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[RTS] Talking to a Stranger
Jan. 7th, 2011 07:31 pmEarlier this week, while thinking about my Walk In Silence project, I was thinking of some of the music I remember hearing in the early to mid-80s that got me interested in the (now-named) alternative genre. It occurred to me that it wasn't 120 Minutes that fueled it first, but a show that had been on a few years before it began in '86: Night Flight on USA Network. It wasn't so much a show as it was overnight programming that started at 11pm or so on Fridays and Saturdays and went on until 3am. This was the ultimate show in strange and weird things, such as 50s camp movies, 2001: A Space Odyssey, uncensored Duran Duran videos, and so on. They'd do an hour or a half-hour's theme of something such as the music videos of director Zbigniew Rybczyński (he of the famous Art of Noise video) or something like that.
One of the strangest things that's stayed in my head, and come to think of it, probably one of the earliest post-early-'we-play-anything'-days-of-MTV examples of alternative music in my mind, was a then-obscure Aussie band called Hunters & Collectors, which I believe was part of a themed show of Australian bands (and yes, they'd played Split Enz as well). I remember this video clearly, especially for its imagery:
One of the strangest things that's stayed in my head, and come to think of it, probably one of the earliest post-early-'we-play-anything'-days-of-MTV examples of alternative music in my mind, was a then-obscure Aussie band called Hunters & Collectors, which I believe was part of a themed show of Australian bands (and yes, they'd played Split Enz as well). I remember this video clearly, especially for its imagery:
