In today’s music video of the day, Metallica proves themselves to be the band that is so powerful that they can bring out a solar eclipse, just by rocking out.
Animator Tristan Zammit is also credited with doing videos for Tory Lanez and XXXTentacion.
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Though it’s hard to believe now, this music video was actually banned by MTV for what the channel considered to be “senseless and excessive violence.” I guess Lemmy driving through that wall and giving everyone the finger really upset them.
Ron Swenson, the director of this controversial video, was best-known for being the manager of the Plasmatics.
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It’s just a normal night as Danzig’s house in the video for Braineaters. Everyone comes for dinner and the chef comes out with a pot full of brains. If nothing else, this video is about as literal an adaptation of a song’s title as you are ever likely to see.
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In this video, the Bauhaus perform their song Spirit for actual spirits. Spirit was the seventh single to released by Bauhaus. It peaked at Number 42 on the UK Singles Chart.
Director Christopher Collins is directed with overseeing three other videos, all for Bauhaus: Bela Lugosi’s Dead, Mask, and In The Flat Field.
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The music video for Quiet Riot’s The Wild and The Young takes place in a future that’s controlled by the military and the Parents Resource Music Center (PRMC), the Tipper Gore-led organization that campaigned for albums and CDs to come with warning labels. Because the PRMC was largely made up with the wives of U.S. Senators, there was actually a Senate hearing on obscene lyrics in 1985, which led to a bunch of Senators being made to look foolish by everyone from Dee Snider to Frank Zappa.
Director Jeff Stein has directed several TV shows, along with doing videos for The Who, Weezer, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, George Clinton, Cinderella, Warrant, and Wilson Phillips.
In this music video, the members of Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction fly their mechanical airship to what appears to be a church school. It’s ever parents worst nightmare. The lyrics of the song features references to X-ray specs. Zodiac Mindwarp, as far as their lyrics were often concerned, was not necessarily meant to be taken seriously.
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Spellbound was the lead single off of Siouxsie and the Banshee’s fourth studio album, Juju. In later interviews, Siouxsie would describe Juju as being an accidental concept album as all of the songs dealt with dark themes and subject manner. Juju was a horror-themed album but the horror was psychological and not supernatural. As a sign of that theme, Spellbound was named after an Alfred Hitchcock film about a man who is troubled by disturbing dreams.
Clive Richardson directed several videos from Siouxsie and the Banshees. He also worked with Depeche Mode, Steve Winwood, Big Country, and Tears for Fears.
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Today’s music video of the day is the third single from Metallica’s 11th studio album (and the second Metallica album to be released by their own label), 72 Seasons. This video finds the band performing in front of what appears to be a tank that is full of both water and flames. This song marries the hard sound of Metallica with some of the most serious and introspective lyrics that James Hetfield has ever sung. If darkness had a son, who would that son be?
Along with directing several other videos from 72 Seasons, Timothy Saccenti has worked with Korn, Phantogram, Franz Ferdinand, Depeche Mode, and the Animal Collective.
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In the music video for Mirror Man, Philip Oakley plays a ghost who is haunting a theater. A few years after this video came out, Oakley mentioned in an interview that the song wasn’t actually about a ghost but was instead about Adam Ant.
Director Brian Duffy was best-known for his work as a fashion photographer.
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A cemetery, an atomic wasteland, a chainsaw, a preacher with a bunch of mutant worshippers, it doesn’t get more 80s gothic than this.
Director Richard Stanley directed several gothic music videos but he’s best-known for his feature films, including Hardware and Dust Devil. (In many ways, the video for Preacher Man feels like a dry run for both Hardware and Dust Devil.) He was also the original director of the infamous The Island of Dr. Moreau until his conflicts with both the studios and actors Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer led to him being replaced by John Frankenheimer.
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