Video Hangover: Art Of Noise - "Close (To The Edit)"
Every week, we dig in the archives for videos that we find noteworthy, memorable, or just unbelievably stupid. And then, we break 'em down for you. Why Video Hangover? Because when you watch as many videos as we do, you're going to feel it afterwards.
"Close (To The Edit)"
Art Of Noise, 1984
A young girl picks a fight with an orchestra -- and wins.
Beaten to death with an oboe, her spirit demands vengeance
We used to be afraid of Prodigy interpretive frontman Keith Flint -- until we realized that he stole his schtick from a 9-year-old girl. Now, we're afraid of the girl. If you woke up in the middle of the night and there was a stranger in your room, who would freak you out more: a dude with an American flag sweater, or a CBGB's kid lurching around like some J-horror ghoul and karate chopping all of your stuff?
Sonata No. 23 for piano and wiener dog has not been played since
By 1984, Art of Noise's fancy sampling equipment and avant-garde experimentalism had already destroyed classical music forever. Violin? Stomped! Horn? Sliced! Piano? Smashed! Small dog? Taunted with sausage! Suck on that, Beethoven!
Lou Dobbs doesn't want to hear it, but we know a bunch of undocumented Guatemalans who could wreck that piano twice as fast for a quarter of the pay
Three guys it takes to destroy a violin? Five cuts to dismember a cello? Sure, the little girl is young for a contractor, but where did she find these people? They're totally incompetent, and they dress like Huey Lewis & the News. This is the problem with Americans, in a nutshell: low tolerance for hard work, high tolerance for Huey Lewis & the News.
Posted at 1:21 PM in Video, Video Hangover
Yep - that kid is certainly creepy, and boy does 80s 'avant garde pop' sound dated now..
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You forgot the best part! It was directed by a guy with the best name in music videos: Zbigniew Rybczynski
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While we are on the subject of Prodigy, Those "Hey"s are totally sampled in Firestarter.
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This video changed my life. Seriously.
Now it just seems a little silly.
*sigh*
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The problem with Americans? I don't know, there was definitely something very French about that video.
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Dated on the surface..(Big drums,sampled orchestral hits,(think they were some of the first to really explore thoses,commercially)-Rough 8-bit sampling etc..But this group changed my life...(i.e. Beat Box,Moments in love,etc..) By showing the limitless possibilities of Electronica and sampling,at a time when synth pop/electro and hiphop Ebb and flowed together..I remember BeatBox being a big Breakdance track for my ol' crew..''Ba-Ba-Boh,Boh,Boh!'' And yet,in many ways AON have retained an inovative and fresh vibe...Simular to They're cousins......Kraftwerk..
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The end of control by the big media tastemakers, in this post internet world, has stripped the concept of "dated" of nearly all meaning.
We are the DJ's.
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I want to know what happened to that girl. Where is she now
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