inside a cassette player.

They turn up the volumes. Now they are dancing. Still hugging but sort of swaying about like they want to dance but are too distracted by hugs and the impending destruction of their society. Lots of close-ups of their weeping faces.

They kick over a bottle of champagne and it spills across the carpet. That is a waste. There shan't be any champagne after the nuclear holocaust, guys.

Conserve!

I suppose a filthy carpet doesn't matter if you're going to die.

Now they are going into the child's room to peer at its sleeping form. The child is not asleep but peering creepily out over its blankets.

Now the man and the lady are naked and he is wrapping her in a sheet. And now they are lying down in bed.

The same bed as the child? That's not right.

Nope, a different bed.  Otherwise it would be inappropriate.

He is pulling the sheet over their faces and now the camera moves down over the wriggling lumps under the sheet. I will tell you right now, it is far easier having sex without worrying about keeping yourself totally covered in a sheet. This is probably not very good sex just desperate impending nuclear explosion sex.

Maybe they think the sheet will protect them from radiation.

Oh, it isn't a bed they've just set up some sheets on the ground near the telly. The TV is still proclaiming newsflash.

A bright blue light explodes through the window behind the TV!

Oh no! The apocalypse has come.

And we pull back to reveal their makeshift bed. I can't see them there but the light flashed so bright and the screen went white too fast for me to tell.

Maybe they went to pay attention to their frightened child instead of boning.

Nope, there is the shape of their corpses under the sheet.

Oh…

Everything is covered in nuclear fallout dust or what have you. The camera is moving around their apartment. There is a close-up of the lumpy shapes under the sheet. And now lots of children's books and toys covered in dust. Now we're lingering over shots of the sheet with its corpses and on to the phone lying off its hook in a corner.

Now it is a tiny screen in the middle of the screen with like old home movies of the couple dancing outside, picking up the child and frolicking with it in the garden, lying on a plaid picnic blanket, just sort of regular sentimental family things.

Now the child is running, the video freezes and begins to bubble and burn.

Doom!

And then it goes white. Then the whole screen fades to white.

And that is the end of the video.

After Thoughts

That was quite sad!

Way to make me sad first thing in the morning Ultravox. I haven't even eaten my egg yet.

[justwatchingforafriend]

Book of Love - Boy

It opens with a close up of what appears to be the album cover.

Now a lady is playing the keyboard and bopping about.

Now it cuts to a split screen of a woman singing. One half of the screen is her whole body the other is a close up of her face. The half that's the close up keeps freezing while she is making sexy faces.

Now the whole screen is occupied by the singing woman. The full body, that is.

Now she is standing in front of her band rather than by herself in a white room. It appears to consist of two women playing keyboards and someone with a giant xylophone.

That is a fun instrument.

Now it is a close-up of Giant Xylophone Man banging on the xylophone with one of those mallet things while one of the Keyboard Women plays her keyboard and dances behind him. It fades very slowly to the Singing Lady singing again. Everyone appears to be dancing much harder than they are playing their instruments. Only one of the Keyboard Women, the one with the short hair and the strapless dress, appears to really know how to play her instrument at all.

Maybe she is just someone they found outside the studio and not really a band member. Why they would invite her to dance about, I do not know.

Maybe they thought four people in the band meant the cameraman would have more things to film?

Perhaps.

Oh, now it has cut to the other woman, with the long hair playing her keyboard with one hand.

What is her other hand doing?

Waving in the air.

Of course.

Possibly her mum is the one filming this and she is saying hello.

Now it is a closeup of Xylophone Man playing his instrument

Now we're back to cutting back and forth between sexy faces and the singer. The keyboard player with the long hair is the one whose sexyface it is. I do not think this very appropriate with your mum on set

Now there are a few shots of them faffing about.

And now they have superimposed the sexyfaces over the singer so it just looks like she is singing and dancing in front of a giant head. Also the way she is dancing and the nature of the sexyfaces makes it seem like Keyboard Lady is trying to eat the singer, like Pac Man.

Now Xylophone is playing his xylophone again. Why is nobody using both their hands except for the shorthaired keyboard player?

She's new at this?

Either that or the others are lazy.

Probably that, yes.

Now they are split screening the xylophone player and the singer. The way she is waving her arms makes it seem like she is bopping him on the head.

She ought to be more careful. He has a mallet.

They've switched her out for the Sexyface Keyboard Player whose dancing looks like she is punching the xylophone. I don't think this split screen is working out for them.

Now it has replaced her with the short haired keyboard player who is being perfectly polite and not bothering the xylophonist at all.

Maybe that's why they brought her in for this video.

To set a good example for everyone else?

Yes, that other keyboard girl's mum just wanted a good influence about.

Now it has cut back to a close-up of the singer. Oh dear, she is skipping and repeating like a broken record. Maybe she is having a seizure. Oh, well I suppose it is alright because everyone is dancing again.

And now it is over.

After Thoughts

Well that was nice. And simple.

It was! Very soothing after the last one. Probably because somebody's mum was supervising instead of a mad cult.

[justwatchingforafriend]

Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor!

We open with a highly saturated blue sky with clouds rolling across it. It appears to be over a body of water because I can see the reflection of the moon despite there not being a moon in the sky.

Now we have cut to some weird Dr. Seuss looking cube buildings and a keyboard being played by… *dun dun dun*

Floating hands!  |  A disembodied hand!

Yep!

Yay!

Because apparently disembodied keyboard playing hands were something of an epidemic in the 80s. This is the most disembodied hand I have seen to date, though. It literally fades away into a blur at the wrist and there is no body to be found anywhere. There isn't even an implied body offscreen.

Oh wow. That is commitment.

There is a large moon sitting between the cube buildings. Now it has cut to a man with very red hair. He says, "I saw you there" and looks very menacing.  Now there is a person with spiky blonde hair leaning against the cube building. They are hunched over as if they have a stomachache.  Now the red haired man is singing again and a blonde person, perhaps the same one as before, is playing drums. A person wearing a red shirt and black elbow length gloves is playing the keyboard now, you cannot see their head. Now red haired man is singing again. There is a group of people standing behind him. He has turned to look at them. Oh, they have moved! They are doing a little dance. Oh now they have frozen again. Maybe it is a game like red rover.  Now there is a spew of fog! A lady in a hat shakes her head, the fog obscures her face.

Does she disapprove of the fog?

Maybe she is trying to shake fog machine juice out of her hair. Now it is a closeup of the red haired man against the moon. He is very upset because somebody agreed to dance with him and have evidently not turned up.

Aw. Maybe if he didn't look so menacing.

Now there is the silhouette of a person in a top hat. They bob their head and the top hat falls off revealing a lot of curly hair. Now it is the red haired man standing in front of the cube buildings and the moon. Now there is a lady in a tutu on rollerblades doing a pirouette. Now it has cut to two people robot dancing together. It cuts back to the red haired man singing. Now the silhouette of a man in a fringed jacket is doing a pirouette

Also on rollerblades?

I can only see his spinning torso so I assume there are rollerblades but cannot confirm. Now red haired man is in a group with the people who were behind him before, the frozen people. He is standing near the lady with the hat who didn't like the fog. Everyone is spinning around. Now the blonde person appears to be screaming and flailing. They are in slow motion so it looks very frightening. Now the red haired man is in the foreground and people are singing along behind him and gesturing emphatically.

Is all of this taking place on the same set, with the moon reflection and the cube buildings?

Aye. Now we have cut to more cubes and a person in a hat has jumped suddenly out of a gap in the cubes. Now the person in the red shirt is playing the keyboard again.

Does he have a head now?

He does! And fabulous braids.

Ooo

The blonde person is kissing someone with white face paint and a headscarf. They seem unwilling but Blondie is holding onto their head so they can't really do anything. Now it's tutu girl doing more pirouettes on her rollerblades.And cut back to red haired man singing plaintively into the camera. With all these people flailing about in the fog, you'd think he'd have found someone to dance with by now.

Maybe he is unable to catch them on account of not having roller blades.

Now there are some people in grey robes jerking about.

Are they the same people just in robes or completely new ones?

I haven't seen these people before but maybe they blended into the fog in earlier scenes.

Now we have come upon something I don't know how to describe.

Oh no!

Okay. So there is a rectangular block reflecting the moon, the moon can be seen in the sky right behind it. Red haired man is leaning against the rectangular block and singing but I see the silhouettes of other people in front of the moon on the block.

Wait. Are they standing on the block or do their silhouettes just appear on the block?

Their silhouettes just appear on the block. And there are two plumes of smoke rising from the block.

I have no idea what this is.

Oh now the fringey jacket man is spinning about again. He definitely has rollerblades on because he is gliding across the ground.

Good to know. But he could just be wearing socks...

Now the red haired man is standing on the block with the smoke coming out of it but it is from a different angle and there is no moon or inexplicable silhouettes.

Now the blonde person is spinning around. She’s stopped and now, she and the man playing keyboard earlier are standing on the ground near a block. You can see some people are standing on the block and Blondie and Keyboard Player are grabbing at their ankles like rabid fans at a concert with poor security. Everyone is just partying and freaking out, just flailing and shaking their heads and grasping at one another.

Maybe this is an elaborate cult ritual. Or that smoke earlier was some really high quality weed.

I suppose so. If it is that then the cult has a riot on their hands because it is starting to look pretty grim.

Oh dear.

The whole area is filled with smoke so maybe they are just high as balls.

That wasn't a fog machine earlier.

It is fog, but I suspect it may be psychedelic fog. Because otherwise I have no explanation for what is going on here. Now the camera is just moving through this cube set while people leap out from behind cubes and shout. It occasionally cuts to Blondie and the Keyboard Player standing on top of cubes singing along with the chorus.

Oh, they made it up there then? That's nice.

Tutu is back doing her pirouette. I suspect she has only one dance move.

A pirouette on roller blades must have taken a while to perfect. She probably did not have time to learn any others.

And now that she has mastered it she wants to show it off to the rest of the cult?

Yes, what else are cults for if not to applaud your simple achievements?

[How are there two more minutes to this video I already feel like my mind is melting.

Is the rest of this video just going to be people freaking out on drugs?

That's all it has been so far so I don't see why they should change now.

Fair enough.]

Now Blondie is leaning against a pillar and it appears, baying at the moon. Keyboard player is making gestures at the plume of smoke that seem to indicate that he wishes to hug it. Now red haired man is singing and pointing at the moon. Oh, now the band is sitting on top of a cube while the cult kneels on the ground below them. They're bowing!

I knew it was a cult!

Tutu is dancing with Fringed Jacket. 

Those are ice skates! Not rollerblades.They're on ice! This is the first time I've gotten a good look at their feet. Fringed Jacket appears to be teaching Tutu some new moves.

How are the other people not falling all over the place? Do they have skates as well?

No just puffy high top sneakers.

That might explain the flailing.

Now the blonde one is beating intently on a tiny bongo drum.Back to Tutu and Fringed Jacket figure skating.  Now the band is walking around. The whole cult appears to be napping on available cubes. Now the band are all standing on cubes and singing the chorus. A pair of people with white painted faces has just slowly risen up into the frame. Now everyone is just playing instruments and dancing robotically while the lights go on and off. Now the Red Haired Man is singing into the camera while the other two play their instruments. Blondie has like a wall of drums and cymbals at her disposal; Keyboard Player only has the one keyboard.  Now everyone in the cult is wearing wide brimmed sunhats and walking towards the moon. Now it is just an image of the moon in the sky but it is turning a dark blue!

Ominous!

And now it has cut to the first shot of the video with the dark blue sky and reflection of the moon on the water.

And now it is over.

After Thoughts

That was incredibly difficult to describe.

I didn't even watch it and my mind is reeling.

Maybe this was all the delusional fantasy of people in a sanatorium and that is why they are singing out for the doctor.

That could explain it. I think we should find out where that sanatorium is and have it shut down.

Yes, this can't be healthy.

I need another tea after that video. I feel tired from watching it.

[justwatchingforafriend]

Kate Bush - Babooshka Babooshka

It opens with a lady in a black unitard with a veil over her face doing a sort of burlesque dance with a cello. She has turned to face the camera and is now dancing with the cello. It is very jazzy, this dancing. Her and the cello should take their act onto the stage. Now she is spinning the cello around and like, making cat claw shapes with her hands. Now she is swaying from side to side, waving her arm about. The veil doesn't hide the crazy look in her eyes. Now we have cut away. She is on a stage somewhere, lit from behind by a bright light.

Oh, she followed your advice.

Wearing gold lame hotshorts, a garter belt with no stockings, boots and some sort of gold peasant shirt that has been cut to pieces. There is also a gold headband to keep her very fluffy hair in check. She is doing a dance with a sword.

The cello could not keep up with the demands of showbiz life.

Now we're back to her with the cello in the black unitard from before. She plucks a single string and then hugs the cello.

I stand corrected. Or maybe she is saying goodbye to it.

Now she has turned the cello to face her and is shaking it. Maybe she is cross with it. Now she is doing the tango with it. Oh she has rotated the cello and on the back of it is an image of her in the gold outfit. Maybe she is only imagining her future on the stage and is mad at the cello for holding her back. I will say right now the cello is not a very compelling dance partner. Now she is back on stage with her new sword friend doing her little Ziegfeld follies dance. She is holding the sword like a penis.

Poor cello, replaced by someone skinnier and younger.

Now some glass has shattered. I don't know where the glass came from I saw no sign of it before now

Is it the cello, come to reclaim her?

No, it appears to shatter whenever she lifts her veil off her face. It shattered again. And again! She should really keep her veil on, then I think.

Indeed, someone will have to sweep up all that glass tomorrow.

She is in her gold costume again and wrapping a cape around herself. Now she is gesturing at us with the sword. She is posing with it up over her head. I hear the sound of broken glass but I don't see any. Maybe somebody stepped in it just out of frame. It zooms out and she disappears. 

The end.

After Thoughts How did you find this video?

Not only did she appear to be wearing strategically cut up gold spandex in the thumbnail, but it is also my favourite Kate Bush song. That's some Tina Turner posing, right there.

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Black Box Recorder - England Made Me

A lady with cat eye glasses is exiting a revolving door. She is mournfully handing a stack of files to a pair of bitchy looking women all in black. One of them is filing her nails, the other looks into the camera and starts singing. Now the camera moves right, past a sad man at a desk, and to a woman sitting sadly with a phone pressed against her ear. Her face morphed into someone else's!

Gah!

Now it has morphed back. She hangs up the phone. Now her face has morphed again! I didn't imagine it the first time.

Oh no! Evidently not.

Now the camera spins away to the janitor. He is singing too but it is still the woman's voice.

Is he sad as well?

He is. Maybe the voice is possessing them all and that is why they are all so sad, they have to work in a crappy haunted office.

Now the janitor's face is morphing as well. Only it is that much more alarming because he is an elderly brown man and his face is changing into that of a white lady. And only his face! His bald brown head is still visible over top of her face. Now there is a woman dressed in black walking down a street.

Now it cuts to a bloke walking around.

Now there is a small boy at a playground also singing in the woman's voice. His face is morphing into hers as well so maybe she haunts this whole neighbourhood. Now it has panned left to another child whose face is also morphing. She is singing about how England made her.

Why is this woman possessing people's faces and larynx's willy nilly?

I suspect she is the ghost of a white supremacist and has opinions about multiculturalism. Now there is another child being possessed. And now another one. They are just leaning despondently against the monkey bars. Now it is cutting back and forth between a woman and a man walking around the streets. Now there is a man pushing a wheelbarrow and a blonde lady leading a horse.

Are they the same man and lady? From the streets?

No, different men and women. Now there is a man holding a treat for a jumping dog. It is also a border collie!

Eee!

There is another man looking at the camera wearing one of those fishermen rain hat things with the floppy brim. No, it is a fedora, I couldn't see earlier because I was too busy looking at the dog. But now that the dog is out of the frame I can concentrate. He is singing in the woman's voice now and his face is morphing.

The dog is?

No, the man with the hat is.

Oh right, the dog is gone.

I think having a dog face morph into hers would be more than my fragile mind could take. Now the camera has spun away to a woman washing windows, her face morphs as well. Now there is a man whacking something with a hammer.

I think it is safe to assume all faces will morph.

What do you know, his face is morphing too! I am actually glad you cannot see this because these face morphs are really unsettling.

Man, now I want to see them.

Now back to the woman walking around again. Now it is a bunch of shots of people walking around all layered over each other. So there is her transparent head walking around layered over a pair of feet walking around layered over a bald man walking around.

Is one of these people dejected David Lynch from the thumbnail?

There is a bloke that looks like dejected David Lynch! It is his feet walking I think. There is his head. And now it is over.

After Thoughts 

That was thoroughly confusing.

It really was. I don't really have anything more to say on this. Those morphing faces are just seared onto my eyes.

Yeah, I am sorry I have ruined your eyeballs

I'm trying to work out whose idea this video was and why. Maybe they had some sort of illness

That illness where you can't recognise faces?

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Talk Talk - Such A Shame

The video starts with coloured circles on a black background. They appear to be like the circles on dice? Oh, it's a countdown. Now the main person, it appears to be a bloke I reckon, is shouting silently.

How does that work?

Well he is shouting but they have him on mute or some such. Probably his feelings are not very important. Perhaps that is why he singing about it being such a shame.

Now it is three of them standing against a black background. The drummer is listlessly beating on his drum. There is a transparent dice floating above them. It is spinning. Now it is just the main bloke, the one that was shouting earlier, the dice is smaller and hovering over his right shoulder. Maybe the dice just wants to play?

Have they turned up his volume yet?

They have! He is singing about what a shame it is.

The dice has disappeared and it is just him singing. He has a very rubbery face. Now we are back to the whole band. There are more of them now. In the intervening time they have acquired at least three more members.

Maybe that is where the dice went; to recruit more band.

It is back now, floating above them looking very pleased with itself. The band is playing much more enthusiastically now. I suspect the transparent supernatural floating dice is better at motivating them than the main bloke who seems to mostly wail about what a shame it is and has no positive attitude.

We are back to just him against a black background. I have only just observed he appears to be wearing a necktie and a cravat. Or maybe it is just a scarf tied like a cravat?

At the same time?

In any case he is wearing both at once.

That's just silly.

Now they are outdoors. There are two telephone boxes. A bloke is making a phone call while another person zips about in the background in fast motion. The main bloke is standing in the foreground clutching his head and wailing. He has lost the cravat now, thank goodness.

Is that what he is wailing about?

He is pacing about in front of the phone boxes and shaking his fists, so maybe he is upset that the man is hogging the phone box. But there's another unoccupied phone box right next to it, so I suspect he is just being greedy.

Or he thinks the man stole his cravat.

But we're back to the black background now and he has his cravat back. I think your theory bears out because while he is still saying "it's such a shame" he is smiling and dancing. Now he has changed his shirt and tie but not his coat or his beanie. The dice is hovering over his shoulder again. It just keeps cutting back and forth to him in the same position singing the same things but in different shirts. Nothing else has changed, not the background nor where he is standing, just his shirt. He is beaming and laughing so perhaps he likes all his ugly new clothes.

Maybe the dice is holding him against his will and he is only allowed to go home for a wash and change of shirt?

Now they are outside again in front of a sign that says The Somer's Arms. There are two of him now! The cheerier looking one is shoving the morose one to one side. Maybe they are twins and dice plays favourites. Now he is outside a nondescript building while cars zoom past behind him. Now we're back to the whole band against their black background, rocking out. The dice appears to be dancing as well, or like, rolling about.

Did he push his twin in front of one of those zooming cars?

No he didn't, but I saw a man in a similar black coat across the street so maybe that is his twin waiting for him to cross but the road is too busy. Now he is alone again against the black background. He is adjusting his shirt and tie. The dice lurks just by his face, he keeps glancing at it, possibly in fear? Once more his shirts keep changing.

He is making a lot of facial expressions but I cannot tell what they are trying to convey. Maybe he ate something bad and now his stomach hurts. Now he is outside at a park. It is grey and blustery. His twin appears to be sitting on a bench facing away from him. Maybe they have argued and aren't speaking. A dog has appeared suddenly and settled by the twin on the bench. It looks like a nice dog, it is black and white.

Does it have floppy ears? Or pointy ones?

Pointy ones. I think it is a border collie. The kind of pointy ears that flop at the top.

Oh those are nice dogs!

The bloke looks over his shoulder at his twin and the dog and hangs his head. Maybe he wanted a dog of his own but the dice wouldn't let him have one. Now it is just him against the black background again with the dice. He says "such a shame" one last time and the dice shrinks and fades away.

There is a bit of a drumroll. The bloke beams sheepishly at us.

And now the video is over.

After Thoughts

So let me get this straight, evil dice kidnapped this man and held him against his will (but he brought some nice bandmates to play with). The man is sad and only wants his twin. Then there is a flashback of the two of them hanging out but evil dice appears and forces one to cross a busy street, abandoning his brother on the other side. Eventually evil dice lets him go, possibly because it has tired of his constant wailing about how it is such a shame. The man goes out to find his twin has befriended a dog and has no more need of him. So he goes back to the dice?

Perhaps the dice thought if it bought him some new shirts he'd stop crying “its such a shame”

Perhaps eventually the dice grew frustrated and abandoned him to his misery.

I suppose that is what anyone would do in this situation.

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Yazoo – Don’t Go

A pair of hands is playing at a keyboard.

Unattached to a body again, I presume.

No, the camera pulls back to reveal the silhouette of a ginger person with swoopy bangs. They are the one responsible for the keyboard playing hands. Oh my, it has pulled back even further to reveal the man has shaved his whole head save for the swoopy bangs. Perhaps he used to be a monk until last week.

Now we have cut to a car driving down a country road. We are at a very low angle and the car sprays dirt and leaves into the camera as it drives past. The car has stopped and a person in a white fur coat and boots gets out.

Now we see the ex monk's face. His eyes are closed and he is very into playing his keyboard.

Back to the person in the white fur coat.

Was the car driving on a country road and the pull back to reveal ex-monk happening simultaneously?

No, it is cutting back and forth between goings on with the car and the monk with the keyboard. He is indoors somewhere.

The person in the fur coat also has a black fedora. They are entering a mansion. The doors are covered in cobwebs. The doors open to reveal Ex-monk playing his keyboard.

Now a pair of footprints has appeared on the ground. Just footprints from an invisible person.

*gasp*

Now Fur Coat is leaning against the Ex-monk and singing. They both have pained expressions on their faces, like they are struggling over who gets to sit on the bench. I have to say my sympathies lie with the Ex-monk, he was there first and he IS the one playing the keyboard.

Does Fur Coat offer anything to the song making?

Fur Coat is singing!

We are at a closeup of their face singing illuminated by a single purple candle.

Now the Ex-monk has abandoned his keyboard. He makes a come-hither gesture with his hands but he is grimacing so I am not sure I would like to go with him.

Now he is scampering up the stairs. Everything is covered in cobwebs. Evidently he was too busy keyboarding to flick a duster around.

Don't do it Fur Coat! Don't go upstairs with this man who has clearly broken into and is now squatting in some old haunted mansion!

Now Fur Coat is walking down a strange hallway. Everything is lit with neon pink lights. They go into a room where Ex-monk is wearing a lab coat and one of those doctors headband things with the little satellite dish on them. I never knew what those were and what they were for. Is it a lamp?

I think they are like miner hats.

I think this is why he shaved his whole head except for the bangs, the headband must chafe and the bangs provide necessary cushioning.

They are in a strange lab. Now the Mad Scientist Ex-monk is trying to animate a Frankenstein dummy that is clearly made of plastic. Fur Coat looks skeptical about this whole enterprise.

The Mad Scientist Ex-monk pulls a giant lever, the bed rotates and stands upright and the plastic man gets up and lurches away straight through the wall.

It has cut to a random skeleton applauding. I do not know why, I have never seen this skeleton before.

Fur Coat is attempting to escape down the neon pink hallway but a suit of armor crashes in their way.

Told her the place was haunted.

We cut back to the lab where a beaker is smoking, all sorts of beakers and test tubes. They appear to be operating the keyboard. Mad Scientist Monk was never playing it at all, he was only shamming! Science was playing the music.

Is this where the heart organ from the thumbnail comes in?

Yes!

The keyboard is a giant organ covered in hearts and test tubes. I've only just gotten a good look at it now.

Now there is a creepy painting with holes for eyes and there is somebody peering at us through it.

Somebody is shaking a bat made out of crepe paper on a wire now. The crepe paper bat is chasing Fur Coat down the stairs.

Why is she still hanging around? She knows where the door is.

She’s run down into the cellar. There is the Mad Scientist Monk only now he is dressed like Dracula. This would explain why he appears to have so many professions. He is immortal.

Is that also why he has strange hair? He turned immortal in the middle of a haircut?

They hug each other. But the Mad Scientist Monk vampire gnashes his teeth and Fur Coat backs away.

The skeleton is applauding again. He is clearly in favour of people leaving this wretched place.

The vampire faded and disappeared.

Because skellington applauded at him?

Possibly. Maybe he is only seeking approval.

Now he is in his lab coat again and the two of them are dancing with the Frankenstein. Him and Fur Coat.

Now he is back in his vampire outfit. He is grinning madly and dancing with Fur Coat against a bright red background.

Skeleton applauds again.

Back to Frankenstein on the slab. I thought he already escaped? Maybe he returns to nap.

Now the Frankenstein is walking out through the door. He has learned after the previous difficulties with the wall. The skeleton is less impressed with this as he does not applaud. He is nowhere to be found.

Now it is just the shadow of a hand gripping the banister.

Oh, we're back to room where the three of them are dancing. The Mad Scientist Ex-monk Vampire, Fur Coat and the Frankenstein.

They're doing jazz hands! Frankenstein does not have an easy time of it as his fingers are made of rubber.

Oh no, we have cut to Fur Coat in the cellar. With vampire teeth! They are a vampire now!

Oh no!

Wait, there are two Fur Coats?

No I just cannot determine their gender and felt the neutral was most appropriate.

The camera spins about and it ends on a shot of the organ playing itself with science.

The end! 

After Thoughts

A lot bloody happens in this video. I'm amazed they jammed it all into 2:50.

That’s it? It seemed like so much longer.

I have no idea what just went on. I agree that the house was haunted and nobody involved should have gone in there. Let alone stayed. And since they HAVE chosen to stay, I don't see why they couldn't tidy up the place a bit.

Well, I suspect Shaved Head was too busy having every career imaginable. I don't see why Fur Coat drove all the way out there. Did Mad Scientist Ex-monk invite her there?

To introduce Fur Coat to his new Frankenstein?

Possibly?

And to teach him how to dance?

Couldn't he have done that by himself though? He knew how, clearly. Did the jazz hands and everything. And that is the most important of all dance steps.

Bald Head did have the most enthusiastic jazz hands of the bunch. Maybe he was giving lessons and that is why Fur Coat drove all the way out there.

That sounds like the most likely explanation given this lot.

And this must be why he built the organ! He couldn't give lessons and play the keyboard at the same time.

That is a rather clever use of science.

A mysterious summons to a haunted mansion for dance lessons sounds like the opening of every 80s movie. Ever.

Pretty much.

I think that is everything we could possibly glean from this video.

Aye, the rest should be left a mystery.

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The Psychedelic Furs – The Ghost In You

A bloke is looking in a makeup mirror with light bulbs all around it.

Oh my! It appears it is a makeup mirror within a makeup mirror and what we are seeing is a reflection of him looking at another identical mirror. Trust the Psychedelic Furs to confuse us within moments of starting.

Now one of the other blokes is standing behind the mirror. He is waiting patiently for his turn.

To stare at his reflection within a reflection?

Yes.

Ah, so the mirror does serve another purpose then?

Not really? I suspect it is not a mirror at all but a mirror shaped border for the camera.

The first one politely gets up and takes his guitar so the other one can primp.

Now the second bloke is singing mournfully. All the mirrors are gone. Maybe he has lower self-esteem than the first one. The first one seemed quite pleased about his time before the mirror.

Now the mirror frame is back and the band is playing in front of many polka dots. The band is black & white and the polka dots are in colour.

Oh, the polka dots are moving about!

I'm confused, are the polka dots in the mirror? Or just floating in space?

Yes. Inside the frame of the mirror is a plain white background with polka dots everything is floating within this.

I am confused as well and I am actually seeing this with my eyes.

Oh, the low self-esteem man is dancing sadly now.

And now he is back in front of the mirror looking mournful again.

Is he sad because the mirror is taunting him with dancing polka dots?

He is sitting at a table with a bowl and a cup on it. The background is black.

Oh, now we're back to polka dots. He is dancing more enthusiastically now. Maybe he has befriended the polka dots. He keeps doing a hand gesture like he is pushing something away, so maybe the polka dots are violating his personal space.

Perhaps it is the Ghost from the track title. Come to steal his polka dot friends.

Now he is back in the black & white room in front of the mirror. He did seem much happier in the white room with the polka dots.He was dancing and kicking about; in front of the mirror he just looks sad and mopey.

And now he is back in the polka dot room for the chorus. He is snapping his fingers and wearing a very long scarf. The polka dots are changing size and bouncing about.

And now it has ended very suddenly.

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Look Blue Go Purple - Cactus Cat

[In describing this video it was mistakenly believed that the band was called Cactus Cat]

Cactus Cat are introducing themselves. The one doing most of the talking is blonde and has one of those fluffy mushroom haircuts that was so popular in the 80s, like a punk rock Princess Diana. There is one with what appears to be a curly mullet. It is a thick tuft of curls at the top and longer, wispier curls at the bottom. She is also wearing large round glasses. The third is partly out of frame but has very choppy, fluffy bangs.

There are a lot of shoulder pads.

Cactus Cat is written in sand now. The sand has been brushed away to reveal some manner of cat logo.

Now we are in someone's garden.

With sandy shoes? That's just not nice.

Maybe the sand is in a bin somewhere, with a cat logo at the bottom.

There is what is either a rotating drying rack with a sheet tossed over it or a broken umbrella. It has cut away too fast for me to tell.

Now there are a number of cactuses, the whole shot has a green filter.

Now there is another cactus with cartoon hearts bursting out of the center.

Wait, what?

Yes. They are just… swirling out of the middle of the cactus.

And now we have cut to an aloe vera plant.

Now it is Cactus Cat standing about somewhere. I can finally see the third one's haircut, she has long hair and bangs.

Now there are five of them sitting on some kind of pillar thing. I don't know who these two new ones are. I have never seen them before.

How do they all fit?

It is a large pillar, like merry-go-round sized. They are drumming on it with their fingers.

What do they even use a pillar that big for?

I think it is a circular stone bench because they just hung out on a beach for a few minutes and then it cut back to the pillar. It appears to be at some sort of public memorial park.

Mayhap those other two were just chilling on the bench when this lot appeared and started drumming their fingers at them.

This seems likely.

Oh, now we have cut to a black cat chewing on some grass and there are blue outlines around the cat suddenly.

Is the cat possessed by cow?

I think the grass was secretly Drugs.

Now we're just watching the cat hang about in the garden while blue lines chase it, outlining things at random.

Now it is a flower.

Now it is making a halo around the cat.

Now it is just an outline of the cat's ears. The cat does not seem well pleased by any of this.

I am convinced more and more that these blue lines are a Demon Cow.

Well it has bedded down in a bank of grass somewhere.

The cat or the blue lines?

The cat has. 

The camera has gone all wobbly.

And now we're back with these women on a beach. The blue lines are still there.

The blue lines are now outlining the mullety one's guitar and making sort of sparks come out of it. There is a dog gamboling about and everyone appears to be moving backwards except the woman with the guitar. The blue lines don't seem to notice the dog. They are very intent on this guitar.

Oh, now everything has a purple filter and there is a small child making a sandcastle.

Now the mullety one is playing pat-a-cake with one of the others. There is a bloke I have never seen before threatening to throw a beach ball. It appears an empty threat because he is still holding it when we cut away.

Mullet is running along the beach with the dog.

The blue lines are gone now. Maybe we're in the next phase of metabolising these drugs and that is why everything is purple.

Oh no they are back! I spoke too soon.

Everything is in colour now and the blue lines are marking out someone's eyeglasses.

Now they are back at the memorial and Miss Mullet is sitting in the lap of the statue. The blue lines have followed them here as well.

Now we have cut to a woman crossing the street with a small dog in her handbag. There is a picture frame shape around the dog so we cannot fail to notice him.

Now we are back to the first dog on the beach. He is shaking water off himself but the water droplets are animated and this appears to concern him.

It has cut back to the cactus from before - it is still spewing hearts. Now it is spewing blue lines.

Oh dear.

And we're back to the garden with the drying rack. It IS a drying rack! Miss Mullet is spinning it around.

Now there is another interview with them about what it means to be a girl band but they don't seem to care for the question very much.

And now it is over.

After Thoughts

So they never answered the question?

They did but only to say they thought it a silly question. And that it isn't hard being a band of women anymore because folk have gotten used to them. I think people must get used to things much faster in New Zealand because it is so small. They certainly haven't gotten used to them anywhere else.

Nope. It may also be because many of the sheeps are also considered part of the population and sheeps do not worry about things like gender.

I think that must be why.

Indeed.

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Catatonia – I Am the Mob

Right, we are flying over a bay. There is a cow judging us. Now a sheep. Now a kestrel.

Oh wait the kestrel isn't judging us but this group of layabouts lying on the grass. They appear to be the band. They are playing their musics and the judgmental sheep are running away from them.

There is a girl here wearing a large overcoat and scratching her head. Probably she has nits. Oh no, it is a faux leather jacket it just looked like an overcoat because it is so big for her.

They are all playing their musics in a picturesque valley. A bagpiper scuttles through the valley at a different frame rate. Maybe he is from another video and is just lost.

There he is again!

Now there is a person and a guitar sitting in a tin tub with a red windbreaker thrown over it.

Now they are fishing with what appears to be a bankcard as a lure.

Now one of the other blokes is driving a remote control boat through a very shallow puddle.

They're fishing in the tub?

No, it is just a bankcard hanging from a fishing line against the sky. There is nothing else in the frame. There is a shiny jangly thing hanging from the line too but it is dwarfed by the bankcard.

Now they are walking through ferns and there is a rainbow in the sky behind them.

Now a bloke is reeling in the fishing line and there is something hanging from it. A packet of some kind. Maybe a magazine?

Now they are hanging out with ponies and collecting mushrooms. The ginger one with the pointy nose found a large one and he is much pleased by it. The girl is looking at too many goldfish jammed into a small bowl.

Now they are frolicking through the countryside, only they left their drummer on the beach and the tide is coming in. They should probably collect him but they don't seem much bothered.

Three of them have found some trees and are doing guitar solos

At the trees?

I assume so? Maybe it is because they cannot run away unlike the sheep.

Now the girl has abandoned the tiny bowl of goldfish on a rock to go scamper along the beach. She does not seem a very responsible goldfish owner if you ask me.

Well she did leave her drummer friend to drown so goldfish would be small fry.

Now there is a camera with one of those crosshair targeting things in the center following them as they frolic. Oh dear it has gone red. Maybe they are being hunted by the Predator?

Oh no, everything is fine now.

She is riding her pony to a little cottage; the rest of the band is inside. Now they are burning pancakes and playing cards.

And now they are outside once more walking along the beach at sunset. And it fades to black.

The end.

After Thoughts

Did anyone rescue the drummer?

Yes, he was seen drumming in a field later so I assume he escaped the rising waters.

Oh good.