Category Archives: Music Review

Music Video of The Day: One (Your Name) by Swedish House Mafia featuring Pharrell Williams (2010, dir by Henrik Hanson and Christian Larson)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

I don’t really have much to say about this video, other than it’s Swedish House Mafia so I love it.  If it makes you want to dance, then it’s done its job.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Save The World by Swedish House Mafia (2011, dir by Jon Watts)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Long before Jon Watts directed Spider-Man: Homecoming, he directed another film about some unlikely super heroes.  The video for Swedish House Mafia’s Save The World shows us that the world is a dangerous place but it also encourages us to fear not.  The dogs are here!

Normally, I’m not really a dog person but I make an exception for the dogs in this video.  To be honest, cats probably wouldn’t make very good superheroes.  For one thing, all the villains would have to do would be schedule their nefarious schemes for whenever Supercat is taking a nap.  Add to that, cats are pretty self-centered.  That’s one reason why I love them but, at the same time, it’s doubtful they’d go out of their way to save a bunch of strangers.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Girls Talk by Garbage, featuring Brody Dalle (2014, dir by Sophie Muller)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

I’ve learned from personal experience that you have to be careful singing this song in front of certain company.

This video was directed by the amazingly prolific Sophie Muller, who — as of this writing — is credited with directing 230 videos.  She directed her first video way back in 1987 and is still working to this day.

Enjoy!

 

Music Video Of The Day: Hooked on a Feeling by David Hasselhoff (1997, by ????)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

A few weeks ago, I did a google search for the world’s strangest music video.  The results were largely made up of listicles, the majority of which had headlines like, “These Music Videos Are Messed Up and They’re Glorious” or “These 12 Strange Music Videos Are Everything.”

Bleh.  I hate clickbait headlines.

But still, I went ahead and checked out a few of the articles and I noticed that almost all of them mentioned a 1997 video that was made for a cover of Hooked on a Feeling performed by David Hasselhoff.  So, I went to YouTube and I watched the video and yeah, it was pretty weird.  Like a lot of things involving Hasselhoff, it’s hard to tell if it was meant to be taken seriously or if the video was in on the joke.

Anyway, enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Call My Name by Priest (2018, dir by Courtney F. Sell)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Today’s music video of the day is the just-released video for Call My Name by Priest.  This song is taken from Priest’s latest album, New Flesh.

Reading the comments on YouTube, it would appear that several people are of the opinion that this video has a Girl With The Dragon Tattoo feel to it.  Myself, I’d say that this video has more in common with David Cronenberg than David Fincher.  I mean, just the title of the album brings to mind Cronenberg’s Videodrome.

That said, I have to admit that, for me, the imagery in the video mostly brought to mind Jean Rollin’s 1970 film, The Nude Vampire.  

Jean Rollin’s The Nude Vampire

As anyone who has regularly read this site over the years can tell you, reminding me of a Jean Rollin film is always a good thing.

Enjoy!

 

Music Video of the Day: Speak To Me Of Abduction by William Control (2013, dir by ????)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Speak To Me Of Abduction is a song that played over the end credits of William Control’s first live DVD, Live in London Town and I absolutely love the song.  As for the video, it’s primarily clips of Wil Francis (a.k.a. William Control) walking around and performing in one of the greatest cities in the world, London!

The city of London was itself founded in 43 AD, by the Romans.  It was originally known as Londinium.  No one is quite sure why the Romans called the town Londinium, though there is speculation that the name was of Celtic origin and originally meant “place that floods.”

I also picked this song because today is … and this not a joke … Alien Abduction Day!  Seriously!  According to this website, Alien Abduction Day is always celebrated on March 20th.  Why, you may ask?  I have no idea.  Maybe someone famous got abducted by aliens on this day.  I’m not even sure how exactly we’re supposed to celebrate Alien Abduction Day.  Should I go out in the woods and stare up at the sky until a bright light appears?  Considering that today is also the first day of Spring, a road trip sounds like fun but I don’t necessarily want to end up getting grabbed by any of those little gray men.  Though, honestly, I don’t think they’re that tough.

I did, however, decide to see if I could find any footage from last year’s Alien Abduction Day.  Here’s the best that I could find:

Seriously, I wouldn’t want to get abducted by one of those things!

I guess my point is that everyone should be careful today.  Remember, alien abductions are always fun until this happens:

Enjoy and keep watching the skies!

Can you prove it didn’t happen?