The cliche view of Rob Zombie is that he is a shock rocker who branched out into horror filmmaking. With the song and the music video for Foxy, Foxy, Zombie shows that he is just as much a descendant of Lynard Skynard’s as he is of Alice Cooper’s. And though the video may not have the horror themes that most people expect from a Zombie production, the song itself was at least partially inspired by a Lon Chaney film, He Who Gets Slapped.
Yes, that is Sheri Moon Zombie showing up at the outdoor concert.
Three Dog Night was a band that was prominent in the days before music videos but fortunately, they left us with a wealth of live performances that were captured for television. I don’t know what show this was filmed for, just that it’s from 1975. For our purposes, the MVP of this video is the keyboardist who goes out of his way to bring some Halloween flavor to the proceedings.
Originally written and performed by Leo Sayer, this cover of The Show Must Go On was Three Dog Night’s final Top 10 hit in the United States. The best part of the song, the intro, was severely shortened for the song’s radio edit but it still became a hit.
You can probably already guess that this video and song were both controversial back in the day. Not only was the video’s symbolism blatant but the song was released at a time when the AIDS epidemic was very much on everyone’s mind. This was the type of video that MTV would have banned in its early days but, by the time the 90s rolled around, the video was considered safe for viewing by none other than Beavis and Butthead, neither one of whom was ever having sex.
This video was produced by H-Guns Labs, the same studio that was responsible for many of Nine Inch Nails’s early videos.
LaTour was a disc jockey from Jack Kerouac’s hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts. Despite the urban legend to the contrary, he never recorded a follow-up called People Are Still Having Lunch.
Both this song and this artist were unknown to me until I searched YouTube for “scary music video.” This video was one of the first that came up and I decided to go with it. It’s a video that captures the spirit of Halloween and the importance of doing it all yourself. Maddy Ellwanger not only wrote and performs the song but she also directed, produced, animated, filmed, and edited this video.
The video features Karla Partida in plenty of strange situations, whether she’s playing with an oversized brain or posing like Vampira. According to the description of the video on YouTube, Karla Partida is not only Karla The Strange but also Miss Black Lagoon.
In order to celebrate the first day of Horrorthon, how about an AMV?
Song: Godzilla – Eminem ft. Juice WRLD
Anime: Dragonball Z
Creator: Rangazee (as always, if you enjoyed this video, we encourage you to subscribe to the creator’s channel and give them lots of likes and nice comments)
David Bowie was one of the first artists to truly understand the potential power of a good music video and, as can be seen in this video for Ashes to Ashes, he was an early pioneer of the form. At a time when most music videos were just performance clips, Bowie put together a narrative that offered an artistic interpretation of the song’s lyrics and themes and which invited viewers to interpret the song on their own.
The video was largely shot on two beaches in the UK, at Beachy Head and Hastings. Interior scenes were filmed on the set of the Kenny Everett Show. Bowie’s followers were played by the Blitz kids, who were known for frequenting the Blitz nightclub in Covent Garden.
Bowie said that the video was meant to combine the past and the future, which is why Bowie not only appears as an astronaut but also as an Edwardian clown. The scenes with Bowie as an astronaut are, as the lyrics make clear, a reference to Major Tom. The look of the scenes was heavily influenced by H.R. Giger’s work on Alien.
David Mallet would go on to become one of busiest directors of music videos of the 80s, directing videos for Queen, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, and others. David Bowie would also go on to play a huge role in MTV’s history, due to both his videos and his willingness to call out that station’s initial refusal to feature videos from black artists.
In today’s music video of the day, we visit the Church of the Ramones, where the band is energizing the congregation with a cover of The Chambers Brothers’s Time Has Come Today.
And indeed the time has come. It’s the last day of September. That means that tomorrow is the start of my favorite time of the year. It’s time for our annual …. HORRORTHON! Things are about to get a little bit busy around here….
Through the Shattered Lens 