Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun (Alternative videos comparison side by side)
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2021
- A side by side comparison between the three versions of Black Hole Sun.
Thanks to u/Notelu on reddit.
The first version started airing ~June 1994. Sometime between it's first airing and July it had already been replaced by the Second Version. That is because people were calling the number shown at 1:35. Sometime between July 1994 and June 1995 the second version was switched out for the more common 3rd version. Most likely the 3rd version is what the band wanted, but the first early version was released because of how popular the song got. The first version aired on daytime TV for a while afterwards and might still air internationally. [The recording used is from 2002-2018 on ABC1 (Australian) Most likely later as this recording only showed up literally 2 weeks ago on SoulSeekQT].
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There's an earlier version. I remember the girl spitting out the ice cream without any effects, because it startled me when the version with the effect came out. 100% sure because I had it recorded on VHS and watched the music video 100x. I recorded all new songs that came out on MTV so it might have been the first airing. Edit : Watched it again and I also remember the guys laying on their back swatting the bees, there were no bees in the original version....I remember that because I was thinking "what are they doing???".
would love to know more about the earlier version you saw
I've always liked version 1 without the CGI distortion of the faces. To me, the real faces are the scariest.
and no need for CGI moths.
Damn dude goin deep.
I love the version 2 simply due to the distortions on the video making t like an eerie Found footage of a music video
But the fish woman
guy at 0:40 still got his face distorted though.
90’s kids were scared of this.
Oddly as a kid this never scared me. Unnerved me, sure but never scared me.
Then again as a kid I was more terrified of MJ's Thriller video that this one seemed tame in comparison.
This video made the hair on the back of arms stand on end when I was a kid. This was absolutely cutting edge CGI at that time.
And modern kids are scared of five nights at Freddy's, what's your point
Version 1 for me. It’s the incompleteness that makes it scary.
So they DID edit the video, I wasn't crazy!
I know right? Being a teen in the 90s before the internet was HARD. I remember kids telling me the video always had weird facial distortions and cgi bugs but I knew it hadn't as I watched MTV religiously
It took me almost 25 years before I was like "now I can look it up." And sure enough immediately I was proven right.
Same. I was like, I knew there was different versions back then!
Someone had to do this:
Every major difference between each version -
0:07 - version 3 has different transitions to v1 & 2
0:20 version 3 shows cgi when v1 & 2 continue showing video footage
0:23 version 3 sky is lighter shade of blue with different cloud patterns
0:33 hard to notice but old man’s smile is edited in version 3 with none in other versions
0:35 same as previous but with whole face on man mowing lawns
0:40 different distortions on face and closer shot on version 3 than others
0:46 no hill in background and lower shot + sky
1:00 early cut to cgi on version 3
1:10 different cgi on womans face
1:23 weird cgi butterflies on version 3
1:32 lighter sky on version 3
1:34 version 1 has a phone number - 1-800-truth which was removed from other versions because too many people were calling the number
1:37 v3 lighter sky
1:48 that again why are you still reading this
2:09 lighter sky on 1&2 for once
2:14 dancing girl added for no reason
2:37 version 1&2 cut to woman’s face, 3 goes to cgi
2:50 another v3 early cgi cut
2:52 creepy 90s cgi lizard tongue on v3
3:00 lots more cgi on 3 than 1&2
3:03 most of scene in 1&2 use gray backgrounds compared to red in v3
3:33 it’s not a feature but does everyone agree this is the best part of the song
3:43 cgi in v3 on woman’s face
3:52 back to more v3 red background and gray 1&2
3:54 old people return but with lots of light in v3
4:17 same shot used but cgi in the sky in v3 others seem normal
4:24 weird timing delay between transitions
4:25 prams flash red on v3 blue on 1&2
4:44 v1&2 recycle same scene v3 shows house being destroyed in cgi
4:48 the literal creepiest sh*t I’ve ever seen in v1&2 but 3 lighting creepy too
4:57 yet again cgi on 3 recycled scenes in 1&2
5:24 v3 ends in cgi while others show band leaving
Thx for reading half an hour of my work
Good work. I wonder if the addition of the dancing girl @ 2:14 was a shot at the Bee Girl from the Blind Melon video (especially as the video already had a swarm of bees in the sequence with the old woman's body). Other than that (as you pointed out earlier), there was really no artistic reason to have her inserted into the sequence otherwise.
I have since read that the pendant Chris Cornell was wearing was purportedly a gift from Shannon Hoon, so that could explain the shout out to Blind Melon in Version 3.
Clouds in the background are also different between v1/v2 and v3 at 0:31, 0:36, and 0:50
also visuals being flipped at 2:56 compared to v3, and 2:09 and 2:12 having cgi bees added in v3
4:32 shows an odd blob exiting the pram in v3
4:28 Previous scene pans to drummer in V1&2 instead of cutting to the sun as it does in V3
4:22 I swear this guy makes me laugh everytime and the unedited version is even funnier xd
As a kid I seeing version 1 and 2, I couldn't tell the difference.
But when they stated playing version 3 I caught om right away. I always wondered why the changes, my guess now is they had the money to "fix it" in their opinion, but tbh it was great without the extra changes.
TBH I don't see any difference at all between version 1 and 2, except for the removal of the 1-800-TRUTH on the TV screen. Version 3 is way overproduced and the excessive CG just detracts from the video.
@@Tomsonic41 v2 has the same cgi effects on the faces as v3, but the same backdrops as v1
@@Tomsonic41 most of the same cgi effects on the faces to be more percise
Thanks for this. Watched it for the first time in decades and it was the one on the official channel (ver 3). Kept thinking "I don't remember that ballerina, or that barbie lizard tongue etc etc"
Thanks! I've been looking for the original version of this for a very long time.
i looked her name its not her the name you
gave its the girl with braces on her teeth
@@jasondavidstapleton8337 oh wow -- you're right! my bad. hmmm... now you'll have me investigating as well.
0:40 - 0:45 My favourite part
0:39 Whenever this video came on, that smile was how I always could tell whether I was in version 1/2, aka the good version (I didn't know till now that they were different), or the other (sucky) version.
Pretty sure this is the only video on all of YT that shows the original Black Hole Sun video. The 1-800-TRUTH on the TV screen was the one thing that stuck out the most to me in the video (at 1:33). The faces were a little uncomfortable sure, but I never thought they were scary.
It's the only one that has it in full
What does 1800 truth mean? 🤔
@@mariahmueller579 It's a reference to TVangelists who would leave numbers at the bottom of their screen to so you can donate their churches and help spread their flavor of "truth"
The 1-800 TRUTH thing always intrigued me. Cause it could be implied that the video is a commentary on Evangelical Religious lot who were very prevalent in the US Surburbs especially in the 80s and 90s.
Then again that's an interpretation not a fact.
I would love to see an edit with an extended version of the song with all the material from the three versions
the original is the best! never had the CGI version play in nz
correct.
Don't mess with perfection. They had it right on version 1. Each subsequent version was a downgrade.
I remembered there was more than one version back then!! I thought I was crazy lol
For the visuals I have to say that Version 1 is the scariest but version 3 is the best overall product for adding more of the actual black hole
Version 3 also adds the most to the original video and song atmosphere especially at the ending.
Also why was the girl with the skipping rope jumping next to the dead person only added in version 3 ?
version 3 always
the dog with big eyes gets me everytime
While I was born in 1999, there was still bleedover from the grunge era into the early 000s and yeah this video while it didn’t scare me it was pretty unerving. I think the versions that were played a lot was versions 2 and 3 around that time.
Looking back the video is almost Lovecraftian with a Cosmic Horror Black Hole Sun causing a rift on a small Surburb town that drives people to insanity and sucks up everything in sight.
Love the song, video, the Superunknown album and Soundgarden. RIP Chris Cornell
I like some of the CGI black hole effects in Version 3 and while I'm all for adding little extra bits (especially if it's stuff that should've been there before), I think it was overdone. I also don't understand certain changes, like some of the faces. As a kid, the woman at 4:47 terrified me as much as the woman with the fish (which I'm glad is the same on all versions). As I got older, I learned to find this video and it's faces humorous, now anytime I see version 3, I wonder what was wrong with the original and feel bummed that anything was changed. Still love this video, but also still partial to Version 1.
DECEMBER 21, 2012 - 2022: 10 YEARS OF WAITING FOR THE BLACK HOLE SUN, IT NEVER CAME BUT IT DID TAKE CHRIS CORNELL UP TO ROCK N ROLL HEAVEN, GOD BLESS THE WORLD, JESUS CHRIST 🌈🌕
Dumb question but does the original version still air on MTV Classic?
It should, but idk
Huh, I didn't know RAGE here in Australia was still airing the original version
Version 1 scared the hell out of me
Who is the character being sucked up into Black Hole Sun @ 3:19 in Versions 1& 2? I don't seem to be able to find them anywhere else in the video.
In my theory is the kid en version 3, (the kid burning a cockroach) in version 1,2 the kid apparently is the same but another clothes, the error is fixing in version 3, put the kid correctly (assumption)
I like the first two versions best because in all the cutaways, they aren’t using the same sky over and over like in the final version. I also prefer the non-CG.
I also like the color grading in the second version but that could be down to VHS oversaturating things.
I swear I remember the fish smiling at the end…
ME TOO. Is that a Mandela affect lol... also I remember the chubby girl with the pink tutu jumping rope next to the girl on the swing. But she's not even the one jumping rope in any versions...
The fish smiling right at the very end would've been the cherry on top.
Either way, love the song and video and I like all the versions of the video equally imo
epic!
Are there any versions before version 1 in this video? If so, tell me as much about them as you can.
This is not all the versions. The first version has a shot of the woman in the kitchen with the fish in a blender.
True, there's an earlier version without ANY effects.
I've heard about that version. Probably was cut down immediately due to how dark it was.
Has anyone got hold of that version or any bts photos?
could you elbaorate more? like where did you see this version of the video?
@@Isolated94 It was a long time ago, but I assume it was UA-cam. I had it downloaded, but the hard drive died and it is nowhere to be found online at this time. I have searched and searched to no avail. The brief shot showed the fish in a blender and the woman pressed the mix button and as soon as it started to blend it cut to the next shot. MTV pulled that version almost immediately and the video was replaced with that shot removed. Probably pissed off the PETA folks. But YUM, Fish Smoothie!!! HAHAHA!!!
@@siys wow, im sorry but this is really interesting to me, im actually on the hunt for that first version, i know for a fact its gotta be out there somewhere, thank you for clearing more of this up!! id love to know more info about it if you can
I think i have only see MTV in the 90 Version 3 witht the Pink Girl on min 2.14
Ty for the upload. Question, how would calling the number have any impact on the 1st video being changed? There are not enough numbers to actually dial out.
How did you obtain the verified check mark?
@@rmrmnr his channel has a 13 subs. Ome for each year since he started his yt channel. 9 videos. And none are good. So your question is a great question, how the actual fuck did he get verified lol
@@HorribleHomeVideo The 13 subs are the people in the town
remember watching this again and dont getting why i forgot the whole cgi thing
first time watching version 3, seems odd, but put more emphasis into showing the "black hole sun"
i cant tell which of theother 2 is what i watched originall, it was wtv was playing on mtv/vh1 when it came out
sleek, sly, slither
So did anyone here ever call that 1 800 truth number back then? If so, what did it lead to?
Version 2
The version 3 IS THE BEST
Personally, all the versions have their best and worst moments, people saying that the cgi black hole is annoying just adds something to it, plus you'll see that the scene missing will be played after, but in my opinion, version 1 is the best, only in my opinion
Version 1 is my favorite, but when searching for it, All I ever find is Version 3 (which is ok i guess) not nearly as good as original
2
I perfer the earlier version of the music video
i sure like to know who is the young girl who spits ou the ice cream
@@JoeMama-eq9hr that name rings a bell i have see
who it is
@@JoeMama-eq9hr i just found out she is from full house
.....thats not creepy at all -_-
Oh man.
@@jasondavidstapleton8337 name?
Version 3 has not aged well. Way too much goofy CGI.
I'm definitely very late on this but are there any differences between version 1 and 2 besides the 1800-TRUTH number being removed?