The Music Video & YouTube Dump thread

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

Hard to pick Joy Divisions best song but if I had to then this would be my choice

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Hard to pick Joy Divisions best song but if I had to then this would be my choice

I got to know some older lads whilst visiting family in North Manchester during the 70s. They would sometimes join in when they saw younger children kicking a ball about. Afterwards we'd sit around chewing the cud on football, music and other pressing issues of the day.

One of them was a massive Genesis fan. However, he had become increasingly disillusioned with the post-Peter Gabriel era. The album "And Then There Were Three", released in March 78, was the final straw. He was a regular gig-goer at venues in Manchester and his anti-Phil Collins diatribe was punctuated by paeans of praise for a new local band he'd recently seen called Joy Division. In essence, the rhetoric was - Genesis are the past, Joy Division are the future.

It is indeed hard to pick a favourite, but if you pushed me - "Twenty Four Hours".

 

[horrie hastings]

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

As much as I love Atmosphere, I could just as easily nominate She's Lost Control or Transmission. Of course there's also Love Will Tear Us Apart. So many truly great songs.

 

[horrie hastings]

 

[horrie hastings]

This classic you just don't hear anywhere any more..

 

[horrie hastings]

Same with this one

 

[horrie hastings]

 

[horrie hastings]

 

[horrie hastings]

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

Hands down my favourite Laurie track

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

Just saw this on the 70s music channel. I don't remember it but I could have easily erased it from my memory. I don't know whats lamer, the robot or the song.

 

[horrie hastings]

Just saw this on the 70s music channel. I don't remember it but I could have easily erased it from my memory. I don't know whats lamer, the robot or the song.

The 70 s is my favourite music era but i don't remember this either.

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

I'm sure I would have remembered something that pathetic so it must have come and gone super quick.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Just saw this on the 70s music channel. I don't remember it but I could have easily erased it from my memory. I don't know whats lamer, the robot or the song.

I remember it. Top five hit in 78. The robot was a low-budget C-3PO knock-off.

Spawned a sprinkling of smutty wisecracks about the batteries running out.

Later that year, "I Lost My Heart To a Starship Trooper" explored er... similar themes.

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

The fact it made the top 5 is whats surprising. I used to watch Countdown religiously so I would have thought I had encountered it at some point. When I saw it today it definitely was the first time I've ever seen it.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

The fact it made the top 5 is whats surprising. I used to watch Countdown religiously so I would have thought I had encountered it at some point. When I saw it today it definitely was the first time I've ever seen it.

Don't forget I'm a Pom. Automatic Lover got to number 4 on the British chart.

Might well have inexplicably failed to register down under.

Notwithstanding the Gough Whitlam episode, I don't think the United Kingdom retained any statutory power to compel Countdown to play British novelty songs in the 1970s.

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

I actually thought that after I posted. I'm pretty sure it didn't make the Top 10 here or I would have definitely encountered it. It's not like I missed out on experiencing a killer song back in the day.