Flat Eric
As mentioned on the show on Saturday, when I played “Havanna Sex Dwarf” – a track from the new Booka Shade album “More” – the first thing that popped into my mind like some weird flashback was Flat Eric – the crazy head nodding puppet from the Mr Oizo video for “Flat Beat”. Who knew that a puppet could have so much funk going on?
The Herb Whisperer also reminded me that Flat Eric was the star of Levi’s StaPrest commercials in 1999. Forgot about that.
So here’s your chance to reminisce too, with one of the greatest music videos of all time…
And just to go overboard, here’s the Levi’s adverts…
Video: Raw Thrills “Why Cant I Say Let Go”
This isn’t low budget – this is no budget Rick Astley. Genius…
Video: Bill Hicks “The Pope”
In the interests of fairness and balance and decency (in light of my mean-spirited comments on the show a few weeks ago denigrating The Catholic Church by mentioning child abuse, paedophilia, Nazi gold, bad Dan Brown novels), here’s Bill Hicks thoughts about the pope (taken from from his album “Rant in E-Minor“).
Video: Alan Braxe and Fred Falke “Rubicon”
Classic video from 2004. Who would have thought a driving test in LA featuring a classic Volvo 244 would work so well with French disco? The reversing near miss at 2’28” is pure genius.
I’m currently driving a Volve 244 GLE (1980 vintage) as a loan car (thx Timo @ Fixations). It has a tape deck and only 1980s music will work in it (Enya sounds better than Lionel Richie who sounds better than Def Leppard). It’s like driving a Swedish lounge suite. Very classy. By pure coincidence turns out that it was the Volvo that RDU gave away as a prize back in February 2009. Freaky.
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