This was one of INXS’s first videos to go into heavy rotation on MTV.
Director Soren Jensen was an assistant director on the Australian soap opera, The Young Doctors. (Michael Hutchence’s mother was a makeup artist on the Young Doctors.) The actresses who appear in the music video were also on The Young Doctors. The Young Doctors remains largely unknown in the U.S.
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Oh, New York. Best of luck to you.
Today’s song of the day comes from the soundtrack of 1973’s Black Caesar. Here is James Brown with Down & Out In New York City.
This music video is one of Sammy Hagar’s best. It shows how big deal MTV was in 1987 that Mark Goodman appeared as himself to introduce the video. The message of the video seems to be that happy couples watch Sammy Hagar together.
Director Gill Bettman was primarily a television director but he also directed a few videos from Hagar and Chicago.
Eddie Van Halen plays bass in this song. In fact, Eddie played bass for the entire album, I Never Said Goodbye.
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Love him or hate him, no one better epitomized an era than David Lee Roth. There’s no one else like him and regardless of how he may sound or look now, he was one of the greatest frontmen in the history of rock and roll.
There’s no director credited for this video. Peter Angelus seems like a good guess.
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This song of comes from Frank Black’s second solo album, Teenager of The Year. Frank Black, of course, is better known as Black Francis, the lead singer of the Pixies. His real name is Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV and he’s one of the most important musicians of the last 40 years.
This video was directed by Adam Bernstein, who also worked with They Might Be Giants.
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Today is Tax Day here in the States so this music video of the day feels especially appropriate.
George Harrison originally wrote this song in 1966. It appeared on Revolver. The song was inspired by the fact that, even tough the Beatles were making a huge amount of money, they were also expected to give a huge amount of that money to the government. Harrison said that the music was inspired by the theme song for the Batman TV series and once you learn that, it’s impossible to listen to this song without thinking, “Batman!”
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This is one of the best-known of They Might Be Giants’s songs. Though the song was released first, it also appeared on their 1990 album, Flood.
Director Adam Bernstein was a frequent They Might Be Giants collaborator. He also directed music videos for everyone from Public Enemy to Dead Milkmen to BareNaked Ladies and Sir Mix-A-Lot. He’s also a television director, having won an Emmy for his work on Fargo.
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This is a song that means a lot to me.
This is a historically-important video. It’s the final Whitesnake video to feature Tawny Kitaen. After the video, it was all downhill for Whitesnake as far as much videos were concerned. It turns out that people weren’t watching them because they wanted to see David Coverdale’s hair.
Marty Callner should be a familiar name by now. He was one of those music video directors who worked with everyone who was anyone.
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If you’ve seen 1986’s Manhunter, it’s hard not to think of this song when it comes to appreciating the great Tom Noonan.
Through the Shattered Lens 