Ah, the early 80’s, when Video Toaster was all the rage… the music holds up though. I’ve probably lost sight of the world, even as I know it only exists at my whim.
Some of the pop-oriented Vancouver indie music from when I arrived in Vancouver in shortpants and couldn’t get in to the Smilin’ Buddha Cabaret no matter how many times I tried (OK, got in a few glorious times but looked so young I got kicked out as soon as I was spotted):
The hardcore punk stuff I was really into didn’t lend itself to music videos: DOA, Subhumans etc. from Vancouver ... Black Flag Dead Kennedy’s etc from L.A.
Carole Pope the lead singer of Rough Trade was born in Manchester, England but grew up in Scarborough, Ontario. She brought very explicit and raunchy homoerotic thematic content to the music of Rough Trade. Interesting lady. She was in a relationship with Dusty Springfield in the early 1980s I think.
Wow. What blasts from the past. Rough Trade makes me long for the days when videos were fun to watch. But like Channel 35, all good things come/cum to an end.
What an amazing era for music. And cars! Great cars from the late sixties , early seventies.
Too bad about Nixon and Vietnam, and all those damn hippies.
Going way off topic but I was thinking about the tumultuous events in the Western World in the Spring of 1968 (Prague Spring,Paris riots, MLK Jr & RFK Assassinations, The Tet Offensive/Vietnam War protests etc.) in relation to the Arab Spring/Awakening of 2011. Interesting times. Don’t know whether there’s any good music going along with the revolution this time round…
Yeah, I meant to say something about the Modernettes video—thought i had, in fact. If you told me it was a video of some Williamsburg band of today, I’d believe you. Loved it.
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