Quite simply staggering attention to detail in this video, long before the visual minimalism of videos like Radiohead’s ‘No Surprises’ or that one by Shinaydo Conner. You may notice Daryl and John using some really ingenious visual trickery to illustrate some of the lyrics. Apparently this song was originally about a particularly delicious ‘cheese scone’ that Daryl ate once on a trip to Devon.
This is literally music. This film was on just about every other week when I was a kid a bit like a “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” for the early 1990s. Now where is it? If I remember rightly it’s about a mannequin. It also features G. W. Bailey who was an actual real policeman (cop) in the 80s/90s. He would go around enforcing the law in otherwise straightforward movies and end up in so many shots that the the directors would have to include him in the story somehow. In fact there was so much footage of him around that time they constructed a whole series of policeman (cop) ’spoof’s’ out of it, entitled The Police Academy One.
I recently watched the whole of Karate Kid One just to hear this tune in the end credits, only to find that they play it at the end of Karate Kid Two. It was rubbish as well, Karate Kid One, complete waste of time. Just like all those moments when someone on television decides who’s won something. You can’t get that time back you know, you might as well be smoking.
