Oriental Nightfish - Linda McCartney & Wings
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2024
- Song composed by Linda McCartney during the 'Band On The Run' sessions, performed by Wings in this animated movie of the same name. Directed by Linda McCartney and Ian Eames, The film ran at the Cannes Film Festival in May of 1978. The track was finally released on the posthumous compilation album 'Wide Prairie' in 1998.
IT WAS A THURSDAY NIGHT
I WAS WORKING LATE
WHEN I FIRST FELT HUNGRY
FOR AN ORIENTAL RICE DISH
Them 3 minutes 17 seconds seemed to last a hell of alot longer when i was a kid
So true hahah
"I do like those silly froggies singing mummy, and when Rupert goes and tells his AAAARRRRRGH WHAT'S HAPPENING TURN IT OFF"
This entire thing was animated by one man. No joke. I can't not be awed by that...
It’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. Honestly. I’ve been obsessed with it since I first saw it.
Surprisingly this never scared me as a kid but rather intrigued me. I remember enjoying the beautiful swirling colors and the flashing lights...I think I just took this video into stride when I watched Rupert Bear and Seaside Woman. I can appreciate this video so much more now that I'm older though!
Exactly the same for me. Found it fascinating and I also like the music as a 4 year old.
I am so relieved that I found this video and now know that I am not as crazy as I thought. When reminiscing with people about the Frog Song I would mention this video that freaked me out as a kid and no-one knew what I was talking about!
found it strange when I was little and nearly 30 years on, I find it even weirder....
I'm so glad I'm not alone, used to freak me out too when I was a kid, always had to skip to seaside woman! There were aspects of this video I did like...the cucumber bit and the multi coloured piano!! Memories!!
Seaside Women was on before this! This was like yeah im gonna chill you out with seaside women then scare the fuck out of you
The creepiest thing I remember from the Rupert Bear and the Frog Chorus VHS was the spooky juggling jester animation set to an eerie jingle that denoted the production company.
John Starkie oh man so scary
Yes! That jester creeped me out as a child!
I love this ❤ it's just so so beautiful and it's such a shame this art isn't more appreciated today ❤ Rupert Bear, Seaside Woman and Oriental Nightfish ❤ combining art and music together, this is nothing short of a masterpiece ❤ to know Paul McCartney, a wonderful musician and genius created this is just nothing short of a miracle ❤ and to have the wonderful Linda to create something beautiful as well ❤
This video is awesome. It slightly scared me as a three year old kid butloved the music. 24 years on, I still love it!
That's exactly how I felt. I was weirded out as a child seeing this and I always wanted to turn off the video at the end of seaside woman, but if I didn't make it to the tv before this nightmare began, I would be stuck, mesmorized and compelled to watch it. I was too scared to go close enough to turn off the tv!
oh my god thankyou for putting this song on i have been looking for it for ages! it used to scare me as a kid but then i grew up and now love it! exellent!!!
Childhood nightmares/memories have just come screaming back to me
Now, after 25 years, can someone please explain to me what this is!?!?
***** Yup I remember the seaside one as well, on the same video. Such a random combination. Lol
*****
Ha! I was trying to remember the name of the other song, wasn't the vid released the same year mistletoe and wine was out? Terrible 80's christmas memories. :) My crazy hippy parents also bought it for me as it was produced by mcartney.
I have taken it to mean a bored woman starts hallucinating & has some kind of bizarre sexual fantasy,
Its an LSD trip for non drug users.
Ahhh, thats what it was called, i had a video with rupert and the frog song on from when i was a kid and i always used to watch the seaside woman and then be amused for hours by this video!, it truely is a work of art 17 years later :)
Oh this is quality. I too watched this as a kid on the Rupert and the Frog Song video!!
Just showed my boyfriend and he was like, "Your parents let you watch this!?" and my friends at uni had similar comments when I showed them the video after a nights heavy drinking!!
Still it takes me back, so thank you. And thakn you for posting Seaside Woman too!
and once again, many, many spectacular acid nights.
Woah... So many memories of the Rupert tape. To hear this song again after well over 10 years gave me goosebumps. Especially cos the video was creepy, but not NEARLY as creepy as that weird owl in to Rupert one. When that came at the screen I was terrified.
Thanks for uploading this.
this songs scared the shit out of me as a child!!!
Wonderful animation by Ian Emes.
Thanks a lot.
I always liked this when I got the Rupert VHS for my 4th birthday (1986). On reflection, the Frog Song, Oriental Nightfish and Seaside Woman was some crazy juxtaposition, which suited my eclectic tastes even as a youngster.
My dad threw this VHS away after my brother and I had been showing it to all of our friends, lol.
From deepest space, the Oriental Nightfish falls silently into the metropolis.
The Nightfish enters her room in a blaze of light, skimming the ceiling, spreading across walls and floor, displaying powers of metamorphosis that surpass earthly experience.
Encapsulated in a crystal bubble, she enters a shimmering liquid egg, whereupon her naked body is multiplied into infinity, creating visions that transcend the very limits of human imagination.
The Oriental Nightfish is everything we know, and all that we cannot comprehend.
This is a funky song. Like it alot.
I was about 5 when I last saw this. I scared the living daylights out of me. I think it's the woman's voice that makes the animation seem even freakier!
This should have been put on the 'Band On The Run' L.P. cos it's really cool & very 1973 funky!.
same here, don't think i should have been watching it at that age
I love this ever since I was young,the colours,the music,the timing and the whole artwork of it, it bring me fond memories. =)
I also remember it from the VHS with the Frog Song and Seaside Woman. I wouldn't say it scarred me, but I never worked out what it was and its stuck in my memory all these years- it doesn't make sense even now!
i must say the whole mcartney family as a family unit are very talented people . you dont see that much these days do we aunt jessy? (aka magical mystery tour )salute to the mcartneys i say ,theyve given me good memories to a shit upbringing
This blew my tiny little mind when i was a kid. it still does.
@tristessa56079 I remember as a kid this was the last part of the Rupert video. Who the fuck thought this was a good idea to put this in a kids video? This was the scariest thing I ever saw. Even as an adult it's pretty intense. I only watched the first two parts as a kid. Unless you've taken acid you have to business watching this.
this freaked me out soo much as a kid i use to run out of the room when anyone watched it
This was clearly an inspiration for "Heavy Metal" (1981).
This scared the shit out of me when I was little...
OMG! I thought that was only me scares with this shit when I was a kid...Rupert the Bear prank! :D
I remember first seeing this on The Old Grey Whistle Test when it was first released and being amazed by it. Trouble was in those days you couldn't get videos !!
When Frog Song came out HAD to get it for my son especially as it had this. Mind, must agree most Linda music was rubbish.
Nice post.
yeah burn ito my mind too. i couldnt remeber what it was called because i was young. thanks for the video!
Holy crap, no wonder I was freaked out of my mind!
The style of this video reflects the the late 70's perfectly. So cool looking
I totally have to second that!!!
i've been trying to find the tape for years!!!
I remember my Mom asking, "Why is there a naked woman on our TV?"
Oddly arousing and disturbing at the same time. Especially when I was a kid and the video concluded with the naked woman seemingly exploding onscreen. LOOK AT WHAT YOU DID RUPERT BEAR
@MarieEtOlivia I agree with u there. I remember when i first saw this I was very very young Like 5 or 6 yrs old. and i just loved the sound and all the colors.
The concept is about extraterrestrial forces entering and conquering the human character - it chills and mesmerizes like nothing else!
The animation is so ghostly - love the sounds on the titles, the Nightfish itself, and the various landscapes that it takes the woman through...its pure genius and you don't see that often nowadays!
"Its was a Thursday night, I was workin late, when I first caught sight of the Oriental Nightfish... " - IMMORTAL.
that was trippy!
omg i remember this and boy oh boy did it ever scare the shit out of me :P
that would be awesome thankyou!
Lovely Linda ♪ Thanks for posting this treasure ♥!
Found a quote from the director, "I got pissed off whisky and put the music on as loud as it would go, and lay on my back in the living room and let it wash over me. The whisky did indeed help, and I came up with this weird idea where alien forces enter this building where someone who looks like Linda McCartney plays a Gothic Expressionistic Wurlitzer. This woman with blonde hair is penetrated, got naked and inhabited by the alien force, then she's replicated, before becoming a comet that explodes. The film was a bit weird, scary and a little bit sexual. Yet it was later put on Paul McCartney's Rupert The Bear video for children. The kids who watched it years ago are now in their 20s, and they've set up an internet site called The Oriental Nightfish Haunted My Childhood. I guess it freaked them out and opened their imagination"
out of the 3 clips on that VHS this one freaked me out lol. but looking at it now..woow memories
this was on a childrens video??? rediculousssssss but amazing memories!!!
This works really well with 'Rhythim Is Rhythim - Strings of Life' as the sound track, brings back fond memories of the late 80's for me.
I still have that video, Happy times.
this used to scare the living daylights out of me, yet I was strangely obsessed with it...
Claire Churchman me too
this is a great video
i remember this used to be on my rupert the bear video as a kid, it was weird then and now! XD
I used to be scared of this!!
Should I really have been watching this when I was 2-4 years old haha
If you see an Oriental Nightfish coming towards your window the next time you're in the office working late on a Thursday night, you better RUN!
This creeped me the hell out when I was a kid. And to think it was part of a Rupert video lol.
I am so glad there are others that feel the same way as me! How crazy, our parents probably had no idea on the Rupert VHS. Seaside woman was so lovely, this was terrifying. Yet it was very sexual for me. I used to dance to this song and think of the topless woman. Listening to it now I just love the guitar!!!!!
I watched this when i was about 4...I must say I never noticed the nudity! I still dont get what its about but it was nice seeing it again as watching the Rupert video was one of my earliest memories, so thanx :)
You know, I used to watch this as a kid on my Rupert VHS and wonder what the heck was going on. I was always compelled to watch hoping that maybe she wouldn't get thrown into the sun and be blown into bits, but it always happened lol. Now that Im 27 years old I realized that this chick got high on the "Oriental Nightfish" one Thursday night while she was working late. And chances are she OD'ed? Maybe?
this shitted me up as a child!!
I was inncoently watching frog song...then this crazy shit came on!!! WTF??!!
This creeped me out more than the frog song. Why was this even on the video, looking back it was kind inappropriate. LOVE IT!
It is pretty trippy.
I remember this from the Rupert the bear Video too! Also Seaside woman...:)
Like being born and Passing and everything in between...
Very Fantasia-esque vid. I don't find this scary or pervy at all. It's art, man! RIP Linda!
Well, I would appreciate this more if it was on dual channel.
Thank you!! It's sooooooooooooo good still. Still think it's a bit wierd though for a childrens video.
This was on the video that had Rupert and the Frog Song, then this and then Seaside Woman :O)
@wadey82 it was on the video, after 'rupert & the frog song' and 'seaside woman'. memories!
ARRRGH!!! When I started playing this video I had a kind of primitive reaction in my brain that made me want to run away from the computer.
I have this on an old rupert the bear video. The rupert cartoon had Paul McCartney's Frog Song, then another african-like cartoon with Linda McCartney's Seaside Woman. Then finally, Oriental Nightfish. I love them all, but i can't find the songs to download
I will admit I am not a fan of most of Linda's music, but this song is kind of nice and the video is trippy (in a cool way)...
Do you like acid? Linda Macartney LOVED it!!!!!!!!!!!
I recently interviewed David Wilson, a music video producer and animator, who directed the video for Tame Impala - Mind Mischief. He said that Mind Mischief was inspired by this video - check it out and you cans see the influence.
0_0 I remember having this on a Rupert the Bear video tape
I remember this used to scare the S*** out of me when I was a kid...
I saw it on the "Rupert and the frog song" tape
I would most certainly say that this was inspired by the use of hallucinogenic drugs.
I remember watching this over and over when I was a kid... no surprise that I like abstract shapes now.
This cartoon used to scare the bejeezus out of me because (I think) she dies at the end, but I always wanted on of her pianos!
Trippy.
I think this was on the rupert and the frog song tape because the frog song was done by Paul McCartney and Linda was his wife.
Cool and trippy vid.You gotta be high to well appreciate this. :3
Yes this was on my Rupert video
@DYLANandKATIETV Well put.
man this brings back memories as a kid watching my rupert the bear video. Only now i realise there was nudity haha. What were my parents letting me watch?? lol
Like all the other comments on here I to saw this on rupert bear frog song VHS as a young child n it used to freak me right out! Lol now I'm older I realise she just went on a fuct up trip! Lmao
This used to scare me so bad when i was little it was on my rupert the bear video i'm still scared bye it it's very confusing :P !
used to watch that rupert video at my grandparents... it always slightly freaked me. what was the other song on there, the one about the little girls mum? that was awesome too...
I thought i was the only kid with that video!
Like everyone here, I remember this from our Rupert Bear Video. Look up 'Mother Earth The ARK Trust' Pretty sure that was at the end of this video, too. It's pretty weird, too!
What were they thinking putting a music video like this on a video aimed at young children? I used to find it so weird as a kid!
I remember this giving me nightmares as a 6 year old 0_0
@Pyroman1990 Way earlier than '93, I had the Rupert video in the early 80's :)
Cool Mon, cool!
RIP Linda
Same with me!
wow this used to scare me when i was younger it still is creepy...