This a flashback from my early childhood. I had it on 7 inch vinyl. It was a big hit back in the err…. day. I didn’t have MTV, not many did – a satellite dish was well pricey – you might get to watch it in the pub on the big screen if you were lucky – Not that I was in the pub (much) when Take On Me was released. It was very rare that you got watch football on the tele. Everyone tuned into Top of The Pops, which goes without saying. When that disappeared from our screens here in the U.K. I think it further decimated our once excellent music industry and led to more talent-show manufactured covers wailers from Pop Idol and whatever sort of Simon Cowell sort of ‘voting’ poll style music phone-in nonsense. Good for Simon Cowell but few others apart from him. The whole concept of Youtube wasn’t even in the dreams of Q on James Bond who had most futuristic gadgets possible. There are generations who no nothing of the joy if independent record shops and what I would call ‘DJ Culture’ I mean concerts with smart phones – I’m one of the worst offenders of this myself! – is a marmite topic. I think we could see more division along the lines of Kate Bush and Fabric Nightclub London possibly which do not encourage filming at all.
On the subject of this Wez G – Random Song, I just want to say that this video is so revolutionary and creative and to be honest even though tech and CGI and AI and whatever else has moved on vast amounts since this Norwegian band released the song and video, it’s kind of like the Pyramids of Egypt because i don’t think they would be able to create a video as good as this today. I regularly discuss with music industry friends how rubbish modern music videos are really. It’s like artists just rush them out and don’t care. Back in the earlier days of pop you didn’t get a digital super-duper camera which can do a thousand or so takes and top rate splicing digital studio equipment and all the hi-tech computers. You often got one opportunity to get it right and that was that. I’d say that Music Video Directors would have invested a lot more money into making quality videos such as this a-ha – Take On Me than music artists and record labels do today. I bet that proportionately it would have been a lot higher an amount of cash. I’m going to give a cheap plug #shoutout to my mate from Cardiff here – Flapsandwich – His Tantrum Records Youtube Channel has some good independent videos that are pretty much in-house budget productions but I feel are creative and not run-of-the-mill music industry suit bullsh*t.
Enjoy a bit of teenybopper idol and hearthrob Morten Harket, who I am led to believe young ladies used to spend a lot of time throwing their knickers at…. a-ha – Take On Me
Just found these so perhaps the Pyramids can be built?