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| "Sunset" | ||
|---|---|---|
| Song by The Devin Townsend Band | ||
| From the album Synchestra | ||
| Album released | 30 January 2006 | |
| Recorded | August 2005 at The Armoury studios | |
| Genre | Heavy Metal | |
| Song Length | 2:31 | |
| Record label | Hevy Devy Records InsideOut | |
| Producer | Devin Townsend | |
| Synchestra Album Listing | ||
| A Simple Lullaby (Track 11) | Sunset (Track 12) | Notes From Africa (Track 13) |
'Sunset' is the twelfth track of Synchestra by The Devin Townsend Band.
"Sunset (Bird of Prey)" is the title of a remix by Fatboy Slim, which uses samples from a recording by Jim Morrison, "Bird of Prey", from the An American Prayer posthumous album, which had The Doors playing backing music over Morrison singing one of his poems ad-lib.
The music video of the song takes place in the year 1964 and features a United States air force pilot flying a British-made Hawker Hunter airplane named the "Bird of Prey". It opens with the famous Daisy %28television commercial%29, showing the pilot sitting in a room watching this commercial. He drinks a glass of water which has something bubbling in it, intercut with an image of a brain and a piece of paper with text describing a chemical. We see an identification form with Fatboy Slim's real name on it, (Colonel) "Norman Cook". He flies the plane as he's coming on to the drug, and he eventually ejects and parachutes down. The actual song is playing during the flight sequence.
The pilot ends up on the floor beside the plane, which somehow ends up back in the hangar, if it ever in fact left. He's helped up by Military Police. He says "It's wonderful... it's important that you understand..." He's then back in the room, watching the commercial, and tripping out watching his hands. There's some quick edits of Classified and Top Secret documents, CIA and OSS logos, and finally, if the viewer hasn't yet realized that the pilot has been dosed, probably with LSD, a reference to Project MKULTRA. We then see a similar ID form, but this time the name on the form is (Major) Al Hubbard. It closes with the Daisy commercial again, zooming in on the eye of the little girl as she counts down and ends on "One."







