Supergroove “Here Comes the Supergroove”
Let’s kick off New Zealand Music Month with this newly uploaded cultural taonga, thanks to NZ On Air – Supergroove’s very first music video from 1992. As the title suggests, the song is an introduction to the group and the video also acts as a simple primer for this young and energetic group. The video...
Missing videos from August 1996
The long bleak winter of 1996 continues. Breathe debuted with “Smiley Hands”, giving just an inkling of the major label excitement they stirred only a few years later. Cinematic asks “Why Are You So Tired”. Yes, I’m tired of Cinematic’s videos not being online. As if the name wasn’t a giveaway, Dancing Azians were the...
Missing videos from June 1996
I’m still mourning the recent loss of Annie Crummer‘s videos. “U Soul Me” was another single from her second solo album. Bike‘s first single, “Save My Life”, is afforded digital immortality due to its inclusion on the Flying Nun “Very Short Films” compilation, but second single “Old and Blue” isn’t so lucky. The Film Archive...
Supergroove “Can’t Get Enough”
Catch-up time: Somehow I forgot to review this, which I don’t understand given how epic and monumental the video is. This is pretty much the ultimate Supergroove video. Like a lot of their vids, it feels like every single effect in the video editing software has been used. Why have all seven band members in...
Missing songs from February 1995
Greg Johnson threatens to make a video comeback with “You Stay Out of Your Life”, but the internet cannot provide the twin scooter adventures of Greg and Boh Runga. More Pacific pop from Igelese with “Groovalation”. A slight hint of New Jack Swing, some boy-band harmonies and Pacific drumming make for a sound that can...
Supergroove “You Freak Me”
1994 was Supergroove’s golden year. Average age 19 (still), they had a run of top ten hits and toured New Zealand in their stain-disguising black dress code. “You Freak Me”, the sixth release from their debut album, is a tense eruption of young male energy. See, there’s a girl and, well, she freaks them. It’s...
Supergroove “Sitting Inside My Head”
Supergroove, average age 19, get soulful. “I walk around this town. There’s buildings closed, the windows are boarded,” Che Fu murmurs, while the band struts around a very lively looking Queen Street. Irony? Che is given a pebbly beach to walk along, and also joins the band on a quarry, as a digger digs. The...
Supergroove “Scorpio Girls”
When an 18-year-old dude sings about “Scorpio Girls”, those “bad bitchin’ babes [who] get my guitar strumming”, you know it’s not realistically based on a reality of a man tormented by a never-ending influx of devilwomen messing up his life. It’s more likely about being an 18-year-old who wants to have sex but all the...
Supergroove “You Gotta Know”
Finally, here come the Supergroove. Average age 18, they look so young in this video. Led by a fresh-faced Che and a mono-fringed Karl, the band lark about, channeling their pop forefathers The Beatles in “A Hard Day’s Night”. There’s a great energy coming from the video. It’s like they’re not trying to be crazy;...
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