The spirit of 1984 here. The best time to be a teenager or twenty something. I was 23 and still love it in 2020. Thanks to these guys the 80's still rule. We had It good.
@@caseyjones7404 Agreed. Speaking of video games, this song was also sampled (specifically the “HEY!” part) in the EU/JP version of Sonic CD. It’s really neat stuff.
There were actually three of them. This (the first) was on heavy rotation on MTV in the US, but it was banned in New Zealandm, rarely seen in most countries, and a less-violent animated clip replaced it in many countries. There was later another promo featuring the band in the studio. I don't recall any of them being shown on TOTP in the UK though, although I bought the 7". There were at least five different 12" versions and a cassette single that lasted 20 minutes. ZTT loved putting out loads of different formats. (They'd had great success doing exactly that with Frankie Goes to Hollywood the year before).
I was 18 when this video came out and was a newlywed living in a small apartment and MTV had just come out and I remember being mesmerized by each video. This one particularly had me on the edge of my seat with my mouth open. Wow! it takes me back. Wish I was young again and was seeing this for the first time!
I was 17 in 1987. Senior in HS. When I ran across them. By that time? They'd already been out 1-2 years. Being a kid, life-long hiphop head, and from the hood in Long Beach CA around that time who never heard of punk music or anything like it, I always thought the little girl was a bit disturbing. Lol. Now? I just miss certain things about the '80's. Like genuinely artistic, innovative music. Like...The Art of Noise.
I was 22 at the time far from being married and partied to this song in da clubs. We’re curious are you still married to the same person and why so young?
Me too because l am also able to travel vack in time with my time machine from the future and it's great and this all really totally happened and l can prove it and everything.
This was the peak of how just about anything went on MTV as far as the music videos they played. The music was often songs most American radio stations at the time would have never touched otherwise because the major labels in conjunction with the big radio stations in America always set the tone for what was played there, outside of influential outlier radio stations like WLIR in Long Island, NY.
Rybczynski also did a wonderful video for Stereotomy by the Alan Parsons Project. He had an amazing gift for translating music into incredibly arresting, inventive, visual pieces of art in their own right.
I was 14 when this came out and when I heard it - and then saw it on MTV - my brain basically melted at its sheer awesomeness. 40 years later, nothing has changed.
I was obsessed with this video. I only saw it once. I was about the same age as the kid in the video and I’d never seen or heard anything like it. I was a bit scared, confused, excited, and it struck me as something so unique, I wanted to see more stuff like this. I never saw the video again until UA-cam, haha. It’s interesting the things that spark imagination and leave a lasting impression.
Late teens then and even I was freaked out. I remember the first time I saw it and every time after, I tried to figure what the heck they were doing and why, but none of it makes sense and that's okay. lol
These videos are like well kept secrets just between us 80's kids who had the privilege to watch hours of these cool ass videos! I'm feeling especially lucky!
I was an 80s kid and only saw it once when take young, wasn't until Beavis and butt head watched it that I remember it. It's one of those weird things you saw and wondered if you dreamed it.
@@agargoyle12345 I know, right? Personally, I've always thought the horror genre should make more extensive use of stop-motion, in general...and *claymation*, in particular! :-D
In 1985, after "Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise?" had recently been released, I happened to be living in London. One day I was walking through a hallway to get on the tube. Someone walking just a few moments ahead of me had apparently just purchased this on cassette tape at the HMW and dropped it practically at my feet. I couldn't find its owner, so I brought it home with me and was pleasantly surprised when I played this wondrous album. As a young teen, I was used to hearing the likes of Duran and Wham, so this was a refreshingly different and rebellious punk rock/synthpop anthem that got me to open my mind to more experimental bands. Thanks to whoever it was who dropped that brand new cassette in a London tube station hallway!
This video is both beautiful and nightmarish at the same time. I was 13 when it came out and even now the little girl frightens me. It's as though she's the puppet master of these three men to do her bidding, and that her frailty should not be underestimated. The technique used in this video gives it somewhat of a stop motion effect making it look very surrealistic which also adds to its already disturbing visuals. I absolutely love it.
Zbignew Rybczyński was a BIG thing in MTV videos at the time, having just gotten an Oscar for his human stop-motion in his short "Tango". It was always a treat to see Zbignew's cartoony motion or never-ending lines show up in videos like Lou Reed's "The Original Wrapper" or Pet Shop Boys' "Opportunities": ua-cam.com/video/t1Am45JrwQ4/v-deo.html
Destroying objects with power tools and edited to the beat. Love it. I think about this video whenever I go to Home Depot. It is the only way I can tolerate walking into that place.
I read an interview with a member of Art of Noise about the car bit in this song. They were in the offices of Sarm Studios sometime in 1982 when they heard someone struggling to start a car in the lane outside the building. They stuck a mike into a recorder and caught about 45 seconds of it , transferred it into in their sampler and the rest is history.
Sadly you will never see anything like this on Amercan Idol. Or hear it on FM radio. This piece has stayed with me -- haunted me -- close to 40 years now. Art has the power to stay with us.
Yello Art Of Noise Sunscreem 03 The Shamen Pet Shop Boys Electronic Music 80s and 90s were the best. Art Of Noise did so many good albums and I have their albums and Yello. I miss the 80s and 90s Art of Noise and Yello were ahead of their time and so were so many other good artists like Madonna
One of the best music videos ever. My name is Bicycle Bob and I approved this message and now I'm going to destroy a musical instrument that has served it's purpose.
sitting on my couch during the 80s in austin, texas, just ate a decent sized shroom when i decided to watch mtv and this came on... totally perfect energies radiated from my dwelling to begin a darn good life....now 73 years old and this still turns me on....OH MY
In my eyes the Girl of Destruction is an icon, I always wondered what her script name was… hopefully not just “young girl”… anyhow she’s an image I have never forgotten.
Night Flight was one of the best television shows ever to appear on American commercial television. It was groundbreaking in that it ran all night long -- essentially from about 9 p.m. through 5 a.m. every Friday and Saturday night throughout the entire decade of the 1980s -- showing avant-garde stuff from cutting edge music videos to indie films, and interviews with artists, writers, musicians, wild B movies, obscure docu films, film shorts etc. Night Flight was an absolute treasure.
Yes Night Flight! Loved it! Banned music videos and trippy films!! I remember MTV would not show "Hot in the city" 1987 version by Billy Idol but Night Flight did!
I very randomly get this song stuck in my head. Even if I haven't heard it in years, I'll be walking around like 'bum. bum. badumdumdumdum.......la la LA!'
There was simply nothing like the Art of Noise, when we were break dancing at Yonge and Dundas with a piece of cardboard, they were the best of the hard bass and snare drowning out the Noise
Dude! Fellow Canuck here. What you just said is EVERYTHING. The craze was far reaching. We were down at our local strip mall (in front of Beckers) in MISSISSAUGA (Meadowvale) with the cardboard, in our nylon (slippery) track suits, ghetto blaster pumping out this song. Midnight Star - "Freakazoid" was another one we used a LOT. Big up! The burbs were in on it too :)
Was watching venture brothers where they reference this. I couldn't remember who it was, I just remember a Beavis and butthead episode where they had this. Husband found it for me💕💕
And now it's the High Line. A few people filmed in that area. Twin Hype, and New York Under Cover the TV show. Plus The Tunnel, The Roxy Night club is not far from where they filmed this video.
I have been looking for this video FOR EVER! Thanks to my brother, who is 7 years younger, knew the artist when I described the video to him. Wow, I'm so happy.
Art of Noise is super tight!!! I remember this jam when I was seventeen and L.L Kool J was rocking the bells! You know what, these kind of jams make really miss back in the day! Do your thang, Art of Noise!!!
As someone who was first a Yes fan, and then a fan of the Buggles as well, it's nice to learn of even more great Trevor Horn stuff. Randomly heard of this bands existence when I tuned into NPR for like five seconds yesterday, and was lucky enough to find it on vinyl at a record store the same day. Expecting great music from it.
When we were little kids in the 80’s, this was my brother and my favorite video on mtv!!! It is unforgettable. The art of noise is still a favorite band and I’ve passed that down to my children.
Imagine if you will, a drunken night in which you come out of a blackout at a house you don't recognize at 2 o'clock in the morning and watching this video on a 72" projection television. True story.
There were many earth-shattering moments defining my youth during this musical era where I had to pull over in the car just to get the details of the track I just heard. I still listen to college radio stations in anticipation....but nothing yet. Maybe I'm just old.
This song just reminds me of my dad 🖤 I’m so thankful to have been raised on, and introduced to such interesting and experimental music. Love you dad. Your music will always live on through me ✨
For all those watching the garbage on MTV now..... there was a time it was about breaking barriers of music of every type you could imagine. The entire network was actually about MUSIC.............. imagine that... Odd, different, no matter....if it was music it was on MTV..... must suck to have missed growing up in the 80's...... glad i was there.... :P
Again!... Brilliance and art! I had to comment again! Oh my..... I was working at a record shop sophomore year in high-school...in a mall..when this came out! It was funny... a lot of break dancers bought the album and were very disappointed ...I was Full of glee...knowing that this was brilliant...ground breaking avant-garde electronic dance music. It changed the world with a whispering Punch that very few people even comprehend. At 56 years old and owning many Art Of Noise LPs and Cassettes and CDs..and digital! Brilliance and creativity will never die!!!!!!! Well done !
Ronald Chase Not to be confused with the Yes title of that name. It was a time of sorting out who owns what, with digital samplers substituting for scratchers. At about the same time, Jackson Browne released the song "Lawyers In Love."
More like - Director to Anne Dudley: Okay we're going dress you up like a punk rocker and let your break classical instruments. Anne Dudley: Yeah, i'm not doing that. Director: Shit, now what am I going to do, it's too late to recast.
Claude Debussy was just inventing impressionist classical music in the '80s. Oh, you mean the nineteen-eighties. I think the synth-poppers of that decade are more stuck in their time. The Art of Noise were obviously very reliant on 1980s technology but made music that is somehow timeless.
Wow.😳 This popped into my head and I could NOT remember the name of the group or the song. Had to look for “80s song. Video has little girl yelling Hey!”… And here I am! Damnnnnnnn takes me back.
I was 16yrs old when this came out in 1984....I was like what the Hell is this ? I was fascinated with this music...Is this rock or rap ? I didn't know🤔🤔🤔
I have periodically pictured this in my mind since 1985 and just now thought to look it up. So happy to see this very odd and memorable video again. Loved my MTV back in the day! Thank you for posting this!!!
Zbigniew Rybczynski is a great director. Back in 1980-81 he did that fantastic Talking Heads video with people floating. You can see a lot of his work from the 1970's onward by searching his name in youtube
Ooh, home of the original 'Hey' for the Prodigy's Firestarter 🤩
Yes I was thinking the same thing... No?
Yup 😊 I reckon you might be right
they reckon Prodigy paid a million for that sample
Rightyou are correct 👍
Creator of Blue man crew! Right
The spirit of 1984 here. The best time to be a teenager or twenty something. I was 23 and still love it in 2020. Thanks to these guys the 80's still rule. We had It good.
I was 17 and a senior in high school. Loved loved loved the Art of Noise, Beat Box, moments in love, just a great group and a great time in music
I was 13 and bought this on vinyl,totally changed my musical outlook and influences
Yep just before greed is good kicked in.
All music genres we're well represented back then...running forward on all 8 cylinders!
Yes completely agree
Art of Noise, Yello, Laurie Anderson... the decade when you could make entirely unique, experimental music AND be in the charts.
Charts the in be AND music experimental, unique entirely make could you when decade the ... Anderson Laurie, Yello, Noise of Art.
@@wgaule agree absolutely I
@Kyrkos Ekaterinaris Happy to meet another Yello fan. Found them on UA-cam then bought most of their discography
My life back in the 70's and '80's. 55 Years old and still loving this stuff!!!!
Very much so!👍
Jesus freekin cripes batman.... THIS IS WHY THE 80s is HANDS DOWN THE GREATEST ERA IN CREATIVE HISTORY
groovy video game style bass line as well
@@caseyjones7404 Agreed. Speaking of video games, this song was also sampled (specifically the “HEY!” part) in the EU/JP version of Sonic CD. It’s really neat stuff.
I never knew there was a video for this song!
There were actually three of them. This (the first) was on heavy rotation on MTV in the US, but it was banned in New Zealandm, rarely seen in most countries, and a less-violent animated clip replaced it in many countries. There was later another promo featuring the band in the studio. I don't recall any of them being shown on TOTP in the UK though, although I bought the 7". There were at least five different 12" versions and a cassette single that lasted 20 minutes. ZTT loved putting out loads of different formats. (They'd had great success doing exactly that with Frankie Goes to Hollywood the year before).
Oh yeah, I remember seeing first time in early 80’s on MTV.
I was 18 when this video came out and was a newlywed living in a small apartment and MTV had just come out and I remember being mesmerized by each video. This one particularly had me on the edge of my seat with my mouth open. Wow! it takes me back. Wish I was young again and was seeing this for the first time!
Why did you get married at 18?
I was 17 in 1987. Senior in HS. When I ran across them. By that time? They'd already been out 1-2 years. Being a kid, life-long hiphop head, and from the hood in Long Beach CA around that time who never heard of punk music or anything like it, I always thought the little girl was a bit disturbing. Lol.
Now? I just miss certain things about the '80's. Like genuinely artistic, innovative music. Like...The Art of Noise.
How long did the marriage last?
I was 22 at the time far from being married and partied to this song in da clubs. We’re curious are you still married to the same person and why so young?
I dressed up as this little girl for Halloween one year in the 80s. Best party ever!
I did too
Anyone recognize the costume? And, anyone else watched New Wave Theater with Peter Ivers?
Me too because l am also able to travel vack in time with my time machine from the future and it's great and this all really totally happened and l can prove it and everything.
I wonder where she is today.
How adorable was she through the entire piece??? 😊
I was 13 and THIS changed my life.. I love so much music and that was the best era EVER!!! 80s and 90s, and now is pretty awesome too!!
The genius of Trevor Horn. I remember watching this video on The Tube back in 1984 or 1985.
Out of all the videos that have been played on MTV over the years, this is easily one of the most surreal.
This. And Bowie's Ashes to Ashes.
Rockit
One of my 80s faves! Craaaazy!
This was the peak of how just about anything went on MTV as far as the music videos they played. The music was often songs most American radio stations at the time would have never touched otherwise because the major labels in conjunction with the big radio stations in America always set the tone for what was played there, outside of influential outlier radio stations like WLIR in Long Island, NY.
Rybczynski also did a wonderful video for Stereotomy by the Alan Parsons Project. He had an amazing gift for translating music into incredibly arresting, inventive, visual pieces of art in their own right.
I was 14 when this came out and when I heard it - and then saw it on MTV - my brain basically melted at its sheer awesomeness. 40 years later, nothing has changed.
I was obsessed with this video. I only saw it once. I was about the same age as the kid in the video and I’d never seen or heard anything like it. I was a bit scared, confused, excited, and it struck me as something so unique, I wanted to see more stuff like this. I never saw the video again until UA-cam, haha. It’s interesting the things that spark imagination and leave a lasting impression.
Dude, same!!
Good for you.
Late teens then and even I was freaked out. I remember the first time I saw it and every time after, I tried to figure what the heck they were doing and why, but none of it makes sense and that's okay. lol
A similar video might be michael.jackson s leave me alone
the past builds the present;the present makes the future
Thank you Trevor Horn, master of the 80s
Yes. Can't believe he did amazing stuff with The Buggles, Yes, and The Art of Noise within such a short span of time.
Holy cannoli! The first I’ve ever witnessed this was Beavis and butthead episode and it’s taken me about that long to find this❤❤
This was the jam!! I was in college digging that vibe. Now again as an old man thinking “ hey, where’s that kid’s safety goggles?!”
😂😂
Brilliant. Still watchable many decades later (38 years from then 1984 to now 2022).
Love this track. This is the art of noise to me. This one track. It's just so unique and my memory of the 80s as a young kid. ❤️
Took the words right outta my mouth I had to search for this song but for for what it was called had to search for little girl with chainsaw lol
These videos are like well kept secrets just between us 80's kids who had the privilege to watch hours of these cool ass videos! I'm feeling especially lucky!
I first discovered this video in the year two thousand. I’m not a time traveler or anything like that.
I was an 80s kid and only saw it once when take young, wasn't until Beavis and butt head watched it that I remember it. It's one of those weird things you saw and wondered if you dreamed it.
I remember seeing this version of the video on The Tube. I was 13 and...mind blown.
@Jim26D same, I thought I'd dreamt it but seen it again somewhere
Hah, I broke the system! Here at 16
I miss seeing gems like THIS. I want my MTV....
UA-cam is better. Videos on demand, instead of random selections.
This was part of a concert that I watched as it aired LIVE on MTV, ua-cam.com/video/EC5XTz-S8k0/v-deo.html
@@ANDROLOMA Sometimes those random selections are what makes you discover new music. That said, MTV ain't what it used to be lmao.
@@ArcienPlaysGames Too true.
@@ANDROLOMA TOTALLY agree. I was thinking about how significant that is today!
You have to imagine this little girl's experience during this video shoot -- she was on top of the world 🔥🔥
A little mini Cyndi Lauper for sure!
She was amazing in that video. She kinda reminded me of the "Feral Kid" from "The Road Warrior".
That little girl is director's (Zbigniew Rybczyński) daughter.
@@lanabuttacavoli9619 Come on. That dog also was belonging to Rybczyński.
What are you talking about
I remember exploring the abandoned High Line in winter 1988. The wrecked piano was still where they left it.
Where is these place? It seems I´ve seen on an Amazon series
where?
@@dltl2852high line in NYC, lower Manhattan
greyfriars
I remember seeing this on night tracks on TBS back in the mid 80's and it freaked me out then and here i am damn near 50 and it still freaks me out.
RollOut Red 😆right?
It really reminds me of stop-motion -- only with live people
Me too. I saw it way late at night and got really spooked.
@@b.lonewolf417 EXACTLY. It freaked me out the first time I saw it, trying to work out what was off about the movement. It's creepy
@@agargoyle12345 I know, right? Personally, I've always thought the horror genre should make more extensive use of stop-motion, in general...and *claymation*, in particular! :-D
In 1985, after "Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise?" had recently been released, I happened to be living in London. One day I was walking through a hallway to get on the tube. Someone walking just a few moments ahead of me had apparently just purchased this on cassette tape at the HMW and dropped it practically at my feet. I couldn't find its owner, so I brought it home with me and was pleasantly surprised when I played this wondrous album. As a young teen, I was used to hearing the likes of Duran and Wham, so this was a refreshingly different and rebellious punk rock/synthpop anthem that got me to open my mind to more experimental bands. Thanks to whoever it was who dropped that brand new cassette in a London tube station hallway!
Completely agree on the innovate sound, funny I was well into Duran Duran as well. I love the beat they created.
It was ME! Give it back!! 😁
@deco2gogo you're welcome!
HMV...
Peace ☮️✌️to you brother… and your finding of a 💎 gem!❤😊
This video is both beautiful and nightmarish at the same time. I was 13 when it came out and even now the little girl frightens me. It's as though she's the puppet master of these three men to do her bidding, and that her frailty should not be underestimated. The technique used in this video gives it somewhat of a stop motion effect making it look very surrealistic which also adds to its already disturbing visuals. I absolutely love it.
Zbignew Rybczyński was a BIG thing in MTV videos at the time, having just gotten an Oscar for his human stop-motion in his short "Tango".
It was always a treat to see Zbignew's cartoony motion or never-ending lines show up in videos like Lou Reed's "The Original Wrapper" or Pet Shop Boys' "Opportunities": ua-cam.com/video/t1Am45JrwQ4/v-deo.html
I think it was edited to be in tune with the video - hence the staccato effects - but I see what you mean.
Your stupid
The girl is not a puppet she's really you are an idiot
Destroying objects with power tools and edited to the beat. Love it. I think about this video whenever I go to Home Depot. It is the only way I can tolerate walking into that place.
Art of Noise affected hip hop, rap, alternative, new wave, rock, funk and jazz fans. #salute
Winner of the "Best Experimental Music Video Award" at the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards....back when they used to show groundbreaking videos like this.
I can't tell You how much I miss those days
I miss those days
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MTV is the 80s was wonderful..I miss it:(
Back when the "M" stood for something.
Why this little girl creeped me out 😂😂😂 I love this band!
I first heard this song back in 1984 and after ALL these years it STILL kicks ass!!!
It’s 2019.. Art Of Noise still playing in my home!!
Always
It's 2020 now and I love this track so who's with me on this
@@andybryant9105 Yep, playing now.
2020.
2021 people!
I read an interview with a member of Art of Noise about the car bit in this song. They were in the offices of Sarm Studios sometime in 1982 when they heard someone struggling to start a car in the lane outside the building. They stuck a mike into a recorder and caught about 45 seconds of it , transferred it into in their sampler and the rest is history.
And in a Guardian piece Anne Dudley mentions that it was a VW Golf.
Cool lil tid bit. Thanks for sharing. Those specific sound effects and what they’ve done with them are one of my fav parts of the song.
Thrilling music and video, and easy to imagine just down the tracks, in a tunnel, are the Prodigy...
"brock im stuck in a tunnel with a confessed arsonist!"
Oh yeah!
Sadly you will never see anything like this on Amercan Idol. Or hear it on FM radio. This piece has stayed with me -- haunted me -- close to 40 years now. Art has the power to stay with us.
a good reason it wouldn't be on american idol is because it's like 7% lyrics 93% instrumental LOL
This will NEVER stop being BRILLIANT!!! WOW.
The “hey” portion went on to be sampled in the Prodigy’s “fire starter ”.
Remember this song from our dance recital as a youth, haven't heard it in decades, had to check it out again to remember what the fuss was about 😊
Art Of Noise, Close and Herbie Hancock, Rockit were groundbreaking
And mostly, if not entirely, Fairlight-driven...
Two of my favorite songs/videos as a kid. Still love them to this day.
Don't forget Peter Gabriel and George Harrison
You forgot Pump Up The Volume by MARRS
FACTS 💯💯💯
And this was the last time the music store allowed them to rent instruments,
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 that's all I have to say.
IKR? 🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂😂
How funny!
🤣👍
This song is so damn tight - it's timeless.
+Jemiah Jefferson well going to the 80s
Analog!! They probably had .1% of the tech they have now & thats why it sounds so good!
Julie Dodgshon It was actually all about the Fairlight CMI. Check it out.
It's slick!
I agree
I remember watching this video like at 10 or 11 years old and loved it then!
Class of '84 and this was on constantly on tv and the radio. Flock of Seagulls, Adam Ant, Duran Duran, Simple Minds etc...
40 years and counting. What a time for musical masterpieces.
I miss these days...watching this on MTV when they actually played music videos
And then when it was shown on Beavis and Butthead later in the mid-90’s! 🤣
Yello Art Of Noise Sunscreem 03 The Shamen Pet Shop Boys Electronic Music 80s and 90s were the best. Art Of Noise did so many good albums and I have their albums and Yello. I miss the 80s and 90s Art of Noise and Yello were ahead of their time and so were so many other good artists like Madonna
Maybe one of my favorite videos. I saw them in concert when I was 18, was great. Many moons ago.
Absolutely i agree i was about 23or 24 back in 1984 now in my 60,s this track still kicks ass 😛 art of noise rules
Wow same here!❤
Director: Just pick up the sheet music and throw it around
Child actor: Why?
Director: You'll understand in about 12-15 years.
This song is an absolute masterpiece, enough said😊
My........mind..........
Music beyond what was to come. Here in 2022, this is WAY to much for modern minds to grasp. Bravo if you tell me!!
From Wikipedia. Director Zbigniew Rybczyński shot the music video for Art of Noise's single, "Close (to the Edit)" on the line in 1984.
So ahead of their time. After 30 years, I feel like I'm rediscovering them again for the first time and loving it.
Watching in 2016. This NEVER gets old!
Yep
loved this song and loved the video.
tackyman2011 2017
tackyman2011 Feb.2018 2a.m
tackyman2011 Watching in 2018, these days from my home in Brazil... never gets old!
One of the best music videos ever. My name is Bicycle Bob and I approved this message and now I'm going to destroy a musical instrument that has served it's purpose.
sitting on my couch during the 80s in austin, texas, just ate a decent sized shroom when i decided to watch mtv and this came on... totally perfect energies radiated from my dwelling to begin a darn good life....now 73 years old and this still turns me on....OH MY
Rock on Ronnie [72 this end but wot's it matter] watch those mushies btw coupla folks pushin' up daisies here in Australia
Cannot believe I finally found this video! I was in eighth grade when this came out on MTV.
In my eyes the Girl of Destruction is an icon, I always wondered what her script name was… hopefully not just “young girl”… anyhow she’s an image I have never forgotten.
I remember watching this on Night Flight when I was a kid.
Luke Brody what a great show Night Flight. Saw some very bizarre videos when I was a kid on Night Flight. Brings back memories
Night Flight was one of the best television shows ever to appear on American commercial television. It was groundbreaking in that it ran all night long -- essentially from about 9 p.m. through 5 a.m. every Friday and Saturday night throughout the entire decade of the 1980s -- showing avant-garde stuff from cutting edge music videos to indie films, and interviews with artists, writers, musicians, wild B movies, obscure docu films, film shorts etc. Night Flight was an absolute treasure.
or nightmares...
Gozilla meets Bambi
Yes Night Flight! Loved it! Banned music videos and trippy films!! I remember MTV would not show "Hot in the city" 1987 version by Billy Idol but Night Flight did!
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Wednesday May 8th 2024==saying hello from Chicago Illinois USA 💯...Goodday to you ladies and gentlemen listening to this song 🎉
I absolutely love this video and this little girl was my best friend in my head😂😂
It's 2023, and even now records of the art of noise and others from ZTT are on my recordtable. Moments in love is my fav.
Man, all these comments are about seeing this video for the first time in the 80s! I was born in 82! My first was Beavis and Butt-Head 1994...
I very randomly get this song stuck in my head. Even if I haven't heard it in years, I'll be walking around like 'bum. bum. badumdumdumdum.......la la LA!'
Oh yeah
There's just something about this video that kicks ass!!
Such a clever video as they were “digital” therefore destroying real instruments (in people’s minds)
My entire musical life changed the moment I heard this on the radio while living in Germany in 1984. Everything changed.
My husband is with a German label the guys who own an run it say this track changed their life!
@@patriciahealey2927 ☺👍
And now we are back in 1984. Greetings from 2021.
was hitler still running the show back then?
and not for the better
I wonder where that girl is today. She was my favorite back then!
This is my favorite music video. Zbigniew Rybczynski was a genius of the medium.
There was simply nothing like the Art of Noise, when we were break dancing at Yonge and Dundas with a piece of cardboard, they were the best of the hard bass and snare drowning out the Noise
Aye, we couldn't afford lino back then eh 😛
Dude! Fellow Canuck here. What you just said is EVERYTHING. The craze was far reaching. We were down at our local strip mall (in front of Beckers) in MISSISSAUGA (Meadowvale) with the cardboard, in our nylon (slippery) track suits, ghetto blaster pumping out this song. Midnight Star - "Freakazoid" was another one we used a LOT. Big up! The burbs were in on it too :)
Was watching venture brothers where they reference this. I couldn't remember who it was, I just remember a Beavis and butthead episode where they had this. Husband found it for me💕💕
And now it's the High Line. A few people filmed in that area. Twin Hype, and New York Under Cover the TV show. Plus The Tunnel, The Roxy Night club is not far from where they filmed this video.
Mars and Nell’s too.
I have been looking for this video FOR EVER! Thanks to my brother, who is 7 years younger, knew the artist when I described the video to him. Wow, I'm so happy.
This really got big MTV play actually.
This music video alone deserved MTV having their own awards for music.
@@RocStarr913 i understand MTV rather sucks now
Art of Noise is super tight!!! I remember this jam when I was seventeen and L.L Kool J was rocking the bells! You know what, these kind of jams make really miss back in the day! Do your thang, Art of Noise!!!
whoa.
I totally just got this.
It's really about deconstructing traditional music.
So is the video.
There was no traditional music video at that time. Early MTV was balls to the walls and it changed with the time.
And replace it with trash...
@@soaribb32 sooooo true.
Thank you!! That video makes sense now
@@pby1000 At least they succeeded in the noise part...
I remember this video as a child.
MTV was my babysitter
Winner of 2 MTV Video Music Awards in 1985: Best Experimental Video and Best Editing in a Video.
After all these years this video still intrigue. That little girl a trip
Great stuff, ground breaking in its day and still totally original. Moments of love is a beautiful track.
The 🥁 drums and bass are awesome sending the song into overdrive. Decades later I still love this song.👍🏆😎💘
Amen!!!
Yep
I used to love this video as a kid. I miss the 80s and MTV
As someone who was first a Yes fan, and then a fan of the Buggles as well, it's nice to learn of even more great Trevor Horn stuff.
Randomly heard of this bands existence when I tuned into NPR for like five seconds yesterday, and was lucky enough to find it on vinyl at a record store the same day. Expecting great music from it.
They were geniuses..the layers of sounds were Amazing
The Prodigy sampled that "hey" scream
That kid really sets the tone here....so much anger in something so small
When we were little kids in the 80’s, this was my brother and my favorite video on mtv!!! It is unforgettable. The art of noise is still a favorite band and I’ve passed that down to my children.
Imagine if you will, a drunken night in which you come out of a blackout at a house you don't recognize at 2 o'clock in the morning and watching this video on a 72" projection television. True story.
There were many earth-shattering moments defining my youth during this musical era where I had to pull over in the car just to get the details of the track I just heard. I still listen to college radio stations in anticipation....but nothing yet. Maybe I'm just old.
This song just reminds me of my dad 🖤
I’m so thankful to have been raised on, and introduced to such interesting and experimental music.
Love you dad. Your music will always live on through me ✨
For all those watching the garbage on MTV now..... there was a time it was about breaking barriers of music of every type you could imagine. The entire network was actually about MUSIC.............. imagine that... Odd, different, no matter....if it was music it was on MTV..... must suck to have missed growing up in the 80's...... glad i was there.... :P
no other video like it.i was 14 when this was out im 51now and its still great .
Yeah, and people still don't get us! Lol
Again!... Brilliance and art! I had to comment again!
Oh my..... I was working at a record shop sophomore year in
high-school...in a mall..when this came out! It was funny... a lot of
break dancers bought the album and were very disappointed ...I was Full
of glee...knowing that this was brilliant...ground breaking avant-garde
electronic dance music. It changed the world with a whispering Punch
that very few people even comprehend. At 56 years old and owning many
Art Of Noise LPs and Cassettes and CDs..and digital! Brilliance and
creativity will never die!!!!!!! Well done !
To be in England in the summertime, close to the edit
with my love...
Ronald Chase Not to be confused with the Yes title of that name. It was a time of sorting out who owns what, with digital samplers substituting for scratchers. At about the same time, Jackson Browne released the song "Lawyers In Love."
Edge on the audio,edit in the title.
Swooning
Gen X Represent!
Director to the little girl: Okay we're going dress you up like a punk rocker and let your break stuff. Girl: Okay! :D
The girls parents “Were gonna get paid for this right?!?”
Fun fact that’s the director’s daughter
More like - Director to Anne Dudley: Okay we're going dress you up like a punk rocker and let your break classical instruments. Anne Dudley: Yeah, i'm not doing that. Director: Shit, now what am I going to do, it's too late to recast.
Nobody sounded more '80s than The Art of Noise.
Claude Debussy was just inventing impressionist classical music in the '80s. Oh, you mean the nineteen-eighties. I think the synth-poppers of that decade are more stuck in their time. The Art of Noise were obviously very reliant on 1980s technology but made music that is somehow timeless.
Wow.😳
This popped into my head and I could NOT remember the name of the group or the song.
Had to look for “80s song. Video has little girl yelling Hey!”…
And here I am!
Damnnnnnnn takes me back.
I was 16yrs old when this came out in 1984....I was like what the Hell is this ? I was fascinated with this music...Is this rock or rap ? I didn't know🤔🤔🤔
My first purchase single record. Wow. still so original. Love it.
I loved this cut ..but when I saw the video, it just made the cut even better...still till this day ,I jam this hit 😊😊😊
I have periodically pictured this in my mind since 1985 and just now thought to look it up. So happy to see this very odd and memorable video again. Loved my MTV back in the day! Thank you for posting this!!!
I admit, I absolutely hated this when it debuted. It was so far ahead of its time (or mine). I love it now.
Zbigniew Rybczynski is a great director. Back in 1980-81 he did that fantastic Talking Heads video with people floating. You can see a lot of his work from the 1970's onward by searching his name in youtube
Just have to figure out how to copy his name or go back and forth for 15 minutes trying to transcribe it. 😅
Whole album is like nothing else then or since. The other side of the sound of Art of Noise was Moments In Love.
I totally agree. Played this album to death. Moments in love is such a beautiful tune.