Snake Corps - Calling You (Official Video)
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- SNAKE CORPS - Calling You
The Snake Corps were an indie music group based in London, England during the 1980s and 1990s.
Formed in 1984, from the ashes of the (then) broken-up Sad Lovers & Giants, Tristan Garel-Funk and Nigel Pollard conceived the band, but Pollard left prior to recording the first album. Vocalist Marc Lewis responded to an advert in Melody Maker and shared a flat with Garel-Funk, the pair becoming the band's two ever-present members.
The music was too relaxed and understated to appeal to a mass-market. Not unlike Sad Lovers & Giants before them, they focused on creating dreamy, filmic soundscapes and at least partly, discarded the post-punk influences that shackled many of their contemporaries. Consequently, the band found that the European market was more aligned to their musical style and they toured abroad extensively, receiving good support wherever they went.
Distancing themselves from Britain and shunning even a regular UK tour meant that the regular indie labels were largely uninterested. However, Midnight Music, who had been the home of early SL&G, signed the band and were able to give them the artistic freedom they craved. Unfortunately, this laissez-faire approach extended to most of the company's dealings and ultimately hastened their demise. In the wake of a messy collapse, the band found that they were not only label-less, but their publishing rights had transferred to another company without any involvement or agreement from the band members. Not surprisingly, they decided to call it a day.
A new album was already recorded, but this did not surface for some years, eventually appearing on the small Ophidian label, an offshoot of Rotator Records, thanks to a friend of Garel-Funk. The word Ophidian can mean 'snake-like'.
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The best thing about youtube is that good but obscure bands, like Snake Corps, get a chance to be discovered and appreciated.
A bad mannered toy boy
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Great band. In Valencia (Spain) we love them 😊
Ya te digo los 80 fue lo mejor, ...@@cristianferrer9117
One of the best obscure bands of the 80's/90's.
I never forgot Snake Corps, still like them 40 years later 👍🍻
Just discovered this band - thanks!
An underrated song
I listened them when I was young, and I've never forgotten their song, as I've never forgotten Sad Lovers and Giants! Great bands!, with The Sound, other amazing band!
Con los tiempos que corren,...da gusto ver y oír sobre todo estos temazos
So great. I found them because of ex sad lovers and giants members. And the drummer from from rudimentary peni.
Love this song
Fantastic tune, marvellous!!!!!
Ahhh, I've been a fan of these guys since 2002 when an old bandmate introduced me to them. They're one of the 80s best kept secrets! Sooo good....
I look for this song, thanks a lot.
I really enjoy listening these guys. It’s so addicting and can’t stop enjoying them
That Bass line is so sick
amazing song
Temazo de los Snake Corps!!
This was a great song! I used to be a DJ on college radio, and I loved these guys. This song actually made it onto the playlist of the only alternative radio station in NY. I got so stoked when I heard them play it.
WLIR (later WDRE) - I remember :)
CLASICASO PARA CERRAR LOS 80'S
temazo total!!.....brutal!!....ohhh yeaaah!! .thanks for share.....gracias
man im 49 in a few weeks - why did i miss this first time round ?
Used to watch This band practice at Kev Lee studio Watford 1984 Time, S-Haters Sad lovers Jesus couldn't Drum 🥁 Ect great scene in Watford back Then.
A Tristan Garel-Funk trademark: keeping a major third (here he alternates it with the sus4) while the bass goes to the b6. Here it's in the chorus. The verse plays with a similar pattern - the bass starts on the b6, while the keyboard is repeating b7 -1-♮3 - 1 to same effect. The chorus of Snake Corp's 'Painted Ocean' has this 'wrong' sonority again at the end of the phrases. Extreme trivia: Lotion's first single 'Tear' (as in rip, not weep) plays with the same effect in the verse.
***** I think that's 1 of the things I especially love about this band... all the interesting, colorful chord changes!!! It just strikes something inside.
Midnight Music's roster was so good.. and very original. Good read on this.. The fact that they let the artists have control was great for the artists, not necessarily the best to garner mass appeal , and that's across the board. not singling one band out.. From Pop Guns to Les infants terribles, to The Essence, The Pop Guns and CornDollies, to name a few , they are very untainted by mainstream production..i still love to pop in the Corn Dollies cd.. I consider Snake Corps , SLAG and The Essence to be the flagships of that label. Still miss them days..
Please don't call them SLAG:)
Why the hell is this video so cool?
Because it's from The 80's that's why.
@@perpetual61 ditto
Love this! ❤️
Escuchando en MAYO 2020
Not easy to hit that high note on the chorus - great song !
Saw them quite a few times. Marc never missed his notes. Probably the best singer I've ever heard live.
That was so fxking much feelings. Please tell me more like this 🖤
Otra mas inevitable
Ay, Txomin..mira que no conocerlos..😄
buena banda ,será motivo para explorarla su discografia
Componentes de Sad Lovers & Giants.
This Is a Seagull es un temazo .
Tienen una versión de The things we never did de Sad Lovers & Giants que es impresionante.
Sinfonía =)
Would sound great in a movie....
When I hear the intro i see the triple linding scene from Back to School in my mind.
Cool the songer looks like a the police member
Pero d 11 a 4 y d 7 a 11 no llames x favor jajajajjaja!!!! Aaandaaa.. aaandaaa.. Buenas noches..
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Fatal temon , futuro 2028 .. yeaht .. Trujillo_ Perú .. Billy , Kimberly ,Kevin y Piero Sifuentes ...