Music Video of the Day: The Wild and the Young by Quiet Riot (1986, directed by Jeff Stein)


The music video for Quiet Riot’s The Wild and The Young takes place in a future that’s controlled by the military and the Parents Resource Music Center (PRMC), the Tipper Gore-led organization that campaigned for albums and CDs to come with warning labels.  There were actually Senate hearings on obscene lyrics in 1985, with everyone from Dee Snider to Frank Zappa coming together to make the elected officials look stupid.

Director Jeff Stein has directed several TV shows, along with doing videos for The Who, Weezer, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, George Clinton, Cinderella, Warrant, and Wilson Phillips.

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