In today’s music video of the day, Beastie Boys once again show that they could make practically any activity look cool.
Alive was the first single to be released off of Beastie Boys Anthology: The Sounds of Science. While it didn’t chart in the United States, it did make it to the 22nd position on the New Zealand Singles Chart.
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Today’s music video of the day is an early one from Van Halen. Coming from 1981, this video was a product of the time when videos were usually performance clips that focused on showing off the skills of the musicians.
As with all of the early Van Halen videos, this one balances the technical skills and talent of Eddie Van Halen with David Lee Roth’s sense of showmanship. David Lee Roth and Van Halen had their conflicts but they were always at their best when they were performing together.
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The video for this song, written for the film Armageddon, was filmed at the Minneapolis Armory. Along with featuring clips from the movie, the video pays tribute to the real-life American space shuttle program. When this song came out in 1997, it was inescapable. As with any popular song, there was a backlash but I defy anyone to get the chorus out of their head after they hear it.
Director Francis Lawrence directed music videos or just about everyone before starting a career as a feature film director, directing Constantine, I Am Legend, Water For Elephants, Red Sparrow, and the sequels to The Hunger Games.
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This video was shot at the Los Angeles City Hall and it played a big role of turning Jewel, who had been living in a van just a few years previously, into a star. Appropriately, this was also the first song that Jewel ever wrote, while she was 16 years old and hitchhiking through Mexico.
Director Geoff Moore is best-known as a photographer, whose work appeared in GQ, Elle, and Playboy. Along with directing commercials for Diesel, T-Mobile, Levis, and Converse. He has also shot videos for The Cardigans, Goo Goo Dolls, Suzanne Vega, Royal Crown Revue, NOFX, Reel Big Fish, and Blessid Union of Souls.
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Today’s music video of the day is for Quiet Riot’s cover of a song by Slade. The song begins in an emergency room and makes the argument that loud, head-banging music is the best medicine.
Director Mark Rezyka directed videos for several bands during the 80s and 90s, as well as working in television, directing episodes of both The Hitchhiker and Monsters. He directed videos for KISS, Gary Morris, Ratt, Lita Ford, Spinal Tap, Dillinger, Survivor, Cinderella, Helloween, Testament, Foreigner, Winger, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Johnny Crash, Vixen, Lindsey Buckingham, Whitesnake, Rene & Angela, Cheap Trick, and others.
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Originally, I had a different music video of the day selected for today but I just learned that Rock N’ Roll High School was released 44 years ago today. Ladies and gentlemen (and mice), in honor of that anniversary, here are the Ramones!
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Widely considered to be one of AC/DC’s best songs, none other than horror author Stephen King has cited the song as a personal favorite. He even included it on the soundtrack for his directorial debut (and farewell), Maximum Overdrive.
Like most of AC/DC’s videos, the video for Hells Bells keeps things simple by focusing on the band rocking out on stage.
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I’m running behind today so I’m going to keep things simple and funny for our music video of the day. Here’s Rodney Dangerfield performing Rappin’ Rodney. This is taken from his 1983 TV Special I Can’t Take It No More. Joining Rodney on stage are Robert Urich and Andy Kaufman.
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For today’s music video of the day, we have a video from an up-and-coming director named Dave Grohl. Whatever happened to him?
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In 1983, a reporter accused Van Halen’s David Lee Roth of only writing songs about “women, partying, and fast cars.” Roth realized that he never actually had written a song about a fast car so he wrote one about “Panama Express,” a car that he had seen race in Las Vegas.
The majority of this video was shot over two night at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. A few clips were taken from a performance that Van Halen gave at the Providence Civic Center in Providence, Rhode Island.
This video was directed by Pete Angelus, a long-time associate of the band. Along with directing most of Van Halen’s early videos, he also directed the videos for David Lee Roth’s Just a Gigolo and California Girls.
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