Mass-Man-made video for (Hey!) The Rise of the Robots by the Stranglers. I made this several years ago, but I've been on a nostalgia binge with the Stranglers lately and I felt I should share this with other Stranglophiles. Mass Man
No robots were harmed in the making of this video.
Get out of THEIR way,,,?
massmanx 1 year ago
A collection of songs that exudes bleak war torn imagery and references the cold war dystopia to great effect. The black side sought to capture a post apocalyptic destruction with a stark sneer of cold command, the white side reflected a libertarian utopian landscape where robots rule and armies conquer. The sleeve depicts the band silouetted against a white background symbolising the intense white light of an atomic explosion, thus reflecting the entrenched paranoia that existed in the 1970's.
almklit 1 year ago
@almklit Black & White was my first experience with the Stranglers. I lived in Montana, of all places, at the time (1979). A radio DJ friend gave me a free copy the radio station had received because, 1) the station would never play anything so non-mainstream, and 2) I collected colored vinyl at the time and this copy is on black and white marbled vinyl. When I heard the metal-shop-power-tool sound of the guitar on THREATENED I was agog. They sounded like the inside of my head.
massmanx 1 year ago