I agree. I remember the stir it caused at the time due to its innovative production.
Just as a footnote you couldn’t get a PC Magazine for ages without having the free Multimedia disc (which was a big thing at the time, as everyone was starting to get CD units with their PC’s ) with Mr Gabriel’s great Video rammed on it.
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This is my second favorite, for pure fun.
Who doesn’t love metal and gratuitous puppet violence?
I listen to like, 50% baroque chamber music these days, I swear.
OK, I’ll play, although I’m not sure what the rules are.
Here’s one of the first videos I remember enjoying: Garden Party by Marillion, from 1983. It’s seems very anti-monarchy when I watch it now, which I didn’t understand back in the day.
The first time I head this song was when they played this “live” on Top Of The Pops, and when it came time to sing “I’m miming” (which was on the BBC-approved version instead of the more raunchy “I’m f###ing” in the album version), Fish closed his mouth and mimed instead, presumably to show his contempt for the BBC. My teenage brain thought this was very clever, and I bought the album, Script For a Jester’s Tear, the next day, as a show of support. I’d never heard early Genesis at that point, so I thought they were very original, compared to the pop I was hearing on the radio in 1983. Originality be damned, this is still a great song and a great video.
