If the teacher in this video looks familiar, that’s because Nancy Parsons also played the famous (or infamous) Ms. Ballbricker in Porky’s.
Director Marc Reshovsky also directed videos for Poison, Lita Ford, and Skidrow. He was far more busy as a cinematographer than a director. As a cinematographer, he worked with basically everyone who was anyone. Ice Cube, U2, Van Halen, Whitney Houston, Seal, they are just some of the bands who worked with Reshovsky the cinematographer.
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This song and video comes from Megadeth’s final album. Dave Mustaine may have retired but it’s good to see that he went out doing what he did best.
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In this music video, Warrant, the band who gave the world Cherry Pie, shows off their sensitive side.
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This video is a reminder that the band that no one wants to admits to liking today actually used to really rock. In God’s Country was off of U2’s best album, The Joshua Tree. While the video still shows hints of the self-importance that would later come to define the band, the song itself is an absolute banger.
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This dizzying music video is for Newsted’s …As The Crow Flies. Metallica never should have let Jason Newsted go.
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In the 80s, a lot of so-called “hair metal” bands had videos that revolved around flames and firefighters. That is the risk you take with all of that hairspray.
This video was directed by James Yukich, who was one of the busiest video directors around. Yukich pretty much directed at least video for everyone who was anyone.
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This cover of Carly Simon’s best-known song comes from Faster Pussycat. The song was recorded for a compilation album celebrating Elektra’s 40-year anniversary.
Director Rocky Schenck is still active today. He has directed videos for Adele, Robert Plant, Allison Krause, Van Halen, Alice In Chains, and many others.
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Today’s music video of the day is the latest from Deep Purple. Not bad for a band that was formed nearly 60 years ago!
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This is a song that I will always associate with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Your Love is on the Flash FM playlist. It’s not a great song to listen to when you’re in the middle of a police chase but it is nice when you’re just stealing cars on a rainy night.
The video was shot, over the course of a day, on a soundstage in Astoria. While the band is playing, an artist played by JoAnne Willette finger paints the cover of The Outfield’s first album, Play Deep. Willette would later co-star on the Growing Pains spin-off, Just The Ten Of Us. She also appeared in episodes of The Facts of Life, T. J. Hooker, Santa Barbara, Growing Pains, Melrose Place, Chicago Hope, Becker, ER, The Young and the Restless, My Sister Sam, Private Practice, and The New Adventures of Old Christine. Among her film credits are small roles in both Welcome to 18 and A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge.
Even though The Outfield was a British band, they never found much success in the UK. Their popularity was almost solely centered in the U.S., where Your Love reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #7 on the Mainstream Rock chart in 1986.
Tears For Fears frontman Roland Orzabal and keyboardist Ian Stanley were both practitioners of primal scream therapy, in which people confronted their fears and insecurities by shouting. This song was inspired by both the treatment and political protest.
The video, which was put in heavy rotation on MTV and become one of the defining videos and songs of the 1980s, features Orazbal and Curt Smith letting it all out on the cliffside at Durdle Door in Dorset. The video was one of the 300-something videos to have been directed by Nigel Dick, who has done videos for almost everyone.
Shout spend three weeks as the number one single in the US and has since become Tears for Fears signature song, along with Everybody Wants To Rule The World.
Through the Shattered Lens 