#art of noise

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

#gif #max headroom #1980s #vintage technology #art of noise #paranoimia #music video

[therobotmonster]

A Baffling Tribute to 80s Music Video Weirdness

The music video was more than just a great way to advertise your band, it was a way to do something weird as hell that would stick in your audience's mind and give a director or team of animators a chance to really stretch their legs.

Yeah, we'll be hitting some classics you knew, but hey, here's that song from Ferris Beuller's Day Off and about a dozen other movies, TV shows, and food commercials.

Turns out the song is about the beauty of nature, and "Yello" isn't even a reference to the color, but is rather "A Yelled Hello". This is, from what I've gathered, pretty standard for a Swiss Electronic Music group.

Untapped potential for the indie horror genre in Herbie Hancock's "Rock it" with whole new fields of strange animatronics.

Strange abstract costumed characters interacting in a song that makes a lot more sense with the original uncensored lyric "when I was a very small boy, very small boys talked to me, now that we've grown up together, they're all taking drugs with me."

TMBG would be a huge selection of weird music videos if I let them, so we'll focus just on Istanbul (Not Constantinople). TMBG had a policy of the videos never really having anything to do with the song lyrics, and every one is a weird surprise because of it.

You are commanded to enjoy.

The Talking Heads also had a lot of weird videos, and while everyone would expect Burning Down the House, I like Road to Nowhere better. Enjoy.

I saw this on an AlTV special, and could never find it because there's a lot of songs with this name, and Hilly Michaels isn't well known.

It's a sort of colored pencil rotoscoped animation thing and it's just perfect.

Oh hey guys, is this really necessary, can't we leave the deli tray out and split out of here?

TOO LATE! I'm posting Gor-Gor by GWAR. If I had to have my mind blown at 2am on Headbanger's ball at a sleepover at my cousin's place, you can have yours blown on the tumblr.dot.com in the year of your lord 2024.

Is Devo cheating? I feel like it might be.

Cyndi Lauper made great videos, but for absolute mind bending oddness, the Goonies tie-in video "Goonies R Good Enough" qualifies on the basis of the 2:15 minute mini-movie featuring Cyndi Lauper, her real life dad Captain Lou Albano, and a host of (at the time) WWF wrestlers that frames the video with Rick Flair trying to foreclose on the family gas station.

The music video ends on a cliffhanger. To this day no one knows how Cyndi got out of that mess. Someone rescued her. Moe, lets say.

I believe this is the Avant-Garde, and it does apear they never give up.

Curses, the ten video limit is hit! I may return soon!

#MTV #music videos #art of noise #gwar #cyndi lauper #devo #hilly michaels #talking heads #they might be giants #yello #new order #herbie hancock #Youtube

[actualfucking]

Art of Noise "Paranoimia" Japanese 12" Vinyl (1986)

#art of noise #max headroom #new wave #vinyl #records #png #transparent #transparent png #1980s #80s #actualposts

[dekaohtoura]

#youtube #my music #art of noise #max headroom

[americanprimitives]

Art of Noise | Close (to the Edit) | 1984

to be in England in the summertime with my love close to the edge

#art of noise #80s music

[bluehome91]

#art of noise #80’s music

[fuckheadwitha]

holy shit I just remembered this song and hearing it on like easy listening stations and inside suburban mom SUVs next to like Enya and that Enigma song with the native american singing and I spent an hour googling like easy listening electronic song with something that sounds like a pan flute that sounds like doot doot doot doot and I finally found it

#music #art of noise #moments in love #Youtube

[lullaby1000]

This is the best song I’ve heard in months

#art of noise

[nando161mando]

ART OF NOISE: MOMENTS IN LOVE (THE ORIGINAL)

#art of noise #momentsinlove #music #love music #lovemusichatefascism #161 #1312 #Youtube

[married-to-a-redhead]

#my music #no one will like this #art of noise #seriously no one will like this #80’s music #obscure #my weird taste in music #Spotify

[blewis50]

ART OF NOISE: MOMENTS IN LOVE (THE ORIGINAL)

Skating or Stepping, you got your groove on.

#youtube #nonsims #video #Art Of Noise #Moments In Love

[c-40]

A-T-4 042 Art Of Versions

The Art of Noise follow the Into Battle EP with Beat Box. As you've probably guessed from previous ZTT and AON posts releasing many different edits and versions was their m.o. The image (I got at least) was the technology (most noticeably the Fairlight) and time in the studio gave you the ability to churn out endless variations (AON released at least 11 'diversions' of Beat Box). It was great advertising for Trevor Horn as he and his partner owned one of the most sophisticated recording studios on the planet at the time. It's easy to see similarities with Jamaican producers and studios that in the previous decade created dubs and versions, although the closest AON got to producing a riddim would be Moments In Love which has been covered, remixed, and sampled a lot a lot. We have had pop music factory production lines before and I suppose this is where Trevor Horn crosses over with his contemporary Pete Waterman, according to Phil Harding "Waterman watched Trevor Horn so closely that he would strike a deal with equipment suppliers to furnish him with whatever state-of-the-art gadgetry Horn had." Before his hit factory had been established Waterman produced a Relax sound alike track, complete with a look alike sleeve, in 1984 called The Upstroke by Agents Aren't Aeroplanes. Nowadays trap music can be made quickly for very little money and production is more automated and streamlined than it ever has been

Beat Box was the first track AON worked on and it came from JJ Jeczalik messing around with recordings of Yes drummer, Alan White's drums with a Linn drum machine, a Fairlight CMI Series II and Page R (music sequencing software) while Horn was working on the Yes album 90125 (the similarities between the Red + Blue Mix of Owner Of A Lonely Heart and Beat Box are unmistakable). "So JJ was screwing around in the back room and I remember him playing me that 'Beat Box' drum loop and I said 'Jees, that's fantastic, they'll love that in New York.'"

...And they did, Beat Box did very well on the Billboard dance and black music charts in America, reaching number 1 and 10 respectively. Writer Simon Reynold's has written Beat Box was popular with breakdancers in the US, I believe it's still popular with poppin and lockin dads (and granddads)

In June 1984 AON released their debut album Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise? the title a pun on the 1962 play and later film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? which is itself a pun on the song Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? from the 1933 Walt Disney cartoon The Three Little Pigs... would we call this a meme?

On the album is Close (To The Edit) which would be released as a single in October 1984. There were five different 12" versions of Close (To The Edit) released, including a picture disk. As far as I can tell AON put out six different versions of the track at the time, including the LP version (that's if I ignore the cassette single). To make matters more confusing Close (To The Edit) evolved out of the afore mentioned Beat Box. Beat Box Diversion Two is a version of Close (To The Edit) and vice versa, as are Diversion Seven and Diversion Eight. Close (To The Edit) was named after the Yes album Close To The Edge and they had fun with the names of the various versions of Close (To The Edit) that they put out, Close-Up, Closer, Closest, Closely Closely (Enough's Enough), Closed

Close (To The Edit) features Anne Dudley playing a very familiar sounding walking bass on piano, if we ignore the car ignition sounds they also use a sample of Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy by The Andrews Sisters. I wondering if this comes from the Duck Rock sessions the then unnamed AON did with Malcom McLaren? I'm thinking Buffalo Gals is taken from a song reference in It's A Wonderful Life, that film was made in 1946 when boogie woogie was the sound. It's either that or they love boogie woogie and swing. AON do love film genre recordings Peter Gunn, Dragnet, James Bond, Robinson Crusoe...

There's another diversion on the Close (To The Edit) singles, a track called A Time To Hear (Who's Listening). Of course there's a few versions, Who's Listening goes into Beat Box and then Close (To The Edit), as does the version called A Time To Clear (It Up) ("all together now") - there's very little difference between these tracks, then there's A Time To Hear (We're Listening) which is the first minute and a half of A Time To Hear (Who's Listening) - the variations of names is more fun the tracks themselves when there's very little to tell them apart... unless the lesson is to accept being resold more of the same stuff in a slightly different package and disappointment

Oh and all these records have come out and Marley Marl still hasn't sampled a drum beat

Art Of Noise - Beat Box Live on the Tube in 1984

Art Of Noise - A Time To Hear (We're Listening)

Art Of Noise - Closely Closely, Enough's Enough

12 versions of Beat Box personally I can see more appearing in time, that's what RSD is for

#1984 #art of noise #synth pop #hip hop #london #england #uk #80s music #ztt

[dogma85]

Oscar winner composer, arranger and producer Anne Dudley (Art Of Noise, American History X, The Full Monty) is the protagonist of "Faith". New episode of the DOGMA85 original 100 seconds short film series "Cinematic Portraits" celebrating artists and creativity. Watch the film on our channel in bio.

#filmmaking #art #cinematography #short film #artist #art of noise #Youtube

[umamidaddy]

A Zed & Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway, 1985) X “Moments In Love” (Art Of Noise, 1985)

Peter Greenaway found his cinematographer muse in Sacha Vierny and the result is painterly, baroque, and odd but also has an elegant beauty, much like the Art Of Noise classic “Moments In Love,” released the same year. The film follows twin Zoologists and Greenaway uses them to meditate on birth, death, decay, amputees, grief, David Attenborough, Flemish painters, etc, and, though a bit incomprehensible, the resulting rich colors, strange humor, and tawdry eroticism make it a totally unique artistic achievement.

#peter greenaway #a zed and two noughts #art of noise #moments in love #david attenborough #baroque painting #aesthetic edits #aesthetic vibes

[vintage-tech]

Things I did not buy because I already own one (and even then it was a replacement from 1989 because the person I loaned it to didn’t return it)... Art of Noise “Re-works of Art of Noise”, half remixes and half live performance from the In Visible Silence album, 1987, on cassette. You know at least one song that appears on this tape.

#vintage #music #technology #art of noise #1987

[wheelybard]

Once you've listened to eccentric instrumental music you'll never be the same....

#music #mike oldfield #art of noise #focus #I have a diverse music taste