Missing videos for August 1995
There’s a Barry Saunders song called “Little Things”. I can’t even figure out what album it was on. It’s so… little. Another sweet Emma Paki song, but “Don’t Give It Up” is another one that’s not as beloved as “System Virtue” and so misses out on being digitised. Another of Ermehn‘s early tracks is “Nuttin...
Missing videos for October 1994
More quirky pop from the Brainchilds, but “Thinking About You” is a song whose online existence seems to be solely restricted to NZ On Air’s website. A message to Cinema: “Someone Has To” put your old music videos online, ok? I’m sad that Dave Dobbyn‘s “Lap of the Gods” video isn’t online. The Dobb has such...
Missing videos for August 1994
The Brainchilds take on the Beatles’ real-trippy-as tune “Tomorrow Never Knows”, though with Janet Roddick’s lovely clear voice, the song sounds more like a hypotherapy tape. Turn off your phone, relax, and float downstream. You crave not ciggies. You crave not ciggies. “Long Way to Climb”, the debut single of gothic folkstress Jordan Reyne, is...
3 The Hard Way “Hip Hop Holiday”
Every time you play this song, 10CC’s giant swimming pool of money gets a few more gold doubloons. Remember, kids: always clear samples. Directed by Clinton Phillips and filmed in lovely warm sepia tones, “Hip Hop Holiday” evokes a hot city summer. This is not the New Zealand of going to the beach. It’s the...
Missing videos from December 1992
Oh, David Parker, what happened to the video for “The Phone is Ringing”? It’s quite a nice song – a little Roy Orbisonish, with a futuristic Jack Johnson vibe. Fuemana‘s single “Rocket Love” sounds like George Michael singing a James Bond love theme. This song is so fly, it makes me sad there’s no online...
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