Brian Eno - China My China - 1974

[Timmybear]

The first video I can remember seeing is I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS by the Boomtown Rats, ca. 1979.

[Timmybear]

I would argue this is his best album. ;)

[btreefingers]

I WANNA TURN THIS SONG UP REAL LOUD

[drmanny1957]

I bought this album when it first came out. Let me tell you, it's been almost forty years and I STILL can't get over the typewriters used as percussion at 1:40. Eno was / is so far ahead of his time we may NEVER catch up!

[joeyrider]

@drmanny1957 in his unique way he used to call the typewriters Harpsichord Writer

[ArgWoman]

OMG, he´s so sexy

[BlueSoulJim]

the video looked very 80s but it's in the 70s!

i'm glad Eno made a music video for those trippy New Wave songs he have made!

though Eno said that he HATED music videos!

i wonder did Eno made videos beside this during the 70s?

[aadamjacobs]

I can't thank you enough for finding this and sharing it!

[acbar1]

What a bridge ... ain't that peculiar?

[CrimsonKing73]

ok, i was born in dec 1973, a year before this was released.

where would a clip like this be seen prior to the invention of MTV (by our favorite Monkee, Mike Nesmith)

Don Kirshner?Midnight Special?Rock of the 70s? btw, check out the Yes doc on THAT one! :) I mean, c'mon, we're talking 1974 here.....King Crimson's "Easy Money" promo film from NYC July 1973, where it was shown somewhere on some show with Black Oak Arkansas (what a pairing!) ?

Late night television for the teenagers maybe?

[khiltscher]

@CrimsonKing73 - I think It was in a Teenagers Music TV show hosted by a now wellknown guy in Germany call Thomas Gottschalk. It was played in the afternoon about 15.00. The show was called Pop 77 or so. I never had the luck to see in Germany at that time Black Oak Arkansas but I had all their albums, still :-))) I also have never seen on TV over here King Crimson.

[moxie96]

@khiltscher & @CrimsonKing73: I don't think this really ever aired in america until the MTV years and likely on a independent tv station putting on videos in a empty time slot to compete. I think I had seen this before MTV on my Local PBS channel (9 KQED San francisco) because music promotional films were at times played when they can't find the afternoon movie or a technical difficulty happened over a show that wasn't getting fixed in a hurry and needed to evenly fill time for the next show

[orchidtender]

@CrimsonKing73 I remember in the 70s and 80s some of the independent stations airing music videos from time to time in obscure, unprofitable timeslots. Also some of the public TV stations in Canada and PBS in the US had music shows which were the precursor to MTV as far back as the mid 70s. I remember the first time I saw a music video was on the PBS station out of Buffalo New York. It was probably 1981 or so. In fact, it was Devo's Beautiful World and the Jacksons' Triumph videos!

[CrimsonKing73]

@orchidtender thanks for the information. I think the first video ever shown on MTV was in 1980 or 1981 and it was The Buggles "Video Killed The Radio Star".....appropriate enough. That video launched the cable station.....I feel REALLY old when I remember that far back. :(

[RockCleric420]

There was no MTV in 74

[khiltscher]

@RockCleric420 this is not from MTV.

[gammahydra4]

Judy Nylon and Patti Palladin of the group Snatch

are the two women in the video.

They later collaborated with Eno on a track called R.A.F.

Judy Nylon also appeared with Eno on John Cale's Fear

[planetfall]

Why wasn't this ever on Mtv?

[Vambo1958]

boring

[cubanzombie]

@Vambo1958 do yourself a favour and jump into a lake.

[dullsvillain]

OMG i thought there was no Eno vid from this period!!

"Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" is an album that must be checked out folks......

[rm3953]

@dullsvillain well said, it's a masterpiece. one of my favourite albums ever :)

[cosmicrider287]

@dullsvillain yes sir!

[74elcaminohef]

Rarity for sure...

[kyrocordeux]

wow :) love this song, I have seen the video round before but always out of sync, it's great to see it corrected.

[qear1]

Precursor of the "Palmer Girls"!

[GrigoriSom]

This is a new one for me; thanks for posting.

[andwar99]

Sweet!