Godley + Creme - Mondo Video Part II

[@fearthenextpage]

Like Todd Rundgren G+C imagined that music videos could be so much more than promos. This is so ahead of its time

[@trevorsanders5303]

This is a work of pure genius. I can only imagine the long hours spent in the studio compiling this piece.

[@kenlieck7756]

The film or video editing sure looks like it took forever -- and still wasn't very precise...

[@incapsula7705]

This is the best part!!

[@payasovic68]

I remember this from the Video Juke Box, a 80's potted history of the music video,presented by John Peel and John Walters. Bizarre ,hypnotic but superb. Have Followed G&C since Hotlegs.

[@brianartillery]

I still have the VHS that this was on. Oddly hypnotic, and definitely way ahead of it's time. My favourite Godley and Creme track is the flipside of 'Wedding Bells' (which contains a shockingly poor edit), 'Babies'. It's a brilliantly innuendo filled piece of electronica, that's begging to be sampled. There were three other VHS tapes in the series, the others being: 'Attack', by Stacy Peralta and Bomb The Bass - a brilliant Skateboard compilation: 'Eurotechno' by Stakker (Future Sound Of London) - Acid Tracks with early 3-D CGI visuals: 'The Fourth Dimension', by Zbigniew Rybczynski (who created the cut-up video for 'Close To The Edit', by The Art Of Noise). I have all four, from a time when I worked in a record shop in the late 1980's.

[@FUNKINETIK]

Watching this for the second time, the first time was on tv when G+C were explaining the concept of creating music from video. Have you uploaded the videos you mentioned?. I love skateboarding and FSOL. P E A C E : )

[@brianartillery]

@@FUNKINETIK - I don't own a VHS machine or a computer, so I can't upload them. Sorry.

[@bubcentral23]

The Eurotechno video was used for Pot Noodle adverts screened late at night and had to be taken off tv as it make some drunk ecstasy users to have fits.

[@bubcentral23]

Both the Attack skateboarding video and Eurotechno Stakker are on KZbin if you search for them.

[@FUNKINETIK]

@@bubcentral23 cheers, I watched the skateboarding video last night. Amazing to see the tricks made on the old style boards.

[@ChrisNeufeldMusic]

Kevin Godley & Lol Creme... One of the best video pioneers of all time. They had a style all their own... not just musically, but visually.

[@dayuhanspace]

the forefathers of art in music videos

[@blakes8126]

Just at a time when I felt old and cynical I saw this and smiled all the way through. Felt like the years had melted away and I was back at my first college.

[@jonestube2007]

GREAT!

[@Darkover54]

great work in it's own way...

[@tedkay_music]

great

[@Alpinerbergen]

@TeenyR1: Video sampling, planking, making final decisions in the edit suite, it was all invented by them and later rediscovered by all the othercopycats.

[@perperov]

Awesome!

[@maebeach]

awesome !

[@eddiespex]

I had this on VHS. I Bought it in 1990, after maybe four months of looking around odd shops (pre internet). They actually released another two videos on "Mondo Video Label" ? i think? (Sadly no videos of mine exist now) I bought this and another one with a couple twisting into a spiral in a room (amazing!).. the third was about skateboarding.. (all on the same video label) Then they went defunct.. anyone have any other info? .. as Mondo Video G&C etc come up zilch (apart from this and the other parts of this excellent video.). on google.

[@slyme1711]

too good, way ahead of their time

[@professorrecords1073]

Video in the style of Picasso.

[@MikeBozart]

Man Ray would approve me finks.

[@babachewbaba]

Anyone seen "Pipe dream" by Animusic? It has the balls bouncing off the instruments like this.

[@GuilhermeWeberdeLima]

Muito legal....pioneirismo em uma era sem os computadores dosmésticos

[@07Louis07]

What’s the best radio station where you live?

[@BongoOldChap]

@payasovic68 same here m8, its taken me years to track this down :)

[@OleksiiNosivets]

without computer !!!

[@Geritopia]

There’s sequenced edit lists driving the record / play decks. So it is early computer-driven on the video side.

[@FUNKINETIK]

@@Geritopia I remember EDL’s

[@Geritopia]

​@@FUNKINETIK Some of the techniques quickly became cliche. MTV was such a centerpiece of music culture and so bands could really show off their style in excess. Because the format and resolution was in its infancy, it all looks like exactly what it was: the 80s.