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Great fan video for Eno's Kings Lead Hat

David Pescovitz at 10:10 am Thu, Jun 7, 2012

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Vann Hall spotted this fantastic fan-created video for Brian Eno's "Kings Lead Hat," a 1977 jam whose title is an anagram for Talking Heads. The video maker, Buck Spongehole/Snirgwert, has posted a slew of terrific shorts including another Eno video, "No One Receiving." Buck Spongehole/Snirgwert's Channel

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=673023407 Morgan Schramm

    I think my brain just got tied in knots….

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_H3RSVUUK5KZGET4PEZH6WK6EZY IslandT

    I just danced my way out of the worst of toothache pain.

  • jsandin

    “Shake It Up” by The Cars is a ripoff of this song.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OAUXAA362EXWLYVMPJOKLFB5JQ Incipient Madness

      Yeah, I heard the similarities too, but I wouldn’t call it a ripoff. “Shake it Up” is no “My Sweet Lord”. 

      What I really wish I could do is send this video back in time to the 1977 Brian Eno and totally blow his mind.

  • huskerdont

    Whenever I go to youtube for something like this, I always come back hours later having gone off on tangent after tangent, wondering how I got where I did. This was no exception.

  • bluest_one

    Boing Boing is on an early Eno riff. I approve!

  • Their feldspars

     Quick, somebody mash up Baby’s On Fire with the new Die Antwoord video.

    • irksome

      Heresy.

  • Ultan

    Aha! Two interleaved hidden massages:
    “Eno’s Kings Lead Hat” =
    “enOs kiNG’S lead HAT” + ENos KIngs LEAD hat
    =“Ong’s Hat” +
    “Enki Lead” (subliminal Sumerian evangelism ?)

  • Cat Chew

    Happy happy, joy joy, love love.
    And thanks so much!

  • niktemadur

    @boingboing-dc452e51dc22fbc2670d8ba24be75da4:disqus  “Kings Lead Hat” is an anagram of “Talking Heads”, but you already knew that, didn’tcha?

    “Splish splash I was raking in the cash…”

  • irksome

    This has given me the happy.