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Matt Group: Admins Posts: 1186 Joined: Nov. 2002 Posted: Dec. 13 2010, 10:30 Quote (Ugo @ Dec. 13 2010, 15:11) @ Matt: the Irn Bru ad is indeed very humourous - the way the song starts evokes a certain mood, but then the lyrics say something completely different. The imagery reminds me of a Queen video, I'm not telling you which one, you may surely guess it as some of the drawings are nearly identical. BTW, what kind of drink is Irn Bru? Beer? Or something like Red Bull? Irn-Bru, an orange coloured non alcoholic carbonated drink made in Scotland (from girders! - well that was one of their previous advertising campaigns ). Not really red bull exactly, though it does have a lot of caffiene in it! Maybe more like a cola comparison? BTW the video, both song and animation style, are a take-off of a stunning sequence from animated short film The Snowman. OK, let's have that as well below The Snowman Actually, that has a bit of a Mike link since Aled Jones (Pictures in the Dark) did a cover version of the same song whch was very successful, it isn't Aled singing in the clip above however. -------------- "I say I say I say I say, what's got three bottles and five eyes and no legs and two wheels" Back to top

Cavalier (Lost Version) Group: Members Posts: 598 Joined: Nov. 2010 Posted: Dec. 13 2010, 10:52 Quote (Matt @ Dec. 13 2010, 10:30) quote] Irn-Bru, an orange coloured non alcoholic carbonated drink made in Scotland (from girders! - well that was one of their previous advertising campaigns ). Not really red bull exactly, though it does have a lot of caffiene in it! Maybe more like a cola comparison? And a sworn hangover cure should you fall under the influence of the Bruces! -------------- "Who was that?" "That was Venger - the force of Evil!  I am Dungeon Master - your guide in the realm of Dungeons & Dragons!" Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Dec. 13 2010, 11:00 @ Matt: thanks a lot for the explanation and for the Wikipedia links. I never saw The Snowman - it looks very cool from the excerpt you linked and from Wikipedia's article. Do you know whether it's available on DVD? The animation style in the song sequence still reminds me of Queen's "Save Me" video, maybe because the technique is the same. By the way, is the choirboy who sings the song (Peter Auty) as Scottish as Irn Bru? He's got very pronounced R's... "The rrriver..." Wikipedia says he's English. Or maybe do all choirboys sing like that? Re. Irn Bru, judging from the Wikipedia description, from the colour, and from another ad I found on YouTube which says "It's Ginger!" I think its taste is very like Red Bull, although Irn Bru is not marketed as an "energy drink". Or is it? The "made from girders" slogan sounds a little bit like that... I've often wondered how did Aled Jones come to work with Mike. Did Mike, while looking for a choirboy, simply stumble upon the best available one at the time, or did someone from Virgin recommend Aled to him? -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Cavalier (Lost Version) Group: Members Posts: 598 Joined: Nov. 2010 Posted: Dec. 13 2010, 17:52 And lo! where but one YouTube link was needed, two appeared! I'm not sure how I managed that.  Meanwhile it's pleasant news to realise that generating such clips within the post is merely a matter of putting the appropriate url and address in.  I've now read Matt's technological update in About these forums - I'd assumed you were all using some kind of alchemy to make the pretty pictures appear. Thanks too to Ugo for your link.  As it happens I was fresh off viewing the Hollywood Bowl performance, having been put in a Python mood, deciding if I should appropriate one of their allusions to the golden nectar, but I left my thought in - thanks again for responding to it.   What's that?  Another video clip, you say?  Oh, go on then... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucbysXjD-2o -------------- "Who was that?" "That was Venger - the force of Evil!  I am Dungeon Master - your guide in the realm of Dungeons & Dragons!" Back to top

bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Dec. 15 2010, 15:06 Quote (nightspore @ Dec. 13 2010, 08:35) Quote (bee @ Dec. 13 2010, 06:48) very amusing Matt, i liked that particularly when snapped his carrot off to take a swig!!! I shall never look at The Snowman in quite the same way again. Marvellous! A song for Bee: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlrsqGal64w just seen this! brilliant, just brilliant! Clever stuff. I even found myself swaying very gently as it played... And to see the Goodies clip again was fab, very silly humour, but hey, life gets way too serious if you let it! -------------- ....second to the right and straight on till morning.... You heard me before Yet you hear me again Then I die Till I call me again Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Dec. 15 2010, 20:41 One of my favorites ever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oqXVx3sBOk -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Dec. 17 2010, 17:54 @ Tati: I think Blur did their best stuff in their so-called "Britpop" phase. "Girls and boys" and "Country House" are two of their best videos, IMHO. When they got "rockier" they uniformed to everyone else. But still they did very eye-catching videos, like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkZh6hB9cs0 -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Dec. 17 2010, 22:42 What you can do with some logos and their versions... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50BBNZ-ejjU -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Dec. 18 2010, 01:30 this is one and i totally love it.. is made by Lasse Hoile.. hes great video maker.. this is for Steven Wilson, Insurgentes, Harmony Korine, a melanchony lovely song.. amazing work from the frontman of Porcupine tree http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BClzBQmZZBc -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Dec. 18 2010, 01:33 not to forget this delicate touch of dark video "Start of something beautiful" by Porcupine tree.. i just love the mood of theyre songs.. well made i must say! http://vimeo.com/13199207 -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Dec. 18 2010, 01:39 sorry, my last one have to share this dreamy Sigur Ros melody Glósóli.. imagine something beautiful like this.. wonderful work http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwQmDvuORY0 -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

Hastengas Group: Members Posts: 319 Joined: Nov. 2010 Posted: Dec. 18 2010, 11:27 Took me a while to get into Sigur Ros, but was worth the wait in the end as their musical style has grown on me. However, I find that video a bit disturbing to be honest...especially the very last cliff scne and the last child..... Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Dec. 18 2010, 16:19 @ Hastengas: the band themselves gave an explanation for the last child in the final scene. According to them, the child was scared of jumping off the cliff in the same way as the others did, and so he jumped like he was diving into water. But in the very last scene of the video you can see that he's flying with the others. Also according to the band, the video was meant to be something quite ordinary and quite scary - which turns into extraordinary and joyful in the very last scene, where the children fly. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Dec. 19 2010, 00:20 Quote (Hastengas @ Dec. 18 2010, 17:27) Took me a while to get into Sigur Ros, but was worth the wait in the end as their musical style has grown on me. However, I find that video a bit disturbing to be honest...especially the very last cliff scne and the last child..... yes thats true what Ugo says... it brings the fear out of you, just like a dream but then you see the last one flies with the others.. quite dreamy done.. -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

Hastengas Group: Members Posts: 319 Joined: Nov. 2010 Posted: Dec. 19 2010, 13:54 ok, I must have missed the little kid at the end flying....looked like he just fell off....good track anyway... Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Dec. 19 2010, 21:31 Quote (Hastengas @ Dec. 19 2010, 19:54) ok, I must have missed the little kid at the end flying....looked like he just fell off....good track anyway... hehe yeah i can understand that.. would be to much really.. not really calming.. -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Dec. 19 2010, 21:33 not to forget this amazing classic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i8264L8-N4 -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

3Wheeler Group: Members Posts: 828 Joined: Aug. 2007 Posted: Dec. 20 2010, 13:40 Baby Monkey - Backwards on a Pig... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_sfnQDr1-o -------------- We're Flying Aeroflot, We've Got Reservations. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Dec. 20 2010, 19:03 @ Tubularman: I talked about High Hopes in another topic. To me, among non-conceptual videos [i.e. videos having almost nothing to do with the song, except maybe in one scene here], this is one of the best ever made. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

HR lover Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: Sep. 2010 Posted: Jan. 12 2011, 07:57 I really like coffee and tv tati. One of the few pop songs I can enjoy. -------------- Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. Back to top

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