This video for For Whom The Bells Tolls was filmed at a show at the San Diego Sports Arena in 1992. When Beavis and Butt-Head watched this video in 1995, Beavis said he was the show and Lars pointed straight at him.
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Category Archives: music video
Music Video of the Day: Estranged by Guns N’ Roses (1993, directed by Andy Morahan)
Estranged, which appeared on Appetite on Destruction, is Guns N’ Roses second-longest song overall. Like November Rain and Don’t Cry, the song’s lyrics were inspired by a short story that was written by Del James.
The music video was originally planned to be continuation of the story started in the videos for November Rain and Don’t Cry but that plan was abandoned when Axl Rose and Stephanie Seymour broke up before shooting on the video began. The storyline for the video was changed, though it still dealt with the same themes as the other two videos. This time, instead of ending with Axl thinking about Stephanie Seymour, the story ended with Axl swimming with the dolphins.
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Music Video of the Day: Alien Nation by Scorpions (1993, directed by ????)
I know that I surely wasn’t the only one hoping this song and video would be about the movie and the television series about the aliens coming to Earth and becoming a part of the regular population.
Well, it’s not.
Instead, it’s about the reunification of Germany and the struggle of some to adjust to it. (The name of the song has a double meaning, as it’s about both a new world and human alienation.) It makes sense since Scorpions is a German band. This song appeared on their 12th studio album, Face the Heat, and is one of the few directly political songs to be recorded by Scorpions.
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Horror AMV of the Day: This Is Halloween (Various)
I hope you’ve had a great Halloween and a great October! How about one final amv for this year’s Horrorthon?
Song: This Is Halloween by Real Chantay
Anime: Cube x Curious x Cursed, Higurashi no naku koro ni, Shiki
Creator: Nightmare Nyu
Past AMVs of the Day
- Horror Movies (Mieruko-chan)
- Don’t Let Me Down (High School of the Dead)
- Sweet But Psycho (High School of the Dead)
- Haunted House (Various)
- Shatter Me (The Irregular at Magic High School)
- Shatter Me (Fate/Stay night: Unlimited Blade Works)
- Time of Our Lives (Ace Attorney)
- Work Bitch (Kakegurui)
- Wake Me Up When September Ends (Various)
- Mother (Bleach)
- The Phoenix (Ace Attorney)
- Circus (Act Attorney)
- Space Oddity (Cowboy Bebop)
- This is Halloween (RWBY)
- Another (Scary Song)
- Sunako Nakahara (You’re So Creepy)
- Sarcasm (Corpse Party)
- This Is Halloween (Blood-C)
- Horror Movies (Satsuriku no Tenshi)
- The Test (Final Fantasy X)
- The Boxer (Midori No Hibi)
- Phobia (NHK ni Youkoso!)
- Galvanize (Bleach)
- Keep Hope Alive (Initial D)
- Want To Be My Soldier? (Hakuouki)
- Teeth (Scissor Seven)
- Shake It Off (Various)
- Miss Independent (Okami-San And Her Seven Companions)
- Trouble (Kill La Kill)
- Clint Eastwood (Soul Eater)
- Dracula No Innocence (Castlevania)
- Madness (Castlevania)
- Non-Stop (Ace Attorney)
- A Good Song Never Dies (Black Butler)
- Baby One More Time (Diabolik Lovers)
- Toxic (Kuroshitsuji)
- If U Seek Amy (Shiki)
- Gimme More (Kakegurui)
- 3 (Winx Club)
- Monster (Various)
- Blood/Water (Various)
- Panic Room (Various)
- Just Gold (Corpse Party)
- Tag, You’re In (Corpse Party)
- It’s My Life (Lady Oscar)
- You’ll Be In My Heart (my roommate is a cat)
- Jingle Bell Rock (Various)
- Secret (Another)
- Madness (Various)
- Dracula (Diabolik Lovers)
- Control (Various)
- Blood in the Water (Castlevania)
- Believer (Ace Attorney)
- Shatter Me (Vampire Knight)
- I’m Not A Vampire (Blood Lad)
- I’m Not A Vampire (Soul Eater)
- Shut Me Up (Soul Eater)
- Carry A Big Fist (One Punch Man)
- You Can Be King Again (Hotarubi no Mori e)
- Serve and Protect (Space Battleship Yamato 2199)
- Hey Brother (One Piece)
- This Is Halloween (Soul Eater)
- Leave Me Alone (Ace Attorney)
- Something For You (Sekirei)
- Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Ace Attorney)
- Brand New Day (Ace Attorney)
- Angel With Shotgun (Fairy Tail)
- I’m Strong (Re:Creators)
- I’m A Kitty Cat (Nichijou)
- Dazzling Inferno (Little Witch Academia)
- Children of the Grave (Gakkou Gurashi)
- Homura’s Seven Devils (Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica)
- Moonlight Requiem (Sailor Moon Crystal)
- Just Funkin’ Dandy (Space Dandy)
- Clarity (various)
- Skyfall (Cowboy Bebop, Fate/Zero)
- Chained (Princess Tutu)
- Breaking (Various)
- Another Fanny Service Video (Kemeko DX)
- Cosplay Bargain Bin (various)
- Can Can Pantsu (various)
- Warriors (Various)
- Sweet Dreams (Various)
- Carnivore (Tokyo Ghoul)
- Sweet Dreams (Another)
- Ship Happens (various)
- Evangelion 2.22 [Lights]
- Snowball Genocide (various)
- Iwatobi Weather Service (Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club and Attack On Titan)
- Otaku Paradise (various)
- The Breath of Spring (Bakemonogatari)
- Spiral Ascension (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann)
- Strangers Like Us (Gargantia on the Verdorous Planet)
- The Gore Never Bothered Me Anyway (Elfen Lied)
- Valor (Kill la Kill)
- Time Falls Away (Tokyo Magnitude 8.0)
- Don’t Stop (Nichijou)
- Left Us Falling (Clannad and Clannad: After Story)
- Devil’s Game 2.0 (Puella Magi Madoka Magica Series and Films)
- Animegraphy 2013 (Various)
- See Who I Am (Various)
- Demons of the Past (Black Lagoon: Roberta’s Blood Trail)
- Ride or Die (Redline)
- Yurei (Another, Dusk Maiden of Amnesia, Mirai Nikki)
- Bloody Ayase (Oreimo)
- The End of My World (Clannad/Clannad: After Story)
- Life Is Fantastic (Nichijou)
- Event (Nichijou)
- Star x Crossed (Romeo x Juliet)
- Protectors of the Earth (Shingeki no Kyojin)
- Let Them Eat Rei (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
- Sorry for being Hercule, Sincerely Mr. Satan (Dragonball Z)
- Fidelity (Wolf Children Ame and Yuki)
- Nothing to Lose (One Piece)
- Affective Schoolgirls (Nichijou)
- RadioAkshun (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
- Danger Zone (Macross Plus)
- Maid to Kill (Black Lagoon)
- A Thousand Years (Clannad/Toradora!)
- Careful What You Wish (Black Lagoon)
- Ash vs Gary (Pokemon)
- Just Can’t Get Enough (Bakemonogatari)
- Our Miracle (Sword Art Online)
- Dead End (Mirai Nikki)
- Am I Not Human? (Another)
- Moves Like Jagger (NSFW)
- Mayoi Calling Araragi (Bakemonogatari)
- Troll of Hearts (The World God Only Knows)
- Written in the Spirals (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann)
- The Way You Are
- Means to an Endgame (Code Geass)
- Azumanga Daioh 1985
- Safety Dance (Nichijou)
- Cherry – Chronicles of PHOTOpanic
- Remember My Name
- Futuristic Lover (Bakemonogatari)
- Sexy and I Know It
- Everytime We Touch (Toradora!)
- War (Valkyria Chronicles)
- Hold On To That Feeling
- Disco Heaven
- Hands Up! (Dragonball/Z)
- A Little Late
- Sexy
- I Heart Tsundere
- The New Era (One Piece)
- Fairytale of Lies
- Calling
- Alchanum
- This Is War (One Piece)
- Move Along (One Piece)
- Party Rock (One Piece)
- Remember the Name (One Piece)
- Imagica
- Maya and Company
- Who’s That Chick?
- Just The Way You Are
- My First Kiss
- Death Romance
- Furor (Oreimo)
- Highschool of the Dead Game
- Kobato – Ring A Bell
- Devil’s Game
- Mahou Shoujo Requiem
- A Prelude to Dreams
- A Thousand Miles (Macross Frontier)
- Instinct
- Hold Me Now (Princess Tutu)
- The Beautiful People of Black Lagoon
- SugardanSen & Attack of the Otaku
- Fairy Tail Teenage Dream
- Repeat (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
- Toradora! Rough Love (Grow A Pear)
- Black Lagoon…To Be Loved
- This Is War (Fullmetal Alchemist)
- Danse De Raven
- Azumanga Daioh – Little Girls
- Something Fishy
- And Now, A Word From Our Sponsors
- Against All Odds (Macross Frontier)
- A Thousand Miles (Todaradora!)
- Toradora Fireflies
- Spinning Infinity
- Have You Got It In You?
- Azumanga Daioh Portal
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.
Enjoy!
Music Video Of The Day: Women by Def Leppard (1987, directed by Doug Freel and Jean Pellerin)
This music video represents the fantasy of almost every 80s kid, skateboard wherever you want, read a comic book about your favorite hero having an amazing adventure, and doing it all while your favorite band performs behind you.
Depending on what part of the world you were living in, Women was either the first or the second single to be released off of Dep Leppard’s best-selling album, Hysteria. Hysteria was a great album that was helped immeasurably by MTV. Fans of the band already knew that Def Leppard rocked but MTV gave everyone the chance to watch them as they did so.
This was the first Dep Leppard video to be filmed after Rick Allen lost his left arm. A good deal of the video’s popularity comes from Rick showing that he was still one of the best drummers in the business.
Enjoy!
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. That’s amazing to think that Freddy got his own primetime special.
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.
Enjoy!
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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Music Video of the Day: Room of Mirrors by Metallica (2023, directed by Tristan Zammit)
Directed by animator Tristan Zammit, this music video for Metallica finds the legendary metal band playing in a haunted house while surrounded by specters and other beings.
Enjoy!
Music Video of the Day: Prison Sex by Tool (1993, directed by Adam Jones)
When a song has a title like Prison Sex, you can be sure that it won’t be a happy one. Tool’s Prison Sex is a song (and a video) that was judged to be so disturbing and depressing that MTV actually removed it from its playlist after viewers complained that it was freaking them out. Despite removing the video, MTV still nominated for a Video Music Award for Best Visual Effects and the video was later riffed on by Beavis and Butt-Head.
The video was directed by Adam Jones, who is also Tool’s guitarist. Along with his musical interests, Jones also worked in stop motion animation and was even a part of the team that brought the dinosaurs to life in the original Jurassic Park. This video makes good and macabre use of his talents.
Enjoy!
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