Ah, I bet you thought that this was going to be a Tori post, didn’t you? While I will gladly admit that Amos’s song “Crucify” is one of my favorites of her songs, that’s not what I’m here to blather on about tonight.
Nope, this would be the 1991 release of a similar name, from the Swedish band Army of Lovers. I think I’m like the Aussies on this one, but I have a bit of a thing for Swedish bands.
[Loba Tangent: I’m assuming that Australians have a thing for Swedish bands…or at least one in particular, since both Muriel’s Wedding and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert prominently feature music of and/or anecdotes about ABBA. And, of course, two movies can perfectly capture the musical preferences of an entire continent. Oh, and now I want to watch Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Again. For probably the 20th time.]
Anyway, I wish I knew more about this group, but unfortunately, “Crucified” was the only one of their songs to ever make it far enough up the mainstream to reach me back then. I stumbled upon the video for the song one late night, WAY back when MTV still played more videos than craptacular shows.
To call this video bizarre would be like calling Ebenezer Scrooge cheap. It’s one of those videos that has “car wreck” stamped all over it…so very strange to the point of being a little unsettling. I blame the rubber pants. Or maybe the adult diapers. Combined with leg armor. Or was it Elvis? Possibly Napoleon. Maybe the flowering panties, too. And yet you simply can’t look away.
Don’t believe me? Watch for yourself:
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/EdooYar_A6g
I saw the video maybe three more times before it was finally pulled from heavy nighttime rotation (I don’t think I ever saw it play before 10 p.m.). It wasn’t until years later when I heard it at a club that I remembered how utterly crazy it and the band were. And how much I loved the song and the video. Of course, being the naughty little pirate monkey I was at the time, I promptly proceeded to find an MP3 for download from my pre-Napster FTP hopping days.
Naughty, naughty Loba.
While driving home this afternoon, I had my iPod set to random shuffle on my “Club MP3s” list and this song came up, and I knew that I had to share it here for Flashback Friday. Seriously, how do you not share a song this awesome? And just because I’m in a giving mood this evening (must be the wine I had), here’s a video for the Nuzak remix of the song. Even more rubber pants, adult diapers, leg armor, flower panties, and cats and dogs!
Man, I miss the 90s…
