VH1 Classic Strikes Back

Thanks to who let me know that the Vitamin Z video for "Burning Flame (Version 2)" from the album "Rites of Passage" was running again (WOOHOO!)

After checking the VH1 Classic website message boards, I saw that Icehouse "Icehouse" was running in the same hour...along with The Eurogliders "Heaven (Must Be There)"

I got home from playing in the Camarilla game tonight in St. Paul about 3am...and I have to be at work at 12 noon tomorrow, but here I am still awake just after 5am because of these three videos...it's the last repeat of the All Request Hour...it was now or never ;)

Reviews of those three videos to follow...

I've rewatched Vitamin Z (giggles happily)...it's still a shlocky 80s video but it's still a great song. I've talked about this video in previous journal entries...

Icehouse "Icehouse" ... where to begin. I've heard the "remastered" version that appears on the CD Masterfile. It's a much cleaner version (in the original Icehouse LP version, Iva Davies is very muffled and echoey) and a bit faster. The video however was totally not how I'd seen the song in my head. I was expected a warm fuzzy romantic video. No, what I got was a totally fucked up video featuring a little girl having nightmares (?) and in this horrible shot, low budget 1980 video special that looked like it was mostly filmed in an abandoned Halloween haunted house trailer.

Parts of it struck me as if they could be the inspiration for some of INXS' early videos of the same era. Actually, the used the same garbage bag idea...hmm...interesting...as they are both Australian bands.

I still love the song, but the video was a solid disappointment.

The Eurogliders "Heaven (Must Be There)" Oh wow. They are Australian. I didn't realize this. They are from Perth, Western Australia.

I'd seen the tail end of the video before and didn't realize what the song was as it's a silent end to the video.
It's a typical video for the time epitomizing the basic human nature that somewhere else is better than here.
It uses some interesting techniques, some of which work better than others. There is an sequence in the video where the camera pans in and out of the scene to the left...then to the right....and each time this happens, you go into the "black" around where the band is performing and suddenly fade into a part of the vignette that opens the video. Interesting technique I thought, then again, it could just be that it's now 5am in the morning.

All in all, three decent videos and I have them on consumer grade VHS ;)

I'm happy. I got to see Vitamin Z again, I know to never watch the Icehouse video, and I still like The Eurogliders track.