Friday Night Videos

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It’s the “One of these things is not like the other!” edition of FNV.

Enjoy the dancefloor bounciness of New Order’s music while reading the bitter, bitter lyric:

And I still find it so hard
To say what I need to say
But I’m quite sure that you’ll tell me
Just how I should feel today

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn’t for your misfortunes
I’d be a heavenly person today

And I thought I was mistaken
And I thought I heard you speak
Tell me how do I feel?
Tell me now, how should I feel?

Forget the video, which is just classic low-budget mid-’80s cheesiness. The song worked, and works still, because of the total mismatch between the music and the lyric.

Or maybe it’s just that this particular mix came out at a very dance club-oriented period of my life. And by “dance club-oriented” of course I actually mean “mostly nocturnal and often illicit.”