Apparently, “think of England” is the advice that was once given to British wives who no longer enjoyed having sex with their husband, that one should simply lie back and “think of England.” Apparently, thinking of France would lead to divorce.
Yeah, this isn’t a particularly happy song. But it sounds nice and I enjoy the bleakness of the video’s black-and-white cinematography.
Enjoy!
I can never hear MakeDamnSure without thinking about the What’s It Feel Like To Be A Ghost episode of Degrassi.
That’s the episode where aspiring rock star Craig Manning (played by Jake Epstein) returns to Toronto after being on tour and we discover that he’s picked up a nasty cocaine habit. Despite being coked out of his mind, Craig still gets a chance to perform during a Taking Back Sunday show. However, no sooner does Craig get on stage and start to sing then he suddenly gets the worst nosebleed in the history of nosebleeds.
AGCK!
Needless to say, the members of Taking Back Sunday are not impressed.
Of course, before everything went so terribly wrong, Craig had bragged to Taking Back Sunday’s Adam Lazzara about how he performed a “stripped down, acoustic” version of MakeDamnSure in his set. “I’d like to hear that,” Adam replied.
YOU BLEW IT, CRAIG!
Oh well. Fear not. By the time Craig returned for Degrassi Goes Hollywood, he was clean of the drugs and hopefully, he got back together with Ellie.
(Actually, as much as I love Ellie, Craig’s soulmate really was Ashley. Ellie should never have let Sean break up with her…)
(Okay, sorry, I’m getting lost in a Degrassi tangent here…FOCUS, LISA, FOCUS!)
As for the video for MakeDamnSure, it features the band performing in a wind tunnel. There’s a lot of scary and sad imagery but fear not, things work out for the best. It turns out that some people do give a damn.
Enjoy!
Hopefully, the weather is good today!
Enjoy!
Since at least a few people are currently on spring break, this seemed like a good day to pick a video for a song that’s actually called “Spring Break.”
Of course, neither the song nor the video is really about spring break. (Or, at the very least, it’s not about what we usually think of spring break being about.) Instead, the video follows Ex-Cops as the prepare to play at the Museum of Modern Art. It’s a bit of a documentary. Meanwhile, a bicyclist (played by Nickolas Kimbrell, who designed the band’s costumes) rides around New York City, while wearing a variety of politically charged t-shirts and interacting with various New York characters.
Enjoy!
If you’re fan of old movies that used to play in the grindhouses or at the drive-ins, you’re familiar with the Crown International Picture logo.
This logo appeared at the start of some of the most entertaining and cheaply made exploitation films of all time. These were movies with titles like Malibu Beach, The Teacher, Cavegirl, They Saved Hitler’s Brain, The Sidehackers, My Tutor, Trip With The Teacher, Best Friends, and The Sister-in-Law. These films may have never been critically acclaimed but they’re still being discovered and loved by viewers today.
Crown International Pictures was founded in 1959 and ceased operations in 1992. Over the course of 43 years, the studio only received one Oscar nomination. That was in 1972, for Best Original Song. Written by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster, Strange Are The Ways Of Love played over the credits for The Stepmother.
In honor of both the Oscars and Crown International Picture, here is Strange Are The Ways Of Love…
With this being Oscar Sunday, it’s good to be reminded that everyone had to start somewhere! Brie Larson rightly won an Oscar for Room but, before that movie, she was just another singer pretending to be a waitress and singing songs of empowerment.
Need proof?
Watch today’s music video of the day and…
ENJOY!
First off, this not a cover of the famous Lynard Skynard song.
Though it is a song about living in Alabama, there’s a bit of sarcasm to be found in the title. The song is about Caroline Sallee’s experience growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, a town that she would eventually leave for Austin, Texas. The lyrics aren’t going to do much for Alabama tourism, if such a thing exists.
As for the video, the claymation was done by Sallee herself.
I just like trippy videos, especially when they’re done by people who live in Texas.
Enjoy!
Admittedly, I’m not really a big country music fan. My musical tastes pretty much start with EDM and end with more EDM. But you know what?
Today is Texas Independence State and I love my home state. So, it just seems right that today’s music video of the day should Kevin Fowler’s Texas Forever!
Enjoy the beautiful Texas scenery!
I’ll be honest.
The main reason why I like this video is because I recognize every location where it was filmed, from the DART Station to Reunion Tower to Forrest Lane to that stairs. I think I even recognize the elevator.
Enjoy!
Yesterday, veteran British film director Lewis Gilbert passed away. Gilbert directed several films, in all sorts of different genres, but he’s probably best known for directing three James Bond films, including The Spy Who Loved Me.
Since The Spy Who Loved Me is one of my favorite Bond films, I thought it would be appropriate to pick Carly Simon’s theme song, Nobody Does It Better, for today’s music video of the day. However, the closest that I could find to an “official” video was the Maurice Binder-designed title sequence from The Spy Who Loved Me.
Written by Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager, Nobody Does It Better was Carly Simon’s longest-charted hit and it’s a song that has continued to have a long life outside of the Bond franchise. It was the second Bond theme song to be nominated for Best Original Song.
Enjoy!
Through the Shattered Lens 