From French TV in 1966, please enjoy Les Them(!), featuring the angry young Van Morrison, and a very strange promo video of their garage-rock classic "Gloria."
Seriously -- what's up with the shots of the horse's head or donkey or whatever it is when Gloria's name is being spelled out? All I can think of is somebody involved with this was trying to remake Luis Bunuel's Un Chien Andalou. Or something.
In any case, a coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded to the first reader who gleans the clip's relevance to the theme of tomorrow's Weekend Listomania.
[h/t Andy "Folk-Rock" Pasternack]
"Top Seven Intriguing Vocalists Who have Gone to Seed, Looks-Wise, But Once Fronted Garage-y Pop Bands And Now Sing Country-tinged White-Man's Soul Music"?
ReplyDeleteI took a guess. . . .
Is "Songs that spell out the chorus" too obvious?
ReplyDeleteMusic videos based upon classic movies.
ReplyDeleteROTP(lumber)
No, no and once again no.
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Songs with the names of girlfriends I had in high school?
ReplyDeleteOr - songs about girls who go to guys' rooms & make them feel alright?
Seems like they're trying to suggest that Gloria is a donkey. Which is disturbing.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, songs about animals?
girls that bring out the animal in men?
ReplyDeleteor as the joke goes- everyone that did gloria?
You know, wnj may actually have figured it out -- perhaps the French director of this thing was trying to make that "bringing out the animal" point.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure it actually works in the execution, however.
Our man Van can't bring himself to make eye contact, can he?
ReplyDeleteMr. Hee haw is the most charismatic dude in the entire video
ReplyDeleteSongs that every goddamn band in the world knows how to play or they should give up their instruments?
ReplyDeleteThis is really stupid, but someone has to say it, so I volunteer: something related to The Animals or perhaps Alan Price?
ReplyDeleteThis is also really stupid: Songs sung by someone named Francis.
AP
Songs by singers who went on to become the biggest jackass in show business?
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Songs by singers who went on to become the biggest jackass in show business?
ReplyDeleteTrue. So true. But young Van Morrison gives me chills. And "Gloria" ... where did that come from? So stark and remarkable. Like nothing that came before.
for obvious mule-related reasons, this video is one of my favourites.
ReplyDeleteSo is this one, so long as you turn down the sound. . . .
Songs by Patti Smith or from her monumental punk debut release, "Horses".
ReplyDeleteBTW, the donkey is braying in the video and the editor may have been doing a personal commentary on what he thought of the singer's voice.
If you didn't know this was Van singing, you'd never guess it was him.
ReplyDeleteSongs the Flo Mos covered? :-)
Okay, here's a sort of hint.
ReplyDeleteIt has to do with the band, not the song.
Bands who have pronouns for their names?
ReplyDeleteLike "She & Him"?
At least we're not talking about The The (still the stupidest band name of all time, IMHO).
ReplyDeleteBands whose lead singers went on to successful solo careers, but who tried to go on without said lead singers, without much commercial success?
ReplyDeleteHey -- I actually saw the Doors as a trio, without Jim Morrison, in 1971.
ReplyDeleteAs Mel Brooks (as the 2000 Year Old Brewmaster) once said:
"Hey -- this is bad."
:-)
Back up bands that do not start with the word "The" ?
ReplyDeleteBands named after 50's horror movies?
ReplyDeleteActually I can't think of any others, unless there's a band named The Blobs.
Songs by bands whose names are 80% of "Theme"?
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ReplyDeleteDeath the name Megadeath originate with Lemmings, the National Lampoon show/album that whose cast went en masse into Saturday Night Live a few years later?