Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin
Je t’aime… moi non plus (1969) – 4:21
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“He’s horrible!” her older brother Andrew Birkin recalls Jane telling him, referring to the musician as “that dreadful man Serge Bourgignon.” “He’s meant to be my lover but he’s so arrogant and snobbish and he absolutely despises me.”
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Metropolis (1927) – Dance Scene – Silent with music added, colorized – 4:41
Directed by Fritz Lang
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“The false Maria in Lang’s film is an evil being representing science and technology out of control–a female version of Frankenstein’s destructive creature who menaces society.“
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Metropolis (1927) – Full Movie – Silent with music added, colorized – 2:25:00
Directed by Fritz Lang
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“The movie has a plot that defies common sense, but its very discontinuity is a strength. It makes “Metropolis” hallucinatory–a nightmare without the reassurance of a steadying story line. Few films have ever been more visually exhilarating.”
– Roger Ebert
The Space Lady
Major Tom – Live (2013) – 5:39
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“Busking was a means of survival for Dietrich in the 1970s. She and her late first husband Joel Dunsany—who went by the stage name The Cosmic Man—were draft-card-burners who went underground, obscuring their identities, cutting ties to family, and hitchhiking to different cities. Panhandling and busking was their only path toward income.”
– Bandcamp
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The Monks
Complication – Live (1966) – 2:30
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“The Monks may be the strangest group ever to take form. Five American ex-servicemen stationed in Germany in the sixties, all dressed in black with heads shaved like monks. This was radical stuff for Germany 1965-66. Coupled with their violent, near-insane music it’s beyond radical for ’66, ’76 or even ’96.”
– Ugly Things
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A Trip to the Moon (1902) – Silent with music added, colorized – 12:52
Director – Georges Méliès
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Aphex Twin
Come to Daddy (1997) – 6:06
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