Missing videos from October 1995
After Bailter Space‘s triumphant video for “Splat” and with the band’s fanboy following, it is surprising that the “Retro” video isn’t online. Perhaps it’s the song’s title, voted down by people searching for the Love Shack video. “So Low” was a track off Dead Flowers‘ third album, and by this stage they were ruling the...
Missing videos from April 1994
Ted Brown and the Italians didn’t give up. “Perfectly Good Pop Song” uses the frustration of having a good song that doesn’t do anything as a metaphor for love. What about a perfectly good pop video? “Whatever happened to the peace revolution,” Alastair Riddell mournfully asks in “Peace Dream Solution”. “Did it die?” Yes, it...
Missing videos from February 1994
The mysterious Ted Brown returns with a new band (the Italians) and a cover of “How is the Air Up There”, a song best known in New Zealand for the La De Dahs version, but which originated as a Brill Building composition that did the rounds of pop bands in the mid-’60s. The Greg Johnson...
Missing videos from April 1993
Annie Crummer delivers “Seven Waters”, sounding a little bit country and a little bit Polynesian. The influence of the Red Hot Chili Peppers continues, with Emulsifier‘s “Get On Up”. Ted Brown continues his videolessness with “If You Ever Need”. I have a vague memory of the band called Thorn, but nothing of their song “Same...
Missing videos from June 1992
David Parker returns with another absent video. I haven’t heard “In Summer I Fall”, but I’m going to imagine it’s a breezy reggae-infused beachtime love song. There have been 14 songs in the New Zealand charts called “Big Love” none of them are by a group called DVS. I’m beginning to wonder of some of...
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