Gentle Giant - An Inmate's Lullaby ♪♫

[lauriecolson]

nice vibes, timpani.

[lauriecolson]

interesting use of text

[lauriecolson]

videographer ATE UP

[Chris2672jones]

Awesome video to go with a great track...am

[Ghoopty]

This song is dealing with mental illness and delusional behavior, therefore the video is perfectly appropriate, naysayers. And haunting and affecting, I may add.

[FlyingLotus]

i love the video that you made for this!

[ODOnPCP]

where did you get this footage?

[tonlitt]

@ODOnPCP search on here for the videos 'Patient' & 'Early treatment of mental disorders'

[TheLUXXOR]

IL VIDEO TRASMETTE UNA CERTA INQUIETUDINE, MA CHI L'HA FATTO E' UN GENIO, COME DEL RESTO CHI HA COMPOSTO QUESTO BRANO. COMPLIMENTI!

l'ASSOCIAZIONE IMMAGINI

- MUSICA E' PERFETTA!

[Hammill]

The video makes 100% sense to me, considering the meaning of the word "lullaby"...

[bonnie43uk]

i remember Gentle Giant playing this on Mike Reids "Saturday Superstore" in 1978. The kids loved it.

[mudjunky78]

I would love this so much better without the lyrics posted at the bottom. Otherwise, awesome :D

[dub0vsky]

Why are they all blindfolded? And what are their disorders?

[rcoldman]

@dub0vsky Monochrome Appearance Disorder, evidently.

[wolfeline]

Great work. This is not a funny song although it appears. Gentle Giant were defined as "humanists" concerning their lyrics, so I don't know why some people dislike this approach.

I know thess realities and it brings me bad memories but I have to handle it. As you have said: people can't handle reality, they behave as ostrichs and yes you are right: everyone is free to EXPRESS and you have done respectfully.

Try doing a funny one to please those "out of reality inmates" and show the other "face"

[gogorox93]

So Sincerely strange...!

[Clematisian]

9 seconds ago

…….@tonlitt! As a longtime GG fan my(s)elf, this is surely a brilliant juxtaposition. Tragic, though, that human beings, part of the "clinical population" or not, were ever subjected to Electro-Convulsive "Therapy", which literally destroys whole areas of the brain. That & pharmaceuticals, albeit much slower in the latter case. Anyway, you rock. Thanks ior doing this ~ (•8-D

[antagonist42]

The footage looks like it's from the nineteenth century. And yes, Victorian treatment of insane patients was fascinatingly cruel.

[guglhupf12]

By the way, wonderful music from Gentle Giant.

[guglhupf12]

The attitude of society towards these people is pure hypocrisy. "Let them lead their lives - but not in my neigbourhood" . Maybe better. Cause if they do so, they´re either the scary stranger or the joke of town. Full of compassion, anyway. So let´s beat the institutions, as long as they keep them away from us. Fortunately, this shown "treatment" is from old times, as is the picture. The attempt to integrate these people is hard work, and sometimes is the point where understanding already ends.

[hugo888888888]

@guglhupf12 Wath those people ned is love and compassion... beter than this, they ned solidarity and lucidity!!! (sorry for my bad english) Anyway, the institutions are now practicly close and the "mad"are now in the street, beating by the drug dealers and the police... The video is god... lucidity, even exteme, is god

[sbringe]

The harshness of the video contrasts strangely with the music, very interesting.

[petecellar]

meh... neat idea, but overall horribly depressing content. If you're gonna make a music video for Gentle Giant, maybe don't bum us all out... man!

[tonlitt]

@petecellar yes, truth and reality. If you can't handle reality, you better go and hide away in your naive little bubble, and pretend that the world is all wonderful... or you could make your own video version of this song, portraying the rose-tinted version of reality that you live in... I will respect it, whatever it portrays, as Art is free.

[rigmarole55]

@petecellar Look, i really dig the vid made up for this. I'm sure Kerry would approve, i mean , he wrote the thing. Why do think he did that? As a 'pop' music exercise? GG had many many songs of social commentary - think of ALL of Power and the Glory, just for a start. And i'll bet they've all had a look at this. They played very odd and unique music. Their approach to lyrics was the same.

[videocanone]

Check out the Citizens Commission on Human Rights ... they have been fighting the horrors of the psychiatric torture of patients for some time now. Most shrinks are sick f*cks !!! w w w.cchr.org ...Yeah, Gentle Giant Rocks !

[Hackneychap]

yeah it is quite distressing but i work in mental health and so much more needs to be done its not like just mending a broken arm. therefore by the grace of god go i

[Nocturnus6355]

awesome video !

[LYNXVAL]

scary people! I feel sorry for them!

[KERDEVAN]

As you say, thank the people who made democracy possible that we can say what we think. However you may be right that I shouldn't pass judgement but then how else would we get our opinions across?

[KERDEVAN]

I don't believe that the members of Gentle Giant would particularly approve of this video, especially Kerry.

[tonlitt]

@KERDEVAN its a good thing then that approval is not required... and that your belief system doesn't have to be based on reality... isn't free speech as a human right wonderful?

[mensamoo]

this is disturbing. GG hit the nail...

[KingCrimson82]

the dangerous thing is that we think all this crapy science had come to an end.but reality is that false medication and drugging people to a zombielike person as general,mostly destroys the brian on a unrepareable level..

[thecrimsonfloyd]

I love this song! Kerry Minnear is one of the best keyboardists ever! This song is one of the most musically complex things I've ever heard!

[westpalmscott]

Disturbing as Hell. Gentle Giant was a favorite of mine in the 70s. They stood apart from most of the progressive bands of that era. Strongly influenced by Frank Zappa. These guys were so good live that many big name acts dreaded to have them open for them. I had not heared much from this album. I'll have to check it out some more. I can see how Radiohead and Bjork may have gotten some influence here

[1787dude]

id like to find the doctors in this video and knock their fuckin teeth out.

[qdrone]

They thought they were helping the patient,hell in the fifties they did a frontal lombodami which basicaly was taking a ice pick going over the eyeball to the back of the brain and scraping away the part of the brain that they thought controlled anger.

[westpalmscott]

@qdrone "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy " Tom Waits

[jcast18k]

@qdrone I think that they knew exactly what their were doing... and thats much worse!

[papmjny]

An American innovative way to rehab so called mad people. They still did this at the end of sixties. Method was strictly forbidden elsewhere in the world.

[antagonist42]

What're they doing to the inmates about ½way into the video?

Shock therapy?

[Hyardacil]

ECT

Electroconvulsive therapy

[HandleIT88]

this song is perfect, along with "a dog's life". Thats why GG is just amazing, perfect song for the purpose.

[progrocker69]

It took me way too long to discover this one.

Just.

Fucking.

Unreal, and incredible! Very unsettling and sad but also profound and a stunning tribute to the band and this track. Bravo!!

[Pectiniculus]

This song not only predates but also owns Björk. Just listen to the second voice.

[hyperboreal]

Quite disturbing. Some of the images looked like out of a Joel Peter Witkin picture.

[chrissyshalom]

is mad ~Tone how horrible to treat people like that ~

[tellyisrubbish]

They still use ECT today - now THAT is 'madness'. Love Gentle Giant btw.

[bunglezip]

saw these clips on sumo tv.

Nice vid tonlitt .

Thats nice that...

[Chartwell30]

Wow, that was eye-opening, heartbreaking, and freaky.

Poor people, I think I'd rather be dead.

[hasbeenshaken]

i never quite understood the lyrics - but shown this way they are shocking! thanks for making this vid, it's a gem

[Da1FrumHarlem]

interesting..

first. ;)