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May 07, 2008
Retrohump: Finding LiLiPUT (Not so swiftly)
LiLiPUT - "Die Matrosen"
I'd long patrolled the You Tube wilderness in search of proof that LiLiPUT (or Kleenex if you're not a lawyer-type) was made up of actual flesh and blood girls, and not mythical post-punk sprites. To this day, that search remains a fruitless one. The embedded slice of awesome you see above comes courtesy of Pitchfork.tv. I had assumed that the utility of the new music video mecca would be mainly curatorial, dumping lots of good stuff in one place for convenient idle browsing. But if they are going to start packing their archives with footage that can't be conjured up by the anonymous uploaders of the world-at-large, it may take on greater significance yet.
The clip, for the Swiss misses' 1980 single "Die Matrosen" is a groovy little travelogue of the girls' traipsing around Germany with what appear to be their fellas (though the androgynous haircuts of the era are making gender proclamations sort of difficult). Nothing too momentous occurs--a bit of rest stop tomfoolery, a few bored celebrity imitations in the back seat to pass the time. (Man, whoever Willi Milowitsch is, he's gotta be steamed by that portrayal.) But as a endearingly human portrait of musicians whose work was so intoxicatingly alien, it's got charm to spare.
Posted by Jeff Klingman at May 7, 2008 05:10 PM
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