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Brilliantly stupid video, like so many of them in those years.

I want to get lost in your rock 'n roll and drift away

Probably my favourite song on Undercover, and yeah the video is definitely brilliantly stupid, very entertaining, very early MTV. A lot more fun than the boring She's So Cold video.

"We cannot burn Mick Jagger"...

Well obviously Martin Scorsese didn't direct this!

Surely the best of the UNDERCOVER videos. It has aged best, and it still funny to watch whereas those poorman's thrillers, "Undercover of The Night" and "Too Much Blood" are simply boring, corny and damn dated.

- Doxa

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Surely the best of the UNDERCOVER videos. It has aged best, and it still funny to watch whereas those poorman's thrillers, "Undercover of The Night" and "Too Much Blood" are simply boring, corny and damn dated.

- Doxa

Undercover of the Night is my favorite vid of all-time.

Yeah Temple's Undercover is ACE....esp the Mekico vid ...

ROCKMAN

In regards to "Undercover of The Night" video, as like with the song iself, I think there is so much effort put not really a flow. They try so hard to make a big video, a'la "Thriller", that is, a very big current contribution, but don't really have an artistic drive for that. There is something artificial in the whole affair. It doesn't roll naturally aesthetically, me thinks. It has very much same problem as many Mick Jagger solo offerings in the following years.

As for the song's, and video's 'political' content, it is very much pointed out, especially visually, but to me it hits closer to the relevance of "Indian Girl" than "Street Fighting Man". Married with 80's video aestheticism, I just find it now simply corny, in trying to discuss some serious themes with that method (besides, the way to tell the story with certain theatretical but obvious shots, is rather dull, and can't stand repeaeted runs, especially now). I think just there is is something, to use anachronistic expression, Bono-like in the whole concept, if you know what I mean...

But I think the song and the video - you can't really seperate them - is the very last time The Stones tried 100% to be current and reinvent themselves according to the trends, and really pushed hard. Or to say it properly, the very last time Jagger used the vehicle of The Stones to do that. It is a historical piece of matter in that sense! (Seemingly, if we look his following actions, Jagger wasn't too happy with results.)

- Doxa

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(Seemingly, if we look his following actions, Jagger wasn't too happy with results.)

I mean, even though the video got quite a lot of hype and attention at the time, I am not sure if Jagger was happy with it artistically or commercially (UNDERCOVER album was commercially a disappointment in compared to their past rich years - SOME GIRLS and TATTOO YOU were huge sellers, and even EMOTIONAL RESCUE did very fine - and this was the time of some incredible rise in album sales, THRILLER being, of course, a crown jewel). I think Jagger was reading the changes in the air (or in stock market) and making career-wise big decisions.

It could be that even though he might have liked the results in artisticwise, he wasn't happy how to achieve them. The band coudn't transform itself well or easy enough to survive the new decade and its demands. Read: he didn't want cope with stubborn Keith any longer. Probably he thought he could survive better alone - both artistically and commercially, since being able to adapt the latest trends would be translated in commercial success. I suppose the latter implication was the language Mick Jagger - a superstar of two decades, with no flops - understood at the time - until he got a tough lesson of mortality...

- Doxa



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 2012-05-26 11:29 by Doxa.

Thanks for your posts Doxa!

Very insightful and the term "Bono-like" cracked me up quite a bit. Spot on with that analogy.

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I think just there is is something, to use anachronistic expression, Bono-like in the whole concept, if you know what I mean...


- Doxa

The only song that surely solve Undercover from being a poor CD. Hopefully magnificently revived by Scorsese in Shine a Light.

Back in 1983, the local radio station had played the long version of She Was Hot before it was suppose to be released (WMMR - Philly).

Still kind of bummed they never released that version on the album.

Always loved the JAM at the end....