An Early, And Frankly Rather More Frightening Than Usual, Clue to the New Direction

From French TV in 1966, please enjoy Les Them(!), featuring the angry young Van Morrison, and a very strange promo video of their garage-rock classic "Gloria."



Seriously -- what's up with the shots of the horse's head or donkey or whatever it is when Gloria's name is being spelled out? All I can think of is somebody involved with this was trying to remake Luis Bunuel's Un Chien Andalou. Or something.

In any case, a coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded to the first reader who gleans the clip's relevance to the theme of tomorrow's Weekend Listomania.

[h/t Andy "Folk-Rock" Pasternack]