SataiDelenn
This is not a video I made. It's merely something I found on the web a while back but can't remember where and people have been asking to see it, so here it is. It's only about 12 seconds long and the sound sucks so you'll have to boost your speaker volume to hear it. Sorry about that. Don't forget to lower your speaker volume when you're done!
updated 19 years ago
And yes, once again, WMG strikes out and mutes my audio, forcing me to find something else. Took some (lucky) doing, but managed to find somthing I hope works.
The original track was "Rainbow Connection" by the Muppets (vocal by Kermit the Frog) but now it's "Abosede" by Sunny Neji.
Out of sheer desperation for something simple, I decided to create a little tribute for one of my favorite websites of all time. It was created around 1997, and quickly became a hit, around the world. It was even featured on one of my area's local news stations one morning.
Eventually it migrated to www.hamsterdance.com, but became rather Disneyesque (is that a word? Well, it is now), and very disappointing, as it stopped resembling anything even close to the lovely simplicity of the original website. Then, one day, oh joy! I found that someone had pulled the original from an archived site, and I was once again able to view the webpage.
Now, I warn you, the original website is not only simple, but insipid as well. Either you will love it, or you will hate it, like nails across a chalk board. *insert evil laugh here*
I was able to download the original .gifs to my computer, as well as the original snippet of song, and well, here's my dismal attempt at a tribute to the Original HamsterDance.
I apologize for the bad quality of the graphics, but I am technologically challenged sometimes, and do not know how to adjust pictures or .gifs to make them look better on WMM, so, this is the best you'll get, unless you take a moment to visit the archived page.
Lol. You'd think I would be upset with someone giving this video a rating of one star, but, lol, I'm actually amused it even got that high of a rating, lol.
If you don't like dark and possibly disturbing/depressing music/videos, then this video is not for you. Be warned; there is nothing fluffy or happy about this video.
The lyrics are sung in German. You can find an English translation of the song by Googling "Gloomy Sunday".
This song is said to be the cause of many suicides and the original composer, Rezso Seress wrote the song after losing his beloved and he eventually committed suicide.
You can learn more about this song and it's composer by going to: http://www.phespirit.info/gloomysunday/article_01.htm
Enjoy......
Edit: After comparing the English Lyrics to this version of the song, the third stanza was omitted. Therefore I can only conclude that this version of the song Gloomy Sunday is the closest to the original that can be currently found since the third stanza was added much later in an attmept to make the song sound uplifting (something that this version most definitely does not strive for).
Special thanks to Marquise, a very talented artist who allowed me to use some of her pictures! You can catch more of her incredible drawings at Live Journal.
Edited on 8/28/06: Thank you to everyone that has added this video to their favorites. I was stunned to see this but pleased as well. I thank you all for thinking so highly of this video!
Please be sure to check out my latest video "Closet Sunday"; a dark but powerful video combining clips from the thought provoking movie Closet Land with a soul provoking song called The Song Of The Gloomy Sunday.
I had fun putting this one together and learned a lot about Windows Movie Maker on this one.
My deepest apologies to those of you that knew and loved the original video. I only hope that this new song accompanies the video well enough to satisfy.
And to those that wish to defend WMG, that's fine, but as you feel the right to defend WMG, I feel the right to express my thoughts and feelings, and discontent, and I "do not go gentle into that good night" if I feel I have been wronged. Never have, never will.
This video is set to Limahl's "Never Ending Story".
Disclaimer: If you are an Alan Rickman fan and a member of SWARF you may see pics/wallpapers you created. I thank you for your contributions of pictures and do not in any way take credit for the creation of any of the pictures or wallpapers. I only take credit for putting this video together.


