Schoolkids vs. disco Illuminati

In this performance from 1982, schoolchildren face off against the disco Illuminati of Pink Project, their dueling renditions of Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall (part 2) and Alan Parsons Project's Mammagamma merging into a groovy mashup a fair few years ahead of its time. An extended mix is also available. If you like it, the next stop is Pink Project's mix of Jean Michele Jarre's Oxygene and APP's Hyper Gamma Spaces. The next stop after that is paying too much for a tatty vinyl at eBay Italy.

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madopal

And the intro is also Alan Parsons Project’s Sirius, from the same album as Mammagamma.
millie fink

Totally stupid faux-KKK robes, but the hat ribbons are adorable.
- Gulliver
  
  Don’t Klansmen wear white bedsheets and wouldn’t black ones kind of invert the point?
- Grumblefish
  
  Or possibly a band from Italy may also be aware of the costume of the Nazarenos in Holy Week in Spain, who predate the USA by several centuries, let alone a small subset of southern US racists (who were also, ironically, anti-Catholics)
  - blueelm
    
    Yep. Looks more like they are referencing the capriote to me.
- taras
  
  They’re not KKK robes, by the way, they’re Spanish penitential robes.
http://stephan-zielinski.com/ Stephan Zielinski

But when I wear my black hood outfit around schoolchildren…
Kevin Pierce

I believe the hood and robe combo is inspired by the cover art for Dark Side of the Moon: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YcO0l7HB3iw/TZy9-30A9XI/AAAAAAAAAD8/2uzSXI-gqWA/s1600/pink%2Bfloyd%2BDark%2BSide%2Bof%2Bthe%2BMoon_dark_side.jpg

Personally I’d have preferred flaming suits from Wish You Were Here
- catgrin
  
  Looks like : )
  
  If you check out the four sparkly points (two eyes and then base and top of the pointy bits) the spacing does a pretty good job of making a triangle with a mark in the center.
Antinous / Moderator

Are those…dildos on their heads?
- catgrin
  
  Did you also recently read “The Maltese Unicorn”?
Gulliver

Wow, those old-skool Doctor Who villains were dope, yo!

Nothing is scarier than English schoolchildren chanting in unison.
Antinous / Moderator

My first thought when seeing the children, then seeing the dildo-heads was, “Lucy, are you sure this is Narnia?”
Bucket

Weird, my rear channel speakers are playing some kind of strange garbled audio sig

ALL AGENTS MUST TARGET SOVIET PREMIER LEONID BRESHNEV

nal like it was picking up partial DTS encoding out of the old broadc

PROCEED TO SECTOR 7DELTA AND AWAIT GO ORDER

ast audio track.
gijoel

Tism was a cover band?
- Birko
  
  It was pantomime season and they were on holiday.
ocker3

It’s almost criminal that this was played during the credits rather than as a feature piece, with some development it could have been quite the trip
- catgrin
  
  During the 80s I spent a lot of time with no DVR waiting for shows to come to a close so that the band I was waiting to see would finally appear. Now I get a bit nostalgic whenever the credits roll during someone’s in-studio performance.
zio_donnie

I have this on a 7″ vinyl. I never thought that it would be rediscovered ever again. A minor club hit back at the time and a hidden gem.
kaboooooing

Roy: [singing] We don’t need no education.
Moss: Yes you do. You’ve just used a double negative.
http://www.facebook.com/dagonet.dewr Duke Egbert

Thanks for posting this; Alan Parsons, in all his various incarnations, is still my favorite artist of all time. Underrated genius.
jgk1971

And here I thought the band was The Mentors in their fancy dress…

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/The_Mentors/15788
- Guest
  
  Oh, El Duce, what a card…
Pimple Abortion

Finally the Klan is taking acid!
LinkMan

Where is that crash cymbal sound coming from? The drummer’s hands don’t seem to go anywhere near the crash.
- overground
  
  There are a number of sounds that don’t seem to have any relation to the video. Look at the keyboardist’s silent motions at about 2:30
- http://twitter.com/steverb Steve Barbour
  
  @boingboing-33e75ff09dd601bbe69f351039152189:disqus I came here wondering the same thing. He also never appears to lift the high hat.
Reverend Faux

Not the Residents!
Scott Wood

Or not paying too much . . .

http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?master_id=4593&ev=mb
taras

Bears strong resemblances to another subsequent performance by an odd dance group: the KLF featuring (then Grandmother-friendly) Gary Glitter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJaG1d7B9xo
Reverend Faux

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=3&sqi=2&ved=0CDEQtwIwAg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dv2xrldEdxGo&ei=6yY4Tu2WMcLu0gHV6InwAw&usg=AFQjCNE_V3sTIMPGuWLvqCVoronj-KANvg&sig2=-nBgd53kPeNm9wg_lfEnkA
daemonsquire

An intermediate step, before buying the tatty vinyl (maybe even before the Jarre/APP mash), is hearing the track that’s on that vinyl: Jeopardy mashed with Billy Jean.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Huntington/1389561896 Brian Huntington

Curious as to why you would call this a mash-up rather than a cover song. They also aren’t “dueling renditions,” it’s just the kids doing the singing like they’re supposed to. Or is that not the instrumentation from Another Brick in the Wall?
http://boingboing.net/ Rob Beschizza

It’s a mashup because it blends more than one song.

They are dueling renditions because the children, singing the lyrics of one song, are posed antagonistically to face the band, which is performing an instrumental blend anchored in another.

It is not merely the instrumentation from ABITW. Oh my god read the post.
blueelm

Patrick Bateman, that you?