I was thinking 1950s, personally. And that's part of why I was so confused on the first listen - I could not tell what decade this was filmed in, along with... Everything else.
CZcams randomly put this in my recommendations about 6 weeks ago. Before that, I'd never heard of Cardiacs. I am now a lifelong fan and still completely enraptured.
I kept getting this video recommended to me in the early pandemic days. When I finally caved and the song fully kicked in, I was so stunned I couldn't process anything I was seeing or hearing. It was like it was begging me to be repulsed, yet something about it kept bringing me back... I've since grown to really like Cardiacs. Wish I had caught the wave a little sooner. RIP Tim Smith and Tim Quy!!!
I think Tim Smith is a genious. And I think that the band of Cardiacs is one of the most important in the story of Rock. I never heard nothing in music that make me to say "Oh, this is similar to Cardiacs!" And we know that Cardiacs is, at first, Tim Smith. I'm an italian (nobody is perfect...) Jazz pianist and composer (and also an ex-progressive keyboard player) and, surely, my music has been influenced by the compositions of T.S. Thank you, Tim, your music is simply great.
This feels like something that would come on at 2.30 AM while you're half asleep in front of the TV. I also like how the music seems to cut off the announcer mid-sentence. The music and performance perfectly capture the hilarious absurdity and suffering of life in general.
Try some of their other songs, someone described "Jibber and Twitch" (the 2003 rehearsal version) as "Gentle Giant snorted all the coke, and picked a fight with Madness."
The first thought i had when i came across this video was that it sounded like Madness having a stroke. And the video looks like something Tim & Eric would come up with.
To see the Cardiacs live was just something else. I had this privilege many times. The best live band I ever saw, and I've seen many. They still have a place in my heart thirty years later. Just incredible. The best.
0:00 - 1:28: An existential crisis that takes up almost half the song. 1:29 - 1:48: A calming acceptance and solitary resolution. 1:48 - 1:56: (Abusively?) Hammer it in. 1:56 - 2:10: Inquisitive, wondering what rejection from society en large is like. 2:10 - 2:29: "I feel great, an I want the world to change! But the world hates me!" 2:29 - 2:38: Time to die... No choice. But at this point, does it matter? 2:38 - 3:01: They in the massive sea, they do not see. (Note - later live versions from 3 to 4 years later had a churchy-sounding organ playing from here to the end. I think that's more fitting.) 3:01 - End: Sigh of exhaustion, but it's all over. Still breathing.
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/timsmith tim smith (singer in this band) has a rare illness and needs our help (posting this under top comment so more people will see it)
This song has the odd property of starting out fast and herky-jerky, shifting to mid-tempo in the middle, and ending up quite slow - and somehow making that sound like it is completely normal to do and inevitable, and the most natural possible thing.
Going by the lyrics, it starts out with a lot of stress and maybe panic. It calms down as the lyric progresses, ending calmly. However, later live versions (from at least 1989 - forward) had the last part "When they who to the sea go down" sounding more like a Church Organ.
If this song were a feeling, it'd be running late for a job interview while stuck in traffic with explosive diahorrea EDIT : Given how this comment has taken off, I'd just like to clarify that I really like this song and Cardiacs in general. I'd rather a song give me a strong feeling than a strong headache
I feel like every member of this performance represents one instance of my fragmented self, and this clip shows how I manage to make this mess function in day to day life.
Amazing band. I have almost all of their records but I cannot stop revisiting this video. It is right on the verge of chaos but never goes over the line. Bloody brilliant
Tim Smith (gtr, vox)- Jester of all he surveys; Jim Smith (bass)- the most miserable Englishman since Richard Bucket; Sarah Smith (sax)- needs to feed her 83 cats when she gets home; William Drake (keys)- "I THINK I'M A RABBIT!" Dominic Luckman (drums)- Lurch; Tim Quy (perc)- Glad Tim Smith can't reach him.
I'd never heard of them 9 months ago when you posted this. Now I've watched this more than any other video probably. It is actually, literally, perfect.
My daughter and I only found out about this band two days ago and we can't stop binge watching everything on CZcams about them. We came to the conclusion that they have quite a unique sound/genre and we have named it "Nonsensical fairground music = NFM"
Sorry to say it's not a circus...just seemingly...I have been in the cult 40 years...You have to work your way up to the lyric poetry...crack the code...Just as you would with Shakespeare...it don't come easy...Nevermind the theater...the speaktacle...Listen and Learn!$!
The crazy guy with glasses (Tim Smith RIP) was awarded an honorary PhD in music composition in 2018 by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. The bloke was no dummy dumb dumb, yet rather he was a total original autodidact musical genius. I have a bachelors and masters in music, and trust me, what he accomplished in this music is totally off the charts incredible. Search the ceremony, its here on YT. Enjoy the ride - Cardiacs are life!
Ok but peter never said tim and cardiacs aren’t smart or aren’t aware of what they’re doing, just that it sounds like nonsensical fairground music, which it absolutely does . Y’all sound real pretentious right now
@@SaintBeatrix I don't care if you or anybody thinks that we Cardiacs fans sound pretentious or otherwise...this music is extremely special to us and we are allowed to express our gratitude and love for Tim's music. No apologies from me. Also, nonsensical is a term used for music that isn't well composed or random BS, which is is the furthest from the truth in Cardiacs. Tim was acutely aware of every single measure of his music, every modulation, every rhythm and time signature, every harmony, etc etc.
It's amazing how offended some people were and still are by this music. I need a psychoanalyst explain to me why that happens. This is pure brilliance.
Video made by the BBC, autumn 1986, in a southwest London railway station for the program "The Tube." Stage set and props were for their live shows at the time. (So this is what a live CARDIACS show looking like in 1986, if you add strobe & black lights + day-glo streamers.} Recording originally from 1986 CARDIACS "BIG SHIP" 12-inch vinyl EP. (Alph004). Live version appears on CARDIACS 1986 Reading Festival album "Rude Bootleg." (Alpha005). Brilliant!!!
@@krashd i was being glib and thinking more of Paula Yates, but you have a point. Though I do remember hours and hours of the C4 test card and thinking gerronwidit!
I listened to this for the first time a few days ago. Very sad to hear about Tim’s passing, here’s to his obscure accomplishments, and how much he gave us through music. Cheers, Tim.
Saw Cardiacs many times during 80s, including Champagnes in Horsham, Time Box in Camden (?) on night of great storms in '87, Camden Palais, and Reading Festival. Have loads of cassettes (Seaside etc), video, T Shirts, vinyl and even the Sunday Sport article! Brilliant band and still love listening despite now being in my 50s...
@@lancelove9700 Undoubtedly, this song's "crazy," and that's the point. It's about being sane in a world of insanity, which means that you're going to be "tarred and feathered." Your integrity holds you together ("What's it like, flying high? I've a cone for a beak, but the tar makes me cry; that holds me together, tarred and feathered.") but the rest of the world thinks you should have been plunged in lava a long time ago. Not as though you deserve it, but the persecution thinks you're fucking crazy. They, however, seek their own demise; they may not know it, but with the way they go? They do. "There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end is death."
Why wasn't this Number 1 for 16 weeks? It's the absolutely the greatest video ever made and the song is obviously the classic of all classics. This video got me into Cardiacs and I want it played at my funeral.
1: I've heard they were blacklisted in the music industry. 2: 1986 is pre-common internet era, and it was alien to 2021. If you played this at the little old ladies' quilting session then, you'd be wondering why you thought it was a good idea.
@CaJoel Hi! I'm Tim Quy's nephew. He absolutely loved playing with The Cardiacs and when we as a family mentioned him and his funeral the grey sky cleared and the sun came about on a bright Yorkshire day. Glad to see some remember their rather eccentric music!
@@natelandherr5202 Tim Quy is the percussionist who's standing in this video. A decent shot of him is at 2:19. Also, the vocalist (and songwriter's) name is also Tim - that is, Tim Smith. He died in mid 2020, but not from Covid - he had Dystonia, a rare disease that left him in a wheelchair. He had Dystonia for the 12 years leading up to his death at 59.
Oh man. I didn't know he had passed, I was friends with him on Facebook due to the Pond and was aware that he had been in poor health for some time. Only spoke with him briefly a couple of times (I didn't want to impose) but I did tell him that he was in my favourite band of all time and I am someone who usually doesn't play favourites. My deepest condolences, hopefully him and the other Tim are together and having a great time with one another.
Bill's grown a beard and let his hair go grey, which helped a bit. Now, he looks like he's called you in to his office to discuss your last paper in his underwater clockwork conjuration class.
5 years after this comment I now own all Cardiacs albums, all William D Drake albums, all the Tim Smith solo and collaboration albums, and many other albums by artists in the Cardiacs universe including The Shrubbies, North Sea Radio Orchestra, and many more. This song sent me down the most amazing musical rabbit hole and It’s still doing it. It helps that Cardiacs fans (pondies) are some of the nicest people on the internet. Tim Smith is a musical genius of the highest order.
@@jumpinonthebandwagon Cardiacs are something like a cross between an addictive drug and a cult, but, and this is the twist, *not evil*. And Cardiacs fandom is the best fandom ever.
Beautifully scary. Reassuringly frightening. Odd. Weird. Delicious. DISTURBED and DISTURBING. The music reminds of JS Bach fugues in the minor scale: you know what's going to happen, but it is always surprising. I only became aware of this band in 1987, but have enjoyed being thrilled and mystified by them ever since. Best of all, Cardiacs fans always seem to be so heartwarmingly loyal and enthusiastic without being cloying. I still hope that one day something really good and amazing will happen to Tim.
In terms of achievements of mankind that have occurred, I'm impressed every day by the works of physicists, biologists, people practicing medicine, engineering, and so on. But there is a special warm glow in my heart because of the fact that this musical performance occurred on our planet. Let that sink in for a second, you should be proud to share the same species as these individuals.
Found out about them two years ago or so...was stunned that I'd never heard of them as they are/were exactly the sort of thing I normally listen to. Yes, the world has lost a genius who created his own musical world in a way that few ever have. Prior to this current age of musical sameness there were a LOT of artists with their own unique style...Smith made his own unique GENRE. Can't think of too many who did THAT.
They truly were incredible. The first time I saw them was at the Wardour Street Marquee. Fucking hell what a gig. Then when they filled The Town and Country Club that was something else esp with the acoustics
I absolutely love this. Impeccable musicianship, artistic to the bone, soulful performance, funny, original. Maaaan, how did I not hear about these guys before?!
I saw this broadcast on Granada Reports as part of their arts feature and I was stunned by what I saw and haunted by it and then I discovered all the albums they did...wonderful band. If I could meet them I would give them another plaster statue of Peter Glaze, because he was a wonderful showman and they knew it.......
Very sad. Saw them a few times in the late 1980,s and last playing in a muddy tent at Reading Festival 1992. Top notch live band as well as being very amusing with it. RIP Tim. You really were a one off.
The sigh at the end says it all. Tim Smith, the 'Tony Benn' of music, brilliant, deluded, genius, unappreciated but unlike Wedgie, still with us............Get well soon Tim
as an extreme Mr. Bungle fan for almost two years now, HOW DID IT TAKE ME SO LONG TO FIND THIS MAGNIFICENT BAND?! AND WHY aren't they on spotify noooooohh...
SotetAmoeba I know. I was ignorant when I wrote this comment and just wanted to listen to everything! I’ve boight all the major Cardiacs albums on CD, have the seaside LP box set and the rest bought from Bandcamp ;)
Justin Hawkins brought me back here. Almost forgot what an absolute gem this was. Almost; but not quite. I had no idea that Tim had passed though. Thanks for the beautiful madness, you absolute genius.
A another musical genius lost, I'm glad that I was introduced to the world of Tim Smith, music will only get dumber, without minds like Tim's, a sad loss.
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When Cardiacs act like this, they call it brillant. When I do it, they call the fuzz. Unfair.
Well said.
This song lays eggs in your brain, Im sure of it.
Ear worm. That's the first time I've heard it said _that_ way, though.
A brilliant ear worm!
i caught toxoplasmosis from that
2:43 in and your comment made me straight up feel tingling on my scalp lol!
My friend described it as "some MK Ultra shit" and yeah that too.
One of the principal rules of psychiatric ward: never leave the key to the music room unattended.
Or do leave it unattended. It seems like they're enjoying themselves. (Well, both Tim and Tim seem to be, at least. Maybe Sarah is, too?)
Why would that be a principal rule of a psychiatric ward?
At the state asylum, on the second floor...
But they lock into each other’s rhythms so well…
I agree idiotic stupidity at its best
this entire video has the color palette of a 1970s microwave cookbook
I was thinking 1950s, personally. And that's part of why I was so confused on the first listen - I could not tell what decade this was filmed in, along with... Everything else.
The phrase "microwave cookbook" makes me feel a little sick, not gonna lie.
... and I'm here for it.
This feels like a Terry Gilliam movie that I somehow missed.
Because it is! Great analogy! ♥️
@@Rshields388 Thank you.
Great reference
CZcams randomly put this in my recommendations about 6 weeks ago. Before that, I'd never heard of Cardiacs. I am now a lifelong fan and still completely enraptured.
Same thing happened to me! Now I'm hooked as well.
You've been tarred and feathered musically🤭 Now you want to stay there. Congrats!
I kept getting this video recommended to me in the early pandemic days. When I finally caved and the song fully kicked in, I was so stunned I couldn't process anything I was seeing or hearing. It was like it was begging me to be repulsed, yet something about it kept bringing me back...
I've since grown to really like Cardiacs. Wish I had caught the wave a little sooner.
RIP Tim Smith and Tim Quy!!!
this is incredible, how have i missed this in my years of enjoying fun, strange and chaotic music?
R.I.P Tim, his genius will remembered by fans across the nation 🕊
I think Tim Smith is a genious. And I think that the band of Cardiacs is one of the most important in the story of Rock. I never heard nothing in music that make me to say "Oh, this is similar to Cardiacs!" And we know that Cardiacs is, at first, Tim Smith. I'm an italian (nobody is perfect...) Jazz pianist and composer (and also an ex-progressive keyboard player) and, surely, my music has been influenced by the compositions of T.S.
Thank you, Tim, your music is simply great.
This is High Art. There is not a second of it which is wasted. Everybody in it is magnificent.
Check out the early stuff by Split Enz
@@danieljames8588 The vocalist and songwriter Tim Smith _was_ a Split Enz fan. He also liked Gentle Giant and XTC.
Apparently I am not high enough then.
This feels like something that would come on at 2.30 AM while you're half asleep in front of the TV. I also like how the music seems to cut off the announcer mid-sentence. The music and performance perfectly capture the hilarious absurdity and suffering of life in general.
It's like if Madness had a panic attack while on cocaine
And taking a trip to Wonderland while snacking on some of Alice's mushrooms 🤡
Try some of their other songs, someone described "Jibber and Twitch" (the 2003 rehearsal version) as "Gentle Giant snorted all the coke, and picked a fight with Madness."
The first thought i had when i came across this video was that it sounded like Madness having a stroke. And the video looks like something Tim & Eric would come up with.
This is hysterical.
You right!😂
To see the Cardiacs live was just something else. I had this privilege many times. The best live band I ever saw, and I've seen many. They still have a place in my heart thirty years later. Just incredible. The best.
0:00 - 1:28: An existential crisis that takes up almost half the song.
1:29 - 1:48: A calming acceptance and solitary resolution.
1:48 - 1:56: (Abusively?) Hammer it in.
1:56 - 2:10: Inquisitive, wondering what rejection from society en large is like.
2:10 - 2:29: "I feel great, an I want the world to change! But the world hates me!"
2:29 - 2:38: Time to die... No choice. But at this point, does it matter?
2:38 - 3:01: They in the massive sea, they do not see. (Note - later live versions from 3 to 4 years later had a churchy-sounding organ playing from here to the end. I think that's more fitting.)
3:01 - End: Sigh of exhaustion, but it's all over. Still breathing.
Thank you.
This song makes me feel the same way as when you're walking at night and some oddball starts following you asking for a light and won't go away
+Dan Bull didn't expect to see you here xD
The people and things you find on youtube lel
got light ?
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/timsmith
tim smith (singer in this band) has a rare illness and needs our help
(posting this under top comment so more people will see it)
Hahaha. My new favourite description.
This song has the odd property of starting out fast and herky-jerky, shifting to mid-tempo in the middle, and ending up quite slow - and somehow making that sound like it is completely normal to do and inevitable, and the most natural possible thing.
exactly
funny thing about cardiacs they pull off the most bizarre feats in their music and you barely notice it because it just feels natural
Going by the lyrics, it starts out with a lot of stress and maybe panic. It calms down as the lyric progresses, ending calmly. However, later live versions (from at least 1989 - forward) had the last part "When they who to the sea go down" sounding more like a Church Organ.
@@101Volts The final lyrics are lifted from the hymn 'O God, who metest in thy hand' so maybe the church organ is fitting.
It's musical documentation of a shift from mania to depression
Finally!!! Real music with a sensible group of musicians who understands the needs of their audience.
Hell yes.
If this song were a feeling, it'd be running late for a job interview while stuck in traffic with explosive diahorrea
EDIT : Given how this comment has taken off, I'd just like to clarify that I really like this song and Cardiacs in general. I'd rather a song give me a strong feeling than a strong headache
noooooo, thats a bad feel, this creates freedomm, the woerld finellee makesssensssss
You absolutely nailed it. The ending is when you finally get to the bathroom in the building and woefully realize that it is too late to get clean.
*_TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE_*
Are you the one with diarrhea, or does the traffic have the diarrhea?
@@TheGreatMunky Once you’ve reached that point, it makes no difference who or what. The only thing that can save you is a Cardiacs song.
I feel like every member of this performance represents one instance of my fragmented self, and this clip shows how I manage to make this mess function in day to day life.
Amazing band. I have almost all of their records but I cannot stop revisiting this video. It is right on the verge of chaos but never goes over the line. Bloody brilliant
RIP Tim. A musical lunatic if ever there was one...
Frank zappa
@@Chickenassable he’s very funny 😂
Mike Patton
sid barrett
Tim Smith (gtr, vox)- Jester of all he surveys;
Jim Smith (bass)- the most miserable Englishman since Richard Bucket;
Sarah Smith (sax)- needs to feed her 83 cats when she gets home;
William Drake (keys)- "I THINK I'M A RABBIT!"
Dominic Luckman (drums)- Lurch;
Tim Quy (perc)- Glad Tim Smith can't reach him.
You deserve much more likes for this summary. I wish I could grant you a daisy or something.
My sides
I thought the bassist was comedian Dave Thomas! 😂🤣
"most miserable Englishman since Richard Bucket" made me LOL
Idk about most miserable englishmen... Karl Pilkington is pretty damn miserable haha.
RIP Tim. You were a genius.
This is a masterpiece
This is my comfort song
Right now I think this could be mankind's most perfect creation
Pretty certain this is the best music video of all time.
tbh yeah
It is absolutely genius.
It is
I'd never heard of them 9 months ago when you posted this. Now I've watched this more than any other video probably. It is actually, literally, perfect.
My daughter and I only found out about this band two days ago and we can't stop binge watching everything on CZcams about them. We came to the conclusion that they have quite a unique sound/genre and we have named it "Nonsensical fairground music = NFM"
Sorry to say it's not a circus...just seemingly...I have been in the cult 40 years...You have to work your way up to the lyric poetry...crack the code...Just as you would with Shakespeare...it don't come easy...Nevermind the theater...the speaktacle...Listen and Learn!$!
Dzà
The crazy guy with glasses (Tim Smith RIP) was awarded an honorary PhD in music composition in 2018 by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. The bloke was no dummy dumb dumb, yet rather he was a total original autodidact musical genius. I have a bachelors and masters in music, and trust me, what he accomplished in this music is totally off the charts incredible. Search the ceremony, its here on YT. Enjoy the ride - Cardiacs are life!
Ok but peter never said tim and cardiacs aren’t smart or aren’t aware of what they’re doing, just that it sounds like nonsensical fairground music, which it absolutely does . Y’all sound real pretentious right now
@@SaintBeatrix I don't care if you or anybody thinks that we Cardiacs fans sound pretentious or otherwise...this music is extremely special to us and we are allowed to express our gratitude and love for Tim's music. No apologies from me. Also, nonsensical is a term used for music that isn't well composed or random BS, which is is the furthest from the truth in Cardiacs. Tim was acutely aware of every single measure of his music, every modulation, every rhythm and time signature, every harmony, etc etc.
It's amazing how offended some people were and still are by this music. I need a psychoanalyst explain to me why that happens. This is pure brilliance.
the vibes are immaculate
Wish Tim & Co had been around for longer. Love this band, glad I got to see them live. A sad loss.
Video made by the BBC, autumn 1986, in a southwest London railway station for the program "The Tube." Stage set and props were for their live shows at the time. (So this is what a live CARDIACS show looking like in 1986, if you add strobe & black lights + day-glo streamers.} Recording originally from 1986 CARDIACS "BIG SHIP" 12-inch vinyl EP. (Alph004). Live version appears on CARDIACS 1986 Reading Festival album "Rude Bootleg." (Alpha005). Brilliant!!!
The Tube was Channel 4 mate.
He's not wrong, one of the only reasons to watch 4 at that time
I remember seeing this back then and was like,,, whaaaaa
@@mitchdavies9171 You like this sort of stuff but you hate the Young Ones, Ben Elton, Smith and Jones, etc?
@@krashd i was being glib and thinking more of Paula Yates, but you have a point. Though I do remember hours and hours of the C4 test card and thinking gerronwidit!
Prog is like ammonia and Punk is like bleach... and these guys combined them.
God I saw this band so many times I lost count. Vivid memories. RIP Tim. A genius.
I listened to this for the first time a few days ago. Very sad to hear about Tim’s passing, here’s to his obscure accomplishments, and how much he gave us through music. Cheers, Tim.
i laugh everytime i see Tim boot the drummer hahahahahahahaaa!! it never gets old.
dannyofthededd ... which explains his blinking eyes prior to it: the poor guy knows the hit’s around the corner! 😂
What an immense band. 30 years on, they still tower over everyone, still light years ahead....
Danny Elfman and Oingo Boingo were of the same ilk, no? Boy, I love this song!
Saw Cardiacs many times during 80s, including Champagnes in Horsham, Time Box in Camden (?) on night of great storms in '87, Camden Palais, and Reading Festival. Have loads of cassettes (Seaside etc), video, T Shirts, vinyl and even the Sunday Sport article! Brilliant band and still love listening despite now being in my 50s...
I have been blessed to have entered into the Cardiac zone.
Poor old gentle Bill, with his sad, kindly face. The Consultant hates him so much. Kindly Bill just wants to say his poems.
Who else has watched this 100 times in the last week?
guilty as charged
RIP TIM. A legend has left us
When they who to the sea go down
And in the waters ply their toil
Are lifted on the surges crown
And plunged where seething eddies boil
So sad to hear of TIm's passing today. Incredible live band, not for everyone which only made them even more special.
He died😥?
Vrdd
In other words they suck but bad music is like good racism...who can get away with cheering out loud that it is what it is...no one.
@@lancelove9700 Undoubtedly, this song's "crazy," and that's the point. It's about being sane in a world of insanity, which means that you're going to be "tarred and feathered." Your integrity holds you together ("What's it like, flying high? I've a cone for a beak, but the tar makes me cry; that holds me together, tarred and feathered.") but the rest of the world thinks you should have been plunged in lava a long time ago. Not as though you deserve it, but the persecution thinks you're fucking crazy. They, however, seek their own demise; they may not know it, but with the way they go? They do. "There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end is death."
Lance Love who sucks? This music?!
one of the finer accomplishments of the human race
I don’t think I’ve ever loved a band more than I love Cardiacs
Why wasn't this Number 1 for 16 weeks? It's the absolutely the greatest video ever made and the song is obviously the classic of all classics. This video got me into Cardiacs and I want it played at my funeral.
1: I've heard they were blacklisted in the music industry.
2: 1986 is pre-common internet era, and it was alien to 2021. If you played this at the little old ladies' quilting session then, you'd be wondering why you thought it was a good idea.
We can all die now in peace since we've seen this. There's nothing more to attain and we should slough off this mortal coil.
I love this band, they're just beyond comprehension.
Maybe I’ve heard their name, but I’m pretty sure I haven’t heard their music until seeing Steven Wilson’s eulogy today. Fucking brilliant. RIP Tim.
Fuck Steven Wilson.
Goodbye, Leader of the Starry Skies.
Rest in Peace Tim. You were an original
R.I.P. Tim Smith. I fell in love with your music only a day after you passed.
rest in peace Tim Quy (the man on percussion) you will be missed :(
@CaJoel Hi! I'm Tim Quy's nephew. He absolutely loved playing with The Cardiacs and when we as a family mentioned him and his funeral the grey sky cleared and the sun came about on a bright Yorkshire day. Glad to see some remember their rather eccentric music!
Which one, there's 2 dudes on percussion
@@danielquy7497sing to god
@@natelandherr5202 Tim Quy is the percussionist who's standing in this video. A decent shot of him is at 2:19.
Also, the vocalist (and songwriter's) name is also Tim - that is, Tim Smith. He died in mid 2020, but not from Covid - he had Dystonia, a rare disease that left him in a wheelchair. He had Dystonia for the 12 years leading up to his death at 59.
Oh man. I didn't know he had passed, I was friends with him on Facebook due to the Pond and was aware that he had been in poor health for some time. Only spoke with him briefly a couple of times (I didn't want to impose) but I did tell him that he was in my favourite band of all time and I am someone who usually doesn't play favourites.
My deepest condolences, hopefully him and the other Tim are together and having a great time with one another.
I saw these play so many times and it never failed to be a bonkers event. Brilliant.
The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo and Madness have a love child, then feed it acid. Excellent.
lol, so true.
RIP Tim Smith. May you find some peace now x
rest in peace tim, you mad, talented bastard!
This is magnificent. Can't help thinking the keyboard player looks like David Mitchell. Love it!
He reminds me of Jason Shwartzman from Rushmore
His name is William D Drake and he makes his own wonky music and yes, he is exactly like that all the time
Bill's grown a beard and let his hair go grey, which helped a bit. Now, he looks like he's called you in to his office to discuss your last paper in his underwater clockwork conjuration class.
5 years after this comment I now own all Cardiacs albums, all William D Drake albums, all the Tim Smith solo and collaboration albums, and many other albums by artists in the Cardiacs universe including The Shrubbies, North Sea Radio Orchestra, and many more. This song sent me down the most amazing musical rabbit hole and It’s still doing it. It helps that Cardiacs fans (pondies) are some of the nicest people on the internet. Tim Smith is a musical genius of the highest order.
@@jumpinonthebandwagon Cardiacs are something like a cross between an addictive drug and a cult, but, and this is the twist, *not evil*. And Cardiacs fandom is the best fandom ever.
Beautifully scary. Reassuringly frightening. Odd. Weird. Delicious. DISTURBED and DISTURBING. The music reminds of JS Bach fugues in the minor scale: you know what's going to happen, but it is always surprising. I only became aware of this band in 1987, but have enjoyed being thrilled and mystified by them ever since.
Best of all, Cardiacs fans always seem to be so heartwarmingly loyal and enthusiastic without being cloying. I still hope that one day something really good and amazing will happen to Tim.
In terms of achievements of mankind that have occurred, I'm impressed every day by the works of physicists, biologists, people practicing medicine, engineering, and so on. But there is a special warm glow in my heart because of the fact that this musical performance occurred on our planet. Let that sink in for a second, you should be proud to share the same species as these individuals.
Andrew Nakaska I can't stop laughing
sp spot on mate. I feel the same way
That's a double edge sword right there.
Not quite sure what you mean by 'and so on'.
This comment has new poignancy for me with Tim's passing.
This is what goes on in my head! HALP!
R.i.p Tim!
Thank You for all the Wonderful music that so many people either missed, or didn't understand!
I feel like this most days. What a brilliant song and fantastic performance.
Found out about them two years ago or so...was stunned that I'd never heard of them as they are/were exactly the sort of thing I normally listen to. Yes, the world has lost a genius who created his own musical world in a way that few ever have. Prior to this current age of musical sameness there were a LOT of artists with their own unique style...Smith made his own unique GENRE. Can't think of too many who did THAT.
Best band in the world
I just found my new favourite band!!
Shame you won't get to experience the euphoria of their live shows.
***** would've been amazing!!
They truly were incredible. The first time I saw them was at the Wardour Street Marquee. Fucking hell what a gig. Then when they filled The Town and Country Club that was something else esp with the acoustics
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Exactly what I said!!
I absolutely love this. Impeccable musicianship, artistic to the bone, soulful performance, funny, original. Maaaan, how did I not hear about these guys before?!
this is the most ominous thing I’ve ever had the pleasure of watching
CZcams suggested this....there is nothing that I listen to remotely close to this? Also why do I like it so much?
Cyriak loves them, maybe you watch his videos?
I saw this broadcast on Granada Reports as part of their arts feature and I was stunned by what I saw and haunted by it and then I discovered all the albums they did...wonderful band. If I could meet them I would give them another plaster statue of Peter Glaze, because he was a wonderful showman and they knew it.......
Probably one of the greatest music videos ever..
I mean this in the best way possible…. This gives Muppet Vibes. I love it
Exactly why I love them so much!! Now why haven't The Electric Mayhem covered any of their songs?
Very sad. Saw them a few times in the late 1980,s and last playing in a muddy tent at Reading Festival 1992. Top notch live band as well as being very amusing with it. RIP Tim. You really were a one off.
I found this by pure chance a few years ago & realised this is what goes on in my head!: Addicted ever since, Thank You Tim! RiP
RIP TIMMY. You were a legend.
Rest in Peace genius x
The sigh at the end says it all. Tim Smith, the 'Tony Benn' of music, brilliant, deluded, genius, unappreciated but unlike Wedgie, still with us............Get well soon Tim
as an extreme Mr. Bungle fan for almost two years now, HOW DID IT TAKE ME SO LONG TO FIND THIS MAGNIFICENT BAND?! AND WHY aren't they on spotify noooooohh...
if there is ever a band for which to buy an album, Cardiacs is one of them. The money goes directly to Tim smiths medical treatment.
SotetAmoeba I know. I was ignorant when I wrote this comment and just wanted to listen to everything! I’ve boight all the major Cardiacs albums on CD, have the seaside LP box set and the rest bought from Bandcamp ;)
*bought
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RIP love from argentina
The atonal keyboard melody just brings a smile to my face. It's so silly!
If I ever form a band, we're going to perform this. On repeat. For 45 mins. And no other songs.
Tim sos lo más lindo que encontré en mucho tiempo, saludos de Argentina ❤️
Rest peacefully Tim we love you xxxx
Thank you CZcams. I don't think I would ever remember this if it wasn't for you. Added to favorites.
Compared to this, Madness sound like the Cocteau Twins.
Hahahaha!!
RIP Tim Smith - musical genius! You will be missed
RIP Tim, you genius, you.
Wow - I'm new to this. Devo meets ELP (and this is a GOOD thing)!
Justin Hawkins brought me back here. Almost forgot what an absolute gem this was.
Almost; but not quite. I had no idea that Tim had passed though. Thanks for the beautiful madness, you absolute genius.
MY FRIEND JUST SENT ME THIS HOLY SHIT THIS IS PEAK
I liked how the captions appeared only at 0:55, like they knew that the viewer needs time to process what he has just seen.
It was necessary.
It just occurred to me after the tenth time watching this-John Lennon would have loved them. Brill silliness
feel so ashamed that I have never heard of this group before ! Brilliant !!!
A another musical genius lost, I'm glad that I was introduced to the world of Tim Smith, music will only get dumber, without minds like Tim's, a sad loss.
Utterly amazing band.
Lovely, I saw them back in 1986, Reading Rocks festival! Crazy as!
10/10 this is the legend
I love how Sarah looks increasingly disturbed.....
Never heard of these guys they really are great musicians