Dave_G
06-23-2004, 11:37 AM
Our fellow AR bud Plinch Flatte sent me the old VHS tape of a collection of old Split Enz videos.
What a weird collection of videos!
Their real old stuff is way bad. The videos are cool in that while I was watching them, I was thinking, "who in the heck thought this crud would sell"? The songs are simply bad. And their outfits and makeup make old hair bands look like seasoned pros. It's cool thinking that they actually had the gall to record that crap. Looks like high school level stuff.
But the more modern toons off of the good albums (4th album +) are actually pretty good, altho the sound quality is downright horrible. It kind of helped me understand what the songs were about. Lots of "ocean" based stuff.
The Enz made some excellent recordings, and these videos are real weird but enjoyable for a 1 off watch. I don't know why the audio quality on these things is so bad, but it's bad. The videos do not give the songs themselves real justice.
I bet if I took it to the concert to get them to autograph they would throw it away in embarassment, esp. the real old stuff.
I will also comment that you can kind of infer the transition between Tim Finn and Neil Finn as being the band leader. Neil actually is just as good of a singer as Tim is, and maybe even better, but he of course went to form Crowded House. Neil kind of moves up as the leader in these videos as the timeline passes. Pretty interesting. But Tims solo album "Escapade" is excellent.
Thanks Gar-ree, will get it back to ya soon.
Dave
(I think this is my longest post ever)
What a weird collection of videos!
Their real old stuff is way bad. The videos are cool in that while I was watching them, I was thinking, "who in the heck thought this crud would sell"? The songs are simply bad. And their outfits and makeup make old hair bands look like seasoned pros. It's cool thinking that they actually had the gall to record that crap. Looks like high school level stuff.
But the more modern toons off of the good albums (4th album +) are actually pretty good, altho the sound quality is downright horrible. It kind of helped me understand what the songs were about. Lots of "ocean" based stuff.
The Enz made some excellent recordings, and these videos are real weird but enjoyable for a 1 off watch. I don't know why the audio quality on these things is so bad, but it's bad. The videos do not give the songs themselves real justice.
I bet if I took it to the concert to get them to autograph they would throw it away in embarassment, esp. the real old stuff.
I will also comment that you can kind of infer the transition between Tim Finn and Neil Finn as being the band leader. Neil actually is just as good of a singer as Tim is, and maybe even better, but he of course went to form Crowded House. Neil kind of moves up as the leader in these videos as the timeline passes. Pretty interesting. But Tims solo album "Escapade" is excellent.
Thanks Gar-ree, will get it back to ya soon.
Dave
(I think this is my longest post ever)