Maybe a favourite song, maybe not...but something that's visually exciting and special to you..maybe a 'wow moment'....we've probably seen a lot of them..who knows?
Possibly nice to have them catalogued in one place?...aesthetics, the look, image right up there with sound.
Sound and Vision!
Hey! Elastica - This Town
This is a band whose name I used to constantly hear circa ‘83-‘84 on my local station in Edinburgh - it seemed that barely a night went past where Hey! Elastica weren’t playing live somewhere in the area. Yet in all that time, I never had any idea what the band sounded like. They only ever released four singles and an album (first single produced by Tony Visconti, everything else produced by Martin Rushent). Then last year, all of them turned up on Qobuz and the streaming services.
Most of what they did was rather underwhelming, but their final single really did deserve more success. It is, I’ll admit, very much of its time, but the song is a total earworm, and the video is a lot of fun, a mix of very bold, abstract white, black and red coloring, the obligatory 80s “story”, it even had a “quirky” video interruption.
In retrospect, it’s not really surprising they vanished without trace, but they deserved a little more - “This Town” should have at least got them one-hit wonder status.