Video Review: Extreme, "PhotoGraffitti"

EXTREME are very much the buzz band off the moment, and the release of Photograffitti is known as striking while the iron's hot. A collection of the band's videos so far, interlaced with interview footage of the band in conversation with Lonn Friend of RIP Magazine, which incidentally is shot in black and white.

From the enormously popular Pornograffitti album, there is the brilliant "Decadence Dance," their big hit "Get the Funk Out" and with Pat Badger and Paul Geary taking a well-earned rest Nuno Bettencourt and Gary Cherone run through their classic "More than Words."

The final three vids are from the band's earlier and less sophisticated days before mega success. "Mama," "Little Girls," and the bands very first video the ZEPPELINesque "Kid Ego."

Running time is a brief 33 minutes, not bad for pasty faced white boys!

Billy Kulke
Riff Raff
November, 1991

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