Another great music video directed by Mark Romanek, this one for "Strange Currencies" has an impecable quality on everything, from the
REM's appearance either performing the song or just riding their car, the sad black-and-white cinematography that perfectly suits the desolate
environment where loners and sad folks appear in between shots, and you really feel the mood of loneliness and of being incomprehended. And the
song is one of their finest, a little eclipsed for the fact it sounded a little like "Everybody Hurts" - and even the band thought so to the
point of almost not releasing it. Gladly, they changed their minds.
Unlike the classic videos for the forementioned song or "Imitation of Life", this one is barely known but in more recent years it got rediscovered thanks to a brief appearance from a very young Norman Reedus, way before his stardom with "The Walking Dead". He appears in three quick, slow-motion shots, running away from somewhere. Very good stuff. 8/10.
Unlike the classic videos for the forementioned song or "Imitation of Life", this one is barely known but in more recent years it got rediscovered thanks to a brief appearance from a very young Norman Reedus, way before his stardom with "The Walking Dead". He appears in three quick, slow-motion shots, running away from somewhere. Very good stuff. 8/10.
