Six Finger Satellite - Parlour Games (2025 Remaster)

What this video is

Originally produced in 1995 as a low-budget music video for Six Finger Satellite's Sub Pop single 'Parlour Games' from the album Severe Exposure, the clip gained outsized cultural traction when it aired on Beavis and Butt-Head — a significant validator of underground credibility in the mid-1990s MTV ecosystem. The 2025 reissue places this artifact within the broader context of Sub Pop's 30th anniversary celebration…

Why it matters

Represents a pivotal document of mid-1990s post-punk/synth-punk hybridization emerging from the American indie underground, predating the commercially recognized dance-punk wave by nearly a decade. The video's DIY low-budget aesthetic is emblematic of the Sub Pop underground's visual language in…

The director

Guy Benoit is a Rhode Island-based filmmaker and musician, known within the Providence underground music scene. He served as vocalist and saxophonist in Thee Hydrogen Terrors, a noise rock/punk band from the Rhode Island area, and was connected to the…