Filmed outside of the Warwick Avenue Tube Station, this music video is almost entirely composed of one shot. Originally, there were many more scenes planned for this video but when Duffy actually started to cry while singing in the back of taxi, director Daniel Wolfe realized that he had gotten the only shot that the video and the song needed.
This video was nominated for Best UK Video at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards but lost to Shut Up and Let Me Go by the Ting Tings.
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At the time it was released, this video was the most expensive music video ever filmed. It was estimated to have cost £40,000, with the majority of the money going to recreating scenes from 1940s serials.
Director Mike Mansfield also did videos for Kim Wilde, Ozzy Osbourne, The Cure, The Moody Blues, and almost every other prominent British band of the early 80s.
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How embarrassing, I wrote this post last night but I forgot to click on schedule. I guess we’re all goin’ crazy.
This song is from David Lee Roth’s solo album, Eat ‘Em And Smile and it features Roth and his band performing while being watched by two record executives, the Picasso Brothers. As you can see in the video, Roth put together an amazing band for his solo effort, with Steve Vai on guitar, Billy Sheehan on bass, and Gregg Bissonette on drums.
This video was directed Pete Angelus, who also did the music video for Van Halen’s Jump.
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Today’s music video of the day is from Glenn Frey, who was born 75 years ago on this date. This song was written for Miami Vice. The music video features Glenn not in Miami but New York, where he crosses paths repeatedly with one woman who belongs to the city.
The woman is played by Lisa Parker, who appeared in a handful of films in the 80s.
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When a bunch of upper class businessmen get together to play poker and exploit the masses, who better to rough them up than Motörhead? While the band breaks up the poker game, they also perform on a London roof top, which provides a wonderful view of St. Paul’s Cathedral.
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On Friday night, myself, Lisa, Leonard, and several other people all watched UHF, the ahead-of-its-time comedy starring Weird Al Yankovic. One of the highlights of the movie was this music video, which combined Dire Straits’s Money For Nothing with the Beverly Hillbillies.
The video’s animation was done by David Silverman, who would go on to work on The Simpsons. Mark Knopfler and Guy Fletcher, both of Dire Straits, both performed on the song. Knopfler later said was that his one condition for allowing the parody was that he and Fletcher be allowed to play on it.
According to Yankovic, the song’s strange title was due to the demands of the lawyers. He prefers to call the song “Beverly Hillbillies For Nothing.”
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This video for For Whom The Bells Tolls was filmed at a show at the San Diego Sports Arena in 1992. When Beavis and Butt-Head watched this video in 1995, Beavis said he was the show and Lars pointed straight at him.
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Estranged, which appeared on Appetite on Destruction, is Guns N’ Roses second-longest song overall. Like November Rain and Don’t Cry, the song’s lyrics were inspired by a short story that was written by Del James.
The music video was originally planned to be continuation of the story started in the videos for November Rain and Don’t Cry but that plan was abandoned when Axl Rose and Stephanie Seymour broke up before shooting on the video began. The storyline for the video was changed, though it still dealt with the same themes as the other two videos. This time, instead of ending with Axl thinking about Stephanie Seymour, the story ended with Axl swimming with the dolphins.
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I know that I surely wasn’t the only one hoping this song and video would be about the movie and the television series about the aliens coming to Earth and becoming a part of the regular population.
Well, it’s not.
Instead, it’s about the reunification of Germany and the struggle of some to adjust to it. (The name of the song has a double meaning, as it’s about both a new world and human alienation.) It makes sense since Scorpions is a German band. This song appeared on their 12th studio album, Face the Heat, and is one of the few directly political songs to be recorded by Scorpions.
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Graham Marshall (Michael Caine) has spent years toiling away as an executive at an advertising firm and being nagged by his wife (Swoosie Kurtz), who claims that Graham doesn’t have enough of a killer instinct to get ahead. When Graham is passed over for a promotion that he felt was promised to him, Graham starts to reconsider everything that he once believed. While Graham is waiting for the train to take him home, he is approached by an obnoxious panhandler who always asks him for money. That night, instead of ignoring the panhandler, Graham shoves him in front of the train. When no one notices that Graham has murdered the panhandler, Graham decides to get revenge on everyone who he blames for the sorry state of his life.
With each murder, Graham rises higher in the company and he feels better about his life. But each murder brings to Graham a new set of complications that he has to clean up. Lt. Laker (Will Patton) thinks that Graham is responsible for all of the deaths that have recently occurred but he doesn’t have the evidence to charge him. His murder spree brings him a chance of romantic redemption with Stella (Elizabeth McGovern) but soon, even she suspects that Graham might actually be a killer. Luckily for him, Graham learns that he can get away with his crimes because the system is set up to protect men like him.
A Shock To The System is a pitch-black comedy that benefits from the casting of Michael Caine in the lead role. Caine is one of the few actors who can make a resentful and bitter sociopath likable and he does that in A Shock To The System. Graham starts out beaten down by the world and being passed over for younger executives like Bob Benham (Peter Reigert) but, by the end of the film, he’s become as ruthless a killer as Jack Carter. Just as in Get Carter, A Shock To The System features Michael Caine making evil very compelling.
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