Category Archives: Music Review

Horror Song of the Day: The Dead Don’t Die by Sturgill Simpson

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die still tends to get a mixed response from horror fans and I can certainly understand that.  It’s one of those films where you’re either on its wavelength or you aren’t.

That said, I do like the theme song.  From Sturgill Simpson, here is The Dead Don’t Die.

 

Music Video of the Day: Mirror People by Love and Rockets (1988, directed by ????)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

Mirror People was one of the singles to be released off of Love and Rockets’s third studio album, Earth, Sun, Moon.  The video looks like something that Dr. Caligari would have filmed if he had been a music aficionado.

Enjoy!

Horror Song of the Day: Hanging Out With My Family by Damien Carter

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Watching Suburban Sasquatch last night and then reviewing it today reminded me of how much more I enjoyed Birdemic.  Suburban Sasquatch would have been improved by a dance scene.

I wonder how the birds could possibly want to destroy a civilization that is capable of something like Hanging Out With My Family.

Music Video of the Day: (Don’t Fear) the Repear by The Alice Band (2002, directed by Rob Dickens)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

The Alice Band was not together for long a period of time but they did manage to stick around long enough to record this cover of Don’t Fear The Reaper.

This video was directed by Rob Dickens, the British music industry executive who put the group together.  Did this cover need more cowbell?  It’s in the ear of the beholder.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: The Valley by Bill Wyman and Terry Taylor (1985, dir by Michele Soavi)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Today’s music video of the day is for an instrumental piece that was composed by Bill Wyman and Terry Taylor for Dario Argento’s 1985 film, Phenomena.

Put together by Michele Soavi, this music video features not only scenes from the film but also clips of Dario Argento directing both Jennifer Connelly and Fiore Argento.  Soavi, of course, went on to have a directorial career of his own, directing four classic horror films before stepping away from feature films to take care of his ailing son.  Soavi has since returned to directing, though most of his subsequent work has been for Italian television.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Bed of Nails by Alice Cooper (1989, directed by Nigel Dick)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

Bed of Nails is from Alice Cooper’s 11th studio album, Trash.  It was the album’s second most successful single, despite not even being released as a single in the U.S.  Maybe some of that success was due to this music video, in which Alice the singer performs over and in a bed of nails while women in leather walk through the studio and play the cello.

This video was directed by Nigel Dick, who directed videos for anyone who was anyone.  If Nigel Dick has not done a video for you, you are not really a rock star.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: The Wild and the Young by Quiet Riot (1986, directed by Jeff Stein)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

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.  There were actually Senate hearings on obscene lyrics in 1985, with everyone from Dee Snider to Frank Zappa coming together to make the elected officials look stupid.

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.