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Category Archives: music video
Music Video of the Day: Uptown Girl by Billy Joel (1983, directed by Jay Dubin)
In today’s music video of the day, Billy Joel lives the dream of every 1980s auto mechanic and works on Christie Brinkley’s car. Just as in real life, this video ends with Joel and Brinkley together. While it is often speculated that the song was written about Brinkley, Joel has said that it was actually inspired more by his earlier relationship with Elle Macpherson.
Billy Joel has also said that he didn’t enjoy making this video because a large group of bystanders kept yelling “Hey, Christie!” during shooting.
Director Jay Dubin also did music videos for John Mellencamp and REO Speedwagon.
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Music Video of the Day: One More Time by Rod Stewart (2021, directed by ????)
Today is Rod Stewart’s 79th birthday and today’s music video of the day is One More Time, taken from his 32nd studio album, The Tears of Hercules. Appearing with Stewart in this video are his actual backup singers, Amanda Miller, Holly Brewer, and Becca Kotte.
Rod Stewart, incidentally, holds the record for being the artist featured most frequently during MTV’s first day of broadcast. On August 1st, 1981, MTV featured eleven of his videos.
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Music Video of the Day: Hit the Road, Jack by Buster Poindexter and His Banshees of Blue (1989, directed by ????)
Today is David Johansen’s birthday and our music video of the day features Johansen in the role of his alter ego, Buster Poindexter.
Johansen/Poindexter did this cover of Ray Charles’s classic song for a film called The Dream Team. The Dream Team may not be remembered for much today but it did feature an impressive cast — Peter Boyle, Stephen Furst, Christopher Lloyd, and Michael Keaton, all of whom are featured in this video.
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Music Video of the Day: Bed and Breakfast Man by Madness (1979, directed by David Robinson)
Today’s music video of the day is early one from Madness.
The song was inspired by Madness’s manager, Jon Hasler, who would reportedly show up at the residences of the band’s members and eat whatever leftovers they had for breakfast. The video was directed by Dave Robinson, who was responsible for many of Madness’s videos.
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Music Video of the Day: Automatic Ovulator by E.P. Mattson (2023, dir by E.P. Mattson)
This is the type of energy that I want to see from everyone in 2024!
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Music Video of the Day: White Line by James Apollo (2014, dir by Jason Affolder)
I just recently discovered this video, despite the fact that it’s been around for a while. I like the song, I like the music, and I love the fact that watching the video reminds me of my favorite (and sadly, now closed) restaurant/bar in Denton. Sweetwater had a wonderful outdoor patio, where my friends and I would spend many a night having the most wonderful conversations ever.
This place also reminds me of a few of the clubs in Deep Ellum where I would attempt to flirt my way past the doorman go whenever I snuck out of my house I happened to be in the neighborhood.
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Music Video of the Day: Freak by Silverchair (1997, directed by Gerald Casale)
In this video for Freak, Silverchair performs in an oven so that their sweat can be used as some sort of youth tonic. Don’t worry, the band was not actually in an oven. Instead, they were just surrounded by orange lights and they were regularly doused with water to create the impression that they were sweating while performing.
The video was directed by Gerald Casale, a former member of Devo, a far more interesting band than Silverchair. The video won the International Viewer’s Choice Award at the MTV Video Music Awards.
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Music Video of the Day: Wild, Wild West by The Escape Club (1988, directed by ????)
This song was considered to be very racy for its time (“safe sex!”) and, while the music video was a big hit on MTV, it was actually banned from British television. An official reason for the ban was never announced, though it was speculated that the disembodied limbs were considered to be too disturbing for younger viewers.
According to the band, this video was actually meant to be a joke take on all of the over-sexualized music videos of the time.
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Music Video of the Day: Accidents Will Happen by Elvis Costello & The Attractions (1979, directed Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton)
Though Accidents Will Happen has since come to be seen as one of Elvis Costello’s signature songs, it was only a moderate hit when it was initially released in the UK. Maybe it would have been more popular if MTV had been around in 1979. The music video was innovative at a time when most videos were just performance clips of the bands in concert.
The video for Accidents Will Happen is considered to be the first fully animated music video. The video was directed by Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton, who also did videos for Rush and Cathy Denis. Jankel and Morton would later go on to create Max Headroom and to direct the infamous first Super Mario Bros. film.
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