@@nickmorrell3559 Don't misunderstand me, this video with a great and enigmatic dark song could have been the top, but it was not her style after all...
What made that whole era so great is that these bands were thinking beyond just the next hit, that they approached music progressively and experimentally. All the great bands of that era (The Clash, Talking Heads, Blondie, etc.) thought about music and its relationship to popular culture and thought about using music to affect pop culture. Call it ambition or even over-ambition, but it gave a tremendous energy to their music.
Awesomely surreal, is what you get when 2 creative geniuses like H. R. Giger and Deborah Harry work together. I remember when I saw this years ago thinking it was ahead of its time. It still is.
I met Debbie briefly in '99, she was very kind and warm with her fans. Also quite generous considering she was swamped with fans wanting autographs. As for this clip and the song, it's not important if you like it or think it's too self consciously "arty", the fact is there was nothing like this music or visual presentation style at the time it was made. Debbie continues to influence the current generation of musicians while making new music, rather than living off glory past.
I remember seeing this as a teenager and found it incredibly original, strange, surreal, and hot. I still do. Great, underrated album btw, Koo Koo. Produced and co-written by Nike Rogers and Bernard Edwards of Chic, every track is just excellent.
....so fabulously surreal...It's like Kate Bush dreaming she's imitating Bjork, after falling asleep with "The Matrix" playing on her DVD player! ...ha-HAAA! ...AH, Debbie, always so FORWARD!!
This song is fuckin awesome!! It's very reminsent of Chic's "At last I am free," you gotta love that CHIC sound. Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers did a great job on the Koo Koo album. "Backfired" should have been a massive hit! Some won't be able get this because it's a far depature from the Blondie albums. I think in the right direction. This came out in 1981 and it was way ahead of it's time. As far as the video goes...she's like a Giger sculpture coming to life. Great stuff.
OMG, What the hell was that?! I LOVE IT! I'm so glad to always see true pioneering artists as Debbie from back in the day (My generation, I was 11 years old when this came out) really pushing the boundaries. Love me Debbie in any form, she's marvelous
I hadn't heard this song in 22 years and just rediscovered it this evening and I just love Deborah's voice on it and the lyrics are heartfelt as well ❤
I like this video and think that it was way ahead of it's time 1980/1. I think that it's important to remember that Debbie Harry is and was always a pop star with fashion sense and influenced both the fashion and music industry. People who don't like this sort of thing...well everything can't always be about commercial sweet pop songs. I think that Debbie Harry experimented quite a bit...and that takes guts and nothing to snub at!!!
Holy crikey this is the missing link. The song and video which interconnects all my favorite artists: Blondie, H.R. Geiger, ELP, Chic & The Power Station. If they had all gotten together in the studio at the same time and released an album my brain would have asploded like Kane's stomach in Alien.
And I guess edgy is a relative term. Founding member of the NYC punk scene. (Check). One of the first recorded new wave records. (check). First international punk/new wave hit. (check). First major new wave hit in the US. (check). First major dance rock anthem. (check). First band to use a CR-78. (check). First video album. (check). First hip/hop inspired No. 1. (check). First rock band to perform with rap acts. (check). Add contributions to style, etc. Not too shabby.
Great album ..I never skip any tracks when I play it ...nile Rodgers said the reason it didn't do as well as they thought .was because him and Chris and Debbie kind of created a new type of music ..too unique ..I say yes ..before her time. ...bloody love it ..but as for this and backfired video ..oh dear ...but u can't have everything
👉 *Hypnotic and Beautiful...* I like to think that _Kookoo_ was teething toy for Bjork! LOL! Still makes waves today... Edgy and atmospherically chill...
Disconnection with the vocal makes the video a little awkward but such a great set and props made by Hans Giger in his home studio get full credit. So much work went into the foam sarcophagus and hand-painted costume.
interesting video for 1981, makes me wonder how many other music videos were made with HG Giger art , take a look at the 1983 The The - I've Been Waitin' for Tomorrow (All of My Life) is on a Giger set.
debbie i have too tell you this is fuckin brilliant. the words. oh the words. but your little dance and the background .is fukn awesome .the way you dance. the lyrics. i love all your songs but this is fukn so good . i cant stop listenin. thanks deb for being here on earth.
They were trying to do something different outside the context of Blondie. Sometimes real artist need an outlet just to create and not worry so much about making hits. It was an experimental album attempting to fuse lots of different styles of music. Harry did this with Rapture, Heart of Glass and Atomic and those attempts were more successful commercially. The songs on KooKoo are ok but they are lacking some magic that I think you can only really get from a band that has developed over time.
Deborah Harry is sometimes Kate Bush and this imagery almost made a Madonna video. It was filmed over a period of weeks and nobody knew how it was going to be used. They just tied it to a Deborah Harry song . Harry was not sure at first which of her many characters were being portrayed in this weird ballet. Harry did not want this song used and objected to the poor lighting and gloomy gothic style. The attitude of gangster kidnappers was " shut up" and "we can use this for lots of other things too."
This is what happens when you try and break your contract with your humunculous. They make certain you suck, just ask every other "star" who tried. Very telling H. R. started the video with a humunculous theme...
Love Giger. Love Debbie. Not sure if the two work together. At least on this one. Backfired is a better marriage between sound and vision. Nevertheless it's a collaboration of two completely different artistic and conceptual languages. Let's celebrate diversity.
The afterbirth of Good Times and Le Freak. Love the closing workout with the horns and stuff. Song mediocre and prancing around an exercise in vanity. Need to listen to it again. :-)
I have all the stuff Debbie Harry has recorded (Blondie, solo & Jazz passengers). That being said, I think "koo koo" is her less interesting solo album. That's my 2 cents...
You really hav2 put this [song/Vdo] in the context of the times-No,not a single release[ i believe ''Jump Jump'' was intended 4that], but there was already precedence 4this direction for Harry w/ Blondie when they did ''Rapture'', further, Chic [Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards] they were the go2 Producers & sound of desire then, i can presume the song only ''blows'' 4U in a 2012 point of reference- if in fact you just don't like this kind of sound. In any case, this SONG is Y I bought the Album
Why does music have to be commercial? A number of artists from that period did msuic that was more experimental. Both they and Chic, were making a conscious effort to blend musical diverse styles, such as funk, rock, etc. And they pulled it off brilliantly with Autoamerican. This is actually a remarkable musical statement, if not the most commercially viable. But I guess they can never win. If they sell millions of records, that's wrong, and if they do something experimental, that's wrong too.
for REAL! though I like Debby/Blondie Kate Bush would have been more graceful, creative and video would have been a better marriage from artist to artist and not so EGOtistically driven by the late Giger whom directed the video. this was ALL ABOUT GIGER! how someone so creative can be so uncreative! R.I.P Ruedi G! Kate Bush would have kicked this outside the park!
Unmarketable to those who have no imagination. Granted, it's not the most amazing musical composition, but the video is far from stupid because it didn't fall prey to the expected norms. Yes it's very simplistic, but doesn't deserve your insults. I perceive it as her trying to interpret what it would be like if one or more of Giger's sculptures were alive and I think she did a very nice job of this.
tbh, dont listen the audio longer than 15 seconds yet...... not my music^^ but the video itself is a great piece, really like the video ....looks great
It was too weird for the time...she was too linked to New York downtown club cool...not German Artist immigrant hits the New York music scene for the first time
You obviously have no taste in anything other than fake, glossy pop. She was way ahead of her time with this album and definitely way better than Madonna, Lady Gaga, etc who all claim to be "edgy" or different.
Love! Debbie Harrys solo work is quite underrated in my opinion. Her voice is so amazing.
Her solo stuff is soo underated my freind ...wonderful album
Am I the only one who thinks this solo album is a bit shitty? A total shit compared with Blondie albums in fact...
@@nickmorrell3559 Don't misunderstand me, this video with a great and enigmatic dark song could have been the top, but it was not her style after all...
Koo Koo is a classic masterpiece..Debbie Harry is ICONIC
What made that whole era so great is that these bands were thinking beyond just the next hit, that they approached music progressively and experimentally. All the great bands of that era (The Clash, Talking Heads, Blondie, etc.) thought about music and its relationship to popular culture and thought about using music to affect pop culture. Call it ambition or even over-ambition, but it gave a tremendous energy to their music.
Could not have put it better my freind.
Glad I read Debbie Harry's biography "Face It". I wouldn't have known great songs like this existed. Cheers!
Awesomely surreal, is what you get when 2 creative geniuses like H. R. Giger
and Deborah Harry work together. I remember when I saw this years ago thinking it was ahead of its time. It still is.
You must be jokin.
I met Debbie briefly in '99, she was very kind and warm with her fans. Also quite generous considering she was swamped with fans wanting autographs. As for this clip and the song, it's not important if you like it or think it's too self consciously "arty", the fact is there was nothing like this music or visual presentation style at the time it was made. Debbie continues to influence the current generation of musicians while making new music, rather than living off glory past.
is true!
after seeing this comment i love her even more now😍
Nile Rogers a guitarists' guitarist virtuoso!!!🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
I remember seeing this as a teenager and found it incredibly original, strange, surreal, and hot. I still do. Great, underrated album btw, Koo Koo. Produced and co-written by Nike Rogers and Bernard Edwards of Chic, every track is just excellent.
Yes, yes, yes! Ilove Koo Koo, my favs are this and Inner city spillover...
....so fabulously surreal...It's like Kate Bush dreaming she's imitating Bjork, after falling asleep with "The Matrix" playing on her DVD player! ...ha-HAAA! ...AH, Debbie, always so FORWARD!!
Amazing...Love this song and tks for posting. here's from Basking Ridge New Jersey 🇺🇸
This song is fuckin awesome!! It's very reminsent of Chic's "At last I am free," you gotta love that CHIC sound. Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers did a great job on the Koo Koo album. "Backfired" should have been a massive hit! Some won't be able get this because it's a far depature from the Blondie albums. I think in the right direction. This came out in 1981 and it was way ahead of it's time. As far as the video goes...she's like a Giger sculpture coming to life. Great stuff.
naild it this girl
OMG, What the hell was that?! I LOVE IT! I'm so glad to always see true pioneering artists as Debbie from back in the day (My generation, I was 11 years old when this came out) really pushing the boundaries. Love me Debbie in any form, she's marvelous
U must get the album koo koo ...u will not regret it .so ahead of any time
“ Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.” - Leonardo da Vinci...............
Debbie Harry........and Giger. You know it's going to be something special.
This song is.... incredible !!
What drug did you take for that?
I hadn't heard this song in 22 years and just rediscovered it this evening and I just love Deborah's voice on it and the lyrics are heartfelt as well ❤
i like her vocals in this song.
Parece que a capa do álbum Brain Salad Sugery do ELP ganhou vida... Incrível!
I like this video and think that it was way ahead of it's time 1980/1. I think that it's important to remember that Debbie Harry is and was always a pop star with fashion sense and influenced both the fashion and music industry. People who don't like this sort of thing...well everything can't always be about commercial sweet pop songs. I think that Debbie Harry experimented quite a bit...and that takes guts and nothing to snub at!!!
por supuesto, Debbie nunca se durmió es sus laureles de superestrella. ella es verdaderamente una artista en toda la extensión de la palabra.
well put dude
Some elements of this I love, some not so much. But all respect to her for trying something different. That's what real artists do. 👏
UNDERGROUND AND COOL JUST LIKE DEBBIE
I love debie hary, I love Giger. This is the strangest thing...I love it...
i love the end solo
YOU CAN SEE HER PUNK TONES , TOO COOL
RIP Mr Giger
Holy crikey this is the missing link. The song and video which interconnects all my favorite artists: Blondie, H.R. Geiger, ELP, Chic & The Power Station. If they had all gotten together in the studio at the same time and released an album my brain would have asploded like Kane's stomach in Alien.
right?
bonus for crikey 😆😜
And I guess edgy is a relative term. Founding member of the NYC punk scene. (Check). One of the first recorded new wave records. (check). First international punk/new wave hit. (check). First major new wave hit in the US. (check). First major dance rock anthem. (check). First band to use a CR-78. (check). First video album. (check). First hip/hop inspired No. 1. (check). First rock band to perform with rap acts. (check). Add contributions to style, etc. Not too shabby.
And the first to realize that Summer & Moroder were awesome genuises.
First video album? Please cite the album & the year, then I’d like to discuss. Thanks!
@@pallasonair6443 eat to the beat 1979
You got all of the checks right!
Nile and Nard were geniuses!!
Why did I never see this? Waaaaaaaaaaay ahead of her time!
Oh, dear god.
H.R GIGER is EPIC. That is all.
Pretty good song, the melody is great!
And the HR Geiger theme is trippy a fuuck
The wonderful work of the great H. R Giger!!!
Great album ..I never skip any tracks when I play it ...nile Rodgers said the reason it didn't do as well as they thought .was because him and Chris and Debbie kind of created a new type of music ..too unique ..I say yes ..before her time. ...bloody love it ..but as for this and backfired video ..oh dear ...but u can't have everything
Great song. Bit of a trip hop vibe
I like this its different, artists cant keep repeating themselves, this is not Blondie its different music. The whole Album Koo Koo is different.
Oh my, what a visual feast! Dos it exist in better quality?
This video is so amazing. I wonder what kind of story is behind it, or if it was more complete random-ness. Either way, it's amazing.
Still one of my favorite videos.
i can't believe i've never seen this! I think i just came
John Shane Pics or GTFO.
@ I would replicate that moment but I think I got space jockey itch.
@@yanshane Okay, no biggie! I understand. Maybe next time.
👉 *Hypnotic and Beautiful...*
I like to think that _Kookoo_ was teething toy for Bjork! LOL!
Still makes waves today... Edgy and atmospherically chill...
Giger is more relevant than ever in this materialistic, decadent and corrupted society we live in.
this music video sucked. lets be honest.
Love this song
That one time when Debbie Harry escaped Blondie, visited the set of Alien, and told everyone that she was Kate Bush.
Perfect
kate bush? fuck outta here!
Disconnection with the vocal makes the video a little awkward but such a great set and props made by Hans Giger in his home studio get full credit. So much work went into the foam sarcophagus and hand-painted costume.
@ If so, everyone was wondering what the heck had happened to her famous tits
concord dawn That would have been better than Alien Covenant, who knows maybe Ripley is part Xenomorph / Debbie Harry
j'adore xxx
🖤
i need that suit !
wunderbar
Giger FTW!
interesting video for 1981, makes me wonder how many other music videos were made with HG Giger art , take a look at the 1983 The The - I've Been Waitin' for Tomorrow (All of My Life) is on a Giger set.
Fuck I love this album! That cover! 🖤
Kookoo is a great LP! Military Rap is it's finest moment.
amazing song what a lady
Miss you HansRuedi
Hey at least she still alive.
VALENTIS hey atleast young people like me will see this and see what true artistry was and to blend music and graphic art.
brilliant.
debbie i have too tell you this is fuckin brilliant. the words. oh the words. but your little dance and the background .is fukn awesome .the way you dance. the lyrics. i love all your songs but this is fukn so good . i cant stop listenin. thanks deb for being here on earth.
Супер!
They were trying to do something different outside the context of Blondie. Sometimes real artist need an outlet just to create and not worry so much about making hits. It was an experimental album attempting to fuse lots of different styles of music. Harry did this with Rapture, Heart of Glass and Atomic and those attempts were more successful commercially. The songs on KooKoo are ok but they are lacking some magic that I think you can only really get from a band that has developed over time.
Random DopeneZzzz ❤
Deborah Harry is sometimes Kate Bush and this imagery almost made a Madonna video. It was filmed over a period of weeks and nobody knew how it was going to be used. They just tied it to a Deborah Harry song . Harry was not sure at first which of her many characters were being portrayed in this weird ballet. Harry did not want this song used and objected to the poor lighting and gloomy gothic style. The attitude of gangster kidnappers was " shut up" and "we can use this for lots of other things too."
5th element
Debbie Harry's Giger phase was pretty cool
Just say no to drugs kids
❤️❤️❤️💥💋
This is what happens when you try and break your contract with your humunculous. They make certain you suck, just ask every other "star" who tried. Very telling H. R. started the video with a humunculous theme...
Great early music video work exploring HR Giger & Debbie Harry but where's the original video art?
Chic production of course
OMG the voice @4:30.
I have just read in her autobiography that this was a Blondie's song from Kookoo album..
Love Giger. Love Debbie. Not sure if the two work together. At least on this one. Backfired is a better marriage between sound and vision. Nevertheless it's a collaboration of two completely different artistic and conceptual languages. Let's celebrate diversity.
H. K. Gigercraften I think it's the combination of the sound and aesthetic that doesn't mix well, but it's unique
The music is dated, popslop. If you put better music to it it's fine visually.
The afterbirth of Good Times and Le Freak. Love the closing workout with the horns and stuff. Song mediocre and prancing around an exercise in vanity. Need to listen to it again. :-)
This video is great. Soft people would t like it though
That must have been a real treat for Giger to airbrush that bodysuit ;P
Set design by ACADEMY AWARD WINNER H. R. Giger (of "Alien" fame). Yeah, unmarketable.
Now we know where Madonna got the image for the video frozen, Debbie at the end of this video.
I have all the stuff Debbie Harry has recorded (Blondie, solo & Jazz passengers). That being said, I think "koo koo" is her less interesting solo album. That's my 2 cents...
You really hav2 put this [song/Vdo] in the context of the times-No,not a single release[ i believe ''Jump Jump'' was intended 4that], but there was already precedence 4this direction for Harry w/ Blondie when they did ''Rapture'', further, Chic [Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards] they were the go2 Producers & sound of desire then, i can presume the song only ''blows'' 4U in a 2012 point of reference- if in fact you just don't like this kind of sound. In any case,
this SONG is Y I bought the Album
Can someone make a sped up version of this song?
Just go to the settings and mess with the playback speed.
Why does music have to be commercial? A number of artists from that period did msuic that was more experimental. Both they and Chic, were making a conscious effort to blend musical diverse styles, such as funk, rock, etc. And they pulled it off brilliantly with Autoamerican. This is actually a remarkable musical statement, if not the most commercially viable. But I guess they can never win. If they sell millions of records, that's wrong, and if they do something experimental, that's wrong too.
Almost Pre Bjork, Bjork.
H.R. Giger up to his tricks again - is that really Deborah but with dark hair??
Waaay better than fucking Lady Gaga...
Ru ru ru ru Rage!
Chic
I would love this song to pop up in a new tv show, like, RIVERDALE or say a new movie just to make people go WTF?
But honestly it would make a great movie song!!
@@erdbeerkuchen7552, I could see it as a James Bond opening titles song.
@@decline2state Yes, i can see that too!!
Bogdan Raczynski Sample! DJ ICE CLIMBER!
its like debbie harry is pretending to be kate bush in this, weird.
for REAL! though I like Debby/Blondie Kate Bush would have been more graceful, creative and video would have been a better marriage from artist to artist and not so EGOtistically driven by the late Giger whom directed the video. this was ALL ABOUT GIGER! how someone so creative can be so uncreative! R.I.P Ruedi G!
Kate Bush would have kicked this outside the park!
Oh now you know I really know .minnabeezy..or lucyferrr
Giger era mesmo genial!
who is that guy dancing
Debbie w tej piosence brzmi zupełnie jak Kate Bush!!!!
Debbie in Kookoo was a Funky version of Kate Bush. This album was produced by bass player of Chic
@@RobertoGinsburg Wow sound great!!!
Don't think Kate could imagine this one In her weird world.
To com medo desse clipe
Unmarketable to those who have no imagination. Granted, it's not the most amazing musical composition, but the video is far from stupid because it didn't fall prey to the expected norms. Yes it's very simplistic, but doesn't deserve your insults. I perceive it as her trying to interpret what it would be like if one or more of Giger's sculptures were alive and I think she did a very nice job of this.
tbh, dont listen the audio longer than 15 seconds yet...... not my music^^ but the video itself is a great piece, really like the video ....looks great
+Xenomorph Spacecowboy ha feel exactly the same !!!
I don¡t listen too that kind of music either, but i feel that fits well with this bizarre/interesting video
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great song but weird video
It was too weird for the time...she was too linked to New York downtown club cool...not German Artist immigrant hits the New York music scene for the first time
this is painful
You obviously have no taste in anything other than fake, glossy pop. She was way ahead of her time with this album and definitely way better than Madonna, Lady Gaga, etc who all claim to be "edgy" or different.