Music
Experiment IV
After all of these years, I just watched the music video for Kate Bush’s “Experiment IV” for the first time. Dawn French and Hugh Laurie are both in this video!
5 months ago
After all of these years, I just watched the music video for Kate Bush’s “Experiment IV” for the first time. Dawn French and Hugh Laurie are both in this video!
I’ve never felt more stuck in my entire life as I have in New York – I have never felt more like an outlier, an outcast, a misfit, an injured athlete who looks back at the game they once played so well with a quiet disdain for those who came after.
Since the day I was born, I felt like I was too old for Sesame Street – after all, I was reading decades-old National Geographics in kindergarten (mostly for the Kodak 35mm camera commercials, or the occasional pre-deregulation airline ad). But I’m never too old to become obsessed with something like German Sesame Street!
If there was ever a song that was entirely overlooked at the time, and continues to rest in obscurity today, it is the song “Giant” by The The, from 1983.
I can still remember the first time I heard “Take A Chance On Me” by ABBA – it was so different, so interesting and unlike anything I had heard before, that I almost erupted in a cheerful enthusiasm that is the closest to a Pentecostal moment I’ve ever had before.
Swedish auto exports might have been booming in the 1980’s, but the second biggest export industry, ABBA, was in a state of flux. The polyester divorce between those that crafted (Benny + Bjōrn) versus those who sang (the Agnetha and Anni Frid bookends) meant that a lot of things were done or not done to apply a more modern coat of paint on the public personae of these free agent honeys.