![]() ![]() So I did my presentation about Sonic Youth and brought in a video with this taped off the telly. Of course computer projectors were not a thing then (or at least not affordable by schools), we were still on OHP film. When I was 15 or 16 or so we had to give a multimedia presentation as a school assignment. I was surprised- I didn’t even realise that was a thing. I’ve encountered a surprising amount of people in the last few years who HATE Pavement. I’ve avoided stadium concerts ever since. Still the only Wembley concert I’ve been to. I went to see the Smashing Pumpkins at Wembley on one of their last tours, and I was pretty disappointed. ![]() And probably created the actual analogue way by deliberately processing film in the wrong chemicals rather than by shooting digitally with neutral colours and then changing them with colour grading on a computer. This kind of super saturated cross-processed look was really popular for music videos and press shots at the time. Nowadays people making this kind of video would just go straight to YouTube and have instant viewer feedback and advertising, for better or worse, rather than the 90s strategy of paying Liam Lynch to make a whole load of little videos at once on a shoestring budget and interspersing them between music videos. The music press also dramatically changed in its approach at the start of the 2000s which is something I’ll save for writing about another time. For example I was old enough that Pete Doherty wasn’t the Wildred Owen of British Indie, seen only in breathless media coverage, he was “that annoying guy a few years older than me who’s sometimes at the pub I frequent”. I feel like anyone born after that inhabited a different media landscape. (I also made a YouTube playlist of them here)įor people born in the late 70s and early to mid 80s, this will probably be a huge nostalgia trip. They’re too old to have been uploaded in HD, but too recent to have been vintage things recently digitised. If I was making a playlist of things from the era, I would pick completely different things. I’ve stuck to stuff I remember putting on these videos between 19, rather than picking out things from the era with the benefit of hindsight, so it’s a ragbag limited to what was shown on music channels and appealed to me at the time. Along with the excitement that seeing one of Your Things come up on tv or radio if your tastes ran any way alternative. So I actually used to get a lot of use out of those mix videos, which would probably seem completely bizarre to modern teenagers. I had internet at home as a teenager, but it was extremely slow dial up and useless for music videos (only places like universities had broadband). I had finished school and graduated university before social media was even a thing. My mum had come home one day with a stack of neon green videos, pleased with how extremely cheap they had been, but on closer inspection they turned out to be only 30 minutes long and useless for films (ah yes the days when you used to video films off tv), so I used them to make mix tapes of music videos. I didn’t have cable or satellite at home, but I did a lot of babysitting at houses where they had the music channels. I was a teenager in the dark ages when you had to have lightning reflexes to tape songs you liked when they came on. ![]()
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