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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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.
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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.
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With Halloween approaching, how about an AMV to celebrate?
Song: Horror Movies by Neoni
Anime: Mieruko-chan
Creator: ilyalniy
Past AMVs of the Day
Frontier is from Dead Can Dance’s self-titled debut album. This is the sound that largely defined goth in the 80s.
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The music video for Kim Carnes’s Voyeur is another music video that was initially banned from MTV and other music shows because it was considered to be too suggestive. The video features Kim Carnes watching and being watched in a red light district.
This was another video directed by Highlander’s Russell Mulcahy, who perhaps did more than anyone to perfect the early music video aesthetic.
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For today’s music video of the day, we have the second video for Duran Duran’s Lonely In Your Nightmare, to go along with the first.
Both videos were directed by Highlander’s Russell Mulcahy.
This is one of two videos for Duran Duran’s Lonely In Your Nightmare. In this one, Simon Le Bon finds old photographs and remembers a past relationship that might have just been someone’s dream. Lonely In Your Nightmare appeared on Rio, one of the defining albums of the early 80s.
Director Russell Mulcahy was Duran Duran’s video director of choice in the early 80s and, of course, he worked with many other bands as well. His stylish music videos dominated MTV and set the template for which most subsequent videos would come. He also directed a little film called Highlander.
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This video was controversial when it was first released with some people wondering if the video would promote violence with its story of a Marilyn Monroe look-alike being photographed while a killer tossed around a knife and newspaper headlines announced that a movie star had been murdered. Controversy sells and the video was put in heavy rotation on MTV, helping Photograph to reach number one on the charts and to stay there for several weeks.
Director David Mallet is one of those directors who has done videos for just about everyone, from AC/DC to Olivia Newton-John to Peter Gabriel.
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In today’s music video of the day, Metallica proves themselves to be the band that is so powerful that they can bring out a solar eclipse, just by rocking out.
Animator Tristan Zammit is also credited with doing videos for Tory Lanez and XXXTentacion.
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Through the Shattered Lens 