Thursday, December 6, 1984
Daily Nebraskan
Pago 9
Obscure videos
from past years
get little airplay
By Scott Uarrah
Dally Nebraakan Staff Reporter
It has been three years since
MTV first went on the air and
introduced a new art form: The
music video. Although most of
the cable music channel's pro
gramming consists of safe pabu
lum, occasionally they will play
more adventurous videos by eso
teric groups. For this week's col
umn, HI report on the obscure
videos from the past few years
that have received little airplay.
David Bowie, "Ashes To
Ashes": This 1980 video is para
mount ot any of its recent coun
terparts in both conceptual and
creative content. Bowie sports
the eerie clown costume featured
on the cover of his Scary Mons
ters LP as he frolicks around an
iridescent pink ocean with a clan
of ballerians, nuns and British
pop star Steve Strange. Scenes
involving David'3 astronaut alter
ego Major Tom in a psychedelic
cave, colorful cinematography
and an overall surrealistic ap
proach make this video bring new
meaning to avant-garde art.
Nina Hagen, "New York, New
York": Germany's Kurt Vonnegut
of new wave music, Nina Hagen
is at her satirical best in this
promo for her send-up of Frank
Sinatra's schmaltzy anthem. This
piece is merely footage of Hagen
singing with her band, but her
wacky make-up, quirky clothes
and campy voice make it the
paragon of innovative parody.
Dead or Alive, "I'd Dp Any
thing": A lady in Kansas com
plained to MTV about " a woman
exposing herself in this video.
She was referring to ld vocalist
Peter Bums, diabolic Ji version of
Boy George. The video opens up
showing Burns and a group of
drug-dazed people in awhile room
as prurient adjectives in phonetic
form flash across the screen.
Burns, brandishing long frizzy hair
and woman's leather pantsuit,
growls and gyrates as his eyes
metamorphize into a sinister black
hue. None of this has much to do
with phonetics, but it is so refresh
ingly bizarre that it really doesnt
matter.
Frankie Goes to Hollywood,
"Relax": MTV shows a cleaned
up version of this video, but USA
and Showtime show the unex
purgated original. The video takes
place in a seedy gay bar where
band leader Holly Johnson eyes
myriads of leather-frocked men.
Like the band's music, this con
cept makes numerous social
statements, but it paints a much
too stereotypical and salacious
picture of gay culture.
Donal Fagen, "New Frontier":
Fagen, formerly of Steely Dan,
uses animation, meticulously de
signed props, early '60s suburban
settings and costumes to make a
potent political statement with
this video. Two high school kids,
in Ward and June Cleaver attire,
are shown sneaking into daddy's
bomb shelter for a virginity-breaking
ceremony.
As they indulge in mushroom
clouds of passino, cartoons of
Soviets pushing the Armageddon
'button' and shots of Space Age
memorabilia are tossed in. The
most amazing thing about all this
symbolic action is that it com
bines humor, politics and imagi
nation without being pretentious.
Duraa Dssrsa, "Girls On Fiba":
Both the BBC and MTV banned
this controversial video, but USA's
"Night Flight" on cable shows it
very late at night. The scene is a
hedonistic nightclub where girls
mudwrestle, strip, rub oil into
sumo wrestlers' backs and act as
sleazy as possible. It's all done in
good fun, but fundamentalist
Christians have called it "atheis
tic decadence that will corrupt
young minds" definitely a point
in its favor!
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