Joy Division get the Playmobil treatment
It's Friday, so before heading off to the boozer for the traditional end-of-week "editorial meeting", we at the El Reg Bootnotes department thought we'd sign out by pointing our beloved readers at this entertaining miniature interpretation of Joy Division's Transmission ... Suffice it to say, inspired by this piece of …
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Wrong band
"Dance, dance, dance to the radio" is a lyric from Bowie's "Let's Dance", not Joy Division.
Re: Wrong band
Presumably, then, Bowie should get a lawyer and a Ouija board for some otherworldly litigation, cos Ian Curtis evidently ripped the Thin White Duke off, and no messing.
Jedit's google must be broken
"Let's dance, to the song they're playin' on the radio" - Bowie, Let's Dance
"Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance to the radio" - Joy Division, Transmission
Ha Ha!
You could at least have watched the clip, then you wouldn't have made yourself look like such a tool.
Great clip. Well done those playmobil artistes!
Re: Taxi for Mr Jedit...
You're all idiots. Clearly the correct answer is 'Radio Gaga', by Lady Gaga.
Peers over top of spectacles
Joy Division - Transmission
Released 1979
David Bowie - Let's Dance
Released 1983
Jedit? You are the weakest link. Goodbye.
Bandwagon.
Just logging in to point and laugh at the muppet along with everybody else.
of course they weren't plugged in
wireless instrument connections were all the rage in '79, oi!
@Scu
I knew there'd be one. You've still got to plug in a wireless transmitter you dufus...
Well...
Unless, of course, the transmitter was concealed in the body of the instrument, wired to the output internally.
What next?
How about the David Bowie ballad Enter Sandman, performed in the house style: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBmM79YadYM
Anticipation
I spent most of the song wondering how a Playmobil character who by design can't bend his arms was going to manage Ian Curtis' dance. All things considered, he didn't do at all bad.
Hang on...
Hooky's slapping a six-string fretless playmobass? Nearly ruined the illusion for me. Still, Tony Wilson would've loved this, RIP.
Re: Hang on...
Hooky did make use of a six string Shergold bass for the late Joy Division / early New Order periods. Not for Transmission though.
the scariest thing
was the constant smile on Ian Curtis' face, though I did hear him laugh...once...kinda...
Pedant alert
That bass has got too many strings.
Also, I don't recall ever seeing Ian Curtis (or indeed the rest of Joy Division) smiling.
Other that that: brilliant (oh, and can I laugh at Jedit too?)
EPIC!!!
This can only be surpassed by a Playmobil version of Christian Death performing "Spiritual Cramp."
I now have this odd urge to build statues of Joy Division's members in MineCraft. Good thing they now have multiple shades of black/grey wool...I'll be needing it.
Re EPIC!!!
Hmm, good call on the CD track (although Cavity would be even cooler), but I don't think Playmobil stretch to a Rozz Williams style hairdo!
Spectacularly funny!
Had me in stitches! The smiles would have been even more out of place on 'Shadowplay'. Shame Playmobile figures have fixed legs that meant that the late Mr. Curtis's leg movements weren't quite captured as well as they could have been ....
Here's a good cover version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Mm6ycEz2A8
Superb!
I love how the animators Playmobil Joy Division AND the TV crew filming them in 1979. It's the little details that count.
May there be more Manchester musical minature manipulations... like the Smiths. Or the Happy Mondays, with Bez naturally doing his dancing on stage. That's one guy with a face made for the Playmobil smile!
Missed point
Interesting how so many experts can jump on the content for criticism and so few applaud or even acknowledge the effort put in to making this work of art for our delectation. It must have taken ages - good camera work, choreography, editing and direction. How many rehearsals there must have been.
Congratulations to all involved - Encore, encore.
I LOVE YOU
I F**KING LOVE YOU!!!
This just made my day.
{that aside.. jedit.. trolling or something? No one is that stupid and everyone knows this song! Although I bet "dance to the radio" is a pretty common line! Oh! I've! Come! Over! All! Yahoo!)
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