Twilight Hotel was the second single to be released off of QRIII, the fifth studio album from Quiet Riot. Unfortunately, neither the single nor the video was as popular as the other single released off of QRIII, The Wild and the Young.
Director Dominic Orlando also directed videos for Kansas, The Beach Boys, Celine Dion, Dolly Parton, The Fat Boys, and several other artist that you would not necessarily expect to see at a Quiet Riot concert.
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Today’s song of the day is dedicated to the memory of my father. I miss you.
Tomorrow is not just Father’s Day. It’s also the first day of summer. This song by Kid Rock seems to be one of those songs that people either love or they absolutely hate, if just because they always think they’re about to hear Werewolves of London during the opening chords.
Though the song takes place at Lake Michigan, the video was filmed in Tennessee. Actress Colby Crain plays the friend who was smoking funny things all summer long.
Along with his work with Kid Rock, director Deaton Flanigen has directed several country music videos.
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In honor of Daria Nicolodi’s birthday, today’s song of the day comes from Dario Argento’s Deep Red!
Deep Red features the first collaboration between Argento and Goblin and the score remains a classic.
Here’s Goblin performing Profondo Rosso on Italian television in 1975.
Slow an’ Easy was Whitesnake’s first big hit in the United States and the video, which featured the band, a car crash, and an act of strangulation, was Whitensake’s first big video on MTV. It’s certainly much darker than the video for Here I Go Again.
Slow an’ Easy, by the way, appeared on an album called Slide It In. Whitesnake was never particularly subtle but they still rocked.
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Happy birthday to Sir Paul McCartney!
All of the photographs for this “promotional film” (as music videos were known back then) were taken by Linda McCartney.
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Zombi 2 (1979, dir. Lucio Fulci, DP: Sergio Salvati)
For today’s song of the day, we celebrate the birthday of Lucio Fulci with Fabio Frizzi’s main theme from 1979’s Zombi 2. If you’ve ever seen the film, it’s impossible to hear this piece of music without imagining hundreds of zombies walking across the Brooklyn Bridge.
We Care A Lot, written as a parody of benefit concerts like Live Aid, was the first Faith No More Song to have an accompanying music video and it is also the band’s second-most popular song, right after Epic. What the bands cares a lot about depends on which version of the song that you hear as We Care A Lot is frequently re-written to keep the lyrics updated and topical. Over the years, Faith No More has cared a lot about Madonna, Mr. T, the LAPD, the money that Live Aid made, Transformers, and the Garbage Pail Kids.
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This music video comes from a time long ago, when Aerosmith still had their edge and weren’t best-known for movie ballads. Director Marty Callner filmed this video in New Orleans because he wanted to capture the feeling of Mardi Gras and he succeeded. Previously dismissed as washed-up, Aerosmith made a huge comeback in the late 80s. This video definitely helped.
As for Marty Callner, he was one of those directors who worked with everyone who was someone. He also went on to direct several stand-up specials, working with the likes of Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock.
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I’ve had this song stuck in my head — or at least, I’ve had the bassline stuck in my head — ever since I watched Woodstock ’94.
Through the Shattered Lens 