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Man drumming on plastic pipes wows crowd with Depeche Mode’s ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’ and ‘Popcorn’
07.22.2015
01:34 pm
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Here’s a video of one-man-band street performer located in Buenos Aires, Argentina flawlessly playing his homemade didgeridoo meets plastic pipe drums kit for an unusual rendition of Depeche Mode’s classic “Just Can’t Get Enough.” And then he plays something that sounds like Hot Butter’s “Popcorn” meets Grieg’s “In the Hall of the Mountain King” meets “Swamp Thing” by The Grid???

This dude is deep.
 

 
via WFMU on Twitter

Posted by Tara McGinley
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07.22.2015
01:34 pm
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‘Popcorn’: Delightfully frenetic video for Hot Butter’s 70s Moog classic
12.03.2013
03:44 pm
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You’ve heard this track at least a thousand times, even if you don’t know what it’s called—it’s the peppiest Moog masterpiece the 1970s ever produced, “Popcorn.” This is a wonderful black-and-white clip from some French TV show back when it was a brand-new song, it seems. It features six spunky and star-spangled dancers doing their damndest to inject the proceedings with a bit of energy. The dancers aren’t great but they give it their all, the choreography is “fun,” and of course the music guarantees a splendid time for all. Why can’t there be stuff like this on TV today?

The editing, though—could somebody give the director some decaf coffee? For most of the video there’s so much fast-cutting that I’m obliged to issue an epilepsy warning. On top of that, the director (possibly the camera operator?) seems waaaaaaaaaaaaay too interested in the shapely midsections of the female dancers—I don’t think that would fly today….

Anyway, if this doesn’t put a big, stupid grin on your face, nothing will.
 

 
Thank you Fernando Velasquez Pomar!

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Who Do You Think You Are? A one-hit wonder for several different groups
The mysterious J. Bastos and his one hit wonder ‘Loop Di Love’

Posted by Martin Schneider
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12.03.2013
03:44 pm
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