Nice song, shame about the video.

Years ago there was a programme on BBC 1 with the Hairy Cornflake himself Dave Lee Travis (christ the 80's were an awful time) which would show pop videos for songs that predated pop videos. So we were er treated to videos for songs like Pilot's "Magic" (featuring a Pilot doing magic tricks. Genius) and so on and so on.

Roll on 20 odd years and now anyone with access to a PC and some video editing software can replicate the idea behind this formidable show and make their own videos for songs that don't have videos. Nowadays this artform (!) forms a significant part of YouTube (clearly the people behind this site weren't from Belfast), taking pride of place beside videos of people falling over, Star Wars parodies and parodies of Star Wars. Never one to miss a passing bandwagon Angry Since 1967 Productions is proud to present two "Videos For Songs Which Don't Have Official Videos(TM)"

The first of these is for the Boards Of Canada track "Peacock Tail". Now the production technique is a closely guarded secret, however the fact that it is shot in "Waving-a-mobile-phone-with-a-video-camera-in-front-of-the-TV-while-Carl-Sagan's-Cosmos-is-playing-then-editing-the-results-in-the-worst-free video-editing-software-I've-ever-seen-A-Vision" may offer some hints as to how it was produced





The second video is for the Boards Of Canada tracks "Bocuma" and "Roygbiv". These tracks have always reminded me of the music used for schools programming in the 1980's. Most of the programmes had title music which fell into one of two broad categories - Radiophonic Workshop or Derek Griffiths. Boards of Canada fall into the "Radiophonic" category. Why there aren't a hundred bands citing Derek Griffiths as a major influence is little short of baffling. In this day of tribute bands isn't there room for a Derek Griffiths one? They could do all the classics "Heads And Tails", "Build Yourself A Word" and of course the seminal "Magic E". Anyway this video is cobbled together from some clips I managed to get from YouTube, and includes the opening titles of top programmes such as "Going To Work", "Near and Far", "Picture Box" and "Near And Far"