*dusts off PE beanie
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I might throw New Deal Da Deal Is Dead in the mix because it sort of solidified an ugly era when tech/fashion went too far…? A bit emperor’s new clothes when the facade falls.
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Whatever is pretty fucked haha
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I thought Europa had a more widespread influence than many gave credit for.
Team full of mostly unknown rippers, shining a light on a wide range of new spots (notably Barcelona, Paris and Lyon) and all done barely stepping foot in the US for filming trips.
Add WFTW and Menikmati, all of which came out within a couple of months of each other and all of a sudden, the US media were sitting up and taking note of all this locations, skaters and the European industry which they’d knowingly overlooked up to that point, other than the mandatory visits to Prague, Munster and whatever other big street comp was on.
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Crazy someone mentioned Lick. But it was a crazy video for me as it was the first current video I saw at the time. The only video’s I saw were 540 and propaganda for ages. I managed to get Now n Later, Zero Hero and useless wooden toys thinking that they were current, then a mate who moved back to Cardiff visited and brought lick and 720 and, blew me away! The style of boards and the way they were flipping etc. Massive change. After that I met a group of skaters in the town as i’d been skating on my own for over a year and saw virtual reality and various others.
… But ‘Da Deal Is Dead’ is my favourite skate video of all time.
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Only thing with these discussions is that no-one’s really listing off a load of Thrasher parts from the last ten years…. 
We can’t really have a game changing video thread without discussing 411.
Im pretty sure no other sport/hobby/past time managed to make them work.
A quickly edited half hour of footage making it’s money through advertising, with a bunch of small companies has the massive potential to be a huge bag of cheesie shit, but it wasn’t.
It was something we’d look forward to every issue. It made sure the locals would pop into the skateshop and watch it (and buy something while we there). We’d talk about the contents of the vid, find out what the new fashions were and the intro was like the BBC News headlines
They were never the best videos but they were really important.
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I was just about to post that. Of course 411vm is there!
@ciaran @franc I agree Europa put Europe on the map. I think Bon Appetit showed more of a global picture. Also it was edited beautifully.
Regarding WFTW, I think this had a big influence for the UK and put Rattray on the Radar (Followed by his 411 rookie?) but for me it was First Broadcast. That video just flows perfectly, it has the right vibe, and there’s no boring Octogon section ha ha!
Which of these two would go on the list:
- Landspeed Video
- CKY2K
I think the Sixth Sense video marked the start of a run of hi-quality media videos.
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Not sure if it was CKY or Pritch vs Dainton that made me and every person I knew become massive, massive dicks.
I still live with the cringe now.
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Streetskating with Rob and Natas, Attack, Seven Sport.
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World Industries Rubbish Heap
Format that deviated wildly from what was around at the time. Some great parts (Mullen, Vallely/Klein) and equally memorable soundtrack.
Soundtracks were what did it for me. Even a skater who was a bit crap could become a favourite if they had good music with a rewindable track.
See also Hokus Pokus for soundtrack (but also had groundbreaking skating at the time). Who was who? Difficult to decipher through the montages but every trick etched into my brain because of the soundtrack.
Questionable obviously because of the tricks that weren’t absolute stinkers.
I nominate one of the Transworld videos (but for all the wrong reasons) where the main cast were a bit average, can’t remember the year or title (and now?), but it was the first time I missed something “major” and I didn’t really care as the whole video landscape had become so saturated…
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H Street - Hokus Pokus: Never seen a skate video up until then (unless Gleaming the Cube counts) Got a copy of a copy from someone (Cheers Donald) and must have worn that tape put. Still remember the words to the Gun and a Tear by Kirk and the Jerks
Plan B - Questionable: Pat Duffy and Primus, not much more to say
World Industries - Love Child: Not sure but was this just a tape to showcase new up and comers? Spencer Fujimoto, Daewon Song etc, soundtrack was mad, Lion Sleeps Tonight and Hair
New Deal - 1281: New Deal just seemed so much cooler than a lot of stuff at the time, teh Andy Howell/Templeton art, long-sleeved tee’s with the spraycan
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Attack, maybe?
Not technically a skate video, but a Stacey Peralta & Tim Simenon ‘project’.
it was a lot cheaper than others around at the time and you could get it from Woolies.
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Already said Attack, and definitely - it probably had more of an effect on a generation than the other videos at the time (including the Powell videos that it was a patchwork of) because yeah, you could buy it anywhere that sold music, so people without a skate shop (and without £30) could see it.
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That’ll teach me for skimming through.
A couple of years back we were chatting nonsense at the curb spot and someone mentioned that the guy who does the Bones Brigade Audio Show podcast (Larry Ransom, who also did the Pure Fun zine) was looking for a copy of Attack so he could do a show about it. Fuck it, I thought, and I sent him my old vhs which had sat untouched on a shelf for decades.
(It cost me £16 to send it to him but hey, it’s for the culture)
A few weeks later he did the show, I didn’t get much of a shout or anything, but that’s fine. Just fine.
Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago, he puts a post on insta thanking some UK collector type who had just sent him another vhs copy of Attack, and reminds us all that he did a podcast about it a couple of years ago. Still no mention of me though. Not that I’m bitter.
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Prick behaviour though still
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More recent but Cherry seemed to shift everything quite considerably. Wasn’t necessarily such a progressive video but definitely impacted hard!
From a filming point of view, a lot of people changed the way they filmed after the Supreme video dropped & Bill introduced this wild overly zoomed in, fast panning up and down style haha.
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