Friday, July 15, 2005

HURRA TORPEDO'S INDUSTRIAL SOFT-ROCK

Music Video For Maniacs: one guy plays guitar/sings Bonnie Tyler's '80s shlock-rock hit "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" while two other people jump around like mental patients, percussively pounding on things like washing machines, for some good, noisy fun. Could be a whole new genre of music: Industrial MOR? EZ-Noise?

Kind reader DDay tells us that they're a Norwegian band called Hurra Torpedo:
"Total Eclipse Of The Heart"

Reminds me of a classic Brian Eno quote: when he was visiting here in Los Angeles, he noticed ads for a local radio station promising "Continous Soft Hits." Quothe Eno, "Sounds like some obscure form of Chinese torture."

6 comments:

DDay said...

That band would be Hurra Torpedo. Unfortunately, I don't speak Norvegian so I cannot give further details.

Mr Fab said...

Excellent! Thanks for the tip.

Anonymous said...

Wow.

Mr Fab said...

Great, thanks for the info!

Bill S. said...

OK, I enjoyed it, but after a while, I was wondering why they all had their asses hanging out? Is that, like, their look?

Mr Fab said...

Maybe for their day job they're plumbers.