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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Directed by Russell Mulcahy, the video for Wild Boys cost over a million pounds, which was considered to be an astronomical sum in 1984. Both the video and the song is based on the William S. Burroughs novel, The Wild Boys. Mulcahy had long-wanted to adapt the book into a film and the song was written to serve as a part of the soundtrack of the proposed film. (The film itself was never made.)
The costumes in the video were left over from The Road Warrior. The video, featuring all of the members of Duran Duran being tortured in different ways, was controversial but ultimately very popular.
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This music video represents the fantasy of almost every 80s kid, skateboard wherever you want, read a comic book about your favorite hero having an amazing adventure, and doing it all while your favorite band performs behind you.
Depending on what part of the world you were living in, Women was either the first or the second single to be released off of Dep Leppard’s best-selling album, Hysteria. Hysteria was a great album that was helped immeasurably by MTV. Fans of the band already knew that Def Leppard rocked but MTV gave everyone the chance to watch them as they did so.
This was the first Dep Leppard video to be filmed after Rick Allen lost his left arm. A good deal of the video’s popularity comes from Rick showing that he was still one of the best drummers in the business.
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I always assumed that this song was specifically written for one of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies but actually, the Fat Boys were just fans of the movies and they decided to put a song about them on one of their albums. The song was included in The Freddy Krueger Special, which aired on CBS in 1988. That’s amazing to think that Freddy got his own primetime special.
This video, which features several of Freddy’s victims and Robert Englund himself, was written by Wes Craven and directed by Harvey Keith. Keith directed a few films, including 1988’s Mondo New York and 1990’s Jezebel’s Kiss.
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Director Julian Doyle also directed videos for Kate Bush but he may be best known for working as an editor on several Monty Python and Terry Gilliam films, including Life of Brian, Time Bandits, The Meaning of Life, Brazil, and Terry Jones’s Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride.
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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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Through the Shattered Lens 