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Fantastic new video for Restless --- has a feel and even some hints of past new order videos, (i like how the video also reveals how the lyrics like "i want a nice car" are satire --- )
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Directed by Spanish filmmakers NYSU: NYSU Vimeo Page
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Posted on their Facebook page on July 1st: "Casting Call: we are looking for boys / girls from 16 to 19 years (preferably with a look norse or British) for video clip. Filming: 13 and 14 of this month. Send photos to castingnysu@gmail.com.-paid"
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I love the new video and hopefully this allays the [unfounded] fears that there has been any decline in the creative mojo of the New Order core. Granted it is always hard to tell where the band ends and the video artist(s) begin, but this has all the traits of classic New Order -- clever, ironic, sarcastic, visual and unique. Makes me even more psyched about the album.
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Originally Posted by: tarbox23 
p.s. is there a way to embed youtube in posts here? wtf?
Just knock the 's' off the https
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Nice touch with the Music Complete flag towards the end. Spot the sealing wax Music Complete stamp early on too.Do i like the video though? hmmm......
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Note the nods to BLT (black and white video of woman) and Retro (the bird)
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The color palette is beautiful and the disco ball on the banquet table is such a clever image
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The video's alright, I like the nods to the past but, well. sorry to say but the song doesn't really blow me away. It's OK, but quite subdued for a 'come back'. Plus, yeah, the lack of Hooky-bass does make it sound like a Bad Lieutenant/Electronic hybrid 
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I really like it, both the song and the video. The video seems a bit Game of Thrones melds into PSB's It's a Sin.
Overall, the song sounds a lot like straight off WFTSC, perhaps more than Bad Lieutenant. Hooky's bassline is obviously missing, though I have to admit, I like the chemistry a bit better without him. Musically, that bass does produce a void, but I think there's a certain spark that hasn't been there since, maybe, Technique? I first thought that when I saw them in Boston in 2013, my first show sans Hooky.
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blimey. that is embarrassingly shit. its got one original idea in it (the people spinning on a wheel with a fixed camera then buckets of milk chucked upon them) but apart from that... ffs this makes 'ruined in a day' look like a work of genius. Even my lower end students are capable of a more creative work.
and 'nods to the past' which we call in academia 'intertextuality' when used in this sense is just to stroke the ego of the viewer so they feel clever and superior. its not subtle. its not integrated into the story. its just there to try and calm you the fuck down from this travesty.
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Originally Posted by: themightyspang blimey. that is embarrassingly shit.
No more embarrassing than videos for WFTSC, 1963 and Temptation. It looks like Crystal v.2: no band, young kids, all flashy... But here it's just too much of everything, especially for such a sombre song. Something the Pet Shop Boys would have come up with... There are some clever moments but they are easily lost in the overall picture. It definitely did not invoke a desire to watch it over again.
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Originally Posted by: themightyspang
and 'nods to the past' which we call in academia 'intertextuality' when used in this sense is just to stroke the ego of the viewer so they feel clever and superior.
Us mere mortals tend to just refer to it as 'a bit wanky'.
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The video for Restless has had nearly 136,000 views in just under 4 days. The video has 1,558 Likes and 75 dislikes. So there are obviously other NO fans who do not share some of the overwhelmingly negative sentiments expressed in this thread. I like the video a lot, it interprets the lyrics in a visually interesting way. It is indeed very much like a Pet Shop Boys video, brings to mind "It's a Sin". Not a bad thing in my opinion. Edited by user 21 August 2015 10:03:50(UTC)
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It's their best video since Regret. Although I think the edit itself of Here To Stay fits very well with the music.
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Originally Posted by: No Barcode
No more embarrassing than videos for WFTSC, 1963 and Temptation.
wat? WTFTSC is in a different league to the other two, probably to do with money. The other two are cheap and lacking in ideas yes, but they are not trying to sell us anything. we already have 1963 and temptation. WTFTSC isn't brilliant and I worry that the ants bit is a reference to Un Chien Andalou, but its very watchable. Especially towards the end. Originally Posted by: Coops
Us mere mortals tend to just refer to it as 'a bit wanky'.
yep you're right there :D also its a failure of originality. Originally Posted by: JHV It's their best video since Regret. Although I think the edit itself of Here To Stay fits very well with the music. *splutters* World is IMO one of their best videos and after the fluff of the regret video. It's like a Mike Leigh film wrapped up in 4 long steadycam takes. And after working abroad as a contractor for a number of years I met all of these people at hotel bars.... why World, in its complete misery, becomes a single is another conversation... perhaps the most miserable song in the charts for the last 20 years?
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It's an ode to Boorman's Excalibur.
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Originally Posted by: DHLaw clever, ironic, sarcastic, visual and unique.
Don't exaggerate. 'Intertextuality'? That takes me back to my Latin-studying days. Why get pissed and shagged when you could be translating Virgil? Great times. The vid ain't bad. I remember when 'Substance' the VHS came out, 'Smash Hits' said (so it must be true), it kicks off with two vids ('Confusion' and 'Perfect Kiss') that're so bad it's like NO have created an endurance test for their fans. A tad harsh. Edited by user 22 August 2015 09:17:41(UTC)
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I have little idea what the video “means” but the beautiful song is growing on me. To me, videos have always been very secondary to the music, though of course they gain by association as time goes by. Looking for the meaning of life maybe? And I don’t notice that Hooky is not there. If he was there, given the destruction he now seems intent on, could that song have been written? best to forget him. (chance would be a fine thing)
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Buggered if know what the video is about. Some link made between the legend of Excalibur (of which i don't know an awful lot about if i'm honest) and society today? Feck knows.What else can i say about it? The young actors and actresses (or are male and females all referred to as 'actors' now?) look very British 18-19 year olds and the fade out cuts short a teeny teeny weeny bit early for my liking.I do like the horses scene at the end though. Edited by user 22 August 2015 12:31:45(UTC)
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I'm in love with the chick that plays the queen. That scene where her mouth is open and she goes right for his lips.... Edited by user 27 August 2015 15:40:33(UTC)
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Maybe the next video will include corroboree frogs, icebergs , dinosaurs and Kanye swimming in outer space with morrissey |
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I like the video. It continues their tradition of interesting directors making unconventional promo films.
Maybe some of you were expecting Citizen Kane...
If you can do better, convince New Order's management and Mute.
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The video is perfectly watchable, and I couldn't do any better. However check out the Chemical Brothers video i posted to "What Are You listening To Now" in Behind Closed Doors, 11 days ago.
Both videos were released around the same time, and whatever you think about the music, the Chems video is waaay better!
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Originally Posted by: Andy I like the video. It continues their tradition of interesting directors making unconventional promo films.
Maybe some of you were expecting Citizen Kane...
If you can do better, convince New Order's management and Mute. This.
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