Just the one video today, but it's a good one: Blind Vision by Blancmange.
Released in the spring of 1983, it reached #10 in the UK singles chart the week of 21st May.
I'm pretty sure I won't have seen the video at the time, although Blancmange did make an appearance on Top Of The Pops. it's an odd clip, to say the least. Neil Arthur does a lot of running (or singing from a lectern), whilst Stephen Luscombe plays all manner of instruments, including old school microphones as percussion, little of which you will hear on the song.
And then there is the actor replicating the 1940s housewife illustrations on this and their previous singles. Lots of creepy rictus grinning and the inevitable 'hand splatting a plate of blancmange' shot.
It's completely bonkers and completely brilliant.
Blind hope, blind visions, blind centre
One centre
Blind living and seeing, blind hell
Blind hell
Blind visions and no reasons for actions
Blind words
Blind visions and no reasons for actions
Blind words
Blind visions and no reasons
No reasons for action
In a dream when I'm reading pages full of words
The harder you look,
It's getting hard, it's getting hard, it's not
A dream's a dream
In a dream when I'm reading pages
Pages full of words
It's, it's getting hard
It's not, it's not, it, it
It's getting harder
It's getting harder
Ooh, it's getting hard
Hold me closer now
Hold me closer
That's blind vision (blind vision)
Push me harder now
Harder, push me harder
That's blind hell (blind hell)
Keep me spinning around and round
The blind centre (blind centre)
Now I'm turning miles above the ground
That's blind hell (blind hell, blind hell)
Blind hope, blind visions, blind centre
One centre
Blind living and seeing, blind hell
Blind hell
Blind visions and no reasons for actions
Blind words
Blind visions and no reasons for actions
Blind words
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