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WOULD YOU EVER MAKE MUSIC WITH THIS GUY? DIDN'T THINK SOPosted by Sam on 02.09.10

Awhile ago, I think it might've been last summer, Dovecote overlord Carter sent me a link to the video for ABC's "The Look Of Love," which came out in 1982. The song was...okay–a bit over-exaggerated and unsubtle for my taste–but the video is (was?) fucking unprecedented. Within the first minute, you see a man in lederhosen blowing out of a cardboard Alp horn; a glamorous clown; a flying, singing nun; a rollerskater falling off a bridge; a chattering teeth toy and a ventriloquist dummy lip syncing; someone painting the breast of a very tall woman's bikini, which actually ends up being a zoo sign; and the band dressed up in Tom Wolfe suits doing a line dance with canes. And it just keeps going. Spaghetti is involved.

It's heavy on the everyone-in-the-eighties-was-on-a-ton-of-drugs vibes, since there's no way a sober mind could envision such egregious weirdness. Except maybe Mr. Rogers if he wasn't a Quaker (he wasn't, but you know what I mean).

Anyway, where am I going with this? Oh, right. It has something do to with Basement Jaxx.

On Saturday, the British big beat summoners posted their mix of "The Look Of Love," which reminded me of the video, which reminded me how crazy that shit was, which reminded me that I hadn't posted a strong endorsement of anything on this blog except a travel documentary of one of the most fucked-up places in Africa, and I figured this was at the very least more chirpy than that. So, don't call me morose.