“Neighbours” by Camouflage

Camouflage, a synth-pop trio out of Germany, pulled "Neighbours" from their 1988 debut album Voices & Images as its third single, and they didn't simply lift the album cut: the band re-recorded it at Dynaton Studios for the single, which Metronome issued in May 1988. America never got it as a single at all; the US got "That Smiling Face" instead, later that year.

The video is a small, eerie parable. The trio wander through a park where girls are playing croquet, one ball vanishes through a hoop, another comes to rest on a cross stuck in the ground, and that reveals a huge stretch of white crosses while the band simply stand and take it in. For a slick synth-pop single, it's a grim picture to leave on the screen.

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