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🎵 Post wonderfully awful songs along with what you’re drinking! 🎶
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Score:
∙ 5 points: mild cheese
∙ 10 points: embarrassed to admit you love
∙ 15 points: medium cheese
∙ 20 points: both terrible AND perfect
∙ 30 points: extra-sharp, final boss, clears the room
🍷 Having My Baby - Paul Anka + sweet vermouth rocks Twist🍸
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Some of the worst songs ever to come out of Aotea New Zealand
https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/life-begins-at-40-1983/overview
Life Begins at 40 - A tongue in cheek paean to the joys of middle age, this jaunty, amiable track was an unlikely hit in the more electro-pop oriented early 80s. Written by Dave Luther, from folk pop group Hogsnort Rupert, it was the 12th biggest selling single in NZ in 1983. The all-singing, all-dancing music video, like so many of the era, was an Avalon Studios television production. Less typically, by the standards of the day, it practically amounts to a major production with multiple sets and a cast of dozens while the band hams it up.
That is the 1983 Number One hit in the charts here. FOR THREE WEEKS IT HELD THAT SPOT!
And it slays any boss for all the wrong reasons
Please say you had zero involvement in the production of this
Fuck no! Back then I was editing around half of the rock clips made in Auckland, but we wouldn't have touched that pile of crap with a bargepole. I never liked any of the Hogsnort stuff.
In January 83 I left NZ for ten years in London, so I sadly missed this track enjoying its inexplicable burst of fame.
I am relieved, because that was by all accounts a dark day in NZ music
We worked with cool bands like The Enemy, Blam Blam Blam, Toy Love, Hammond Gamble and many more I've forgotten.
I loved cutting music clips. Each one was two days work in my edit suite for a fixed rate of two hundred bucks*. Easy money!
* Late 70s, early 80s... GST hadn't been invented yet.
Then that bloody Chris Knox came along and did it all himself, what an ungrateful bastard! 😆
Not quite. We were contemporaries, never competitors. My brother and I knew Chris from parties around Dunedin and we made a few clips with him over the years. The early Enemy clips were shot in a practice room off Dowling Street using gear we'd 'borrowed' from TVNZ. When Toy Love set up in Oz, my bro was living there so he shot some clips which I edited back in NZ.
Tall Dwarves was always a low tech DIY affair between Chris and Alec. They had their own style and I've always respected their work.
We never charged for any of the clips we made with Chris. We were having fun and doing our part for local music. Then we gave the clips to Radio with Pictures.
Ah cool - guessing you would have crossed paths, but to collaborate much moar fun
Boss died of horror
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