Rest in peace, Bryan Loren. Loren was a recording artist who also wrote songs for everyone from Michael Jackson to Whitney Houston and Sting but a generation will always remember him best for writing Do The Bartman.
And yes, this video was directed by the same Brad Bird who later directed The Incredibles, Ratatouille, and Mission Impossible — Ghost Protocol.
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This song is from KISS’s fifth studio album, Rock and Roll Over. This music video is from the age of simple music videos, when the focus was more on the band playing than on trying to tell a story with song. When its comes to KISS, their simple videos, like this one, are the best. Also, their videos with the famous KISS makeup are better than the videos they shot during the period of time when they tried to abandon their trademark look.
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When standing in front of a wind machine, use caution.
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Today would have been Eddie Van Halen’s 71st birthday.
Jamie’s Cryin’ first appeared on Van Halen’s debut album and it was the third released single to come from that album. Though it didn’t chart, it was a favorite of both Eddie Van Halen’s and David Lee Roth’s, with Eddie later saying that Jamie’s Cryin’ should have been Van Halen’s single.
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I wanted to share the video for Y&T’s Mean Streak but the person who uploaded the video to YouTube also disabled playback. Why would anyone do that? The video wasn’t age-restricted or anything like that.
Instead, here’s the video for another Y&T song, Lipstick and Leather. This video’s director, Michael Miner, also directed the video for Mean Streak. In fact, he did more than a few Y&T videos, along with doing videos for Alcatrazz and Marianne Mabile. Miner also co-wrote the script that would eventually become Robocop.
Y&T stands for Yesterday and Today. Lars Ulrich has said that seeing an L&T show inspired him to become a musician.
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Let’s start the day with the Hoff!
He’s not quite up to the standards of Thunder and Lightning but it’s still a good cover.
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Hilary Duff has a roommate and a new album coming out!
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John Travolta sings!
Actually, I guess that’s not a surprise. He did co-star in Grease and all that. Still, it’s kind of interesting to see Travolta doing the sensitive singing teen idol routine. Why is he dressed like Prince Valiant? It was the 70s, I guess.
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Today’s music video of the day is the latest from the Black Crowes. Enjoy it and spare a thought for those of us at the North Texas branch of Through the Shattered Lens because we are about to get hit by snow and 8 degree weather.
The last time we had weather this bad, we had rolling black-outs and were actually off-line for a few days. So, if you don’t see me or Erin or Jeff around for a while, don’t worry. We’re just waiting for the sun to come out!
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Thought Gang was a musical collaboration between two much-missed artists, David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti. This video was directed by Lynch and it starred none other than Angelo Badalamenti himself!
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