IkoStar

Back in in the 70s before anything was invented, instead of having proper videos on top of the pops, they used to get this dance troupe called Pans People to “interpret” the hits… with what were usually depressingly literal translations…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xHyKyoEh5Q

They were incredibly popular. I hated them.

I’m not going to make a proper link because it upsets me too much.

And now, a similar sort of thing is happening again. Sortof. If you go drunkenly digging through the dead-letter-office of your memories for fav songs on youtube… you can’t always find what you’re looking for because lets face it, no one else likes the sort of music you do. “Oh yes, I was into them before they went all commercial” you say. And in certain respects you’re right, though possibly not for the right reasons.

Anyway, what you get instead is… once again, depressingly literal translations by budding film editors who “interpret” said songs by cutting their favourite TV programs to them.

Item 1: Azure Ray.

Cosmic - if you don’t like it, you can fuck off and go fucking fuck yourself… but here it’s been turned into the backing track from a montage of the soppy bits from Dr WHO. WTF? Why?

Item 2: Dream Brother.

This is possibly the best song (of its type) ever written. It’s like Paradise Lost compressed into about 3 minutes. It does that raga thing like The End or Set The Controls For The Heart of the Sun… but that chorus… comes out of fucking nowhere man. Gives me the chills.

Anyway, here it is turned into a backing track for a montage of various bits from Lost, in which a load of self-obssessed people glare stubblily at each other with dirty faces.

Still.

The best song ever written ever, is Vancouver, also by Jeff Buckley - and the only version of that on youtube has someone playing bass over the top of it so perhaps I ought not complain. Perhaps I ought to start joining in etc.

Yea. Like fuck etc.