The Verlaines - Death and The Maiden

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  • Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
  • Directed by Peter Janes, 1982.
    From The Verlaines - Death and the Maiden 7" (FN014, 1983)
    Available for Purchase at www.flyingnun.co.nz/pages/record-shop
    Video take from 'Very Short Films' DVD - bit.ly/twOEFH

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  • @etamommy
    @etamommy 5 років тому +112

    Back in the day I saw the Verlaines, Yo la Tengo and Barbara Manning in a little venue in San Diego....I could not believe my great fortune! Great great band and one of their very best of many great songs!

    • @8723402jm
      @8723402jm 2 роки тому +7

      I used to see Graham at pak n save supermarket on Saturday mornings buying chicken necks for his dog!

    • @justmadeit2
      @justmadeit2 6 місяців тому +1

      Singer looks a bit like mick jagger here or British rock band members from the late 60s

    • @pa30fps
      @pa30fps 2 місяці тому +1

      I think I was at this show. The Bacchanal, yes?

    • @etamommy
      @etamommy 2 місяці тому

      @@pa30fps I am not sure I recall but could be. I recall it was a great show. I was most into the Verlaines but loved all three artists. I was there with a couple people who would not stop talking and just listen which irked me as I knew I was witnessing quite a great billing/concert. Casbah, Bacchanal and Coachhouse were a few venues of the day around.

    • @1millionpumpkins542
      @1millionpumpkins542 Місяць тому +2

      ​@etamommy i saw some good uns at the casbah too. Beautiful memories, lost hearing...WORTH IT

  • @DarrenTemplin
    @DarrenTemplin 6 років тому +44

    This video makes me wish I was born in Dunedin circa 1962.

    • @prashby354
      @prashby354 4 роки тому +8

      1984 was my first year back down at Otago Uni in Dunedin. I WAS there. Great memories.

    • @Albert_Br
      @Albert_Br 2 роки тому +1

      1981 was a good year for white Bunny Rabitts to !

  • @Finjodb
    @Finjodb 3 роки тому +12

    Found this while searching for Schuberts Death and The Maiden String Quartet and im not disappointed

    • @yungtoxic7479
      @yungtoxic7479 2 роки тому

      Found this while listening lol gives me a strokes vibe

  • @kosovoblues5019
    @kosovoblues5019 4 роки тому +42

    in those pre- internet times,a friend pass me a casset of this band, but with a terrible sound ,and never found any album in Buenos Aires. Like a lot most of the 80's New Zealand bands. Thanks

  • @paulbrimble8204
    @paulbrimble8204 5 років тому +43

    Jane Dodd on bass playing a beautiful line....

    • @weehudyy
      @weehudyy 4 місяці тому +2

      I play in a bunch of bands with her brother John . Jane is a sweetheart

    • @etamommy
      @etamommy Місяць тому

      @@weehudyy she made her mark - those bass lines often were integral. Same with the band the Bats where I think the bass lines often made the songs sooooo much better.

  • @niphone
    @niphone 10 років тому +41

    This is one of the all time classics. If I was a more ambitious, monied, and talented man I would set out to make a documentary about everyone who appeared in this video.

    • @markeggins890
      @markeggins890 Рік тому

      At least Martin Phillips got a doco!

    • @bonniejamie
      @bonniejamie 6 місяців тому

      It's not too late mate!

  • @kytiladdy
    @kytiladdy 5 років тому +22

    a homework for school about verlaine and rimbaud and baudelaire brings me here (Y) :D

  • @MatiasValmore
    @MatiasValmore 7 років тому +115

    New Zealand is magic. Too many good indie bands c:

    • @Z33803
      @Z33803 6 років тому +3

      We got hobbit too, hey hey

    • @paulparker8298
      @paulparker8298 4 роки тому +9

      Stuart Maxwell whatever fucko!!! Where are you from dickhead !!!

    • @noisepollution6761
      @noisepollution6761 4 роки тому +1

      The ultimate fuck off song :#

    • @danieleyre8913
      @danieleyre8913 3 роки тому +3

      Most of the decent independent NZ music came from Dunedin during the 80s. Although you wouldn’t think it now, it’s sadly since become a bit of a dead cultural void.

    • @danieleyre8913
      @danieleyre8913 3 роки тому +3

      @Stuart Maxwell I’m sure that whatever dead hole you come from is worse than most of NZ, insecure troll.

  • @sharynhunt6961
    @sharynhunt6961 Рік тому +5

    I love this song. Came out when I was at high school in Dunedin

  • @simonspooner4545
    @simonspooner4545 10 років тому +22

    The height of coolness when I first saw this on RWP a long time ago.

  • @adbocsongs
    @adbocsongs Рік тому +5

    Pure love for this song and Graeme's genius and the band in whatever configuration. Grateful to have seem them live in Cambridge MA USA back in the day.

  • @richardwilliams8001
    @richardwilliams8001 Рік тому +7

    Two of my favourite songs ever, this and Pink Frost from The Chills, have to listen to them every now and then. Thank you to the person who introduced me to New Zealand bands back in the 80s!

  • @Detroit1967
    @Detroit1967 10 років тому +45

    BEST POP SONG EVER.

  • @samstewart1101
    @samstewart1101 9 років тому +13

    love this 30 years later and living Cambodia.

    • @PaulLea
      @PaulLea 6 років тому

      Love this 38 years later and living in Denmark

    • @michaelmorschett5043
      @michaelmorschett5043 5 років тому +3

      just like me..love them since 1988. living in Germany.@@PaulLea

    • @PaulLea
      @PaulLea 5 років тому +1

      @@michaelmorschett5043 a Kiwi In Germany ?. just down the road from Demnark !.

  • @restfulCube8035
    @restfulCube8035 Рік тому +4

    For me the Verlaines were the very best group of an unfathomably rich scene

  • @seankelly2875
    @seankelly2875 6 років тому +9

    Doing the UA-cam viewing of choice NZ songs/music, a classic. Graeme Downes is a living legend!

  • @New_Zealand_Music
    @New_Zealand_Music 2 роки тому +7

    Flying Nun one of my all-time favourite record labels. Growing up with you guys was great. Not by everyone, but I used to hate how people used to say; "they're are almost as good as an international band". I'm so glad I don't hear that much anymore. Don't know why I didn't sub years ago

    • @rolfanderson3925
      @rolfanderson3925 6 місяців тому

      You can’t be serious. People in NZ used to say that about Dunedin Sound bands?

  • @patrickrobinson1387
    @patrickrobinson1387 9 років тому +14

    man I love this song and the …rabbit

  • @ryantattersfield3410
    @ryantattersfield3410 4 роки тому +4

    Just simply brilliant, timeless and god I wish I was back in Dunedin at the Crown or Empire in the early 90s!

  • @gerhardwagner8665
    @gerhardwagner8665 4 роки тому +6

    A masterpiece, of course. What a great band!!!

  • @TheTHRILL101
    @TheTHRILL101 6 років тому +5

    My old teacher @ 4.03 , drummer w/The Chills for a while too. Obviously filmed in a uninsulated Dunedin property!

  • @victorherrera1015
    @victorherrera1015 5 років тому +4

    Brings back memories....as a dj at my college radio station KSPC, I came across this, loved it. Still do. Great stuff.

  • @ahotsteamingdump
    @ahotsteamingdump 4 роки тому +4

    The lyrics are some of the best I’ve ever heard.

  • @calbaby-rh7wv
    @calbaby-rh7wv 11 місяців тому +2

    Ah good memories growing up in dunners Nz shame its so fricken cold

  • @IncognitoRAWR
    @IncognitoRAWR 11 років тому +19

    Angus, some shots seem to be from Cargill's Castle, which is an abandoned mansion on the outskirts of Dunedin. I think it has been derelict for decades now

  • @mrsarcastic5331
    @mrsarcastic5331 5 років тому +11

    Shayne Carter dancing in the Window

  • @nachobuttmug8970
    @nachobuttmug8970 5 років тому +32

    This sounds like 90s American indie music. The New Zealand bands were ahead of the times with their slacker vibes.

    • @TT-th3lv
      @TT-th3lv 5 років тому +3

      @TheWindAmongTheReeds Yeah Pavement was a rip off of the Dunedin sound.

    • @garyhicks1473
      @garyhicks1473 3 роки тому +4

      @@TT-th3lv Pavement are still great and I'm a kiwi

    • @chaunceyloveshack9530
      @chaunceyloveshack9530 2 роки тому +1

      @@TT-th3lv oh relax, far from a ripoff, you're just repeating what you've heard others say

    • @donrobertson4940
      @donrobertson4940 2 роки тому

      We used to call it grungy. Like a grungy sound to it. Then ignorant yoof would start telling us that grunge was invented in Seattle in the 90's.

    • @brenthargreaves7085
      @brenthargreaves7085 3 місяці тому

      ​@@TT-th3lvthe pixies sounded like a verlaines rip off too but they are both so.good who cares

  • @j-pdewhirst2021
    @j-pdewhirst2021 8 років тому +15

    Classic Graeme with the cig stuck in the strings on the head of the guitar - that guitar is smoking!! (3:13)

  • @billjackjane
    @billjackjane 10 років тому +5

    Yep, one of my favs

  • @1stChildPilot00
    @1stChildPilot00 2 роки тому +1

    one of the best from Flying Nun

  • @MrMookRecords
    @MrMookRecords 6 років тому +22

    Definitely Pavement copped the vocal melody of "I'm afraid you're not one of them" off "Box Elder from this tune. Nice steal!!

  • @JonB1995
    @JonB1995 10 років тому +8

    First line is just classic

    • @etamommy
      @etamommy 2 роки тому +1

      "You're just too....too obscure for me. You don't really get through to me". Simple honest and to the point but also a pretty good put down and somehow better if said without malice but simply as personal experience.

  • @TheLastOfTheAmericanGirls
    @TheLastOfTheAmericanGirls 8 років тому +4

    Love this song so much

  • @gamerguy425
    @gamerguy425 2 роки тому +3

    Somehow I learned of this song through a cover by a shortlived vastly obsecure Cambridge, MA band called Prickly. They're quite different but both versions are pretty great honestly.

  • @ieatspiders77
    @ieatspiders77 7 років тому +3

    This pleases me.

  • @Ulissesdf1000
    @Ulissesdf1000 12 років тому +4

    Uma das melhores e mais criativas bandas de todos os tempos!!!

  • @reecehoward5154
    @reecehoward5154 5 років тому +2

    best back up dancing

  • @insecuretenant1663
    @insecuretenant1663 4 роки тому +3

    🎶 I still choose to lose the way I like! 🎶

  • @cappnzak
    @cappnzak 2 роки тому +1

    Another cool, memorable Kiwi blast from the past. Great stuff!

  • @joeyleblanc5387
    @joeyleblanc5387 4 роки тому +1

    Amazing

  • @catcat1517
    @catcat1517 Рік тому +1

    Another brilliant Kiwi band that did their own thing. Love this!

  • @ihrstinkt100
    @ihrstinkt100 4 роки тому +1

    Love this Song very much

  • @darthsaya8032
    @darthsaya8032 4 місяці тому +1

    Proto-Madchester, Proto-Shoegaze...Indie to da bone!!! 🖤🖤🖤

  • @PaulLea
    @PaulLea Рік тому

    Always loved that song and clip.

  • @celiaayneto9232
    @celiaayneto9232 3 роки тому +1

    yes!! perfect

  • @jakedee4117
    @jakedee4117 Рік тому

    Dunedin, South Island New Zealand and Flying Nun records, a very unusual palace, time and sound in human history. Right on the very edge of the map in many different ways.

  • @sulaiyasulai1367
    @sulaiyasulai1367 5 років тому

    Brilliant... 80s gem

  • @dj45rpm
    @dj45rpm 6 років тому +24

    Not seen: the bunnies chewing up the cords, cables, and guitars during/after filming.

    • @trashAndNoStar
      @trashAndNoStar 6 років тому +2

      dj45rpm Well you get a glimpse at 4:23 onwards

  • @11gavd
    @11gavd 2 роки тому +2

    Третья новая любимая группа за последнее время и опять из Новой Зеландии :) . Первые две - The Clean and The Bats . Наверное Новая Зеландия волшебная страна в которой рождаются такие группы :)

  • @antonfjordson
    @antonfjordson 3 роки тому +1

    All of my love, some of my pain

  • @iawnlad
    @iawnlad 3 роки тому

    amazing!

  • @brianmulvey5587
    @brianmulvey5587 2 роки тому

    best of all time

  • @stevehammel2939
    @stevehammel2939 5 років тому

    Great song !!!

  • @craigmac303
    @craigmac303 9 років тому +3

    Nice upload. The Gordons should be in this mix too.

  • @seansullivan3146
    @seansullivan3146 10 років тому

    finally a proper catch of this. love it

  • @aaronsunderland8838
    @aaronsunderland8838 11 місяців тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @DarkLSE1984
    @DarkLSE1984 2 роки тому +1

    Tus mascotas, tus amigos del barrio, la sala de tu casa... y listo, ahí tienes uno de los mejores videos musicales de todos los tiempos.

  • @janetmaynard9476
    @janetmaynard9476 Рік тому

    Home 💜

  • @andrevalente3612
    @andrevalente3612 2 роки тому

    Foda, como todo o catálogo da Flying Nun! Maravilhoso!

  • @aaronsunderland8838
    @aaronsunderland8838 10 місяців тому

  • @deadelvis8012
    @deadelvis8012 Рік тому +1

    Such an amazing tragedy. Wrote more songs than will ever be heard.. positive he's got a comfy bed up there.. much love to share with all family, friends, an fans...

  • @mattgree4909
    @mattgree4909 4 роки тому

    God ble@ flying nun and my youth...
    Fast Eddies front room.....

  • @richardjacques8239
    @richardjacques8239 8 років тому

    yes so good

  • @mb-bi3nm
    @mb-bi3nm 6 років тому

    1000th like, should be a million

  • @kimberlycastro505
    @kimberlycastro505 5 років тому +1

    That’s my debate coach right there!!!
    Go Rob Burns!!

  • @Ncp2666
    @Ncp2666 5 років тому +3

    Still the height of coolness

  • @andresguzmanheim9204
    @andresguzmanheim9204 6 років тому

    excelente!

  • @actoracademic
    @actoracademic 11 місяців тому +1

    Is it my imagination, or are both Lesley Paris of Look Blue Go Purple and Caroline Easther of the Chills featured around the 4:00 mark?

  • @New_Zealand_Music
    @New_Zealand_Music 4 роки тому

    I was interviewed by Graham downes when mainline music school when still in Manukau Auckland, I was his last interview before he disappeared down to Dunedin. The Dunedin Sound awesome...... I miss Chris Knox, when I was working for a radio station in Hamilton, he was playing at the hilly and our last big student orientation, he stopped in the middle of of a song and pointed at me and shouted cos I was recording about 30 seconds of his music, not for malevolent reasons just for nostalgia. I love the song Meat, one of my favorites. Another legend. R.i.p Mike Fell😢

  • @HorseyMusic
    @HorseyMusic Рік тому

    The best pop video ever made. And not just because of the bunnies

  • @Zergito
    @Zergito 2 роки тому

    Wish I could live back in these times when you had to actually find this music and be a part of a scene. Nowadays it’s easy to find everything on the internet. So what is even cool in this day and age anymore?

    • @ok2760
      @ok2760 2 роки тому

      I don't know, sorry

  • @dgbradman1
    @dgbradman1 10 років тому

    yeas its a good one

  • @Michael-pq4wd
    @Michael-pq4wd 4 місяці тому

    I see the ladies from Look Blue Go Purple.

  • @stephenbradley6285
    @stephenbradley6285 3 роки тому +1

    Had nothing to do with her death of the maiden but my heart went with her anyway

  • @markhower8986
    @markhower8986 10 років тому +3

    Better guitars then album version ... . .

  • @janetmaynard9476
    @janetmaynard9476 Рік тому

    I fu*king love Loraine by Bad Manners!! But this is probably some of our best from Aotearoa 🖤 I find myself singing Verlaine to Loraine!? 😔🖤💜🎶

  • @brandondrake14
    @brandondrake14 Рік тому +1

    The rabbits in the video makes it wierdly sad.

  • @mikebrunton615
    @mikebrunton615 7 років тому

    Music!

  • @sketchandobserve
    @sketchandobserve 10 років тому +2

    he sounds like Bowie

  • @1millionpumpkins542
    @1millionpumpkins542 Місяць тому

    Those rabbits are gonna chew all your cords!!!😂🎉🎉🎉

  • @hobbite9709
    @hobbite9709 3 місяці тому

    You're just too too obscure for me
    Oh you don't really get through to me
    And there's no need for you to talk that way
    Is there any less pessimistic things to say?
    Do you like Paul Verlaine?
    Is it gonna rain today?
    Shall we have our photo taken?
    We'll look like death and the maiden
    Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine
    Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine
    I still choose to lose the way i like
    Fool around split my lungs out of spite
    But i won't reject so long as you make sense
    But i'm through with the rooms and vague intentions
    You shouldn't talk to me
    Find better company
    There's better people to know
    You'll only end up like rimbaud
    Get shot by
    Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine
    Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine
    The way you think is oh-so-bloody stale
    Your sanity looks pretty frail
    You have to clutch at every tiny straw
    And I can't stomach that at all
    Do you like Paul Verlaine?
    Is it gonna rain today?
    Shall we have our photo taken?
    We'll look like death and the maiden
    Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine
    Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine

  • @MrKitkennedy
    @MrKitkennedy 6 років тому +1

    great dunedin sound ever

  • @MezzaGreen
    @MezzaGreen 11 років тому

    Cargill's is a thriving tourist destination.... :p

  • @ruthdixon7807
    @ruthdixon7807 Рік тому

    another band that inspired the "dunedin sound" tag, which a lot of flying nun material was saddled with.

  • @anfrankogezamartincic1161
    @anfrankogezamartincic1161 3 роки тому

    Cute bunny

  • @ImASoloMother
    @ImASoloMother 6 років тому +1

    Any chance that house in on great king street in Dunedin?

  • @sebastiangoonzalez3379
    @sebastiangoonzalez3379 5 років тому

    Hola

  • @TehGav
    @TehGav 11 років тому

    I know. Paul Verlaine, cod-Platonic friend of Arthur Rimbaud. And it's like I was saying.

  • @HellaMoist1337
    @HellaMoist1337 3 роки тому

    My intellectual parents failed at being sheltering Christians who are out of style and read think geek instead of liking expert health food, modern shout tou art, and brutal metal, a better parent would always look fun, like a fat dork with at least hip shoes and allow sex, drug dealing, and drinking drugs, but also lead intellectual creative ventures to a successful momentum. There are both on the street, ultimate inept nerds, and the badass ones who have the in thing revolving around them.

  • @marc-andre7178
    @marc-andre7178 5 років тому

    BBBON SANGGGG

  • @rhymepays
    @rhymepays 11 років тому

    He's actually saying 'Verlaine.'

  • @straitjacketfits6481
    @straitjacketfits6481 4 роки тому

    white stag jacket at 2:20

  • @richardjacques8239
    @richardjacques8239 7 років тому +1

    so cool ,where they now?

    • @nadasadhana
      @nadasadhana 7 років тому +3

      Playing in Wellington in a week or so..

  • @ricjames9746
    @ricjames9746 3 роки тому

    wow thats cool ,they could have gone too the moon

  • @gonetoheaven7478
    @gonetoheaven7478 Рік тому

    what a pearl!

  • @TehGav
    @TehGav 12 років тому +1

    See, that's smart. Unlike George Harrison, Graeme Downes stole a part of "He's So Fine" that the Chiffons couldn't sue him for.
    I speak of the 'do-lang.'

  • @jimsmint
    @jimsmint 8 років тому +10

    Lorraine Lorraine Lorraine Lorraine
    Lorraine Lorraine Lorraine Lorraine
    Lorr~aihiaine

  • @user-ji6qb5jp2z
    @user-ji6qb5jp2z 3 місяці тому

    BULLETLPROOF

  • @dtmac8461
    @dtmac8461 7 років тому

    I love this song so much but what's he doing to that rabbit at 1:30?! I actually want to know plz don't murder me, is he just petting it or not?!!!

  • @no1jrb
    @no1jrb 2 роки тому

    Slurping Steiny BLUUUUUE .........1:20