The Verlaines - Death and The Maiden

Directed by Peter Janes, 1982.
From The Verlaines - Death and the Maiden 7" (FN014, 1983)
Available for Purchase at www.flyingnun.co.nz/pages/record-shop
Video take from 'Very Short Films' DVD - bit.ly/twOEFH

[@etamommy]

Back in the day I saw the Verlaines, Yo la Tengo and Barbara Manning in a little venue in San Diego....I could not believe my great fortune! Great great band and one of their very best of many great songs!

[@8723402jm]

I used to see Graham at pak n save supermarket on Saturday mornings buying chicken necks for his dog!

[@justmadeit2]

Singer looks a bit like mick jagger here or British rock band members from the late 60s

[@pa30fps]

I think I was at this show. The Bacchanal, yes?

[@etamommy]

@@pa30fps I am not sure I recall but could be. I recall it was a great show. I was most into the Verlaines but loved all three artists. I was there with a couple people who would not stop talking and just listen which irked me as I knew I was witnessing quite a great billing/concert. Casbah, Bacchanal and Coachhouse were a few venues of the day around.

[@1millionpumpkins542]

​@etamommy i saw some good uns at the casbah too. Beautiful memories, lost hearing...WORTH IT

[@DarrenTemplin]

This video makes me wish I was born in Dunedin circa 1962.

[@prashby354]

1984 was my first year back down at Otago Uni in Dunedin. I WAS there. Great memories.

[@Albert_Br]

1981 was a good year for white Bunny Rabitts to !

[@MatiasValmore]

New Zealand is magic. Too many good indie bands c:

[@Z33803]

We got hobbit too, hey hey

[@paulparker8298]

Stuart Maxwell whatever fucko!!! Where are you from dickhead !!!

[@noisepollution6761]

The ultimate fuck off song :#

[@danieleyre8913]

Most of the decent independent NZ music came from Dunedin during the 80s. Although you wouldn’t think it now, it’s sadly since become a bit of a dead cultural void.

[@danieleyre8913]

@Stuart Maxwell I’m sure that whatever dead hole you come from is worse than most of NZ, insecure troll.

[@kosovoblues5019]

in those pre- internet times,a friend pass me a casset of this band, but with a terrible sound ,and never found any album in Buenos Aires. Like a lot most of the 80's New Zealand bands. Thanks

[@niphone]

This is one of the all time classics. If I was a more ambitious, monied, and talented man I would set out to make a documentary about everyone who appeared in this video.

[@markeggins890]

At least Martin Phillips got a doco!

[@bonniejamie]

It's not too late mate!

[@paulbrimble8204]

Jane Dodd on bass playing a beautiful line....

[@weehudyy]

I play in a bunch of bands with her brother John . Jane is a sweetheart

[@etamommy]

@@weehudyy she made her mark - those bass lines often were integral. Same with the band the Bats where I think the bass lines often made the songs sooooo much better.

[@Finjodb]

Found this while searching for Schuberts Death and The Maiden String Quartet and im not disappointed

[@yungtoxic7479]

Found this while listening lol gives me a strokes vibe

[@restfulCube8035]

For me the Verlaines were the very best group of an unfathomably rich scene

[@kytiladdy]

a homework for school about verlaine and rimbaud and baudelaire brings me here (Y) :D

[@richardwilliams8001]

Two of my favourite songs ever, this and Pink Frost from The Chills, have to listen to them every now and then. Thank you to the person who introduced me to New Zealand bands back in the 80s!

[@Detroit1967]

BEST POP SONG EVER.

[@simonspooner4545]

The height of coolness when I first saw this on RWP a long time ago.

[@sharynhunt6961]

I love this song. Came out when I was at high school in Dunedin

[@adbocsongs]

Pure love for this song and Graeme's genius and the band in whatever configuration. Grateful to have seem them live in Cambridge MA USA back in the day.

[@New_Zealand_Music]

Flying Nun one of my all-time favourite record labels. Growing up with you guys was great. Not by everyone, but I used to hate how people used to say; "they're are almost as good as an international band". I'm so glad I don't hear that much anymore. Don't know why I didn't sub years ago

[@rolfanderson3925]

You can’t be serious. People in NZ used to say that about Dunedin Sound bands?

[@seankelly2875]

Doing the KZbin viewing of choice NZ songs/music, a classic. Graeme Downes is a living legend!

[@Tone.Zone.Tony69]

The lyrics are some of the best I’ve ever heard.

[@samstewart1101]

love this 30 years later and living Cambodia.

[@PaulLea]

Love this 38 years later and living in Denmark

[@michaelmorschett5043]

just like me..love them since 1988. living in Germany.@@PaulLea

[@PaulLea]

@@michaelmorschett5043 a Kiwi In Germany ?. just down the road from Demnark !.

[@ryantattersfield3410]

Just simply brilliant, timeless and god I wish I was back in Dunedin at the Crown or Empire in the early 90s!

[@victorherrera1015]

Brings back memories....as a dj at my college radio station KSPC, I came across this, loved it. Still do. Great stuff.

[@morphonia]

one of the best from Flying Nun

[@darthsaya8032]

Proto-Madchester, Proto-Shoegaze...Indie to da bone!!! 🖤🖤🖤

[@gerhardwagner8665]

A masterpiece, of course. What a great band!!!

[@cappnzak]

Another cool, memorable Kiwi blast from the past. Great stuff!

[@catcat1517]

Another brilliant Kiwi band that did their own thing. Love this!

[@TheTHRILL101]

My old teacher @ 4.03 , drummer w/The Chills for a while too. Obviously filmed in a uninsulated Dunedin property!

[@brenthargreaves7085]

in the summer

[@jakedee4117]

Dunedin, South Island New Zealand and Flying Nun records, a very unusual palace, time and sound in human history. Right on the very edge of the map in many different ways.

[@PaulLea]

Always loved that song and clip.

[@j-pdewhirst2021]

Classic Graeme with the cig stuck in the strings on the head of the guitar - that guitar is smoking!! (3:13)

[@patrickrobinson1387]

man I love this song and the …rabbit

[@gamerguy425]

Somehow I learned of this song through a cover by a shortlived vastly obsecure Cambridge, MA band called Prickly. They're quite different but both versions are pretty great honestly.

[@ieatspiders77]

This pleases me.

[@IncognitoRAWR]

Angus, some shots seem to be from Cargill's Castle, which is an abandoned mansion on the outskirts of Dunedin. I think it has been derelict for decades now

[@deanstevenson6527]

Juan Incognito :Yup

[@mrivantchernegovski3869]

Great kiwi song reminds me of summer cruising to the beach for a surf

[@billjackjane]

Yep, one of my favs

[@antonfjordson]

All of my love, some of my pain

[@TheFlamingBridges]

You know

[@carokistner3399]

I only ever knew the Tarwater version of this song, just found out today that it was a cover and this is the original.

[@TheLastOfTheAmericanGirls]

Love this song so much

[@sharynhunt6961]

Me too

[@craigmac303]

Nice upload. The Gordons should be in this mix too.

[@joeyleblanc5387]

Amazing

[@ihrstinkt100]

Love this Song very much

[@Ulissesdf1000]

Uma das melhores e mais criativas bandas de todos os tempos!!!

[@11gavd]

Третья новая любимая группа за последнее время и опять из Новой Зеландии :) . Первые две - The Clean and The Bats . Наверное Новая Зеландия волшебная страна в которой рождаются такие группы :)

[@insecuretenant1663]

🎶 I still choose to lose the way I like! 🎶

[@seansullivan3146]

finally a proper catch of this. love it

[@andrevalente3612]

Foda, como todo o catálogo da Flying Nun! Maravilhoso!

[@JonB1995]

First line is just classic

[@etamommy]

"You're just too....too obscure for me. You don't really get through to me". Simple honest and to the point but also a pretty good put down and somehow better if said without malice but simply as personal experience.

[@sulaiyasulai1367]

Brilliant... 80s gem

[@New_Zealand_Music]

I was interviewed by Graham downes when mainline music school when still in Manukau Auckland, I was his last interview before he disappeared down to Dunedin. The Dunedin Sound awesome...... I miss Chris Knox, when I was working for a radio station in Hamilton, he was playing at the hilly and our last big student orientation, he stopped in the middle of of a song and pointed at me and shouted cos I was recording about 30 seconds of his music, not for malevolent reasons just for nostalgia. I love the song Meat, one of my favorites. Another legend. R.i.p Mike Fell😢

[@MrMookRecords]

Definitely Pavement copped the vocal melody of "I'm afraid you're not one of them" off "Box Elder from this tune. Nice steal!!

[@JeremyPCresswell]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bl6qopqEZZV-qJI

[@reecehoward5154]

best back up dancing

[@DarkLSE1984]

Tus mascotas, tus amigos del barrio, la sala de tu casa... y listo, ahí tienes uno de los mejores videos musicales de todos los tiempos.

[@mrsarcastic5331]

Shayne Carter dancing in the Window

[@noisepollution6761]

Cringe

[@iawnlad]

amazing!

[@celiaayneto9232]

yes!! perfect

[@brianmulvey5587]

best of all time

[@stevehammel2939]

Great song !!!

[@calbaby-rh7wv]

Ah good memories growing up in dunners Nz shame its so fricken cold

[@hobbite9709]

You're just too too obscure for me Oh you don't really get through to me And there's no need for you to talk that way Is there any less pessimistic things to say? Do you like Paul Verlaine? Is it gonna rain today? Shall we have our photo taken? We'll look like death and the maiden Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine I still choose to lose the way i like Fool around split my lungs out of spite But i won't reject so long as you make sense But i'm through with the rooms and vague intentions You shouldn't talk to me Find better company There's better people to know You'll only end up like rimbaud Get shot by Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine The way you think is oh-so-bloody stale Your sanity looks pretty frail You have to clutch at every tiny straw And I can't stomach that at all Do you like Paul Verlaine? Is it gonna rain today? Shall we have our photo taken? We'll look like death and the maiden Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine

[@gonetoheaven7478]

what a pearl!

[@mb-bi3nm]

1000th like, should be a million

[@HorseyMusic]

The best pop video ever made. And not just because of the bunnies

[@mattgree4909]

God ble@ flying nun and my youth... Fast Eddies front room.....

[@janetmaynard9476]

Home 💜

[@WeenieHut_Sr]

Wish I could live back in these times when you had to actually find this music and be a part of a scene. Nowadays it’s easy to find everything on the internet. So what is even cool in this day and age anymore?

[@ok2760]

I don't know, sorry

[@flamencoprof]

We old hippies loved those old villas (villae? :) as well. Different literature tho'.

[@actoracademic]

Is it my imagination, or are both Lesley Paris of Look Blue Go Purple and Caroline Easther of the Chills featured around the 4:00 mark?

[@kimberlycastro505]

That’s my debate coach right there!!! Go Rob Burns!!

[@andresguzmanheim9204]

excelente!

[@richardjacques8239]

yes so good

[@aaronsunderland8838]

❤❤❤❤

[@deadelvis8012]

Such an amazing tragedy. Wrote more songs than will ever be heard.. positive he's got a comfy bed up there.. much love to share with all family, friends, an fans...

[@mmohatt3465]

he died?

[@jeremydow1432]

@@mmohatt3465 MIGHT HAVE GOT mixed up with The Chills guy ?

[@janetmaynard9476]

I fu*king love Loraine by Bad Manners!! But this is probably some of our best from Aotearoa 🖤 I find myself singing Verlaine to Loraine!? 😔🖤💜🎶

[@dj45rpm]

Not seen: the bunnies chewing up the cords, cables, and guitars during/after filming.

[@trashAndNoStar]

dj45rpm Well you get a glimpse at 4:23 onwards

[@Ncp2666]

Still the height of coolness

[@aaronsunderland8838]

❤

[@stephenbradley6285]

Had nothing to do with her death of the maiden but my heart went with her anyway

[@1millionpumpkins542]

Those rabbits are gonna chew all your cords!!!😂🎉🎉🎉

[@ruthdixon7807]

another band that inspired the "dunedin sound" tag, which a lot of flying nun material was saddled with.

[@Michael-pq4wd]

I see the ladies from Look Blue Go Purple.

[@HellaMoist1337]

My intellectual parents failed at being sheltering Christians who are out of style and read think geek instead of liking expert health food, modern shout tou art, and brutal metal, a better parent would always look fun, like a fat dork with at least hip shoes and allow sex, drug dealing, and drinking drugs, but also lead intellectual creative ventures to a successful momentum. There are both on the street, ultimate inept nerds, and the badass ones who have the in thing revolving around them.

[@dgbradman1]

yeas its a good one

[@markhower8986]

Better guitars then album version ... . .

[@ImASoloMother]

Any chance that house in on great king street in Dunedin?

[@sebastiannoir5712]

pink room is on stuart street ::: :

[@dtmac8461]

I love this song so much but what's he doing to that rabbit at 1:30?! I actually want to know plz don't murder me, is he just petting it or not?!!!

[@MezzaGreen]

Cargill's is a thriving tourist destination.... :p

[@mikebrunton615]

Music!

[@PamK36]

🐰🐇🐇

[@MrKitkennedy]

great dunedin sound ever

[@sketchandobserve]

he sounds like Bowie

[@anfrankogezamartincic1161]

Cute bunny

[@no1jrb]

Slurping Steiny BLUUUUUE .........1:20

[@marc-andre7178]

BBBON SANGGGG

[@straitjacketfits6481]

white stag jacket at 2:20

[@sebastiangoonzalez3379]

Hola

[@brandondrake14]

The rabbits in the video makes it wierdly sad.

[@TehGav]

I know. Paul Verlaine, cod-Platonic friend of Arthur Rimbaud. And it's like I was saying.

[@ricjames9746]

wow thats cool ,they could have gone too the moon

[@TehGav]

See, that's smart. Unlike George Harrison, Graeme Downes stole a part of "He's So Fine" that the Chiffons couldn't sue him for. I speak of the 'do-lang.'

[@richardjacques8239]

so cool ,where they now?

[@nadasadhana]

Playing in Wellington in a week or so..