I’m not sure when this video for Black Water was filmed. The song itself came out in 1974 but, because the video features Bobby LaKind on the congas, the video had to have been shot after 1976. The presence of Jeff “Skunk” Baxter and Tiran Porter means that it was shot before 1980. If I had to guess, I’d say 1978 because the was the same year the Doobie Brothers appeared on What’s Happening!!!.
I looked closely at the audience and I did not see Rerun trying to tape the performance. That’s good because the one thing that really upset the Doobie Brothers was bootlegging.
WastedYears was Iron Maiden’s 14th single and its first off of their Somewhere In Time album. The music video depicts the same scene that was on the single’s cover. Eddie is piloting his time machine through temporal space while the band plays. Eddie was a cyborg for the Somewhere In Time singles.
This was yet another video directed by the very busy Jim Yukich.
Forever Free was a power ballad from W.A.S.P. and an homage to Lynard Skynard’s Freebird. It appeared on W.A.S.P.’s fourth studio album, The Headless Children. At the time, The Headless Children was considered to be W.A.S.P.’s first mature album and it featured the band performing songs about something more than just heavy metal decadence and good times.
Director Jim Yukich is one of those directors who has worked with everyone who was anyone. If your band was a success during the MTV era, Jim Yukich probably did at least one video for you.
NoLeafClover is one of two original compositions to appear on Metallica’s 1999 live album, S&M. S&M stood for Symphony and Metallica and any other possible interpretation was just a coincidence. (Sure!)
Directed by Wayne Isham, this video features both Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony bringing the song to life. This was also the second to last Metallica video to feature bassist Jason Newsted.
It doesn’t get much more British than Genesis trying to rehearse while Benny Hill tries to keep groupies (some of whom are Page 3 girls) from sneaking backstage!
This video was never officially released. As far as I know, it never aired on MTV. Instead, the video was used to introduce the band during their Invisible Touch tour. Anything She Does was the one InvisibleTouch song that was not performed live by the band during that tour. Keyboardist Tony Banks, who wrote the song, said it was difficult to play.
The song itself is about a man who is in love with a model that he’s never met.
Do you want to watch one of the most expensive music videos ever made?
Even more importantly, do you have 15 minutes to watch MC Hammer?
The idea behind this video is that MC Hammer is thinking about quitting the business but James Brown wants him to steal Michael Jackson’s glove. Before we even get to Hammer, we sit through James Belushi as a newscaster and cameos from several 1991 celebrities. Danny Glover, Henry Winkler, Freedom Williams, David Faustino, Barry Sobel, Ralph Tresvant, Mark and Donnie Wahlberg, Eazy-E, DJ Quik, 2nd II None, Tony Danza, Queen Latifah and Milli Vanilli all appear in this video, as do several athletes: José Canseco, Isiah Thomas, Kirby Puckett, Jerry Rice, Rickey Henderson, Deion Sanders, Andre Rison, Wayne Gretzky, Chris Mullin, Roger Clemens, Roger Craig, Ronnie Lott, Lynette Woodard, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, David Robinson, and former Atlanta Falcons coach Jerry Glanville. Obviously, with David Faustino and Tony Danza standing behind him, there was no way MC Hammer could quit.
This video was named the fifth worst music video of all time by MAX Music. That was only with hindsight, though. A shortened version was a hit on MTV and, in 1991, the Atlanta Falcons dubbed themselves the 2 Legit 2 Quite Falcons. (They went 10-6 that season.)
Director Rupert Wainwright also did the video for U Can’t Touch This.
By 1991, everyone was sick of him. How unpopular was Vanilla Ice? He was so unpopular that 3rd Bass scored a moderate with Pop Goes The Weasel, a song attacking him for cultural appropriation. Like Vanilla Ice, two of the rappers in 3rd Bass were Caucasian but they presented themselves as respecting rap’s traditions and history. Vanilla Ice, on the other hand, couldn’t even be bothered to give credit to Queen for stealing their bass line.
This video found a lot of popularity on MTV. Ironically, it was MTV that made Vanilla Ice a star to begin with by repeatedly playing the video for Ice Ice Baby. In this video, Vanilla Ice was played by Henry Rollins.
Director Jesse Dylan has also done videos for Tom Waits, The Black Keyes, Eels, Skid Row, Lenny Kravitz and Lita Ford. He also directed the Will Ferrell soccer epic, Kicking and Screaming.
Today, on Sean Connery’s birthday, our song of the day is the theme for one of my favorite Bond films. I know that some people claim that Diamonds are Forever is a lesser Bond film but personally, I think it’s just silly enough to be effective. James Bond and Las Vegas are a match made in heaven.
One it comes to one-hit wonders, there really aren’t many that hold up as well as Come On Eileen. In a year dominated by Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Come On Eileen managed to take first place on the Billboard 100, displacing Billie Jean before then being displaced itself by Beat It.
The music video of Come On Eileen was filmed in the inner south London district of Elephant and Castle in the vicinity of the corner of Brook Drive and Hayles Street, then known as Austral Street and Holyoak Road. Playing the role of Eileen was Máire Fahey, the sister of Bananarama’s Siobhan Fahey. “Poor old Johnnie Ray” appears as himself, via footage of him arriving at Heathrow Airport in 1954.
Director Julien Temple is perhaps best known for his association with the Sex Pistols, having directed both The Great Rock and Roll Swindle and The Filth and the Fury.
Through the Shattered Lens 