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These are the videos I've seen or heard of, with the release date, a short descripition, some pics and links where you can see or download the videos. There are also links to some web sites about the video directors. At the end you will find the videos Tricky did with Massive Attack and some others that he appeared in (Soul II Soul, Public Enemy and more).
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Aftermath (18.1.1994)
director: Mike Lipscombe |
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This video is - like all of Tricky's early videos - directed by Mike Lipscombe. You can see Martina and Tricky in an empty old house, singing the lyrics. The light is moving so that the faces are sometimes in darkness and sometimes in light. Then there are some little fires, and sometimes you can see an old woman with an aquarium in her lap. Very strange atmosphere. |
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| video links | You Tube | ||||
| director links | Mike Lipscombe videography | ||||
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Ponderosa (18.3.1994)
director: Mike Lipscombe |
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The Ponderosa video is almost the sequel to Aftermath, it looks very similar, maybe even shot in the same location, and Tricky and Martina wear the same clothes. You can see Tricky and Martina in an elevator, mouthing the lyrics. As in Aftermath there is strange light and sometimes fire. But there are also some religious figures and signs, like burning crosses in the background. |
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| video links | You
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Singing Fool |
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| director links | Mike Lipscombe videography | ||||
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Overcome (11.1.1995)
director: Mike Lipscombe |
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This video was shot in the English town Cambersands, again by Mike Lipscombe. It takes place on the beach and has a bit of a science fiction touch. There are old fashioned dressed people walking at the beach, when suddenly helicoptors appear. They tear something out of the water, a metal ring with a bowl in the middle (see pic). Also Tricky and Martina are there, but just rarely to see. Read the Melody Maker article about the Overcome video shot in Cambersands |
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| video links | MCM
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You Tube |
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| director links | Mike Lipscombe videography | ||||
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Black Steel (18.3.1995)
director: Mike Lipscombe & Pinko |
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Almost throughout the whole video you can see Martina singing the lyrics, while other people or animals appear in the background. Sometimes parts of the lyrics are written on the screen, too. Inbetween you can see a band playing (only a drummer and guitar player), they look kind of aggressive. Just for the "switch on, switch off" part Tricky is there, holding his hands towards the camera. |
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| video links | You Tube | ||||
| director links | Mike
Lipscombe videography
Pinko videography |
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Hell is round the corner (8.7.1995)
director: Stephane Sednaoui |
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The whole video is dominated by the colour red, the background is red and also Tricky's shirt or dress. The camera is moving around Tricky who is singing his part. When he's finished, he shakes his head and morphs into Martina (see pic). They both look kind of puzzled and wear a strange make-up. This goes on and on until in the end Tricky moves backwards to a door and melts with the red background. |
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| video links | You Tube | ||||
| director links | official
Stephane
Sednaoui web site
Stephane Sednaoui videography Buy the DVD "Work of..." |
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Pumpkin (24.10.1995)
director: Stephane Sednaoui |
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As the Hell is round the corner video is dominated by the color red, here it is blue. You can see Alison Goldfrapp or Tricky - depending who is singing at the moment - in a lonely street. The light is blue and a little red light (like a laser) is moving from one to the other, pointing on their faces as they sing. As the video goes on, some other persons appear from both sides of the streets, who move towards them. They have flash lights and though they don't do much, you get the impression that they are not really friendly, the whole atmosphere gets a bit uncomfortable. |
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| video links | You Tube | ||||
| director links | official
Stephane
Sednaoui web site
Stephane Sednaoui videography Buy the DVD "Work of..." |
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Here come the aliens (February 1996)
director: Stephane Sednaoui |
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This video was made more than a year before the song appeared on the Makes Me Wanna Die single and the music is a bit different. I have never seen this video, but this is a descripition that was sent to me by Ferdinand (thanks a lot): "Black and white pictures; we see Tricky and Martina one time, Afrika Izlam the other time. Sometimes very clear pictures, they're sitting in a metro driving through the tunnels, Martina standing a bit behind Tricky. Sometimes the pictures are completely blurred. The camera fades in and out on them. Sometimes they say some lyrics sometimes not. Sometimes we just see the picture through the window of the metro... grafitti passing, lights, slower... faster... slower again. just like the images of the artists ... sometimes speeded up, sometimes slow motion..." Here you can read a description of this video in Italian (pdf file). |
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| director links | Clipland
info about the video
official Stephane Sednaoui web site Stephane Sednaoui videography Buy the DVD "Work of..." |
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Poems (26.3.1996)
director: Pinko / Tricky |
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There are different elements or little stories in the video: At the beginning there's Tricky with a boxing glove, in front of his mouth is a little camera or screen showing his mouth singing the lyrics. Then there are two kids (black and white) punching each other with boxing gloves, later Terry Hall and Tricky with the same gloves instead of the kids. In one scene Tricky, Martina and Terry are walking on a road (with parts of the lyrics on street signs or advertisements in the background), later they get into a car (with the word "bullet" on the front sign). In another scene they all hold signs saying "I'm Terry, I'm miserable" (Terry Hall), "Martina, I'm a weary lone parent" (Martina) and "I'm Tricky, unusually sensitive and paranoid" (see pic). |
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| video links | You Tube | ||||
| director links | Pinko videography | ||||
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Christiansands (22.10.1996)
director: Shawn Mortensen |
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Tricky and Martina are in a room that could be a doctor's waiting room, Martina is reading in a magazine. Tricky wears a black suit and is walking in the room, later he's even climbing the walls. At the end of the video there are three disco divas singing in this room, all dressed in the same long dresses that are connected with each other. There were some rumours once that Tricky himself is the singing lady in the middle who hides her face a lot between her hands, but there's no real prove for that. |
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| video links | You Tube | ||||
| director links | Shawn Mortensen videography | ||||
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Tricky Kid (December 1996)
director: Arthur Jafa |
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This video was shot in Berlin, before and after the Tricky concert there (December 4th '96). You can see Tricky and a woman walking in the streets (the area is called Schoeneberg, near the club Metropol where the gig was taking place), it looks like Tricky is following her. Later they are in a subway. Sometimes you can see closeups of Tricky on a roof, he has some strange makeup in his face... Then there are some scenes where Tricky is tied up in some metal chains inside a building and a lot of flashlights hit him. Some scenes are in black and white, they were taken in the club directly after the concert, with the audience walking behind Tricky. I guess the video should show the life of being a "superstar", with the real fans playing the fans... |
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| video links | You Tube | ||||
| director links | Afrofuturism
Arthur Jafa videography |
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Makes me wanna die (13.4.1997)
director: Floria Sigismondi |
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This video is really brilliant, kind of surreal. You can see Martina in a bathtub, Tricky at some other place. Then suddenly there are lizards and snakes on Martina's head and body. All the scenes have a very soft and golden light and have the typical Sigismondi effect: Tricky's moves are speeded up and then slowed down, so that they look very strange and not really human. At the end Tricky's face is close to Martina's and a long lizard tongue comes out of his mouth, reaching for her face. |
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| video links | official
Floria Sigismondi page
Singing Fool You Tube |
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| director links | official
Floria Sigismondi page
Floria Sigismondi videography |
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Money Greedy (1998)
director: Theodore Witcher |
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Tricky said in interviews that Broken Homes and Money Greedy have a close connection, and also the videos for the two songs are connected somehow. In the Money Greedy video we can see Tricky and a bunch of other people, they're in an elevator most of the time (see pic). They're dressed as if they want to make a robbery or something like that, wearing black masks sometimes. Inbetween you can see streets in NY and one particular car driving, sometimes with visual effects that duplicate the car. Later you can see Tricky in a cab, he's obviously hurt, holding his hands to his stomach. Then we see Martina walking on the street, afterwards putting a kind of oxygen mask on Tricky's face. But in the end it turns out to be a bad dream, since Tricky's waking up in bed. |
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| video links | You
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Singing Fool |
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| director links | Theodore Witcher videography | ||||
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Broken Homes (May 1998)
director: Theodore Witcher |
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The video for Broken Homes starts where Money Greedy ends, in bed. The woman that was sleeping besides Tricky gets up, he's still asleep. From then on you can see different scenes: PJ Harvey singing in a street, men carrying a coffin, Tricky in a cab again and in front of a church (see pic), later also in the church. As the story of the woman develops further, it gets clear that it is her corpse in the coffin, later we can also see her body in the coffin in the church. She has a quarrel with a fat, old man (her husband?), he hits her, but she rans away. Then she's talking to Tricky, but the older man approaches then and shoots her. At the very end you can see Tricky again in the cab passing the street where PJ Harvey is standing, and their eyes meet as the cab passes. Check out this audio interview where Tricky talks about this video |
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| video links | You
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Singing Fool |
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| director links | Theodore Witcher videography | ||||
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For Real (July 1999)
director: Stephane Sednaoui |
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Tricky is sitting in a dining room or an asian restaurant on a big table. As the camera goes round the table you can see other people at the table, always different people. If I'm not mistaken, there are also one or two members of The Baby Namboos sitting. A lot of these men look like gangsters (and the end of the video suggests that Tricky is one, too). Tricky is mouthing the lyrics, partly to himself, partly to his neighbours as if he is talking to them. Later on he leaves the restaurant and walks in a barber shop. After someone put a towel on his face he is alone in the shop, looking at himself in the mirror, still singing the lyrics. Then the camera moves to the outside of the shop and you can see at first one policemen at the door, ready to get in, then even a LOT more policemen on the street. |
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| video links | Singing
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| director links | official
Stephane
Sednaoui web site
Stephane Sednaoui videography Buy the DVD "Work of..." |
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Hot like a sauna (1999)
director: ??? |
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I've only seen some seconds of this video, because it was never really released and shown on TV. And I couldn't see much because the screen in this video is almost entirely white. When you look closer you can see the schemes of some people moving in a strange way, maybe dancing, maybe making some kind of martial arts moves? |
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Evolution
Revolution Love (May 2001)
director: Jake Scott |
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The video was directed by Jake Scott (son of Ridley Scott) who also made the movie "Plunkett & McLeane" and other videos for Live. It plays in some dark city streets, by night. You can see Tricky, Ed Kowalczyk and Hawkman, walking through the streets singing the lyrics. The interesting thing is that in fact it is only one person with different masks on, tearing down the mask when the singer changes. Like Tricky said in an interview about the song: "It's a song about different people from different planets and how they all feel the same thing. Me and Hawk and me and Ed are very different, but we come from the same experiences. Everyone's alike in some way." |
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| video links | You
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MCM (html) |
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| director links | Jake
Scott videography
Internet Movie Database |
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You
Don't Wanna (July 2001)
director: ??? |
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This video is very unusual, because it has another song in the middle - 'Unofficial', a song only released on the French 2CD version of 'Blowback'. Before this song starts you can read "Tricky presents... Phatt Black". During the video you can see different scenes: a Tricky concert, a woman boxing (the same one that you can see in the pic), a woman mouthing the lyrics of 'You Don't Wanna' (but she doesn't look like Ambersunshower). In the middle part you can also see scenes from a party or club and Tricky standing still with lots of women, who look like (or some of them are) puppets used of decorating windows. |
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| video links | MCM (html) | ||||
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Antimatter
(May 2003)
director: Stephane Sednaoui |
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In this video you can see Tricky and the female singer, Costanza Francavilla, in a room that looks almost like a cell. They move as if they feel sick, and their movements are filmed with special effects so that you can see them double. There is another video for The Antimatter Remix (Jimmy & T Remix) on the bonus DVD of 'Vulnerable' (see below). |
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| video links | MTV
You Tube |
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| director links | official
Stephane
Sednaoui web site
Stephane Sednaoui videography Buy the DVD "Work of..." |
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Antimatter
Jimmy & T. Remix
(May 2003) director: Stephane Sednaoui ??? |
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There is a totally different video than the one for 'Antimatter'. It shows Tricky and Costanza Francavilla recording the song (see pic), and in between other scenes with a couple dancing (first on the streets, later in a room). The woman of the dancing couple is sometimes changing from a "normal" one to a half naked and tattooed one. The video is released on the enhanced CD-Rom version of 'Vlunerable'. |
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| video links | MTV
streaming
You Tube |
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| director links | official
Stephane
Sednaoui web site
Stephane Sednaoui videography Buy the DVD "Work of..." |
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Unofficial
(2003?)
director: Bas Vink |
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This video was shot on Madonna's club in London. Parts of this video are used in the "You Don't Wanna" video. Here's a "behind the scenes" docu about the video shoot. |
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| video links | You Tube | ||||
| director links | Bas Vink videography | ||||
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Council
Estate (2008)
director: Valerie Pirson |
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This video was shot in Aulnay sous Bois, a Paris suburb. The director is Valerie Pirson, as you can read here. On Les Inrocks you can read an article and see a video about the making of the video... |
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| video links | You Tube | ||||
| director links | Partizan
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arte portrait (in German) |
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Puppy
Toy (2008)
director: Dominic Leung |
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You can see the video at Dailymotion or trickysite.com. You can read more about the director and the video here (although the song is called "Puppy Dog" there). |
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| video links | Dailymotion
trickysite |
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| director links | official site Dominic Leung videography |
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Massive Attack: Just A Matter Of
Time - aka Where's Tricky director: Roger Pomphrey |
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This is rather a short film than a video, directed in the early days of Massive Attack. The story is rather simple: all the members of Massive Attack (including Shara Nelson) are looking for Tricky and asking themselves where he is. At the end they all meet for a dinner, it knocks on the door and you can see Tricky for a short time (the only time he appears in the whole film)... Some web sites list the time of the video 8.02 (see inflightdata), although the versions you can find online are only 6.42 minutes. I think the video was never officially released, except for a compilation VHS with the name "Dance International Video Magazine Vol.5" (see a photo here). |
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| video links | You
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Red Lines download (html) |
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| director links | Roger
Pomphrey videography
more infos on Roger Pomphrey |
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Massive Attack: Daydreaming (1990)
director: Baillie Walsh |
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I haven't seen the whole video, so all I can tell is this: In the start you see a little house or sort of cottage in the country-side. Tricky is sitting at a table, the other members of Massive Attack and Shara Nelson are also sitting or standing in the house. You can also see an old woman laying tarot cards on the table. The whole video is shot in black and white, so it has an almost nostalgic atmosphere. |
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| video links | You
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Red Lines download (html) |
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| director links | Baillie Walsh videography | ||||
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Massive Attack: Karmacoma (1995)
director: Jonathan Glazer |
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This video is almost like a little movie and hard to explain. You can see different scenes in an old fashioned hotel, sometimes in different rooms, sometimes on the corridor. In the rooms you can see a man with black paint on his body taking pictures of himself, Tricky and the other members of Massive Attack dressed in blue clothes with a red sign saying TexMex on it, a little boy watching TV. One of the scenes features Daniel Tatarsky who looks almost exactly like John Nance (who played the main character in David Lynch's "Eraserhead"). He is typing the word Karmacoma on a typewriter, only the letter K is missing. On the corridor you can see a man, sweating, with a gun and a plastic bag in his hand, searching for a room. Or two twin girls with the letter K from the typewriter... |
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| video links | Red
Lines download (html)
You Tube |
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| director links | Jonathan
Glazer videography
some photos of Jonathan Glazer |
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Soul II Soul: Represent (1997)
director: Tom Carty, Walter Campell |
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The video is in black and white and shows scenes with all kinds of people from different cultures. In between you can see writings like "God is black" or "What colour is you blood". One of the persons you can see is Tricky, standing in front of a wall and moving his body in a sort of breakdancing way. At the beginning and the end you see him laughing in the camera in front of a wall with "Soul II Soul" written on it (see pic). |
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| director links | Tom
Carty videography
Walter Campell videography |
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Public Enemy:
Do you wanna go our way (1999) director: Jonathan Woods, Chris Adams |
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The whole video takes place in a futuristic surrounding, it features not only Public Enemy but also different guests. One of them is Tricky, though he is hardly recognizable. You can see him in a small sort of bubble moving across the screen for a couple of seconds. |
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| video links | MTV
streaming
You Tube |
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| director links | Jonathan
Woods videography
Chris Adams videography |
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Live: Simple Creed (2001)
director: Marc Webb |
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Tricky has just a short appearance in this video, he also contributes vocals to the song. You can see him on TV when his part in the song comes up, while a guy is watching him. His part on TV looks like taken from the Evolution Revolution Love video, but I'm not sure.... |
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| video links | You Tube | ||||
| director links | DNA
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other videos by Marc Webb |
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Tool: Parabola (April 2002)
director: Adam Jones |
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The video is hard to describe, so you'd better watch it yourself: It starts with three men who are doing a sort of satanic ritual. Then Tricky appears, with two wires or branches coming out of his head. When a little creature gets crushed by some balls (looking like a molecule or something) Tricky obviously gets angry and shouts to the molecule. He cuts the dead creature into two halfes, later walks in a forest and finds a leave. The leave suddenly turns into a flame with an eye in it and Tricky's body gets burned by the flames from bottom to top... |
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| video links | You
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| director links | other
Tool videos by Adam Jones
Buy the DVD |
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Rico & Tricky: Mixed-Up Faces
(August 2002) director: ??? |
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The video only has some parts with Tricky in it, and these parts are taken from other Tricky videos (Christiansands, Pumpkin in black & white - see pic, and others). The rest of the video you can see Rico being chased by other people. Directly at the beginning his face gets hit against a wall, so the rest of the video he has a bleeding nose and mouth. At the end he seems to have reached his home safely, but then... |
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| video links | You
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download it from rico.co.uk (4 MB) (html) |
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Radagan & Tricky: Receive Us (2003)
director: ??? |
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This video can be found on the bonus DVD of 'Vulnerable' (see discography), the song on the 'Back to mine' album. The video starts with a tatooed woman (the same as in the Antimatter Remix video, see above) getting out of bed after talking to someone on the phone. At her side you can see a man sleeping in the dark, probably Tricky. Then you can see Tricky driving in a car, first at night in a city, then at day in a more suburban surrounding following the woman, who left the appartment and meets a man (her secret lover, obviously). Suddenly it changes to the night setting again and some masked men kidnap the couple. It ends with the kidnappers threatening the couple with weapons. |
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