| Tracks | Intro Perfect Sense (Part 1) Perfect Sense (Part 2) Lost Boys Calling Radio Waves 4:41 AM (Sexual Revolution) What God Wants (Part 1) Folded Flags Sunset Strip Three Wishes Four Minutes The Tide Is Turning 5:01 AM (The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking) 5:06am (Every Stranger's Eyes) Watching TV Credits |
| Cheese Factor | 8 |
| Squirm Factor | 5 |
| The Peak | "What God Wants (Part 1)", "Folded Flags," "Four Minutes/The Tide is Turning," "'5:06am (Every Stranger's Eyes)" |
| The Abyss | "Lost Boys Calling," "Radio Waves," "5:01am (The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking)," "Watching TV" |
| Fashion Crimes | Jim Ladd, Those nifty-keen Civil Defense uniforms |
| Overall Picture / Sound Quality | A / A |
After a short intro, we see a static shot of a monkey, chilling out and watching the tube to the opening strains of "Perfect Sense (Part 1)." Unfortunately for him, all that seems to be on is commercials and 'Battlestar Galactica' reruns. Ah well. We zoom in to the TV and get footage from '2001 : A Space Odyssey' interspersed with other miscellaneous footage. Our pal the monkey goes apeshit (no pun intended), whanging away at everything in sight with his bone, every smack punctuated by stock footage of, say, World War I soldiers charging across No Man's Land, or World War II paratroopers. The first part ends with a bit of stock footage of a submarine. Part 2 is mostly the footage from the 'In the Flesh' Music Choice Special/DVD made to look as though it's being broadcast on the Jumbotron in some football stadium. An oilrig gets blown to smithereens, the crowd takes the field cheering. Yay. Nothing terribly bad about this clip, it's just sorta "enh."
"Lost Boys Calling" is accompanied solely by footage from 'The Legend of 1900' ... as such, it looks like a long trailer for an uninteresting film. Blah. Speaking of "blah," "Lost Boys ..." is followed by "Radio Waves" (lifted straight off the 'Radio KAOS' Video EP) ... if Roger dressed as a cop while Jim Ladd plays air guitar is your idea of a good time, please seek professional help after watching this.
"Sexual Revolution" is spruced up just a little with a replica of the '84 stage setup, scenes from the other videos, film footage from 'Shane' (will someone please explain the connection to me someday? Other than the short lyrical bit?), and pictures from the '84 tour program, zooming and rotating about in true VH1 fashion. A yawn, but not the cringingly idiotic level the original achieves. This is piggybacked by the "white gorilla" version of the "What God Wants (Part 1)" video, covered elsewhere.
Next we see the inside of the sort of house used in 1950s nuclear test blasts, filled with creepy mannequins, and then part of a Civil Defense film about nuclear attack before the first notes of "Folded Flags" begins. The great bulk of the video is clips of Raymond Briggs animation from 'When the Wind Blows' and footage from 'Trinity and Beyond : The Atomic Bomb Movie'.. This all sounds fairly pedestrian, but there is an odd beauty to it that I really like. Then again, I consider "Folded Flags" to be the most sadly overlooked Waters solo song. And I also really really really like nuclear test footage. Make of that what you will.
"Sunset Strip," "Three Wishes," "Four Minutes," "The Tide is Turning," "5:01 AM (The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking)," and "5:06 AM (Every Stranger's Eyes)" are identical to the versions found on the 'Radio KAOS' Video EP and Waters Anthology, and are reviewed elsewhere (though it's worth noting the quality is substantially better than on 'Anthology').
"Watching TV" starts predictably enough with a TV flipping through more ads and the occasional striking image (the flaming Paris Concorde, a lone Iraqi emptying an AK-47 into a portrait of Saddam Hussein), and comes to rest on footage of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations. This all lasts until about half of the way in, then the military shows up, busts some heads, and sprays the pavement with a hose afterwards. The song ends with the famous image of one lone Chinese man staring down a tank, and has an epilogue of sorts where a Chinese official states "No one died in Tiananmen Square," which Tom Brokaw meets with "I find that statement astounding." Much like "Folded Flags," this sounds nondescript, but it does make for a fairly powerful video ... of course, this power is drawn from the images alone, and has nothing to do with the song. Really, this video is better than the song deserves.
All in all, this isn't a bad compilation to pick up if you're into solo Waters. A couple of the amateur vids are worth watching, and you likely won't find the other stuff in better quality these days.
![]() 'Perfect Sense (Part 2)' |
![]() '4:41am (Sexual Revolution)' |
![]() 'Folded Flags' |
![]() 'Watching TV' |
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