This song had a huge impact on me in 1981. Sitting in my bedroom enjoying some 'green'. Back in those days I would make compilation tapes and I've just found this song again after many decades and it has blown my mind. So I've googled it and found the video. Brilliant. So, a very big thank you to Bill Nelson and those other music artists of the NEW WAVE period that produced beautiful bizarre and eccentric music. Remember The Residents and Snakefinger?
While we were.making compilation tapes and I made over 1000 of them with mixers all perfectly done even if it took 10 takes while the radio ignored my her Julian Cope,my hero atthe time, Bill Nelson, Wire, Stranglers, Pre Ubu, Bauhaus, Killing Joke, Echo, and on and on
I recorded a wonderful full performance of Snakefinger in 1981 and later interviewed one of the Residents to provide some commentary. You can check it out in the list here, artclips.free.fr/PRIVATE-STREAMINGS.html
@@VJ1tv based on the info on Bill Nelson's website, I thought it was recorded for a second Red Noise album for EMI (the first was released in 1979) and then released as a single in 1980 when the deal with EMI unraveled and Bill decided to start using his own name (and formed his own label).
One of the most underrated guitarists of all time, absolutely tremendous, the fact of this "not" being his main instrument of choice in this period speaks volumes, bordering on genius this falla for sure, always taking this forwards
This track has a certain electro groove to it and has been in my subconscious memory for decades, didn't appreciate it as a kid at the time but do now, a bit ahead of it's time.
I am just now listening on headphones and notice the cool stereo effects. Bill Nelson is not only a great musician but also a really outstanding producer.
I always remembered the name of this song because this video used to scare me as a kid. I couldn't remeber much of the actual video. And 40 something years later I see why it scared me.
So many influences and references here…NOSFERATU, CALIGARI, Peter Gabriel, Bowie, Jean Cocteau (the latter being one of the biggest influences on our Bill), American SF of the 1950s, “The Twilight Zone.”
Viddy reminds me of all the B+W silent horror films I may have been exposed to. Music reminds me how lucky we were to be teenagers that had this tune to move to.
This video has haunted me since I first saw it around 1984 or 1985 on the Max Headroom Show. What haunted me most was the repeated gesture of the keyboardist in the shot with what I think is a Minimoog (although it's hard to see from the side). It haunted me for 25 or 26 years until I finally saw it again on RU-vid, but in a crappy upload with some other bollocks cut where that unforgettable gesture should be. So thank you so much for posting this version, and for taking the trouble to restore it. I still think it is one of the best music videos ever made.
My first exposure to this was also on the Max Headroom show back around 1984. I don't know who curated/chose the fairly eclectic mix of songs shown on that show, but I'm forever grateful for it.
I came here because, recently, Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo were discussing the concept of dreaming in colour on their podcast and how it was something that people who did not grow up with black-and-white media could relate to. Then Mark mentioned Bill Nelson's song as a side note. This comment transported me back to the original Max Headroom 1980s TV show on Channel 4 in the UK. This was the show where Max was a wise-cracking VJ playing obscure indie videos. Bill Nelson's Do You Dream in Colour was one of those featured videos, and it fascinated me at the time. The song is excellent, but the video had that creepy--Nosferatu look that always stuck with me.
Likes this back in the 80’s when released,was in Glasgow NIGHT MOVES FUQ I was 15 at the time doing acid,speed then school WOW 🤩 that’d kill me these daze.Still,this song was way back in the palaces of my mind... CRAZY DAZE😉💥✅🤩
This was the dawn of electronics making a transition from amplification to being instruments in their own right...and generators of images. The first synthesizer was built. Artists were turned on to the amplification of the senses. This song was like an anthem for me because i was very interested by dreams , color and synesthesia...the ideas of getting your wires crossed and seeing music.
I came here because the sleeve of this single lies on the floor of Jester's room that can be seen on Script for a Jester's Tear album cover from Marillion.
I often wondered who was this as today is the 2nd time I have seen this brilliant video as the last time I was 10 in 1981 when I saw it for the first time and the masks were popular at the time and I'm sure it was the Old Grey Whistle Test as the next video was a band singing about Jimi Hendricks ?
Everyone dreams. You spend about 2 hours each night dreaming but may not remember most of your dreams. Its exact purpose isn’t known, but dreaming may help you process your emotions. Events from the day often invade your thoughts during sleep, and people suffering from stress or anxiety are more likely to have frightening dreams. Dreams can be experienced in all stages of sleep but usually are most vivid in REM sleep. Some people dream in color, while others only recall dreams in black and white. Meawhile, that's what my Son said........of course Dad. Meanwhile in the US of A, they do via internet bunnies. I hope you are good, always a star when I was growing up...., Quit dreaming, Red Roise, Chimera? Bought in Inverness in teens, i JUST LOVED IT.
Wow.... I'm in awe!!! Heard this guy's record played at Wooden Tooth records in Tucson the other day. This feels like when I discovered The Boomtown Rats "Up All Night"! Thank you!!!!!!!!
Brilliant, timeless classic....from "Northern Dream" up to literally today.....Bill Nelson has made amazing music....I listened to Beyond these clouds from 2011 live with his Gentlemen Rockateers.....it amazing....check it out.
This was supposed to be played on the BBC on Top of the Pops but it was boycotted by the union At The BBC because Bill made the video himself at home because he didn't have the backing of a big label. The union said he was doing camera, sound and lighting technicians out of a job. It stopped it charting higher than it did.
Hello I am a film student and I'm trying to get in contact with the rights holder of this song so I can request permission to use it. Can you please give me any information you may have as to how you acquired permission to use this song? Thank you.
@@VJ1tv LOL nice sense of humour ? This is from 1980. Be Bop Deluxe 1st album was 1974 (Axe Victim) incredible album. Peter Gabriel went solo from Genesis in 1975. Genesis formed in 1969, DEVO formed in 1973. The old man mask first appears on Selling England by the Pound in 1973 and then The Lamb in 1974. I love Bill and Be Bop immensely but I doubt it predated DEVO & Gabriel by decades. Bill was very innovative but I don't recall him building a time machine !!
I can never get my head around Usa 🇺🇸 spelling when they are using English speaking words ? ( just looks stupid ) reading all of BN inspirations regarding lyrics and song titles and just bought a boxed set of be-bops last album .. drastic plastic of which is perfectly set-up to see what direction BN is going ….
