To Sullivan's credit, he looks uncomfortable in the extreme in the more polished video. Having fallen utterly for their raw/ rough/ real look, I was so immensely put off by the professional, MTV-friendly video of "Stupid Questions" a few years later that I decided, good punk that I was, that the band had sold out - and stopped buying their albums for several years, only picking up Thunder and Consolation and all subsequent albums upon my return from Japan, in 2002 hard to believe, because it's just great (as are The Love of Hopeless Causes, Eight, and High, my three favourites of their later studio output). I must have seen it shortly after it was filmed - because I was still in high school, I know that, and I graduated in 1986 I taped it on my parents' VCR, and rushed into the city to buy as many of their LPs as possible ( No Rest and Vengeance, at that point I bought The Ghost of Cain when it came out). This very video clip was my first exposure in any form to the New Model Army, when it was played on Soundproof, the Shaw equivalent of Night Dreams, a 1980's cable-access TV show that I used to watch religiously. With the NMA on my mind, I did some surfing on Youtube and found three clips of note:Ī) The original trio, of Sullivan-Morrow-Heaton (RIP), playing "No Rest," in 1985. please don't even ask about the Her Jazz Noise Collective piece.). We spoke this weekend and I'm in the process of transcribing the interview (while paying a buddy to transcribe Nels Cline, so I can get that off ASAP. So, actually, Justin Sullivan of the New Model Army is not such a hard man to get hold of after all.
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