I can’t decide if this video detracts from – or enhances – the song?
Anyway, I like it. Especially the music.
Music
The Kinks, Victoria
“I was born, lucky me, in a land that I love. Though I’m poor, I am free.”
(I suppose Ray was kidding. I’m not.)
The Eyes, I’m Rowed Out (1965)
When I was young and skinny I ardently wished I had been born about 1947 in England and that I got to see the Who and the Stones at little clubs in London before they were big and rode a Vespa scooter and went to groovy parties with cool people unlike (most of) my high school classmates and the world was wall to wall with cute girls who had exquisite taste in music (they liked the same stuff I liked!), who went shopping for groovy mod clothes, at places like the one in this video … .
(My adolescent mod dream utopia was set in 1965-66, and this video looks more “Swinging London” 1967-68, but still, close enough).
(Dig the boots on the guy at :33. Nice.)
(The Eyes totally rocked. I previously posted their brooding proto-psychedelic gem When the Night Falls.)