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<blockquote data-quote="invitro" data-source="post: 220020" data-attributes="member: 446"><p>So wikipedia sez: <span style="color: #252525"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">There are two versions of the video for "It's My Life". The first, envisioned by director </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Pope" target="_blank">Tim Pope</a><span style="color: #252525"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"> as a statement against the banality of lip-synching, consists almost entirely of footage from </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife" target="_blank">wildlife</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentaries" target="_blank">documentaries</a><span style="color: #252525"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">, interspersed with shots of Talk Talk lead singer </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Hollis_(English_musician)" target="_blank">Mark Hollis</a><span style="color: #252525"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"> standing in the midst of </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Zoo" target="_blank">London Zoo</a><span style="color: #252525"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">, with his mouth pointedly shut tight and often obscured by hand-drawn animated lines.</span></span><span style="color: #252525"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">The second version, recorded at the behest of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMI" target="_blank">EMI</a>, consisted of the entirety of the original video projected on a green screen behind Hollis on guitar and vocals as well as his two bandmates as they lip-synched and mimed the song, deliberately poorly and with comic exaggerated gestures.[SUP]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_My_Life_(Talk_Talk_song)#cite_note-3" target="_blank">[3]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #252525"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #252525"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">...</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #252525"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Well that's a little more interesting. I think the 2nd version is</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #252525"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #252525"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span>[MEDIA=youtube]VczMhItLmp8[/MEDIA]</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #252525"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #252525"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">but it might be <span style="font-size: 10px"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czi09cOOgXU" target="_blank">Talk Talk - It's My Life (Extended)</a> .</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #252525"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #252525"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"><span style="font-size: 10px">And by the way! It's My Life hit #31 in the US in February 1984, but only #46 in the UK, which is very strange. Anyway, it hit #13 in the UK in a 1990 re-release. It also hit #1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart!</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="invitro, post: 220020, member: 446"] So wikipedia sez: [COLOR=#252525][FONT=sans-serif]There are two versions of the video for "It's My Life". The first, envisioned by director [/FONT][/COLOR][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Pope"]Tim Pope[/URL][COLOR=#252525][FONT=sans-serif] as a statement against the banality of lip-synching, consists almost entirely of footage from [/FONT][/COLOR][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife"]wildlife[/URL][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentaries"]documentaries[/URL][COLOR=#252525][FONT=sans-serif], interspersed with shots of Talk Talk lead singer [/FONT][/COLOR][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Hollis_(English_musician)"]Mark Hollis[/URL][COLOR=#252525][FONT=sans-serif] standing in the midst of [/FONT][/COLOR][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Zoo"]London Zoo[/URL][COLOR=#252525][FONT=sans-serif], with his mouth pointedly shut tight and often obscured by hand-drawn animated lines.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#252525][FONT=sans-serif]The second version, recorded at the behest of [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMI"]EMI[/URL], consisted of the entirety of the original video projected on a green screen behind Hollis on guitar and vocals as well as his two bandmates as they lip-synched and mimed the song, deliberately poorly and with comic exaggerated gestures.[SUP][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_My_Life_(Talk_Talk_song)#cite_note-3"][3][/URL] ... [SIZE=2]Well that's a little more interesting. I think the 2nd version is [/SIZE][MEDIA=youtube]VczMhItLmp8[/MEDIA] but it might be [SIZE=2][URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czi09cOOgXU"]Talk Talk - It's My Life (Extended)[/URL] . And by the way! It's My Life hit #31 in the US in February 1984, but only #46 in the UK, which is very strange. Anyway, it hit #13 in the UK in a 1990 re-release. It also hit #1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart![/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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