List of Blake's 7 Early Songvids

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This is a list in progress of Blake's 7 vids from the VCR era.

For more information about this fan activity, see VCR Vidding.

For more examples of early vids in other fandoms, see List of Early Songvids.

Note: much of this info comes from handwritten and faded songvid lists, so there may be many errors. Please feel free to pitch in and correct. If you are uncertain, place a ? next to name/dates. If a vid contains source *other* than Blake's 7, add a note next to the vid.

Some names have been adjusted to fit within Fanlore's naming/permissions policies.

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For similar lists in other fandoms, see List of Early Songvids.

Adrian Morgan

  • I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (U2)

Brendan O'Cullan

  • In the Air Tonight (Genesis)

Bunnies from Hell (see Patricia Lamb)

Carrie Hagen

  • Turn to You (Go Go's)

Carol McCoy (vidded also with Randym)

  • an unnamed Blake/Tarrant vid (mentioned in Rainbow Noise #2)
  • And So It Goes (A/B) (1995 or before)
  • And Then We'd All Go Down Together (Scorpio's crew struggling thru to the last fight, 1995 or before)
  • Another Suitcase, Another Hall (Soolin character study)
  • Behind Blue Eyes
  • Bennie Always Looking Good
  • Bless the Wings (A/B) (1995 or before)
  • Bridge
  • Bridge Across Forever
  • Camp Granada (humor) (1995 or before)
  • Come Sail Away (Tarrant piloting Liberator among the stars, 1995 or before)
  • Every Breath You Take
  • Everything I Do
  • Find Me a Horse
  • From a Distance
  • Get Outta Here With That
  • Good Looking Looking Good (Avon's fashion sense, 1995 or before)
  • Greek Sailor ("my personal favorite, though, for funniest B7 video, has to be "Greek Sailors" -- from a July 1994 post to Virgule) and (" I stress that songs with clear enunciation are more satisfying....I especially like when the song matches the artificially collected visuals. "Bend over Greek sailor, bend over for me", is another example, as well as raunchy, enthusiastic fun" -- from APA Strange Bedfellows #8 in 1995)
  • Hard to Begin Again
  • Here You Come Again (Tarrant flirting with every one, 1995 or before)
  • If I Only Had A Brain/Heart/Courage (humor) (1995 or before)
  • Impossible Dream
  • It’s In His Kiss
  • I’m On Fire (Tarrant & Soolin dancing around each other to end in bed, 1995 or before)
  • Just for One Day
  • Just Once (A/T) (1995 or before)
  • Legend in His Time/Jesse James (Tarrant as Billy the Kid, 1995 or before)
  • Living for the Devil
  • Living Without You
  • Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places (Vila ends up with Tarrant, 1995 or before)
  • Love Theme
  • Material Girl
  • Memories of Love
  • Mozart’s Requiem
  • Nature Trail to Hell (humor) (1995 or before)
  • No One Knows What's It's Like to Be a Bad Man (Travis laments, 1995 or before)
  • Nothing But Clouds
  • Phantom of the Opera
  • Rose, The (A/C) (1995 or before)
  • Sadder But Wiser Girl for Me, The (What kind of woman Avon prefers, 1995 or before)
  • San Francisco Nights
  • Servelan’s Lover
  • That’s All
  • That’s All I Know (A/B) (1995 or before) ("...my tiptop favorite music vid for a long time, though it's now got stiff competition from Nicole's "True Believer." - [1]
  • Too Long as Soldiers (The final effects of all the battles the cast has had and their end, 1995 or before)
  • Vengeance Has Tempered My Sword (Tarrant's avenging Deeta, 1995 or before)
  • Vinnie Always Looking Good (humor) (1995 or before)
  • We’ll All Go Down Together
  • What A Time It Was
  • When You Tell Me That You Love Me
  • Where Am I Going To? (Soolin) (tune from Evita) (1995 or before)
  • Where Do I Go
  • Wild Woman Blues
  • Wind Beneath My Wings
  • Wizard
  • Woman in New Mexico
  • Worse Come to Worse (Vila's escapes, 1995 or before)
  • You’re My Home

Cybel Harper

  • Bad Company (Bad Company)
  • The Chain (Fleetwood Mac)
  • Crimson and Crystal (Julia Ecklar) (Servalan-centric)
  • Hero Takes a Fall (Bangles)
  • So Into You (Atlanta Rhythm Section) (1991 or earlier)
  • You Can’t Stop Me Loving You (Tina Turner)

Dan and Dave Bowden

Dee Jay

Excalibur Enterprises

  • Always A Woman to Me (1987)
  • Another One Bites the Dust (Queen vid, mentioned in Textual Poachers)
  • B7 in Brief
  • Build a DSV (sung by Linda Short)
  • Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown (Jim Croce) (shown at Scorpio con in 1988 [3])
  • C'est Moi
  • Desperado (Don Henley) (shown at Scorpio con in 1988 [4])
  • Decimas Picnic (sung by Linda Short)
  • These Sleeves (sung by Linda Short)

Gayle F (see also Shadow Songs)

  • Desperado
  • Walking and Falling (with Tashery S)
  • The Man That Got Away (Judy Garland)
  • The Universe Song (Monty Python, Vila-centric) ("In this vid, Blake’s 7 characters encounters Monty Python's organ bank bounty hunters and seem to have dialogue with each other. "Can I have your liver, then?" This is a unique, creative twist on the originals. But the humor only fully works if the audience is familiar with both the Monty Python liver donor sketch and the Blake’s 7 episode." [1])
  • Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper)
  • Love is a Stranger (Eurythmics, Blake/Avon)
  • Lovers in a Dangerous Time (Blake/Avon)
  • Exit by U2 (shown at Revelcon 1993
  • “Rocky Horror Double Feature” (with Tashery S)
  • “Pirate Ships”
  • “Children of the Fall I”
  • "Mack the Knife" (with Tashery S) (mentioned on Virgule-L in 1995
  • “Regret” (with Tashery S)
  • “Shades of Shadow” (with Tashery S)

Jean Graham

JAM

Her vidding debut was at Escapade 1993

  • Fallen From Grace
  • Find a Way to My Heart
  • Ghost of a Chance
  • Stranded
  • The Weapon

Jill (see also Sarran Songs)

  • The Lumberjack Song by Monty Python (Travis as the lumberjack and Servalan his sweetheart).

Kandy Fong

  • If I Were a Rich Man (Fiddler on the Roof)
  • Where the Boys Are (Connie Francis)
  • Studs in Black Leather (filk song by Jillian Courtenay that pairs "Nights in White Satin" with fandom's fetish for men in black leather). From a fan in 1993: "I find the songtape doubly amusing because the original song was a Mary Sue fantasy of the fan dreaming about Avon, and the songtape turns it into Vila dreaming about Avon and Blake. A nice turning-around." [5]
  • Sound of Silence ([[Simon and Garfunkel)

Katharine Scarritt

  • Reviewing the Situation
  • Another Suitcase (Evita)
  • Desperado (Eagles)
  • Heaven Help My Heart (Chess)
  • I'm Going To Love You (Blake's 7)
  • In the Hands of God (Blake's 7) (The Hand of God, filk song by Julia Ecklar)
  • Reviewing the Situation
  • She's Always A Woman (Billy Joel)
  • Sisters (Aretha Franklin & Eurythmics)
  • Stars (Les Misérables)
  • These Dreams (Heart)
  • Times Like These (Dan Fogelberg)
  • Where I Want To Be (Chess) a 1980s Blake's 7 vid set to a song from the musical "Chess"

Liz J.

  • Hold On (described in Rainbow Noise # 1 as "A good video; made even more so by the line "Don't you recall how you felt when you weren't alone". The clips is Avon in the third season. It has stuck in my mind ever since.")
  • Making Love Out of Nothing At All (Avon)
  • It's Late
  • Total Eclipse of the Heart (Revelcon 3) (1991)

Mary Van Deusen

Note: while MVD maintains a list of all her vids to date on her website, only 3 vids were not made during the VCR-era. Here is an archived copy of a chronological listing of her VCR-era vids.

Media Cannibals

  • Heard It Through the Grapevine (Marvin Gaye) (Pros/Blake's 7) ("Dotty mentioned the B7 ep with Tynus. I had never noticed how slashy that ep was until we were making Heard It On The Grapevine. Vila's expressions in the background framed between Avon and Tynus in the foreground *make* that video. (Of course, I never would have thought of using Tynus as the 'homewrecker' of that part of the vid, it was Alex, late of A/V fandom..." [6] (September 13, 1994)
  • True Believer (by Nicole V.) ("For Blake's 7, one that Nicole did really blows me away, particularly as it's an A/B video and I don't like Blake or A/B... It's called "True Believer," and it is WONDERFUL. Every piece fits. Every line from the song works. Just wonderful." [7]) (July 17, 1994)

Nancy Anderson

Patricia Lamb (PFL)

  • Angel Flyin' Too Close to the Ground (Willie Nelson) ("utilizes a simple editing technique to change scenes. A clip is edited in from a different scene, showing the ship's crew around the campfire sharing the news of a crewmate's death; this edit is deliberately timed so that a cut already in the episode to a close-up of the fire falls within the sequence -- the symbolism of the dying fire adding to the emotional effect. For several years, nearly all song videos used this simple kind of editing. It remains a common method, appropriate especially for slow songs where the lyrics are more striking than the rhythms." here)
  • "Fernando" sung by Abba
  • Peter Rabbit

Paul Kosinski

  • Another One Bites the Dust (Soolin) (Queen)
  • Another One Bites the Dust (Dayna) (Queen)
  • Another One Bites the Dust (Tarrant) (Queen)
  • Furies (Gluck)

Randym

  • Automatic (Blake's 7) (1995 or earlier)
  • Brothers In Arms
  • Facts About Cats ("Cats will be Cats and Cats eat birds")
  • Girls Wanna Have Fun
  • Gotta Wear Shades (The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades)
  • Hairstyles and Attitudes
  • Here I Am
  • He’s So Unusual
  • I Was Only Kidding (Blake's 7) (1995 or earlier)
  • I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) (May 1994)
  • Lean On Me
  • Mr. Tambourine Man (Blake's 7) (1995 or earlier)
  • No Holding Back
  • Rhythm of My Heart
  • Round and Round
  • Runaway Train (Blake's 7) (1995 or earlier)
  • Sailing (often described as "the Blake's 7 crew romance with death") (Blake's 7) (1995 or earlier)
  • She’s A Woman
  • Show Me The Way" (a Tarrant focused vid) (Blake's 7) (1995 or earlier)
  • Stand By Me
  • Still Having Sex
  • The One on the Right
  • The Search Is Over
  • Time For Me To Fly
  • Two Out Of Three
  • Wallow
  • Yakkity Yak" (Blake's 7) (1995 or earlier)
  • You’re A Mean One

Sarran Songs (Tashery and Jill)

  • 2000 Light Years from Home by The Rolling Stones (Tashery and Jill (as Sarran Songs)
  • Dancing with Mr. D by The Rolling Stones (Tashery and Jill (as Sarran Songs)
  • Every Breath You Take by The Police (with Tashery S)
  • If I Only Had a Brain by Ray Bolger, The Wizard of Oz (Tashery and Jill (as Sarran Songs)
  • Murder by Numbers by The Police (Tashery and Jill (as Sarran Songs)
  • Not Even Close by Tim Finn (Tashery and Jill (as Sarran Songs)
  • One More Kiss, Dear by New American Orchestra, from Blade Runner (Tashery and Jill (as Sarran Songs)
  • Red Red Wine by UB40 (Tashery and Jill (as Sarran Songs)
  • S.O.S. by Tim Curry (Tashery and Jill (as Sarran Songs)
  • Sean Flynn by The Clash (Tashery and Jill (as Sarran Songs)
  • Something by The Beatles (Tashery and Jill (as Sarran Songs)
  • Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Judy Garland, The Wizard of Oz (Tashery and Jill (as Sarran Songs)

Shadow Songs (Gayle F and Tashery S)

  • Beastie by Jethro Tull (Blake's 7)
  • Between a Rock and a Hard Place by The Rolling Stones (Blake's 7)
  • Burning Down the House by The Talking Heads (Blake's 7) (Gayle, Tashery and Jill )
  • Children of the Fall I by Julia Ecklar (Blake's 7)
  • Children of the Fall II by Julia Ecklar (Blake's 7)
  • Dance Without Sleeping by Melissa Etheridge (Blake's 7)
  • Desperado by Reah Carrick (Blake's 7)
  • Don't You Need by Melissa Etheridge (Blake's 7)
  • Early Morning Dreams by Pete Townshend (Blake's 7)
  • Exile by Enya (Blake's 7)
  • Exit by U2 (Blake's 7)
  • Fixing A Hole by The Beatles (Blake's 7)
  • Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper (Blake's 7)
  • Here Comes The Flood by Peter Gabriel (Blake's 7)
  • He's A Man by Madonna (Blake's 7) ((mentioned on Virgule-L in 1995)
  • I Don't Work For A Living by Malcolm Dalglish and Grey Larsen, writers and performers. From their album The First of Autumn on Appalshop Records (Blake's 7)
  • Lay My Love by Brian Eno/Cale (Blake's 7)
  • Let's Misbehave by Irving Aaronson (song by Cole Porter) (Blake's 7)
  • Love Is A Stranger by Eurythmics (Blake's 7)
  • Lovers in a Dangerous Time by Bruce Cockburn (Blake's 7)
  • Lullaby (Spider) by The Cure (Blake's 7)
  • Jaws Movie Theme/Mack The Knife from "3 Penny Opera" (Blake's 7)
  • Missionary Man by Eurythmics (Blake's 7) (Roj Blake-centric, mentioned in Rallying Call #13 in 1995)
  • No Fear, No Hate, No Pain by Eurythmics (Blake's 7)
  • Pirate Ships by Judy Collins (Blake's 7)
  • Place Your Hand by Melissa Etheridge (Blake's 7)
  • Plastic Fantastic Lover by Jefferson Airplane (Blake's 7) ("Pat gaggingly suggested possible Orac/Avon slash. Just to add to your upset, I'll point out Tashery and Gayle Feyrer did a songvid along that premise to the Jefferson Airplane song "Plastic Fantastic Lover." Soooo... for all interested parties (hmf)... it's a start. For those who can't possibly see (or don't want to possibly see) the attraction leather and blinking lights can have ... it's an end." [8])
  • Precious Pain by Melissa Etheridge (Blake's 7) (debuted at Escapade in 1993)
  • Regrets by Eurythmics (Blake's 7)
  • Road To Nowhere by The Talking Heads (Blake's 7)
  • "Science Fiction/Double Feature" from the Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack (Blake's 7)
  • Shades of Shadow by Julia Ecklar (Blake's 7)
  • She Moved Through The Fair by The Chieftains and Van Morrison (Blake's 7)
  • Some Enchanted Evening from the soundtrack "South Pacific" (Blake's 7 and some clips from "South Pacific")
  • Soolin (to Old Grey Coat) by Reel World (Blake's 7)
  • Sooner or Later by Madonna (Blake's 7)
  • The Bug II by Mary Chapin Carpenter (Blake's 7)
  • The Clasp by Jethro Tull (Blake's 7)
  • The Lumberjack Song from Monty Python (Blake's 7) (this is a solo Jill vid but appears on copies of the Shadow Songs songtapes)
  • The Man That Got Away by Judy Garland (Blake's 7)
  • The Universe Song by Monty Python (Blake's 7)
  • This Is Not Love by Jethro Tull (Blake's 7)
  • Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler (Blake's 7)
  • Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star by Steeleye Span (Blake's 7)
  • Under Stars by Brian Eno (Blake's 7) (Avon/Callie)
  • Under Wraps by Jethro Tull (Blake's 7)
  • Vow of Vengeance by Julia Ecklar (Blake's 7)
  • Walk Awhile by Fairpoint Convention (Blake's 7)
  • Walking and Falling by Laurie Anderson (Blake's 7)
  • When The Night Comes by Joe Cocker (Blake's 7)
  • When You Are A Jet from West Side Story (Blake's 7)
  • Wicked Game II by Chris Isaak (Blake's 7) (Avon/Blake)
  • Yellow Submarine by The Beatles (Blake's 7)

Skaro Hunting Party (shown by)

  • Send in the Clowns (maker unknown)

Sylvia Bond

  • Bird on A Wire (sometimes listed as a Pros vid, this is Avon focused and may have been shown at Escapade 1996)
  • The Water is Wide by James Taylor
  • Vincent (Starry Starry Night) (Blake)

Tashery S. (see also Shadow Songs and Sarran Songs)

  • You May be Right (Billy Joel)
  • Against All Odds (Phil Collins)
  • Walking and Falling (with Gayle F)
  • Plastic Fantastic Lover (Jefferson Airplane)
  • Continental Drift (Rolling Stones)
  • Under Wraps
  • Evening Falls (Cally)
  • Some Enchanted Evening (South Pacific)
  • With or Without You (U2) (Blake/Avon)
  • Old Gray Coat (Soolin character study) (mentioned on Virgule-L in 1995)
  • One More Kiss Dear
  • Science Fiction Double Theatre (Rocky Horror)
  • 2000 Light Years
  • Children of the Fall II

Tolbran

  • I Don't Care Anymore (Revelcon 4)
  • Stay (Revelcon 5)

Transfinite

Ah, now how could I have forgotten to mention "Old and Wise" by the Alan Parsons Project? There was a group around in Australian fandom (sadly enough they went professional several years ago and we haven't seen them since) called Transfinite, and they did, not video clips, but choreographed slide presentations with multiple projectors and multiple screens, and they did a Blake's 7 one to this song, and when I saw it, it blew me away. They showed it at a Brisbane con and there was dead silence in the audience for over a minute after the first viewing. No applause, just stunned silence. Interestingly enough, I had liked this song (and owned the album, "Eye in the Sky") well before I saw the Transfinite presentation, and I'd had half a mind to ask for it to be played at my funeral when I died. I know that sounds strange, but aw, just go off and get the song! The first verse is Blake speaking, the second verse is Avon speaking. [9]

T'Rhys

  • In the Air Tonight (Star Trek/Blake's 7)
  • Missing Link, first generated computer vid using morphing software turning Servalan's face into a raptor from Jurassic Park

Unknown

  • "Straight Shooter" (the Mamas and the Papas), by Lotsacats9 (reputedly from 1989) - "...a woman character sets up a fascinating counterpoint. All the double-entendres become triple ones." -- from a letter of comment by Jean Graham in Gambit #6
  • The Blake's Seven Video Mix '92 (mentioned in many issues of Avon Club Newsletter)
  • Burnish Me Bright sung by Julia Ecklar (mentioned on the Blake's 7 mailing list Lysator in 1999)
  • Come Home (Judy Collins) (this vid has been identified as having been made by Mary Van Duesen; however, in May 2017 she removed it from her Fanlore page.)
  • Desperado (Linda Ronstadt) (this may be by Gayle F - it followed "With Or Without You which is a vid by Tashery S) (found on a tape with Patricia Lamb and Mary Van D's and vids by others)
  • Heart Like A Wheel (Linda Ronstadt) (found on a tape with Patricia Lamb and Mary Van D's and vids by others)
  • Hurt (Jay Newton) (found on a tape with Patricia Lamb and Mary Van D's and vids by others)
  • I Can't Make You Love Me (Avon/Cally) (mentioned on Virgule-L in 1995)
  • Invisible Touch (Phil Collins) (found on a tape with Patricia Lamb and Mary Van D's and vids by others)
  • Ladies Love Sweet Red Wine (Lee Greenwood) (found on a tape with Patricia Lamb and Mary Van D's and vids by others)
  • Money Money Money (Abba) (found on a tape with Patricia Lamb and Mary Van D's and vids by others)
  • One More Chance at the Midway (this vid has been identified as having been made by Mary Van Duesen; however, in May 2017 she removed it from her Fanlore page.)
  • Ride Them Cowboy (found on a tape with Patricia Lamb and Mary Van D's and vids by others)
  • The Grid (Revelcon 5)
  • This Boy (Beatles): " It is sometimes fascinating to see the same song done from two radically different perspectives. In fact, I know a pros vid that the vidder intentionally did twice, once from Bodie's pov, once from Doyle's pov, and both of them are hilarious (This Boy--The Beatles)." [10]
  • Tell Me How (this vid has been identified as having been made by Mary Van Duesen; however, in May 2017 she removed it from her Fanlore page.)
  • To Know Him Is To Love Him (Ronstat Trio) (found on a tape with Patricia Lamb and Mary Van D's and vids by others)
  • You Can Never Go Home (Moody Blues) (found on a tape with Patricia Lamb and Mary Van D's and vids by others)
  • With or Wthout You (U2) (found on a tape with Patricia Lamb and Mary Van D's and vids by others)
  • You're A Mean One Mr Grinch (mentioned on Virgule-L in 1995
  • Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Avon/Vila
  • Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Gordon Lightfoot) (found on a tape with Patricia Lamb and Mary Van D's and vids by others)

Also:

There are also at least two fannish music videos of the Avon/Orac pairing (to "Automatic" and "Plastic Fantastic Lover;" also part of "Stuck with You," in a vid that pairs off the entire Scorpio crew: Dayna/Vila, Soolin/Tarrant, Avon/Orac), and I've seen one that hints at Vila/Orac. You know that scene in Ultraworld where Vila is teaching Orac jokes? He's leaning back on the couch, heaving with laughter, with Orac in the foreground? Imagine that to a soundtrack saying solemnly, "People are still having sex..." [11]

References

  1. ^ from Strange Bedfellows (APA) #12
  2. ^ "I have helped on Blake vids. DJ doesn't give helping credit (yeah, and it pisses me off, obviously), but I did half of Outlaw Blues (a Blake vid) on DJ's 2nd tape." -- comment on Virgule-L, quoted with permission (January 13, 1995)
  3. ^ "The second video room was showing fan-produced videos which included some excellent clips of B7 and "Robin of Sherwood" set to music, i.e. Avon to "Desperado" and Travis to "Big Bad Leroy Brown". -- from Horizon Newsletter #21
  4. ^ "The second video room was showing fan-produced videos which included some excellent clips of B7 and "Robin of Sherwood" set to music, i.e. Avon to "Desperado" and Travis to "Big Bad Leroy Brown". -- from Horizon Newsletter #21
  5. ^ from comments in Strange Bedfellows #1
  6. ^ Sandy Hereld on Virgule-L)
  7. ^ comment at Virgule-L, quoted anonymously
  8. ^ quoted anonymously from Lysator (Oct 2, 1994)
  9. ^ Dawn Friedman, from Lysator (March 9, 1995)
  10. ^ Sandy Hereld on Virgule-L (October 16, 1995)
  11. ^ Lysator, Sarah T., April 1998
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