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Friday, 26 February 2010

Wilkommen!

Music videos. The forgotten artform.

Oh, I don't mean your flouncy modern swag, with it's computer generated drumkits and Emos and Puff Jay-Z and birds dancing round with no kecks on. I mean proper music videos. From One Million Years B.C., when there were no rules, and recording artists had about as much idea of how to act in front a camera as you or I. A time when directors first cottoned on to the idea that a three or four minute promo for a Saxon song could, in fact, contain as many layers of narrative depth as a Dostoyevsky novel. But with much better barnets.

Welcome, then, to 'World Of Videocraft', where I'll be presenting the very greatest music videos of the 70s, 80s (and, yes, sometimes 90s), and dissecting them till they scream like a girl.

Your comments and, especially, requests are very welcome. Definitely requests.

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