The spirit of 1984 here. The best time to be a teenager or twenty something. I was 23 and still love it in 2020. Thanks to these guys the 80's still rule. We had It good.
@@caseyjones7404 Agreed. Speaking of video games, this song was also sampled (specifically the “HEY!” part) in the EU/JP version of Sonic CD. It’s really neat stuff.
This was the peak of how just about anything went on MTV as far as the music videos they played. The music was often songs most American radio stations at the time would have never touched otherwise because the major labels in conjunction with the big radio stations in America always set the tone for what was played there, outside of influential outlier radio stations like WLIR in Long Island, NY.
Rybczynski also did a wonderful video for Stereotomy by the Alan Parsons Project. He had an amazing gift for translating music into incredibly arresting, inventive, visual pieces of art in their own right.
I was obsessed with this video. I only saw it once. I was about the same age as the kid in the video and I’d never seen or heard anything like it. I was a bit scared, confused, excited, and it struck me as something so unique, I wanted to see more stuff like this. I never saw the video again until TH-cam, haha. It’s interesting the things that spark imagination and leave a lasting impression.
Late teens then and even I was freaked out. I remember the first time I saw it and every time after, I tried to figure what the heck they were doing and why, but none of it makes sense and that's okay. lol
Me too because l am also able to travel vack in time with my time machine from the future and it's great and this all really totally happened and l can prove it and everything.
I was 18 when this video came out and was a newlywed living in a small apartment and MTV had just come out and I remember being mesmerized by each video. This one particularly had me on the edge of my seat with my mouth open. Wow! it takes me back. Wish I was young again and was seeing this for the first time!
I was 17 in 1987. Senior in HS. When I ran across them. By that time? They'd already been out 1-2 years. Being a kid, life-long hiphop head, and from the hood in Long Beach CA around that time who never heard of punk music or anything like it, I always thought the little girl was a bit disturbing. Lol. Now? I just miss certain things about the '80's. Like genuinely artistic, innovative music. Like...The Art of Noise.
In 1985, after "Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise?" had recently been released, I happened to be living in London. One day I was walking through a hallway to get on the tube. Someone walking just a few moments ahead of me had apparently just purchased this on cassette tape at the HMW and dropped it practically at my feet. I couldn't find its owner, so I brought it home with me and was pleasantly surprised when I played this wondrous album. As a young teen, I was used to hearing the likes of Duran and Wham, so this was a refreshingly different and rebellious punk rock/synthpop anthem that got me to open my mind to more experimental bands. Thanks to whoever it was who dropped that brand new cassette in a London tube station hallway!
These videos are like well kept secrets just between us 80's kids who had the privilege to watch hours of these cool ass videos! I'm feeling especially lucky!
I was an 80s kid and only saw it once when take young, wasn't until Beavis and butt head watched it that I remember it. It's one of those weird things you saw and wondered if you dreamed it.
@@agargoyle12345 I know, right? Personally, I've always thought the horror genre should make more extensive use of stop-motion, in general...and *claymation*, in particular! :-D
I was 14 when this came out and when I heard it - and then saw it on MTV - my brain basically melted at its sheer awesomeness. 40 years later, nothing has changed.
Sadly you will never see anything like this on Amercan Idol. Or hear it on FM radio. This piece has stayed with me -- haunted me -- close to 40 years now. Art has the power to stay with us.
This video is both beautiful and nightmarish at the same time. I was 13 when it came out and even now the little girl frightens me. It's as though she's the puppet master of these three men to do her bidding, and that her frailty should not be underestimated. The technique used in this video gives it somewhat of a stop motion effect making it look very surrealistic which also adds to its already disturbing visuals. I absolutely love it.
Zbignew Rybczyński was a BIG thing in MTV videos at the time, having just gotten an Oscar for his human stop-motion in his short "Tango". It was always a treat to see Zbignew's cartoony motion or never-ending lines show up in videos like Lou Reed's "The Original Wrapper" or Pet Shop Boys' "Opportunities": th-cam.com/video/t1Am45JrwQ4/w-d-xo.html
Destroying objects with power tools and edited to the beat. Love it. I think about this video whenever I go to Home Depot. It is the only way I can tolerate walking into that place.
I read an interview with a member of Art of Noise about the car bit in this song. They were in the offices of Sarm Studios sometime in 1982 when they heard someone struggling to start a car in the lane outside the building. They stuck a mike into a recorder and caught about 45 seconds of it , transferred it into in their sampler and the rest is history.
There were actually three of them. This (the first) was on heavy rotation on MTV in the US, but it was banned in New Zealandm, rarely seen in most countries, and a less-violent animated clip replaced it in many countries. There was later another promo featuring the band in the studio. I don't recall any of them being shown on TOTP in the UK though, although I bought the 7". There were at least five different 12" versions and a cassette single that lasted 20 minutes. ZTT loved putting out loads of different formats. (They'd had great success doing exactly that with Frankie Goes to Hollywood the year before).
Night Flight was one of the best television shows ever to appear on American commercial television. It was groundbreaking in that it ran all night long -- essentially from about 9 p.m. through 5 a.m. every Friday and Saturday night throughout the entire decade of the 1980s -- showing avant-garde stuff from cutting edge music videos to indie films, and interviews with artists, writers, musicians, wild B movies, obscure docu films, film shorts etc. Night Flight was an absolute treasure.
Yes Night Flight! Loved it! Banned music videos and trippy films!! I remember MTV would not show "Hot in the city" 1987 version by Billy Idol but Night Flight did!
I have periodically pictured this in my mind since 1985 and just now thought to look it up. So happy to see this very odd and memorable video again. Loved my MTV back in the day! Thank you for posting this!!!
One of the best music videos ever. My name is Bicycle Bob and I approved this message and now I'm going to destroy a musical instrument that has served it's purpose.
Wow.😳 This popped into my head and I could NOT remember the name of the group or the song. Had to look for “80s song. Video has little girl yelling Hey!”… And here I am! Damnnnnnnn takes me back.
Art of Noise is super tight!!! I remember this jam when I was seventeen and L.L Kool J was rocking the bells! You know what, these kind of jams make really miss back in the day! Do your thang, Art of Noise!!!
This blew my mind back in the day. It hadn't occurred to me that you could have a video that wasn't the band playing the song. Using weird noises as percussion was amazing, too.
Yello Art Of Noise Sunscreem 03 The Shamen Pet Shop Boys Electronic Music 80s and 90s were the best. Art Of Noise did so many good albums and I have their albums and Yello. I miss the 80s and 90s Art of Noise and Yello were ahead of their time and so were so many other good artists like Madonna
In my eyes the Girl of Destruction is an icon, I always wondered what her script name was… hopefully not just “young girl”… anyhow she’s an image I have never forgotten.
Was watching venture brothers where they reference this. I couldn't remember who it was, I just remember a Beavis and butthead episode where they had this. Husband found it for me💕💕
I have been looking for this video FOR EVER! Thanks to my brother, who is 7 years younger, knew the artist when I described the video to him. Wow, I'm so happy.
1984, I'm 19 and this come's the radio [bbc radio 1] and I say to myself Wow ... what editing ... then I see the video on BBC's Top of The Pops 'surreal' ... what the video is saying, you can make 'New Music'= the young girl, without 'Old Traditional Instruments'= the older men. Just like Delia Derbyshire did in the sixties and Kraftwerk did in the seventies onwards ...
Again!... Brilliance and art! I had to comment again! Oh my..... I was working at a record shop sophomore year in high-school...in a mall..when this came out! It was funny... a lot of break dancers bought the album and were very disappointed ...I was Full of glee...knowing that this was brilliant...ground breaking avant-garde electronic dance music. It changed the world with a whispering Punch that very few people even comprehend. At 56 years old and owning many Art Of Noise LPs and Cassettes and CDs..and digital! Brilliance and creativity will never die!!!!!!! Well done !
There was simply nothing like the Art of Noise, when we were break dancing at Yonge and Dundas with a piece of cardboard, they were the best of the hard bass and snare drowning out the Noise
Dude! Fellow Canuck here. What you just said is EVERYTHING. The craze was far reaching. We were down at our local strip mall (in front of Beckers) in MISSISSAUGA (Meadowvale) with the cardboard, in our nylon (slippery) track suits, ghetto blaster pumping out this song. Midnight Star - "Freakazoid" was another one we used a LOT. Big up! The burbs were in on it too :)
Ronald Chase Not to be confused with the Yes title of that name. It was a time of sorting out who owns what, with digital samplers substituting for scratchers. At about the same time, Jackson Browne released the song "Lawyers In Love."
The Music and the Sound is still ahead of it's time. It's amazing that see that some of Art of Noise's and Kraftwerks' sounds are still on DJ and Radio Station Playlists in 2018.
More like - Director to Anne Dudley: Okay we're going dress you up like a punk rocker and let your break classical instruments. Anne Dudley: Yeah, i'm not doing that. Director: Shit, now what am I going to do, it's too late to recast.
At the time, Britain was leading the way as far as music videos went. MTV had many music videos primarily from British acts in their early years in America purely by necessity because very few American acts did them. They were always financed by the record labels and considered expensive investments.
Britain has a long history of producing quality visuals. It used to have some of the best film studios (including special effects studios for things like that terrible space opera about Luke Skywalker and his dad) and still provides the best actors. This video was made by someone Polish, though, I think, and the girl was called Sylwia.
As someone who was first a Yes fan, and then a fan of the Buggles as well, it's nice to learn of even more great Trevor Horn stuff. Randomly heard of this bands existence when I tuned into NPR for like five seconds yesterday, and was lucky enough to find it on vinyl at a record store the same day. Expecting great music from it.
There were many earth-shattering moments defining my youth during this musical era where I had to pull over in the car just to get the details of the track I just heard. I still listen to college radio stations in anticipation....but nothing yet. Maybe I'm just old.
that was some childhood i had in ENGLAND as well !! when brilliant music ruled the airwaves !! though i didn't have quite as colourful a costume!! CHEERS!!
I was thirteen in 1984 and this cut was playing at every cookout during Labor Day of that year. I still love this video and cut after all of these beautiful years.❤
I very randomly get this song stuck in my head. Even if I haven't heard it in years, I'll be walking around like 'bum. bum. badumdumdumdum.......la la LA!'
Ladies and Gentlemen watching this video 📷📸🎥🎧On Wednesday October 23rd 2024____Peace and Great Things to you and your family and friends 🙏 from Chicago Illinois USA 💯⌚❤
Claude Debussy was just inventing impressionist classical music in the '80s. Oh, you mean the nineteen-eighties. I think the synth-poppers of that decade are more stuck in their time. The Art of Noise were obviously very reliant on 1980s technology but made music that is somehow timeless.
This Track and the Album 'Who's afraid of the Art of Noise' is pretty much the sound track of my life. Purchased on Vinyl some 35 years ago nearly, I still adore it all. Just Awesome. So grateful they put it out there.
Imagine if you will, a drunken night in which you come out of a blackout at a house you don't recognize at 2 o'clock in the morning and watching this video on a 72" projection television. True story.
sitting on my couch during the 80s in austin, texas, just ate a decent sized shroom when i decided to watch mtv and this came on... totally perfect energies radiated from my dwelling to begin a darn good life....now 73 years old and this still turns me on....OH MY
This song just reminds me of my dad 🖤 I’m so thankful to have been raised on, and introduced to such interesting and experimental music. Love you dad. Your music will always live on through me ✨
❤️I want to personally hang out with almost every person in this comments thread. This track was my gateway drug into Art of Noise, ZTT, and later industrial music when I was a pup. It still sounds FRESH and I want to know who directed this video
In case you never looked it up, the director was Zbigniew Rybczyńsk, an award-winning Polish director and teacher. He made several pop videos for popstrels like the Pet Shop Boys, Mick Jagger, Talking Heads, and Lou Reed. He made (the first ever High-Definition) pop video for a re-release of John Lennon's 'Imagine' in 1986. I believe it was Zbig's daughter in the video, which was shot at what's now called the High Line Urban Park in NYC.
Amazing that this video was shot on the derelict, dangerous, and abandoned shipping rail line on the west side of Manhattan, which has since been reclaimed and converted into the very beautiful linear park known as "The High Line"
High Line, when it was really edgy. I read a blog post by some guy who used to go up there to smoke a joint now and then, back in the 90s. There were still chunks of piano scattered around.
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Art of Noise, Yello, Laurie Anderson... the decade when you could make entirely unique, experimental music AND be in the charts.
Charts the in be AND music experimental, unique entirely make could you when decade the ... Anderson Laurie, Yello, Noise of Art.
@@wgaule agree absolutely I
@Kyrkos Ekaterinaris Happy to meet another Yello fan. Found them on TH-cam then bought most of their discography
My life back in the 70's and '80's. 55 Years old and still loving this stuff!!!!
Very much so!👍
The spirit of 1984 here. The best time to be a teenager or twenty something. I was 23 and still love it in 2020. Thanks to these guys the 80's still rule. We had It good.
I was 17 and a senior in high school. Loved loved loved the Art of Noise, Beat Box, moments in love, just a great group and a great time in music
I was 13 and bought this on vinyl,totally changed my musical outlook and influences
Yep just before greed is good kicked in.
All music genres we're well represented back then...running forward on all 8 cylinders!
Yes completely agree
Jesus freekin cripes batman.... THIS IS WHY THE 80s is HANDS DOWN THE GREATEST ERA IN CREATIVE HISTORY
groovy video game style bass line as well
@@caseyjones7404 Agreed. Speaking of video games, this song was also sampled (specifically the “HEY!” part) in the EU/JP version of Sonic CD. It’s really neat stuff.
Ooh, home of the original 'Hey' for the Prodigy's Firestarter 🤩
Yes I was thinking the same thing... No?
Yup 😊 I reckon you might be right
they reckon Prodigy paid a million for that sample
Rightyou are correct 👍
Creator of Blue man crew! Right
Out of all the videos that have been played on MTV over the years, this is easily one of the most surreal.
This. And Bowie's Ashes to Ashes.
Rockit
One of my 80s faves! Craaaazy!
This was the peak of how just about anything went on MTV as far as the music videos they played. The music was often songs most American radio stations at the time would have never touched otherwise because the major labels in conjunction with the big radio stations in America always set the tone for what was played there, outside of influential outlier radio stations like WLIR in Long Island, NY.
Rybczynski also did a wonderful video for Stereotomy by the Alan Parsons Project. He had an amazing gift for translating music into incredibly arresting, inventive, visual pieces of art in their own right.
Winner of the "Best Experimental Music Video Award" at the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards....back when they used to show groundbreaking videos like this.
I can't tell You how much I miss those days
I miss those days
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MTV is the 80s was wonderful..I miss it:(
Back when the "M" stood for something.
I was obsessed with this video. I only saw it once. I was about the same age as the kid in the video and I’d never seen or heard anything like it. I was a bit scared, confused, excited, and it struck me as something so unique, I wanted to see more stuff like this. I never saw the video again until TH-cam, haha. It’s interesting the things that spark imagination and leave a lasting impression.
Dude, same!!
Good for you.
Late teens then and even I was freaked out. I remember the first time I saw it and every time after, I tried to figure what the heck they were doing and why, but none of it makes sense and that's okay. lol
A similar video might be michael.jackson s leave me alone
the past builds the present;the present makes the future
I was 13 and THIS changed my life.. I love so much music and that was the best era EVER!!! 80s and 90s, and now is pretty awesome too!!
I dressed up as this little girl for Halloween one year in the 80s. Best party ever!
I did too
Anyone recognize the costume? And, anyone else watched New Wave Theater with Peter Ivers?
Me too because l am also able to travel vack in time with my time machine from the future and it's great and this all really totally happened and l can prove it and everything.
I wonder where she is today.
How adorable was she through the entire piece??? 😊
I was 18 when this video came out and was a newlywed living in a small apartment and MTV had just come out and I remember being mesmerized by each video. This one particularly had me on the edge of my seat with my mouth open. Wow! it takes me back. Wish I was young again and was seeing this for the first time!
Why did you get married at 18?
I was 17 in 1987. Senior in HS. When I ran across them. By that time? They'd already been out 1-2 years. Being a kid, life-long hiphop head, and from the hood in Long Beach CA around that time who never heard of punk music or anything like it, I always thought the little girl was a bit disturbing. Lol.
Now? I just miss certain things about the '80's. Like genuinely artistic, innovative music. Like...The Art of Noise.
How long did the marriage last?
You have to imagine this little girl's experience during this video shoot -- she was on top of the world 🔥🔥
A little mini Cyndi Lauper for sure!
She was amazing in that video. She kinda reminded me of the "Feral Kid" from "The Road Warrior".
That little girl is director's (Zbigniew Rybczyński) daughter.
@@lanabuttacavoli9619 Come on. That dog also was belonging to Rybczyński.
What are you talking about
In 1985, after "Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise?" had recently been released, I happened to be living in London. One day I was walking through a hallway to get on the tube. Someone walking just a few moments ahead of me had apparently just purchased this on cassette tape at the HMW and dropped it practically at my feet. I couldn't find its owner, so I brought it home with me and was pleasantly surprised when I played this wondrous album. As a young teen, I was used to hearing the likes of Duran and Wham, so this was a refreshingly different and rebellious punk rock/synthpop anthem that got me to open my mind to more experimental bands. Thanks to whoever it was who dropped that brand new cassette in a London tube station hallway!
Completely agree on the innovate sound, funny I was well into Duran Duran as well. I love the beat they created.
It was ME! Give it back!! 😁
@deco2gogo you're welcome!
HMV...
Love this track. This is the art of noise to me. This one track. It's just so unique and my memory of the 80s as a young kid. ❤️
Took the words right outta my mouth I had to search for this song but for for what it was called had to search for little girl with chainsaw lol
Brilliant. Still watchable many decades later (38 years from then 1984 to now 2022).
These videos are like well kept secrets just between us 80's kids who had the privilege to watch hours of these cool ass videos! I'm feeling especially lucky!
I first discovered this video in the year two thousand. I’m not a time traveler or anything like that.
I was an 80s kid and only saw it once when take young, wasn't until Beavis and butt head watched it that I remember it. It's one of those weird things you saw and wondered if you dreamed it.
I remember seeing this version of the video on The Tube. I was 13 and...mind blown.
@Jim26D same, I thought I'd dreamt it but seen it again somewhere
Hah, I broke the system! Here at 16
And this was the last time the music store allowed them to rent instruments,
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 that's all I have to say.
IKR? 🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂😂
How funny!
🤣👍
I remember exploring the abandoned High Line in winter 1988. The wrecked piano was still where they left it.
Where is these place? It seems I´ve seen on an Amazon series
I remember seeing this on night tracks on TBS back in the mid 80's and it freaked me out then and here i am damn near 50 and it still freaks me out.
RollOut Red 😆right?
It really reminds me of stop-motion -- only with live people
Me too. I saw it way late at night and got really spooked.
@@b.lonewolf417 EXACTLY. It freaked me out the first time I saw it, trying to work out what was off about the movement. It's creepy
@@agargoyle12345 I know, right? Personally, I've always thought the horror genre should make more extensive use of stop-motion, in general...and *claymation*, in particular! :-D
I was 14 when this came out and when I heard it - and then saw it on MTV - my brain basically melted at its sheer awesomeness. 40 years later, nothing has changed.
Holy cannoli! The first I’ve ever witnessed this was Beavis and butthead episode and it’s taken me about that long to find this❤❤
Art Of Noise, Close and Herbie Hancock, Rockit were groundbreaking
And mostly, if not entirely, Fairlight-driven...
Two of my favorite songs/videos as a kid. Still love them to this day.
Don't forget Peter Gabriel and George Harrison
You forgot Pump Up The Volume by MARRS
FACTS 💯💯💯
Sadly you will never see anything like this on Amercan Idol. Or hear it on FM radio. This piece has stayed with me -- haunted me -- close to 40 years now. Art has the power to stay with us.
a good reason it wouldn't be on american idol is because it's like 7% lyrics 93% instrumental LOL
Director: Just pick up the sheet music and throw it around
Child actor: Why?
Director: You'll understand in about 12-15 years.
I first heard this song back in 1984 and after ALL these years it STILL kicks ass!!!
This video is both beautiful and nightmarish at the same time. I was 13 when it came out and even now the little girl frightens me. It's as though she's the puppet master of these three men to do her bidding, and that her frailty should not be underestimated. The technique used in this video gives it somewhat of a stop motion effect making it look very surrealistic which also adds to its already disturbing visuals. I absolutely love it.
Zbignew Rybczyński was a BIG thing in MTV videos at the time, having just gotten an Oscar for his human stop-motion in his short "Tango".
It was always a treat to see Zbignew's cartoony motion or never-ending lines show up in videos like Lou Reed's "The Original Wrapper" or Pet Shop Boys' "Opportunities": th-cam.com/video/t1Am45JrwQ4/w-d-xo.html
I think it was edited to be in tune with the video - hence the staccato effects - but I see what you mean.
Your stupid
The girl is not a puppet she's really you are an idiot
Destroying objects with power tools and edited to the beat. Love it. I think about this video whenever I go to Home Depot. It is the only way I can tolerate walking into that place.
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Wednesday May 8th 2024==saying hello from Chicago Illinois USA 💯...Goodday to you ladies and gentlemen listening to this song 🎉
I read an interview with a member of Art of Noise about the car bit in this song. They were in the offices of Sarm Studios sometime in 1982 when they heard someone struggling to start a car in the lane outside the building. They stuck a mike into a recorder and caught about 45 seconds of it , transferred it into in their sampler and the rest is history.
And in a Guardian piece Anne Dudley mentions that it was a VW Golf.
Cool lil tid bit. Thanks for sharing. Those specific sound effects and what they’ve done with them are one of my fav parts of the song.
It’s 2019.. Art Of Noise still playing in my home!!
Always
It's 2020 now and I love this track so who's with me on this
@@andybryant9105 Yep, playing now.
2020.
2021 people!
This was the jam!! I was in college digging that vibe. Now again as an old man thinking “ hey, where’s that kid’s safety goggles?!”
This will NEVER stop being BRILLIANT!!! WOW.
whoa.
I totally just got this.
It's really about deconstructing traditional music.
So is the video.
There was no traditional music video at that time. Early MTV was balls to the walls and it changed with the time.
And replace it with trash...
@@soaribb32 sooooo true.
Thank you!! That video makes sense now
@@pby1000 At least they succeeded in the noise part...
This song is so damn tight - it's timeless.
+Jemiah Jefferson well going to the 80s
Analog!! They probably had .1% of the tech they have now & thats why it sounds so good!
Julie Dodgshon It was actually all about the Fairlight CMI. Check it out.
It's slick!
I agree
This really got big MTV play actually.
This music video alone deserved MTV having their own awards for music.
@@RocStarr913 i understand MTV rather sucks now
Art of Noise affected hip hop, rap, alternative, new wave, rock, funk and jazz fans. #salute
I never knew there was a video for this song!
There were actually three of them. This (the first) was on heavy rotation on MTV in the US, but it was banned in New Zealandm, rarely seen in most countries, and a less-violent animated clip replaced it in many countries. There was later another promo featuring the band in the studio. I don't recall any of them being shown on TOTP in the UK though, although I bought the 7". There were at least five different 12" versions and a cassette single that lasted 20 minutes. ZTT loved putting out loads of different formats. (They'd had great success doing exactly that with Frankie Goes to Hollywood the year before).
I miss seeing gems like THIS. I want my MTV....
TH-cam is better. Videos on demand, instead of random selections.
This was part of a concert that I watched as it aired LIVE on MTV, th-cam.com/video/EC5XTz-S8k0/w-d-xo.html
@@ANDROLOMA Sometimes those random selections are what makes you discover new music. That said, MTV ain't what it used to be lmao.
@@ArcienPlaysGames Too true.
@@ANDROLOMA TOTALLY agree. I was thinking about how significant that is today!
So ahead of their time. After 30 years, I feel like I'm rediscovering them again for the first time and loving it.
My entire musical life changed the moment I heard this on the radio while living in Germany in 1984. Everything changed.
My husband is with a German label the guys who own an run it say this track changed their life!
@@patriciahealey2927 ☺👍
And now we are back in 1984. Greetings from 2021.
was hitler still running the show back then?
and not for the better
Music beyond what was to come. Here in 2022, this is WAY to much for modern minds to grasp. Bravo if you tell me!!
I miss these days...watching this on MTV when they actually played music videos
And then when it was shown on Beavis and Butthead later in the mid-90’s! 🤣
Watching in 2016. This NEVER gets old!
Yep
loved this song and loved the video.
tackyman2011 2017
tackyman2011 Feb.2018 2a.m
tackyman2011 Watching in 2018, these days from my home in Brazil... never gets old!
I remember watching this on Night Flight when I was a kid.
Luke Brody what a great show Night Flight. Saw some very bizarre videos when I was a kid on Night Flight. Brings back memories
Night Flight was one of the best television shows ever to appear on American commercial television. It was groundbreaking in that it ran all night long -- essentially from about 9 p.m. through 5 a.m. every Friday and Saturday night throughout the entire decade of the 1980s -- showing avant-garde stuff from cutting edge music videos to indie films, and interviews with artists, writers, musicians, wild B movies, obscure docu films, film shorts etc. Night Flight was an absolute treasure.
or nightmares...
Gozilla meets Bambi
Yes Night Flight! Loved it! Banned music videos and trippy films!! I remember MTV would not show "Hot in the city" 1987 version by Billy Idol but Night Flight did!
40 years and counting. What a time for musical masterpieces.
The 🥁 drums and bass are awesome sending the song into overdrive. Decades later I still love this song.👍🏆😎💘
Amen!!!
Yep
From Wikipedia. Director Zbigniew Rybczyński shot the music video for Art of Noise's single, "Close (to the Edit)" on the line in 1984.
I have periodically pictured this in my mind since 1985 and just now thought to look it up. So happy to see this very odd and memorable video again. Loved my MTV back in the day! Thank you for posting this!!!
Great stuff, ground breaking in its day and still totally original. Moments of love is a beautiful track.
One of the best music videos ever. My name is Bicycle Bob and I approved this message and now I'm going to destroy a musical instrument that has served it's purpose.
Wow.😳
This popped into my head and I could NOT remember the name of the group or the song.
Had to look for “80s song. Video has little girl yelling Hey!”…
And here I am!
Damnnnnnnn takes me back.
It's 2023, and even now records of the art of noise and others from ZTT are on my recordtable. Moments in love is my fav.
I never, ever get tired of this dance classic at all. I loved it back then, and I still love it now. The ending @ 4:03 tho.
How do you dance to this?
ZER0 How do YOU not dance to this?
Cos I'M shy and awkward. But I do love the song.
protectorofillinois3 Actually, it's early industrial. Industrial music back then contained a lot of synthesized sound, as opposed to later variations.
@butternutcrunch Bought this CD when it first came out and in 30 years, never thought of Art of Noise music as "dance tunes."
Art of Noise is super tight!!! I remember this jam when I was seventeen and L.L Kool J was rocking the bells! You know what, these kind of jams make really miss back in the day! Do your thang, Art of Noise!!!
This blew my mind back in the day. It hadn't occurred to me that you could have a video that wasn't the band playing the song. Using weird noises as percussion was amazing, too.
I just remember them circling the piano from 1988.
Yello Art Of Noise Sunscreem 03 The Shamen Pet Shop Boys Electronic Music 80s and 90s were the best. Art Of Noise did so many good albums and I have their albums and Yello. I miss the 80s and 90s Art of Noise and Yello were ahead of their time and so were so many other good artists like Madonna
Thrilling music and video, and easy to imagine just down the tracks, in a tunnel, are the Prodigy...
"brock im stuck in a tunnel with a confessed arsonist!"
Oh yeah!
In my eyes the Girl of Destruction is an icon, I always wondered what her script name was… hopefully not just “young girl”… anyhow she’s an image I have never forgotten.
Was watching venture brothers where they reference this. I couldn't remember who it was, I just remember a Beavis and butthead episode where they had this. Husband found it for me💕💕
Class of '84 and this was on constantly on tv and the radio. Flock of Seagulls, Adam Ant, Duran Duran, Simple Minds etc...
Whole album is like nothing else then or since. The other side of the sound of Art of Noise was Moments In Love.
I totally agree. Played this album to death. Moments in love is such a beautiful tune.
The "Hey" bit was sample for The Prodigy's Firestarter and also the "Hey" is also pitched up in The Prodigy's version 0:20
I finally figured out who those basement dwellers in Venture Bros were referencing.
I remember when MTV played this video in heavy rotation...LOVE!
I remember watching this video like at 10 or 11 years old and loved it then!
I have been looking for this video FOR EVER! Thanks to my brother, who is 7 years younger, knew the artist when I described the video to him. Wow, I'm so happy.
I wonder where that girl is today. She was my favorite back then!
Absolutely i agree i was about 23or 24 back in 1984 now in my 60,s this track still kicks ass 😛 art of noise rules
Why this little girl creeped me out 😂😂😂 I love this band!
1984, I'm 19 and this come's the radio [bbc radio 1] and I say to myself Wow ... what editing ... then I see the video on BBC's Top of The Pops 'surreal' ... what the video is saying, you can make 'New Music'= the young girl, without 'Old Traditional Instruments'= the older men. Just like Delia Derbyshire did in the sixties and Kraftwerk did in the seventies onwards ...
yes 80s sound of art of noise and clothing of 80s and big hair
Night Flight... Bring it back...
Again!... Brilliance and art! I had to comment again!
Oh my..... I was working at a record shop sophomore year in
high-school...in a mall..when this came out! It was funny... a lot of
break dancers bought the album and were very disappointed ...I was Full
of glee...knowing that this was brilliant...ground breaking avant-garde
electronic dance music. It changed the world with a whispering Punch
that very few people even comprehend. At 56 years old and owning many
Art Of Noise LPs and Cassettes and CDs..and digital! Brilliance and
creativity will never die!!!!!!! Well done !
Remember this song from our dance recital as a youth, haven't heard it in decades, had to check it out again to remember what the fuss was about 😊
There was simply nothing like the Art of Noise, when we were break dancing at Yonge and Dundas with a piece of cardboard, they were the best of the hard bass and snare drowning out the Noise
Aye, we couldn't afford lino back then eh 😛
Dude! Fellow Canuck here. What you just said is EVERYTHING. The craze was far reaching. We were down at our local strip mall (in front of Beckers) in MISSISSAUGA (Meadowvale) with the cardboard, in our nylon (slippery) track suits, ghetto blaster pumping out this song. Midnight Star - "Freakazoid" was another one we used a LOT. Big up! The burbs were in on it too :)
To be in England in the summertime, close to the edit
with my love...
Ronald Chase Not to be confused with the Yes title of that name. It was a time of sorting out who owns what, with digital samplers substituting for scratchers. At about the same time, Jackson Browne released the song "Lawyers In Love."
Edge on the audio,edit in the title.
Swooning
Gen X Represent!
The Music and the Sound is still ahead of it's time. It's amazing that see that some of Art of Noise's and Kraftwerks' sounds are still on DJ and Radio Station Playlists in 2018.
she's dead, jim
Decades later this music video remains one of the most memorable of all time. Brilliant. I was hooked the first time I saw it when it came out.
This song is an absolute masterpiece, enough said😊
My........mind..........
Thank you Trevor Horn, master of the 80s
Yes. Can't believe he did amazing stuff with The Buggles, Yes, and The Art of Noise within such a short span of time.
Director to the little girl: Okay we're going dress you up like a punk rocker and let your break stuff. Girl: Okay! :D
The girls parents “Were gonna get paid for this right?!?”
Fun fact that’s the director’s daughter
More like - Director to Anne Dudley: Okay we're going dress you up like a punk rocker and let your break classical instruments. Anne Dudley: Yeah, i'm not doing that. Director: Shit, now what am I going to do, it's too late to recast.
This is a time in the 1980's when the UK and England was just as good producing videos as America was!
At the time, Britain was leading the way as far as music videos went. MTV had many music videos primarily from British acts in their early years in America purely by necessity because very few American acts did them. They were always financed by the record labels and considered expensive investments.
Britain has a long history of producing quality visuals. It used to have some of the best film studios (including special effects studios for things like that terrible space opera about Luke Skywalker and his dad) and still provides the best actors. This video was made by someone Polish, though, I think, and the girl was called Sylwia.
As someone who was first a Yes fan, and then a fan of the Buggles as well, it's nice to learn of even more great Trevor Horn stuff.
Randomly heard of this bands existence when I tuned into NPR for like five seconds yesterday, and was lucky enough to find it on vinyl at a record store the same day. Expecting great music from it.
There were many earth-shattering moments defining my youth during this musical era where I had to pull over in the car just to get the details of the track I just heard. I still listen to college radio stations in anticipation....but nothing yet. Maybe I'm just old.
Thanks, Halt and Catch Fire, for reminding me this song/video i used to watch when i was 4 years old :_D
This is my favorite music video. Zbigniew Rybczynski was a genius of the medium.
reminds me of being a kid in the 80s :)
I use to get so excited when it aired on MTV
Still great, remember hearing this for the first time and thinking now anything was possible.
+JohnnyJohn116 hahahaha...me too dude
that was some childhood i had in ENGLAND as well !! when brilliant music ruled the airwaves !! though i didn't have quite as colourful a costume!! CHEERS!!
+Harvey Lee God, it was so brilliant!
I was thirteen in 1984 and this cut was playing at every cookout during Labor Day of that year. I still love this video and cut after all of these beautiful years.❤
Man, all these comments are about seeing this video for the first time in the 80s! I was born in 82! My first was Beavis and Butt-Head 1994...
I very randomly get this song stuck in my head. Even if I haven't heard it in years, I'll be walking around like 'bum. bum. badumdumdumdum.......la la LA!'
Oh yeah
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Nobody sounded more '80s than The Art of Noise.
Claude Debussy was just inventing impressionist classical music in the '80s. Oh, you mean the nineteen-eighties. I think the synth-poppers of that decade are more stuck in their time. The Art of Noise were obviously very reliant on 1980s technology but made music that is somehow timeless.
This Track and the Album 'Who's afraid of the Art of Noise' is pretty much the sound track of my life.
Purchased on Vinyl some 35 years ago nearly, I still adore it all.
Just Awesome. So grateful they put it out there.
Imagine if you will, a drunken night in which you come out of a blackout at a house you don't recognize at 2 o'clock in the morning and watching this video on a 72" projection television. True story.
sitting on my couch during the 80s in austin, texas, just ate a decent sized shroom when i decided to watch mtv and this came on... totally perfect energies radiated from my dwelling to begin a darn good life....now 73 years old and this still turns me on....OH MY
Rock on Ronnie [72 this end but wot's it matter] watch those mushies btw coupla folks pushin' up daisies here in Australia
This song just reminds me of my dad 🖤
I’m so thankful to have been raised on, and introduced to such interesting and experimental music.
Love you dad. Your music will always live on through me ✨
I absolutely love this video and this little girl was my best friend in my head😂😂
We were jamming this at Studio 57 in Glyfada, Greece. I'm 58 now, but I still love the music of the 80s.
Maybe one of my favorite videos. I saw them in concert when I was 18, was great. Many moons ago.
I loved this cut ..but when I saw the video, it just made the cut even better...still till this day ,I jam this hit 😊😊😊
That little girl used to scare me as a child. But, I never forgot this song or video. So cool.
little pat benetar
❤️I want to personally hang out with almost every person in this comments thread. This track was my gateway drug into Art of Noise, ZTT, and later industrial music when I was a pup. It still sounds FRESH and I want to know who directed this video
In case you never looked it up, the director was Zbigniew Rybczyńsk, an award-winning Polish director and teacher. He made several pop videos for popstrels like the Pet Shop Boys, Mick Jagger, Talking Heads, and Lou Reed. He made (the first ever High-Definition) pop video for a re-release of John Lennon's 'Imagine' in 1986. I believe it was Zbig's daughter in the video, which was shot at what's now called the High Line Urban Park in NYC.
Amazing that this video was shot on the derelict, dangerous, and abandoned shipping rail line on the west side of Manhattan, which has since been reclaimed and converted into the very beautiful linear park known as "The High Line"
High Line, when it was really edgy. I read a blog post by some guy who used to go up there to smoke a joint now and then, back in the 90s. There were still chunks of piano scattered around.