Category Archives: music video

Music Video of the Day: Always Something There To Remind Me by Naked Eyes (1982, dir. by Pepe Marcos and Simon Milne)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Happy February!  It’s the month of love …. at least for the first 14 days!  So, here’s a nice romantic music video of the day to start things off with.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Do The Bartman by Bart Simpson (1990, directed by Brad Bird)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

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.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: I Want You By KISS (1976, directed by ????)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

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.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Jamie’s Cryin’ by Van Halen (1978, directed by ????)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

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.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Lipstick and Leather by Y&T (1986, directed by Michael Miner)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

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.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Whenever I’m Away From You by John Travolta (1977, dir by ????)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

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.

Enjoy!