Klaus Nomi: Total Eclipse (1981)

I just watched the 2005 "Nomi Song" doc. One snobbish commentator said that in this song, Nomi had "sold out" because he was performing with a rock band and there was the case of "their faces" (seriously, this idiot was offended that the players had natural human faces rather than personae or literal masks) and their "stupid" guitars and their overall lack of panache. While my initial reaction was to agree that Nomi should indeed appear in a more refined atmosphere... Appearing here with back-up hold-over shaggy rock musicians didn't detract from Nomi's persona at all---in fact, the contrast was a bit interesting. The late-'70s SNL-type house musicians and the New Wave (though much more than "New Wave") Nomi breaching the gap...