Category Archives: music video

Music Video of the Day: Bed of Nails by Alice Cooper (1989, directed by Nigel Dick)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

Bed of Nails is from Alice Cooper’s 11th studio album, Trash.  It was the album’s second most successful single, despite not even being released as a single in the U.S.  Maybe some of that success was due to this music video, in which Alice the singer performs over and in a bed of nails while women in leather walk through the studio and play the cello.

This video was directed by Nigel Dick, who directed videos for anyone who was anyone.  If Nigel Dick has not done a video for you, you are not really a rock star.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: The Wild and the Young by Quiet Riot (1986, directed by Jeff Stein)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

The music video for Quiet Riot’s The Wild and The Young takes place in a future that’s controlled by the military and the Parents Resource Music Center (PRMC), the Tipper Gore-led organization that campaigned for albums and CDs to come with warning labels.  There were actually Senate hearings on obscene lyrics in 1985, with everyone from Dee Snider to Frank Zappa coming together to make the elected officials look stupid.

Director Jeff Stein has directed several TV shows, along with doing videos for The Who, Weezer, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, George Clinton, Cinderella, Warrant, and Wilson Phillips.

AMV of the Day: Hide and Seek (Corpse Party)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

How about an AMV for Horrorthon?

Song: Hide and Seek by Lizz Robinett

Anime: Corpse Party

Creator: eradiKate  (As always, please be sure to check out this creator’s channel)

Past AMVs of the Day

Music Video of the Day: Mirror Man by The Human League (1982, directed by Brian Duffy)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

The music video may be about a ghost (Philip Oakley) haunting a theater but Oakley has always said that this song is actually about Adam Ant.

Director Brian Duffy was best-known for his work as a fashion photographer.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Spirit by Bauhaus (1982, directed by Christopher Collins)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

In this video, the members of Bauhaus perform their song Spirit for an audience of actual spirits.

Director Christopher Collins is directed with overseeing three other videos, all for Bauhaus: Bela Lugosi’s Dead, Mask, and In The Flat Field.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Killed By Death by Motorhead (1984, directed by Rod Swenson)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

Back in the day, this music video was banned by MTV for what the channel considered to be “senseless and excessive violence.” Lemmy driving and giving everyone the finger really upset them.

Director Ron Swenson was best-known for being the manager of the Plasmatics.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Devil Woman by Cliff Richard (1976, directed by ????)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

Cliff Richard sings about how he became cursed after seeing a black cat with yellow eyes.  Cliff went to a fortune teller, asking her to lift the curse but it turned out that the fortune teller was the one who cursed him in the first place!

The message?  If it can happen to Cliff Richard, it can happen to anyone.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Are You Ready For Freddy? by the Fat Boys (1988, directed by Harvey Keith)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

I always assumed that this song was specifically written for one of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies but actually, the Fat Boys were just fans of the movies and they decided to put a song about them on one of their albums.  The song was included in The Freddy Krueger Special, which aired on CBS in 1988.

This video, which features several of Freddy’s victims and Robert Englund himself, was written by Wes Craven and directed by Harvey Keith.  Keith directed a few films, including 1988’s Mondo New York and 1990’s Jezebel’s Kiss.

Enjoy!