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C'Pi
Apr 13, 2014, 9:47:44 AM4/13/14
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This is for Gumby and Muuurgh because Bill will be absolutely no help at all.
Is there another version of this video? One in which the cabinet doesn't fill up with water and drown everyone? No, I'm not talking about the 1990 version. This was my first exposure to The Cure and I'm sure it would have freaked me out with them ending up in water like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjvfIJstWeg
Bill Anderson
Apr 13, 2014, 2:38:17 PM4/13/14
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You aliens are absolutely no help at all.
--
Bill Anderson
I am the Mighty Favog
C'Pi
Apr 22, 2014, 11:18:19 AM4/22/14
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Pork Coffee
May 3, 2014, 8:03:43 PM5/3/14
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On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 06:47:44 -0700 (PDT), "C'Pi" <jas...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>
>This is for Gumby and Muuurgh because Bill will be absolutely no help at all.
>
>Is there another version of this video? One in which the cabinet doesn't fill up with water and drown everyone? No, I'm not talking about the 1990 version. This was my first exposure to The Cure and I'm sure it would have freaked me out with them ending up in water like that.
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjvfIJstWeg
I'm confused. I know I've seen the vieo but now I'm not allowed to.
In fact none of the Cure videos seem to be on YouTube for me to look
at. The one I remember seemed to have some blacklight neon makeup
thing going on.
The Wikipedia entry describing the video is fascinating, though.
Music video
The music video is written and directed by the band's frequent music
video director Tim Pope. It consists of the band all inside a wardrobe
on the edge of a cliff. Following the musical scheme of the song,
which builds up instrumentally, all the band members are inside the
wardrobe, but not playing the instruments they would actually be
playing, for obvious reasons. Boris Williams is simply clapping to the
beat, keyboardist Lol Tolhurst is playing a very small, handheld
keyboard, and Porl Thompson on the top shelf is plucking a comb to
represent the short high sounds in the song. Bassist Simon Gallup does
not play, and instead appears to be tied up and gagged. Tim Pope later
revealed that Gallup had a light bulb in his mouth to create a "lit
from within" feel, and the cloth was there to hide the wire.[5] Robert
Smith then comes from the back of the wardrobe and sings, also playing
with finger puppets, which appear to be voodoo dolls of the band
members, as when he moves them, the corresponding member moves. He
then becomes more violent with the dolls, shaking them around heavily,
which in turn causes the band members to hit into the sides of the
wardrobe, which eventually results in the wardrobe falling off the
cliff and into the sea. As they go into the sea, the wardrobe fills up
slowly with water, like a capsized ship, but the band members continue
to play their "instruments." The video ends with the wardrobe full of
water and a band member pushing a rubber duck across the screen.
The music video was rated 13th on "20 to 1 Amazing Moments in Music"
aired on Australia's Nine Network 4 March 2007. Essentially the show
rated the most distinctive music videos (won by Peter Gabriel's
Sledgehammer).
Sledgehammer had nothing on the violent closet fight, dammit.
Hanky Huckleberry
wrote:
>
>This is for Gumby and Muuurgh because Bill will be absolutely no help at all.
>
>Is there another version of this video? One in which the cabinet doesn't fill up with water and drown everyone? No, I'm not talking about the 1990 version. This was my first exposure to The Cure and I'm sure it would have freaked me out with them ending up in water like that.
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjvfIJstWeg
In fact none of the Cure videos seem to be on YouTube for me to look
at. The one I remember seemed to have some blacklight neon makeup
thing going on.
The Wikipedia entry describing the video is fascinating, though.
Music video
The music video is written and directed by the band's frequent music
video director Tim Pope. It consists of the band all inside a wardrobe
on the edge of a cliff. Following the musical scheme of the song,
which builds up instrumentally, all the band members are inside the
wardrobe, but not playing the instruments they would actually be
playing, for obvious reasons. Boris Williams is simply clapping to the
beat, keyboardist Lol Tolhurst is playing a very small, handheld
keyboard, and Porl Thompson on the top shelf is plucking a comb to
represent the short high sounds in the song. Bassist Simon Gallup does
not play, and instead appears to be tied up and gagged. Tim Pope later
revealed that Gallup had a light bulb in his mouth to create a "lit
from within" feel, and the cloth was there to hide the wire.[5] Robert
Smith then comes from the back of the wardrobe and sings, also playing
with finger puppets, which appear to be voodoo dolls of the band
members, as when he moves them, the corresponding member moves. He
then becomes more violent with the dolls, shaking them around heavily,
which in turn causes the band members to hit into the sides of the
wardrobe, which eventually results in the wardrobe falling off the
cliff and into the sea. As they go into the sea, the wardrobe fills up
slowly with water, like a capsized ship, but the band members continue
to play their "instruments." The video ends with the wardrobe full of
water and a band member pushing a rubber duck across the screen.
The music video was rated 13th on "20 to 1 Amazing Moments in Music"
aired on Australia's Nine Network 4 March 2007. Essentially the show
rated the most distinctive music videos (won by Peter Gabriel's
Sledgehammer).
Sledgehammer had nothing on the violent closet fight, dammit.
Hanky Huckleberry
Bill Anderson
May 3, 2014, 9:02:53 PM5/3/14
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C'Pi
May 4, 2014, 3:44:16 AM5/4/14
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On Sunday, May 4, 2014 8:03:43 AM UTC+8, Pork Coffee wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 06:47:44 -0700 (PDT), "C'Pi" <jasom>
Well I couldn't find a different version so I must have been wrong. Maybe I repressed it.
Backlight neon makeup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scif2vfg1ug
And I think my favorite Cure song. I think. Maybe.
My favorite Peter Gabriel video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0C3DHp36zc
And strangely it bothers me less than The Cure under water in a cabinet.
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 06:47:44 -0700 (PDT), "C'Pi" <jasom>
Backlight neon makeup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scif2vfg1ug
And I think my favorite Cure song. I think. Maybe.
My favorite Peter Gabriel video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0C3DHp36zc
And strangely it bothers me less than The Cure under water in a cabinet.
C'Pi
May 4, 2014, 3:46:46 AM5/4/14
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On Sunday, May 4, 2014 9:02:53 AM UTC+8, Bill Anderson wrote:
> On 5/3/2014 7:03 PM, Pork Coffee wrote:
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> > On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 06:47:44 -0700 (PDT), "C'Pi" <jaom>
> On 5/3/2014 7:03 PM, Pork Coffee wrote:
>
Pork Coffee
May 5, 2014, 7:55:49 PM5/5/14
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On Sun, 4 May 2014 00:46:46 -0700 (PDT), "C'Pi" <jas...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
And that takes the cake!
Hanky Huckleberry
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Hanky Huckleberry
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