Today’s music video of the day is for a song that Mungo Jerry lead singer Ray Dorset later said he wrote in ten minute while at break on work. The song’s infectious sound and good cheer led to it becoming an athem of summer and a hit around the world.
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For his 1993 album Duets, Frank Sinatra teamed up with other singers to reinterpret some of his best-known songs. For I’ve Got You Under My Skin, he teamed up with U2’s Bono and thoroughly sung him under the table.
The music video was directed by Kevin Godley, who was one of those directors who ended up working with just anyone who was anybody. In the video, Bono looks very excited to be there. Frank looks a little less excited.
At the same time this album came out, SNL broadcast a skit featuring Phil Hartman as Frank Sinatra, bullying all the other singers and refusing to actually record with them. “There’s a twenty on the dresser, now get out!”
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This song is from KISS’s fifth studio album, Rock and Roll Over. This music video is from the age of simple music videos, when the focus was more on the band playing than on trying to tell a story with song. When its comes to KISS, their simple videos, like this one, are the best. Also, their videos with the famous KISS makeup are better than the videos they shot during the period of time when they tried to abandon their trademark look.
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Sinead O’Connor, RIP.
In 1988, Megadeth covered this Sex Pistols classic on their album, So Far, So Good … So What!? Even though they changed the name of the country to the U.S. for the song, they kept the title the same. Steve Jones also played on the song. The video, directed by David Mackie, mixes the brainwashing scene from A Clockwork Orange with the test video of the Parallax View.
This is one of the many song that, though having been a hit for the band, Dave Mustaine now refuses to perform. In this case, it’s because of the references to being an anti-Christ.
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This was one of the earliest music videos, featuring a band that seemed to be destined to take advantage of the format. Compared to some of their other songs, People Are Strange sounds incredibly upbeat considering how paranoid the lyrics actually are. The song was written a time when Jim Morrison was going through a period of depression. While watching the sunset at Robby Krieger’s house, he suddenly had the realization that “If you’re strange, people are strange.”
The point of the video is that the majority of the people filmed for the video would not be considered strange by the standards of conventional society. It’s only through the eyes of The Doors and others who feel alienated from the mainstream that they are revealed as strange.
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Damn, listen to these guys sing!
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Since today is the birthday of guitar god Slash, today’s music video of the day is for the third single to be release from Slash’s self-titled debut solo album. Slash told The Sun that this song began as a piece of music that he wrote as “a score for a scene in a strip club” and he decided to have Fergie provide vocals after hearing her cover Heart’s Barracuda.
The video features Fergie as an obsessed fan of Slash’s who apparently ends up killing him. Slash said that the idea for the video came from Fergie herself. The video was directed by Rich Lee, who has also done several videos for The Black-Eyed Peas, Eminem, Lana del Rey, and others.
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Rest in Peace, Tony Bennett.
This video was a big part of Tony Bennett’s 90s comeback. He was the first of the old time crooners to embrace MTV and, in the summer of 1993, that made him the coolest senior around. The next year, Mel Torme would attempt to do the same thing, playing at the MTV Spring Break beach house.
Director Marcus Nispel has gone on to have a career doing feature films, most of which have been remakes and reboots. Among his film credits: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot, the Friday the 13th reboot, and the remakes of Pathfinder and Conan the Barbarian.
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Both Sides of the Story was the lead single from Phil Collins’s fifth solo album. Collins has said that both the song and the music video were inspired by the 1991 film Grand Canyon, which featured a group of Los Angeles residents (played by Kevin Kline, Steve Martin, Danny Glover, and others) dealing with crime, racism, gangs, and income inequality.
The video was directed by Jim Yukich, who directed almost all of Phil Collins’s videos in the 80s and the 90s. The video follows the lyrics of the song, going from the poor to the rich to finally a violent confrontation in the streets. This is Phil Collins in a serious mood.
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Through the Shattered Lens 