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[color=violet]Anyone have any suggestions for great cult music videos?[/color]
Here’s my submission…
I’ve posted the Yatta links before, which, having lived and worked in Japan, has real relevence to me. Well mostly it’s just that I share a common fashion sense with The Happa-tai gang. 🙂
[url=http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/yatta.php]Yatta Flash Animation (click!)[/url]
Once you’ve watched the flash animation it’s time to move on to the REAL deal. This music video has/had a big cult following in Japan and a fair-sized cult following internationally (as I found out when developed my curious fixation with the music). Why the success? One word: [color=olive]Figleaves! [/color] (or is that two words: fig leaves?)
[img]http://www.members.shaw.ca/funky2funky/LoganYatta.gif[/img]
[url=http://web.mit.edu/patil/www/media/video/yatta.asf]Original Yatta! music video (CLICK)[/url]
[color=orange][b]YATTA![/b][/color] by [color=red]Happa-tai[/color]
[i]G R Double-E N Leaves
G R Double-E N LeavesIt’s so easy! Happy-go-lucky!
We are the world ! We did it!
Hyuu! Hyuu! Hyuu! Hyuu! Osu! Osu! Osu! Osu! (Ai!)
Yatta! Yatta!
Daigaku gohgaku
Yatta! Yatta!
Shachoh shuunin
Happa ichimai areba ii. Ikite iru kara lucky da!Yatta! Yatta!
Tohsen kakujitsu
Yatta! Yatta!
Nihon daihyoh
Yannaru kurai kenkoh da.
Everybody say yatta!Nippon kyuukyuu (demo)
Ashita wa wonderful
Ijiwaru saretemo futon haireba
Guu guu guu guu! Pass pass pass pass (Ohayo–!)Yatta! Yatta!
Kuujikan suimin
Yatta! Yatta!
Neoki de jump
Donna ii koto aru daroh ikite ita kara lucky da!Yatta! Yatta!
Kimi ga kawareba
Yatta! Yatta!
Sekai mo kawaru
Marugoshi dakara saikoh da massugu tattara kimochi ii–!O-mizu nondara umee! (Yatta!)
Hi ni atattara attakee! (Yatta!)
Koshi kara warattara omoshiree! (Yatta! Yatta!)
Inu-katte mitara kawaii! (Yatta!)[Repeat]
Surechigai-zama hohoemi kureta
Nido to aenaku-tatte ii kimi ga ita kara lucky da!Heisei fukyoh seiji fushin
Reset sae surya saikoh da! Minna iru kara tanoshii–!Yatta! Yatta!
Daigaku kyohshitsu
Yatta! Yatta!
Movie star
Happa ichimai areba ii. Minna issho da happy da!Yatta! Yatta!
Iki wo sueru
Yatta! Yatta!
Iki wo hakeru
Yannaru gurai kenkoh da! Everybody say yatta![Repeat *]
Bye-Q![/i][url=http://www.syberpunk.com/cgi-bin/index.pl?page=yatta]Lyrics, info and other Yatta stuff[/url]
Is Yatta worthy of being called the greatest cult music video of all time? You be the judge.
Okay, I thought the whole idea of a discussion on ‘Cult Music Videos’ would sound inherently funny — we’ve had cult this and cult that. Never-the-less, there are lots of cult music videos…
[color=green]Thriller[/color] springs to mind.
By the way, Yatta was originally done as a sketch for a comedy show before it gained a life of its own (it’s very silly I know, that was the point). So, knowing that opens up the possibility for ‘music video’ (or music numbers in film and TV) like [color=red]Time Warp[/color] from [color=orange]Rocky Horror Picture Show[/color] — not only have I watched it in the movie but also as a seperate music video.
I’ll open up this discussion to Cult Sci Fi musical numbers and Sci Fi movie “musicals”. For instance, Brigadoom.
If only [url=http://www.spinaltap.com/]This is Spinal Tap[/url] could be considered sci fi (though it is cult).
Here’s my choice for Cult Sci Fi Rock Musical: [color=violet]Phantom of the Paradise[/color].
And what about Bollywood ones like New Delhicatessan and Star Swamis? (not very familiar with Bollywood productions I must admit).
The first music video (or was it a film) that ever caught my imagination was the black and white one that went with David Bowie’s ‘A Space Oddity’. The woman washing up with the sink exploding. The space ship in the middle of the kitchen floor. Truly mind blowing 😯
We went through a wonderful fad in the 1980s of superb videos. I quite miss it now. I think the most prolific and polished were Duran Duran, though I think their unpolished ‘Girls on film’ probably got the most fans 😉
Then there’s two which used that style of annimation where it looks like the pictures are being drawn while you look at them. (Sorry don’t know the name or how to describe it Rather like the snowman, but with no colour).
Aha’s Take on me which mixed real with animation was one of my favourites.
My absolute favourite was an animation which went with Queen’s Save Me. It was a woman brushing her hair and later jumping from a bridge. It was incredibly moving and I’ve never seen it since, but it made a truly lasting impression on me.
Fabulous choices! 🙂
[quote=”nursewhen”]The first music video (or was it a film) that ever caught my imagination was the black and white one that went with David Bowie’s ‘A Space Oddity’. The woman washing up with the sink exploding. The space ship in the middle of the kitchen floor. Truly mind blowing :shock:[/quote]
I think they might have used that in Ziggy Stardust The Motion Picture (Beid should know). I remember seeing it long ago anyway. Mind blowing is right! ‘Twould make a good companion piece to one of my favourite films “The Man Who Fell to Earth.”
[url=http://crystaltjapan.tripod.com/multi2002.html]If you turn on your speakers I really like this version of 2001: A Space Oddity[/url]
[quote=”NurseWhen”]We went through a wonderful fad in the 1980s of superb videos. I quite miss it now. I think the most prolific and polished were Duran Duran, though I think their unpolished ‘Girls on film’ probably got the most fans :wink:[/quote]
As a pubescent boy, that video got me going! 😛 The biggest thing i liked about Duran Duran was the name — Barbarella also got me going (Duran Duran was a character from that movie). 😉
[quote=”NurseWhen”]Then there’s two which used that style of animation where it looks like the pictures are being drawn while you look at them. (Sorry don’t know the name or how to describe it Rather like the snowman, but with no colour).[/quote]
Seen a few in that style, and a number of films, I know what you mean.
[quote=”NurseWhen”]My absolute favourite was an animation which went with Queen’s Save Me. It was a woman brushing her hair and later jumping from a bridge. It was incredibly moving and I’ve never seen it since, but it made a truly lasting impression on me.[/quote]
I don’t think I’ve seen that — probably available online somewhere. Must search for it.
That Devo video was pretty good even though it doesn’t have pointy ear appeal… [img]http://www.tolkiencollector.com/images/nimoybil.jpg[/img]
I’m surprised I didn’t mention this one before… It’s a real classic… Leonard Nimoy’s The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins (he put out a ton of albums)…
[url=http://homepage.mac.com/evanbaumgardner/iMovieTheater6.html]Here’s the streaming video (CLICK)[/url]
[i] In the middle of the earth in the land of the Shire
lives a brave little hobbit whom we all admire.
With his long wooden pipe,
fuzzy, woolly toes,
he lives in a hobbit-hole and everybody knows himBilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins
He’s only three feet tall
Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins
The bravest little hobbit of them allNow hobbits are a peace-lovin’ folks you know
They don’t like to hurry and they take things slow
They don’t like to travel away from home
They just want to eat and be left alone
But one day Bilbo was asked to go
on a big adventure to the caves below,
to help some dwarves get back their gold
that was stolen by a dragon in the days of old.Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins
He’s only three feet tall
Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins
The bravest little hobbit of them allWell he fought with the goblins!
He battled a troll!!
He riddled with Gollum!!!
A magic ring he stole!!!!
He was chased by wolves!!!!!
Lost in the forest!!!!!!
Escaped in a barrel from the elf-king’s halls!!!!!!!Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins
The bravest little hobbit of them allNow he’s back in his hole in the land of the Shire,
that brave little hobbit whom we all admire,
just a-sittin’ on a treasure of silver and gold
a-puffin’ on his pipe in his hobbit-hole.Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins
He’s only three feet tall
Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins
The bravest little hobbit of them all[/i][quote=”nursewhen”]The first music video (or was it a film) that ever caught my imagination was the black and white one that went with David Bowie’s ‘A Space Oddity’. The woman washing up with the sink exploding. The space ship in the middle of the kitchen floor. Truly mind blowing :shock:[/quote]
I think that you’re actually thinking of the video to “Ashes To Ashes,” from the album [i]Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)[/i], which came out in 1980. The song is a literal sequel to the song “Space Oddity,” dealing with the same character, Major Tom (and re-interprets his disconnect from Earth; in the original, it was a hippie-ish metaphor for the “search for the cosmic,” and in “Ashes,” Major Tom is seen as almost having a schizophrenic detatchment from reality, equating it with having a heroin addiction: “We know Major Tom’s a junkie/Strung out in heavens high/Hitting an all-time low”…but I digress). The video for “Ashes To Ashes” features some b/w footage shot on video of Bowie/Tom singing from the crashed space ship in the kitchen while a woman washes dishes in the background, and the sinks explode. It also has shots of him singing from a padded cell, and in Pierrot costume on an alien landscape.
AFAIK, there were only two videos shot for “Space Oddity” — one done during the Ziggy era (when they re-released the [i]David Bowie/Man of Words, Man of Music[/i] album on which it appeared with a then-contemporaneous photo and retitled [i]Space Oddity[/i]), and one shot in 1969 as part of the short promotional film [i]Love You Till Tuesday[/i].
Fish heads Fish heads rolly polly fish heads
Fish heads Fish heads eat them up yum!I took my fish head out to a movie…
I can’t remember any of the other words. As you might expect, the video has fish heads in it.
My three picks
Blink 182’s “all the small things”. With the charts being dominated by all sorts of pathetic boy and girl bands, out comes the punk rock masters with a video so perfectly spoofing the current videos. The first few times I saw it I couldn’t stop from laughing out loud. MTV has it labeled as the funniest music video ever.
Anouk’s – “The Dark” appeals to me. It was so abstract and different. Just like her music. Ground breaking and cool.
Robbie Williams “Rock DJ” I think it was banned and edited within one day of airing on MTV. You can find the original on the internet, where he rips his skin off and throws bits of his flesh and organs at the roller bladers until hes just a dancing skeleton. Way cool.
[quote=”lizard”]Fish heads Fish heads rolly polly fish heads
Fish heads Fish heads eat them up yum!I took my fish head out to a movie…
I can’t remember any of the other words. As you might expect, the video has fish heads in it.[/quote]
And it was directed by Bill Paxton!
My favorite two videos are 80s “one hit wonder” classics:
“Take On Me” by Ah-Ha, featuring evil cartoon motorcycle riders going after this girl who gets magically transported into the cartoon, and rescued by the cartoon lead singer.
“True Faith” by New Order, featuring fruit-of-the-loom-ish characters fighting each other in a trampoline arena, overseen by this weird character that wears a video screen over his eyes.
btw, if anybody knows where I can find video files for these videos, I’d really appreciate it.
Lyrics:
“Take On Me”
[quote]We’re talking away
I don’t know what
I’m to say
I’ll say it anyway
Today’s another day to find you
Shying away
I’ll be coming for your love, OK?Take on me (take on me)
Take me on (take on me)
I’ll be gone
In a day or twoSo needless to say
I’m odds and ends
But I’ll
Stumbling away
Slowly learning that life is OK.Say after me:
“It’s no better to be safe than sorry.”Take on me (take on me)
Take me on (take on me)
I’ll be gone
In a day or twoOh, the things that you say
Is it life or
Just to play my worries away?
You’re all the things
I’ve got to remember
You’re shying away
I’ll be coming for you anywayTake on me (take on me)
Take me on (take on me)
I’ll be gone
In a day…
(Take on me, take on me)
(Take me on, take on me)
I’ll be gone (take on me)
In a day… (take me on)
Take on me (take on me)
Take on me (take me on)
Take on me (fades)[/quote]“True Faith”
[quote]I feel so extraordinary
Something’s got a hold on me
I get this feeling I’m in motion
A sudden sense of liberty
I don’t care ’cause I’m not there
And I don’t care if I’m here tomorrow
Again and again I’ve taken too much
Of the things that cost you too muchI used to think that the day would never come
I’d see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun…When I was a very small boy,
Very small boys talked to me
Now that we’ve grown up together
They’re afraid of what they see
That’s the price that we all pay
And the value of destiny comes to nothing
I can’t tell you where we’re going
I guess there was just no way of knowingI used to think that the day would never come
I’d see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun…I feel so extraordinary
Something’s got a hold on me
I get this feeling I’m in motion
A sudden sense of liberty
The chances are we’ve gone too far
You took my time and you took my money
Now I fear you’ve left me standing
In a world that’s so demandingI used to think that the day would never come
I’d see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun…[/quote][quote=”sgtdraino”]My favorite two videos are 80s “one hit wonder” classics:
“Take On Me” by Ah-Ha, featuring evil cartoon motorcycle riders going after this girl who gets magically transported into the cartoon, and rescued by the cartoon lead singer.
“True Faith” by New Order, featuring fruit-of-the-loom-ish characters fighting each other in a trampoline arena, overseen by this weird character that wears a video screen over his eyes.
btw, if anybody knows where I can find video files for these videos, I’d really appreciate it.[/quote]
I don’t know if I’d really consider New Order a one-hit wonder. While “True Faith” was their largest Stateside hit, they also had a good bit of success with such songs as “Blue Monday,” “Bizarre Love Triangle,” “Perfect Kiss” (which had a video directed by Jonathan Demme of [i]Silence of the Lambs[/i] fame), and “Temptation.” Their success in their native UK has been much greater than over here, but they’ve never done particularly shabbily on this side of the pond.
A-Ha, on the other hand…
[color=violet]The’re are a few good ones there. My list would be these three:[/color]
[color=red]1) Video Killed the Radio Star[/color]
[i]I heard you on the wireless back in Fifty Two
Lying awake intent at tuning in on you.
If I was young it didn’t stop you coming through.
Oh-a ohThey took the credit for your second symphony.
Rewritten by machine and new technology,
and now I understand the problems you can see.
Oh-a ohI met your children
Oh-a oh
What did you tell them?
Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.Pictures came and broke your heart.
Oh-a-a-a ohAnd now we meet in an abandoned studio.
We hear the playback and it seems so long ago.
And you remember the jingles used to go.
Oh-a ohYou were the first one.
Oh-a ohYou were the last one.
Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.In my mind and in my car,
we can’t rewind we’ve gone to farOh-a-aho oh,
Oh-a-aho ohVideo killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.In my mind and in my car,
we can’t rewind we’ve gone to far.Pictures came and broke your heart,
put the blame on VTR.You are a radio star.
You are a radio star.Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.Video killed the radio star.
(You are a radio star.) [/i][color=orange]For the Trival, Historical, and Obvious Reasons[/color]
[color=red]2) Alice’s Restaurant – Arlo Guthrie[/color][i]This song is called Alice’s Restaurant, and it’s about Alice, and the
restaurant, but Alice’s Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant,
that’s just the name of the song, and that’s why I called the song Alice’s
Restaurant.You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant
You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant
Walk right in it’s around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want at Alice’s RestaurantNow it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on – two years ago on
Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Alice at the
restaurant, but Alice doesn’t live in the restaurant, she lives in the
church nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her husband Ray and
Fasha the dog. And livin’ in the bell tower like that, they got a lot of
room downstairs where the pews used to be in. Havin’ all that room,
seein’ as how they took out all the pews, they decided that they didn’t
have to take out their garbage for a long time.We got up there, we found all the garbage in there, and we decided it’d be
a friendly gesture for us to take the garbage down to the city dump. So
we took the half a ton of garbage, put it in the back of a red VW
microbus, took shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed
on toward the city dump.Well we got there and there was a big sign and a chain across across the
dump saying, “Closed on Thanksgiving.” And we had never heard of a dump
closed on Thanksgiving before, and with tears in our eyes we drove off
into the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage.We didn’t find one. Until we came to a side road, and off the side of the
side road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the
cliff there was another pile of garbage. And we decided that one big pile
is better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we
decided to throw our’s down.That’s what we did, and drove back to the church, had a thanksgiving
dinner that couldn’t be beat, went to sleep and didn’t get up until the
next morning, when we got a phone call from officer Obie. He said, “Kid,
we found your name on an envelope at the bottom of a half a ton of
garbage, and just wanted to know if you had any information about it.” And
I said, “Yes, sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie, I put that envelope
under that garbage.”After speaking to Obie for about fourty-five minutes on the telephone we
finally arrived at the truth of the matter and said that we had to go down
and pick up the garbage, and also had to go down and speak to him at the
police officer’s station. So we got in the red VW microbus with the
shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed on toward the
police officer’s station.Now friends, there was only one or two things that Obie coulda done at
the police station, and the first was he could have given us a medal for
being so brave and honest on the telephone, which wasn’t very likely, and
we didn’t expect it, and the other thing was he could have bawled us out
and told us never to be see driving garbage around the vicinity again,
which is what we expected, but when we got to the police officer’s station
there was a third possibility that we hadn’t even counted upon, and we was
both immediately arrested. Handcuffed. And I said “Obie, I don’t think I
can pick up the garbage with these handcuffs on.” He said, “Shut up, kid.
Get in the back of the patrol car.”And that’s what we did, sat in the back of the patrol car and drove to the
quote Scene of the Crime unquote. I want tell you about the town of
Stockbridge, Massachusets, where this happened here, they got three stop
signs, two police officers, and one police car, but when we got to the
Scene of the Crime there was five police officers and three police cars,
being the biggest crime of the last fifty years, and everybody wanted to
get in the newspaper story about it. And they was using up all kinds of
cop equipment that they had hanging around the police officer’s station.
They was taking plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and
they took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles
and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each
one was to be used as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach,
the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that’s not to
mention the aerial photography.After the ordeal, we went back to the jail. Obie said he was going to put
us in the cell. Said, “Kid, I’m going to put you in the cell, I want your
wallet and your belt.” And I said, “Obie, I can understand you wanting my
wallet so I don’t have any money to spend in the cell, but what do you
want my belt for?” And he said, “Kid, we don’t want any hangings.” I
said, “Obie, did you think I was going to hang myself for littering?”
Obie said he was making sure, and friends Obie was, cause he took out the
toilet seat so I couldn’t hit myself over the head and drown, and he took
out the toilet paper so I couldn’t bend the bars roll out the – roll the
toilet paper out the window, slide down the roll and have an escape. Obie
was making sure, and it was about four or five hours later that Alice
(remember Alice? It’s a song about Alice), Alice came by and with a few
nasty words to Obie on the side, bailed us out of jail, and we went back
to the church, had a another thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat,
and didn’t get up until the next morning, when we all had to go to court.We walked in, sat down, Obie came in with the twenty seven eight-by-ten
colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back
of each one, sat down. Man came in said, “All rise.” We all stood up,
and Obie stood up with the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy
pictures, and the judge walked in sat down with a seeing eye dog, and he
sat down, we sat down. Obie looked at the seeing eye dog, and then at the
twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows
and a paragraph on the back of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog.
And then at twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles
and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and began to cry,
’cause Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of American
blind justice, and there wasn’t nothing he could do about it, and the
judge wasn’t going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy
pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each
one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us. And
we was fined $50 and had to pick up the garbage in the snow, but thats not
what I came to tell you about.Came to talk about the draft.
They got a building down New York City, it’s called Whitehall Street,
where you walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected,
neglected and selected. I went down to get my physical examination one
day, and I walked in, I sat down, got good and drunk the night before, so
I looked and felt my best when I went in that morning. `Cause I wanted to
look like the all-American kid from New York City, man I wanted, I wanted
to feel like the all-, I wanted to be the all American kid from New York,
and I walked in, sat down, I was hung down, brung down, hung up, and all
kinds o’ mean nasty ugly things. And I waked in and sat down and they gave
me a piece of paper, said, “Kid, see the phsychiatrist, room 604.”And I went up there, I said, “Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I
wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and
guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill,
KILL, KILL.” And I started jumpin up and down yelling, “KILL, KILL,” and
he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down
yelling, “KILL, KILL.” And the sargent came over, pinned a medal on me,
sent me down the hall, said, “You’re our boy.”Didn’t feel too good about it.
Proceeded on down the hall gettin more injections, inspections,
detections, neglections and all kinds of stuff that they was doin’ to me
at the thing there, and I was there for two hours, three hours, four
hours, I was there for a long time going through all kinds of mean nasty
ugly things and I was just having a tough time there, and they was
inspecting, injecting every single part of me, and they was leaving no
part untouched. Proceeded through, and when I finally came to the see the
last man, I walked in, walked in sat down after a whole big thing there,
and I walked up and said, “What do you want?” He said, “Kid, we only got
one question. Have you ever been arrested?”And I proceeded to tell him the story of the Alice’s Restaurant Massacre,
with full orchestration and five part harmony and stuff like that and all
the phenome… – and he stopped me right there and said, “Kid, did you ever
go to court?”And I proceeded to tell him the story of the twenty seven eight-by-ten
colour glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and the paragraph on
the back of each one, and he stopped me right there and said, “Kid, I want
you to go and sit down on that bench that says Group W …. NOW kid!!”And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W’s
where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after
committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly
looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father
rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! And
they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the
bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest
father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean ‘n’ ugly
‘n’ nasty ‘n’ horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me
and said, “Kid, whad’ya get?” I said, “I didn’t get nothing, I had to pay
$50 and pick up the garbage.” He said, “What were you arrested for, kid?”
And I said, “Littering.” And they all moved away from me on the bench
there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I
said, “And creating a nuisance.” And they all came back, shook my hand,
and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing,
father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the
bench. And everything was fine, we was smoking cigarettes and all kinds of
things, until the Sargeant came over, had some paper in his hand, held it
up and said.“Kids, this-piece-of-paper’s-got-47-words-37-sentences-58-words-we-wanna-
know-details-of-the-crime-time-of-the-crime-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-
you-gotta-say-pertaining-to-and-about-the-crime-I-want-to-know-arresting-
officer’s-name-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say”, and talked for
forty-five minutes and nobody understood a word that he said, but we had
fun filling out the forms and playing with the pencils on the bench there,
and I filled out the massacre with the four part harmony, and wrote it
down there, just like it was, and everything was fine and I put down the
pencil, and I turned over the piece of paper, and there, there on the
other side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything else on
the other side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, read the
following words:(“KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?”)
I went over to the sargent, said, “Sargeant, you got a lot a damn gall to
ask me if I’ve rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I’m
sittin’ here on the bench, I mean I’m sittin here on the Group W bench
’cause you want to know if I’m moral enough join the army, burn women,
kids, houses and villages after bein’ a litterbug.” He looked at me and
said, “Kid, we don’t like your kind, and we’re gonna send you fingerprints
off to Washington.”And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a
study in black and white of my fingerprints. And the only reason I’m
singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar
situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if your in a
situation like that there’s only one thing you can do and that’s walk into
the shrink wherever you are ,just walk in say “Shrink, You can get
anything you want, at Alice’s restaurant.”. And walk out. You know, if
one person, just one person does it they may think he’s really sick and
they won’t take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,
they may think they’re both faggots and they won’t take either of them.
And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in
singin a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and walking out. They may think it’s an
organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said
fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and
walking out. And friends they may thinks it’s a movement.And that’s what it is , the Alice’s Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement, and
all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come’s around on the
guitar.With feeling. So we’ll wait for it to come around on the guitar, here and
sing it when it does. Here it comes.You can get anything you want, at Alice’s Restaurant
You can get anything you want, at Alice’s Restaurant
Walk right in it’s around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want, at Alice’s RestaurantThat was horrible. If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud.
I’ve been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it
for another twenty five minutes. I’m not proud… or tired.So we’ll wait till it comes around again, and this time with four part
harmony and feeling.We’re just waitin’ for it to come around is what we’re doing.
All right now.
You can get anything you want, at Alice’s Restaurant
Excepting Alice
You can get anything you want, at Alice’s Restaurant
Walk right in it’s around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want, at Alice’s RestaurantDa da da da da da da dum
At Alice’s Restaurant[/i][color=orange]well, can I Call the Movie an 1 hour and 51 minute long video??? heheheh :)[/color]
[color=red]3)Safty Dance -Men Without Hats[/color]
[i]We can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
‘Cause your friends don’t dance
and if they don’t dance
Well they’re, no friends of mine
Say, we can go where we want to
A place where they will never find
And we can act like we come
from out of this world
Leave the real one far behind
And we can dance, “dansez”
We can go when we want to
Night is young and so am I
And we can dress real neat from
our hats to our feet
And surprise them with a victory cry
Say, we can act if we want to
If we don’t nobody will
And you can act real rude
and totally removed
And I can act like an imbecile,
and say
We can dance, we can dance
Everything’s out of control
We can dance, we can dance
We’re doing it from pole to pole
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody look at your hands
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody’s taking the chance
Safe to dance
Oh well its safe to dance
Yes it safe to dance
We can dance if we want to
We’ve got all your life and mine
As long as we abuse it,
never going to lose it
Everything will work out right
I say, We can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
‘Cause your friends don’t dance,
and if they don’t dance
Well they’re no friends of mine
I say, we can dance, we can dance
Everything’s out of control
We can dance, we can dance
We’re doing it from pole to pole
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody look at your hands
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody’s taking the chance
Well it’s safe to dance
Yes it’s safe to dance
Well it’s safe to dance
Well it’s safe to dance
Yes it’s safe to dance
Well it’s safe to dance
Well it’s safe to dance
It’s a Safety Dance
Well it’s a Safety Dance
Oh it’s a Safety Dance
Oh it’s a Safety Dance
Well it’s a Safety Dance [/i][color=orange]Ren Fair Nuff said[/color]
[color=green]Here’s your Happy Fun Fish Head Play time BOUNS Hour[/color]
[i]Fish heads, Fish heads
Rolly polly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, YummmFish heads, Fish heads
Rolly polly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, YummmIn the morning
Laughing, happy
Fish Heads
In the evening
Floating in the soupFish heads, Fish heads
Rolly polly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, YummmAsk a Fish head
Anything you want to
They won’t answer
They can’t talkFish heads, Fish heads
Rolly polly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, YummmI took a Fish head
Out to see a movie
Didn’t have to pay
To get it inFish heads, Fish heads
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Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, Yummm
They can’t play baseball
They don’t wear sweaters
They’re not good dancers
They don’t play drumsFish heads, Fish heads
Rolly polly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, YummmRolly polly Fish heads
Are never seen drinking
Cappacino in Italian restaurants
With Oriental women…YeahFish heads, Fish heads
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Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, YummmFish heads, Fish heads
Rolly polly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, Yummm…
(Yummm)Fish heads, Fish heads
Rolly polly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
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Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, Yummm
YEAH!!!!!!!!![/i][color=green]My Longest Post EVER[/color]
[quote=”sgtdraino”]My favorite two videos are 80s “one hit wonder” classics:
“Take On Me” by Ah-Ha, featuring evil cartoon motorcycle riders going after this girl who gets magically transported into the cartoon, and rescued by the cartoon lead singer.
btw, if anybody knows where I can find video files for these videos, I’d really appreciate it. [/quote]
I like that one too. ;D It was always sone of my favorites. So if ever you do find a copy of the video…. me too!!!! 😉
I love some of Michael Jackson’s videos. Thriller of course, that one is fabulous. And Who is it was good…
But my fave is Scream. I like how every detail fits and I like the aggressiveness of the song (and the video). Hate those maudlin lyrics though. And I liked Moonwalker. The movie is pretty silly, but quite lovely and Smooth Criminal is GREAT.But videos I really think high of – Bowie’s “I’m afraid of Americans”, Nick Cave’s “Fifteen feet of pure white snow”, marvelous Links 2, 3, 4 by Rammstein (and Sonne and Du riechst so gut by the same band), Walking in my shoes by Depeche Mode, Crucified by Army of Lovers…
Fatboy Slim is not my cup of tea, but his videos are always perfect. My fave is Weapon of choice – for reasons pretty obvious…:-)
And Faith no more had some really fantastic kick**s videos.
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