Decided to go with this vid for the added oddness of Legs & Co. when UK show Top Of The Pops could not get the act on and there was no pop video (as that had not taken off) the Beeb had a specialist dance troupe, like the SAS in leotards, a crack team of interpretative dance experts. Or not. Anyways, a corking flippin’ great Bowie song from Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) the record that took his Berlin Trilogy into pop waters.
From The Black Rider. Here paired by a Youtuber with Bad Lieutenant, though not the hilarious Herzog re-up but the scuzzier Ferrara original. Burroughs reading his words here.
You think you can take them bullets and leave ‘em, do you?
just save a few for your bad days, well…Well, we all have those bad days when we can’t hit for shit
And the more of them magics you use
the more bad days you have without them
So it comes down to finally
all your days being bad without the bullets
it’s magics or nothing
A brilliant soundtrack, contemplative, evocative, understated. Which suits how this day’s events have unfolded.
This Danish show is compulsive, it’s no Wire, it’s just old school whodunnit but with fuller characters than usual, it’s also very good at making the need to see the next episode very pressing indeed. Although a more accurate title would be ‘The Red Herrings’ as the first 10 episodes are basically sneaky misdirection (just how many people can be having secretive meetings/sex sessions with similar women at the exact same time and place?!?! Oh you cheeky Danes), although the travails of the characters are well drawn. Also funny to see another Danish TV show after The Kingdom keeping up the Danish/Swedish rivalry. Look away now if you don’t want to know the solution to the mystery- it was Bob in the body of Leland Palmer…oh if only. The beaty/bassy part of the theme from the end titles begins at the 3:11 mark. Have Faroese woolly jumper sales leapt after Sarah Lund’s iconic appearance? Apparently yes.
Just wait for the crowd singing the chorus, Hell Yeah!
