Continuing the Kim Wilde theme from yesterday I feel beholden to make Laurent Voulzy's hit "Les Nuits Sans Kim Wilde" this week's vintage video. A simple story of a troubled young man who lives in a truck, spends his days dressing as a bargain-bucket Prince and playing a Kim-Wilde themed pinball machine, and his nights grinding against vertical surfaces and obsessing about her. Needless to say his girlfriend isn't happy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JERZmyoHd_c

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90s meets 80s (neighnties!) for this week's video, a stellar collaboration between Jacques Lu Cont (si si je suis un Frenchman) and NIK EFFING KERSHAW

The video seems inspired by those toy drama sections on the Adam & Joe show of blessed memory and is, whatever it's inspiration, awesome. Though it is also kind of about suicide so, you know, be warned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9ZeERwEZUM

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This week's video is "The Mole From The Ministry" by The Dukes of Stratosphear, i.e. XTC with weird masks on, in a haze of peculiarity with the odd stab of horror.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-fL68DbcQ0

Sample lyric:

"I'm the mole from the Ministry
And you'll all bow down to me
I'm the mole in your potting shed
I'm the bad thoughts inside your head"

The place we're moving to next year has a great many mole hills on the lawn, which we are just going to pretend aren't there

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This week's vid is 'Absolute' by Scritti Politti, in honour of an interview I read today with singer Green Garside, where he said he was so obsessed with white chocolate he once purchased 30 white chocolate alligators from a shop in Florida after phoning them after hours to insist they open up especially for him.

I love the Midsummer Night's Dream stuff in this vid and although I normally frown on tracksuits Green just about gets a pass here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAoTJGtgfgw

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This vid for "Dance With Me" by Alphaville has EVERYTHING you need for a great 80s video:
- ballerina reflected in the window of a black limo
- (John Foxx voice) Underpass!! and neon lights
- stern 40s looking woman with veil, stiletto and suit
- detonation device
- intense focus on gloves
- pile of burning money (god knows how any was left to burn by the end of this)
- ending in a big pyrotechnic bang

It almost seems rude to expect a song too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tmY1GEH3_Y

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A modern offering this week, but well worthy of inclusion in the pantheon of great pop vids: 'Love Is A Camera" by Sophie Ellis Bextor. Wonderfully shot ghost-story video directed by Sophie Muller, with Bextor giving some terrific evil vibes as a lovely photographer witch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmPM-LZ-6y8

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This week's pop video, "Jacob's Ladder" by the amazing Monochrome Set, is a stellar attempt to being medieval art weirdness into the 80s, a decade before XTC's 'The Disappointed'. I like the weird black animal and lugubrious jester in particular.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTiZh6BcauY

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This week's pop video is (along with the better-known "Mind of A Toy") my favourite offering from Visage, a highly visual band that also had a lot of great songs. This one was directed by Ultravox singer Midge Ure and channels Brief Encounter and a hundred years' worth of ghost stories set on trains, plus all the identity/mirror stuff that characterizes New Romantic pop video. And the styling is deathless, of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVsrcmW3Yc8

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This week's 80s pop video is 'Love Is The Slug' from the ineffable Fuzzbox. This cracking song is more guitar-based than their later hits, and I love the rough-around-the-edges feel of this vid: silly, serious, glamorous and feminist at the same time. Fave scenes include the bottomless handbag and the drumstick-in-face incident while the drum track keeps playing. And everyone looks amazing. IMHO the real-life blueprint for Jem & the Holograms!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXWqfxj-mlU

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This week's #VideoVednesday goes 90s with "Freaks" by Live. Their band name might be search engine kryptonite but I love this sombre, jaunty instance of the trend for darkly surreal videos in American rock of the era.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEUsJRVV-PE

Ed Kowalczyk looks (and is) incredible in this too.

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So here we are: Miko Mission's "Two For Love" video, a kind of Giallo 'Ashes To Ashes' made for 20 p and the cost of a fruit knife (or is it a cheese knife?). I like a few of his songs and appreciate the fact that he was older than the main crop of bouffant Italo-boys. He was probably using the power of mime to open interdimensional portals to mysterious rain-washed cities when Den Harrow was in short pants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPA6uYNdOTs

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OMG I've missed another #VideoVednesday. The Toad Work is squatting very heavily on my back right now so I think I might just have to re-post last week's one. I don't think anyone's actually seen it because I stupidly posted about ten minutes before I migrated my account. Wait a sec.

Just 20 minutes to go on Wednesday! Please accept this hurried offering of Miko Mission's "Two For Love" video, an Italopop Giallo Ashes To Ashes made for 20p and the cost of a fruit knife (or is it a cheese knife?)

https://youtu.be/Imm4y511SP4

I appreciate the fact that Mr. Mission was older than the main crop of bouffant Italo-boys. He was probably using the power of mime to open interdimensional portals to mysterious rain-washed cities when Den Harrow was in short pants.

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Today's #VideoVednesday, "The Liberty Tree" by Frank Tovey and the Pyros, is dedicated to everyone striking in the UK today, or just anyone who's ever wondered what the Fad Gadget mastermind would look like on horseback (assuming that is him)

https://youtu.be/t-j6fKTCljk

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Today's #VideoVednesday, "The Liberty Tree" by Frank Tovey and the Pyros, is dedicated to everyone striking in the UK today, or just anyone who's ever wondered what the Fad Gadget mastermind would look like on horseback (assuming that is him)

https://youtu.be/t-j6fKTCljk

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Today's #VideoVednesday by Frank Tovey and the Pyros is dedicated to everyone striking in the UK today, or just anyone who's ever wondered what the Fad Gadget mastermind would look like on horseback (assuming that is him)

The Liberty Tree https://g.co/kgs/vaBki4

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Just realized I missed this week's #VideoVednesday, so here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLKZmdyAYic

"It Pays To Belong" sees Dr. Robert wielding more 80s technology than I've ever seen in one video, and has a social message that's more important than ever (OK, the brief Euroskeptic bit at the end hasn't aged well, but this was happening in the context of Thatcher pushing entry into Europe to promote international capitalism, so it's forgiveable). And despite how I've made it sound, this vid is FUN.

Just realized I missed this week's #VideoVednesday, so here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLKZmdyAYic

"It Pays To Belong" sees Dr. Bob wielding more 80s technology than I've ever seen in one video, and has a social message that's more important than ever (OK, the brief Euroskeptic bit at the end hasn't aged well, but this was happening in the context of Thatcher pushing entry into Europe to promote international capitalism, so it's forgiveable). And despite how I've made it sound, this vid is FUN.

This week's #VideoVednesday is from 2011. Miracle are my favourite modern synthpop band, and "The Visitor" is not only a fantastic tune, but its sombre, dreamy video comes closer than any vid I've ever seen to capturing the vibe of those "Golden Age of the Ghost Story" writers like Sarban and EF Benson in pagan horror mode. A real class act.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j3p3PNOmtc

This #VideoVednesday's offering, "Crucified" by Army of Lovers, is dedicated to whoever saw fit to play this track at nine a.m. on Dublin's Gem Radio last Monday.

I saw this when I was 12 and it changed my life. To save my many biographers a lot of time in years to come, I wish to state that this was the exact point at which I decided it might be worth taking an interest in men after all.

Jean-Pierre Barda is now an internationally recognized hair stylist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di18hTFTwIw

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