Today’s music video of the day is for the haunting piece of music that we all know from Requiem For A Dream and countless Olympic ice skating routines.
Anyone who says this is not a horror song has somehow forgotten watching Ellen Burstyn get electroshock treatment while Jared Leto loses his arm.
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Hey Stoopid is the title track off of Alice Cooper’s 12th solo studio album. The song is about drug abuse and suicide, with Alice telling his listeners to stay off drugs, to “put the gun down,” and that rock and roll isn’t about being self-destructive. Alice Cooper even sings, “You ain’t living in a video.” (Thought he did struggle with alcohol and it would probably shock many of the people who criticized him during his 70s heyday, Alice Cooper has always been anti-drug.) Slash plays guitar on the track while Ozzy Osbourne provided backing vocals.
The music videos is a mix of live action, animations, and Alice Cooper performing with a skull. I wouldn’t mind spending a day in Alice Cooper Land.
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Directed by animator Tristan Zammit, this music video for Metallica finds the legendary metal band playing in a haunted house while surrounded by specters and other beings.
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Fear of the Dark, a song about a man who is scared of the dark, was based on the a very real fear that is held by Iron Maiden founder/bassist/songwriter Steve Harris. The song served as the title track for Iron Maiden’s ninth studio album and it’s gone on to become one of the band’s best known songs.
The video was directed by Samuel Bayer, who was another one of those music video directors who worked with everyone and who made a huge cultural impact even if most of the people who enjoyed his work never learned his name. Among the other videos that Bayer directed: Garbage’s Only Happy When It Rains, Melissa Etheridge’s Come To My Window, LL Cool J’s Father, and Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit.
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This is a song that Claudio Simonetti composed for Dario Argento’s 1985 film, Opera.
Compared to the film, the video for this song is decidedly low-key but it’s still a lovely piece of music.
The music video for Kim Carnes’s Voyeur is another music video that was initially banned from MTV and other music shows because it was considered to be too suggestive. The video features Kim Carnes watching and being watched in a red light district.
This video was directed by Russell Mulcahy, who perhaps did more than anyone to perfect the early music video aesthetic.
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Today’s song of the day is this 1984 classic from Ray Parker, Jr. Have you busted a ghost today?
Frontier is from Dead Can Dance’s self-titled debut album. This is the sound that largely defined goth in the 80s.
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The world is vampire
For a period of time in the 90s, you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing that. It was one of the original memes, thanks to both the song and the video that was made to promote it. The video, which was inspired by photographs of a Brazilian gold mine, was filmed in a quarry near Simi Valley. While the extras dressed like miners and were meant to represent the Biblical lepers who asked Jesus to heal them, the band goes for a glam rock look. It pays to be in the band.
This video was directed by Samuel Bayer, who has done music videos for everyone who is anyone.
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Today’s horror song of the day really needs no introduction.
From 1960, here is the main theme from Alfred Hitchcok’s Psycho, composed by Bernard Herrmann.
