It was about 11 o'clock at night and I was trawling through Youtube looking for music. What I particularly enjoy is stumbling across a new music channel and strip-mining it for anything that looks interesting.
Sometimes I find fogotten classics, sometimes I get cool stuff I'd never heard of and sometimes I get little moments of oddness. Well, on my safari into the wildlands of Youtube I found two minor gems.
This particular channel - or cluster of channels- was dedicated to music performances from German TV so i knew right away I was going to find things that never hit the radar over here.
Let's start with this one. Pink Project - Another Brick In The Wall (1982)
Pink Project were an italian disco outfit that had the genius idea of mashing up "Another Brick In The wall" with a couple of Alan Parsons Project tracks that happened to have similar tempo. It really does work awfully well although it took me a while to work out what was going on.
However, that's not why this is on the blog today. with the song a hit in Germany, studio execs wanted the band to come in and perform it and the result is... borderline disturbing.
What you get is a face off between some sort of Space KKK and a group of children who, frankly, look like they are just about to open their mouths wide and reveal flesh-ripping teeth.
Credit to: Fritz51330
Apparently the Italian team re-recorded everything from scratch, including the iconic guitar solo.
Song number two is another case of the song not being weird but the presentation sure is.
Copes - Hold On (1982)
A quick look on the net didn't turn up much on this band beyond that they were Dutch and seem to have released this one single and nothing more. Discogs.com only lists two members so that might explain why the cameraman blatantly ignores the bassplayer and guitarist.
So
the song is a perfectly ordinary piece of sorta-new-wave pop-rock.
decent enough and with some potential to sell records in the USA if they'd had a push. The video/ tv
performance was clearly filmed on a shoestring in a spare lockup but
somebody did try and jazz it up a bit with some haphazardly-applied
twinkling stars. Bless them for trying.
Oh yes, then there's the reasons I am posting the video.
Firstly: the backing dancers - a quartet of young ladies wearing lingerie and bridal veils who don't seem to have got any choreography beyond "Wiggle a bit. Try and look sexy." My theory is that a hen-party happened to wander past and got offered a ten-minute job.
Secondly: The flying banana.
WHY IS THERE A FLYING BANANA?
I demand that somebody explain the FLYING BANANA right goddam now
Credit to:Fritz51333
If you fancy delving deeper into the rabbit hole of 80s German pop charts then check out the channels I linked above and show the uploader some love. Ask him about the banana.
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