We’ve been watching an awesome amount of the digital cable channel VH1 Classic. This is what MTV used to be – mostly music videos. Think of an almost 24 hour Rage, although split into various different shows and intersperced with the occasional less interesting broadcast (such as a live performance by The Rolling Stones…)
Our favourite shows are The Vault (which shows very obscure videos), Alternative (in America the term seems to describe anything that didn’t chart) and The 80’s. Alternative in particular often shows some amazing videos, such as Kraftwerk‘s The Robots (which I had only see once in my life to my knowledge) and ancient INXS or Pseudo Echo fare (amazing considering this is the US).
Yesterday they played the video for the Depeche Mode song One Caress. I was flabbergasted because:
1) I had never seen this video,
2) One Caress was never a single, and
3) This video is not even included on the recently released DVD of all of Depeche Mode’s music videos!
Furthermore the video was very good. Unlike other Mode videos it had a story (of sorts), and since One Caress is a Martin Gore vocal featured him prominently throughout. Here are some shots to give you an idea of how it looked:
This wasn’t the only amazing video on yesterday’s show. But the other one I am leaving as a guessing game. Bernard will (should) be able to guess this on sight, but I wonder can anyone else. Artist and single please 🙂
“Homosapien” by Pete Shelley. Not at all camp, that clip 🙂 Isn’t there a Commodore PET in the background?
It might be a Commodore PET in the video, but he put a ZX Spectrum program at the end of one of this albums. I remember listening to it on cassette!