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.
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Category Archives: music video
Music Video of the Day: Killed By Death by Motorhead (1984, directed by Rod Swenson)
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.
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Music Video of the Day: Devil Woman by Cliff Richard (1976, directed by ????)
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.
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Music Video of the Day: Ghost by Justin Bieber (2021, dir by Colin Tilley)
RIP, Diane Keaton.
Music Video of the Day: Are You Ready For Freddy? by the Fat Boys (1988, directed by Harvey Keith)
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.
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Horror Song of the Day: Ed Wood by Howard Shore
Today would have been the 101st birthday of the pioneering indie director, Edward D. Wood, Jr!
Today’s song of the day is the theme from Tim Burton’s 1994 biopic of the director. In my opinion, this remains Burton’s first film. Burton also directed the musical video below while the great Toni Basil choreographed. And, best of all, the dancer is named Lisa Marie!
Music Video of the Day: Can I Play with Madness by Iron Maiden (1988, directed by Julian Doyle)
Director Julian Doyle also directed videos for Kate Bush but he may be best known for working as an editor on several Monty Python and Terry Gilliam films, including Life of Brian, Time Bandits, The Meaning of Life, Brazil, and Terry Jones’s Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride.
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Horror Song of the Day: Ghostbusters by Ray Parker, Jr.
Today’s song of the day is this 1984 classic from Ray Parker, Jr. Have you busted a ghost today?
Music Video of the Day: See You In Hell by Grim Reaper (1982, directed by ????)
Grim Reaper was so hardcore that they even had the Devil himself watching over their concerts!
See You In Hell is probably best remembered for Beavis and Butt-Head’s epic takedown of both the video and the singer.
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Music Video of the Day: The Wild Boys by Duran Duran (1984, directed by Russell Mulcahy)
Directed by Russell Mulcahy, the video for Wild Boys cost over a million pounds, which was considered to be an astronomical sum in 1984. Both the video and the song is based on the William S. Burroughs novel, The Wild Boys. Mulcahy had long-wanted to adapt the book into a film and the song was written to serve as a part of the soundtrack of the proposed film. (The film itself was never made.)
The costumes in the video were left over from The Road Warrior. The video, featuring all of the members of Duran Duran being tortured in different ways, was controversial but ultimately very popular.
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Through the Shattered Lens 