I Want Out

I'm back in California now for Christmas. However, seeing as my journal has recently turned totally worthless once more and has filled up with endless nonsense, self-advertising and video posts, I'm not going to fight it by posting a remotely informative entry just yet.

For a long time, I thought that the music videos by Modern Talking (brought to all our attentions by raphx in my first year of university) were pretty much unbeatable on the daftness front, but after looking at some of the stuff they produced in the 80s, I think that Helloween have them matched. My particular favourite is the one for I Want Out. Watch out for:

• The very start, which does a good job of setting the tone for the rest of the video.


• Michael Kiske's hair-monster mullet.


• Kai Hansen's ever-present daft sunglasses.


• The inexplicable flying pumpkin.


• The second time said pumpkin appears, where you can see someone's hand coming into the frame to catch it.


• Kai managing to appear in two places during the pan in the C-section.


• The man running around with the vacuum cleaner in the solo.


• (Mumble, mumble) Just how much of the song Kai has "borrowed" in his future releases.

It doesn't stop there - the video for Where the Rain Grows (what?) is similarly inspired, with Andreas Deris seemingly going for a bit of a Rik Mayall look, and the one for Just a Little Sign is so dangerously close to the "Limozeen in Space" cartoon that it verges on self-parody.