Category Archives: music video

Music Video of the Day: Pop Goes The Weasel by 3rd Bass (1991, directed by Jesse Dylan)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

Vanilla Ice was very popular in 1990.

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.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Come On Eileen by Dexys Midnight Runners (1982, directed by Julien Temple)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

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.

Enjoy!

 

Music Video of the Day: I’m Lost by Elohim (2020, dir by Chase O’Black)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Have you ever noticed how people always seem to get lost in the desert?  I mean, it’s rare that you ever see a music video about someone getting lost because they missed their exit on Central Expressway.  The lesson here is to stay as far away from the desert as possible.  You’re safer in a tropical rain forest.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Natural One by The Folk Implosion (1995, dir by Michael and David Udris and Larry Clark)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

This song was written for the soundtrack of the 1995 film, Kids, and the video if made up of scenes from the Larry Clark-directed film (along with another story about space exploration).  Oddly enough, the song itself doesn’t actually appear in the film.

Enjoy!

Brad’s Video of the Day – “Sunday in the South” by Shenandoah, Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan!

Posted on by Bradley Crain

The country group Shenandoah released “Sunday in the South” back in 1989 when I was 16 years old. As a southerner myself from Arkansas, I remember liking the song, but I was today years old when I realized that it had been updated to include Shenandoah, Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan. Enjoy my friends!