She directed the "Once In A Lifetime" video
and her debut album is like insanely ahead of its time
and her Devo covers are better than the originals
and she has such a unique energy and sense of style
and she is so, so underrated (e.g. 10+ yrs w/o her own thread)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwzxHTD-n-M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdrYuki61FI
― bell biv devo (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:14 (fourteen years ago)
Didn't she teach Paula Abdul how to dance or something?
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:18 (fourteen years ago)
And she choreographed Bowie's Diamond Dogs tour as captured by Alan Yentob in Cracked Actor.
― Oblique Strategies, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:26 (fourteen years ago)
and she was one of the hippie girls in the cemetery in Easy Rider
http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsB/1080.gif
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:35 (fourteen years ago)
WHO KNEW
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:35 (fourteen years ago)
I mean I knew some of it but def not all. Toni rules.
she was also in 'five easy pieces' and made her own experimental dance films in the '60s
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:38 (fourteen years ago)
Choreographed and appears in 'Daddy's Song' in Head :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ornP4eeCyBI
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:40 (fourteen years ago)
re: talking heads, she did the 'crosseyed and painless' video too
she has had a seriously interesting life/career
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:41 (fourteen years ago)
and don't fuhget the muthafukkin Lockers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lr5CuCMC9E
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:44 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaNMQg2nYT4&feature=share&list=PL9809C0FA4B7FA9FC
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 02:45 (fourteen years ago)
this thread just blew my mind. the link between Peter Fonda and Fred "rerun" Berry.
― dsb, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 03:32 (fourteen years ago)
Also took names gyrating her way through Bruce Conner's Breakaway. Hypnotizing. Maybe my favorite movie of the 60s.
Video of it here. (Briefly NSFW)
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 03:36 (fourteen years ago)
Also this classic slo-mo choreography:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy40TT_i7us
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 03:49 (fourteen years ago)
"Mickey" was the first record I ever bought with my own money. So proud of that because Toni Basil is a goddess.
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 03:50 (fourteen years ago)
I feel like that video maybe changed my life? Such a killer song
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 03:57 (fourteen years ago)
Also took names gyrating her way through Bruce Conner's Breakaway.
That's her performing the title song, too, from a 1966 single. Here's the b-side, "I'm 28," (she was actually 23), which was included in Rhino's One Kiss Can Lead to Another girl group box set:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOiwQqcMFpg
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 04:02 (fourteen years ago)
this is amazing, does this version exist anywhere besides video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQCSlMxX9WA&feature=fvst
― sleeve, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 04:54 (fourteen years ago)
"Breakaway" is so excellent
― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 13:27 (fourteen years ago)