Uploaded June 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
The Art Of Noise, for being an avant garde music experiment, has been heard by more people than would be expected. From Max Headroom in Paranoimia (a late addition to the song and video), to their remakes of the Peter Gunn and Dragnet themes, to the slow romantic Moments In Love (which Madonna played during her wedding to Sean Penn), it was pretty hard to escape the 1980s without hearing them.
Their most famous music video, Close To The Edit, featured a young punk girl and three musicians (the band members) destroying various instruments. However, that video was deemed too "violent" for some markets, so they came up with a second video featuring an animated, synced film collage and smaller portions of the "punk girl" video. THAT version was ALSO deemed not suitable for all markets, so they replaced the punk girl sections with video of the band members clowning around in a music studio. That video, entitles Close To The Edit Version 3, is what is presented here.
Restoration notes: Source was film-to-tape-to-MPEG-2 transfer, with additional overlaid film segments using a video paintbox. The film content is what's important in this video, so I optimized for that, and didn't bother addressing analog video crosstalk or MPEG-2 digital macroblocking.
The Art Of Noise, for being an avant garde music experiment, has been heard by more people than would be expected. From Max Headroom in Paranoimia (a late addition to the song and video), to their remakes of the Peter Gunn and Dragnet themes, to the slow romantic Moments In Love (which Madonna played during her wedding to Sean Penn), it was pretty hard to escape the 1980s without hearing them.
Their most famous music video, Close To The Edit, featured a young punk girl and three musicians (the band members) destroying various instruments. However, that video was deemed too "violent" for some markets, so they came up with a second video featuring an animated, synced film collage and smaller portions of the "punk girl" video. THAT version was ALSO deemed not suitable for all markets, so they replaced the punk girl sections with video of the band members clowning around in a music studio. That video, entitles Close To The Edit Version 3, is what is presented here.
Restoration notes: Source was film-to-tape-to-MPEG-2 transfer, with additional overlaid film segments using a video paintbox. The film content is what's important in this video, so I optimized for that, and didn't bother addressing analog video crosstalk or MPEG-2 digital macroblocking.
