With today’s music video of the day, the Dutch band Earth and Fire kept things simple as they performed a catchy song about Love of Life.
Enjoy!
Category Archives: Music
Music Video of the Day: I’m Bad I’m Nationwide by ZZ Top (2022, directed by ????)
Rest in peace, Frank Beard.
Song of the Day: She’s Like The Wind by Patrick Swayze
Today, in celebration of the birthday of Patrick Swayze, our song of the day is one that he wrote for Dirty Dancing. Enjoy She’s Like The Wind.
Music Video Of The Day: Pop Muzik by M. (1979, directed by Brian Grant)
Pop Muzik, which was written from the perspective of a DJ, was arguably the first new wave hit and this music video was extremely popular during the early years of MTV. The video was the first to be directed by Brian Grant, who was a BBC producer at the time. Working with a £2000 budget, Grant created a video that was revolutionary for the time. (In the late 70s, music videos were mostly just straight performance clips.) The success of Pop Muzik led to Grant becoming one of the busiest music video directors around. Grant went on to direct videos for The Human League, The Fixx, Squeeze, Duran Duran, and many others. If you were a New Wave group, Brian Grant probably directed at least one video for you.
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Song of the Day: Robert De Niro’s Waiting…. by Bananarama
Seeing as how today is Robert De Niro’s birthday, this 1984 tune seems like an obvious pick for song of the day!
Music Video of the Day: And We Danced by The Hooters (1985, directed by ????)
Today’s music video of the day comes to us from The Hooters, a Philadelphia-based band whose sound will always be identified with the mid-80s. And We Danced is their biggest hit to date. It’s certainly the one that most people think of if they think about The Hooters.
This music video, which was hugely popular back when MTV played music videos, was shot at a drive-in theater in Exton, Pennsylvania in the summer of 1985. Unfortunately, the theater has since been torn down but, in a sense, it will exist forever because of this music video. The video itself was nominated for a Best New Artist award at the MTV Music Video awards but it lost to Take Me On by a-ha.
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Song of the Day: Chernobyl by Blanck Mass
For today’s song of the day, we have Chernobyl by Blanck Mass. This piece of music was used to haunting effect in 2014’s A Field In England.
Music Video of the Day: No More Tears by Ozzy Osbourne (1991, directed by Ralph Ziman)
This song, which Ozzy said was actually about a serial killer, was the title track from Osbourne’s 6th solo album. The video was directed by Ralph Ziman, who also did videos for Vanessa Williams, Toni Braxton, Alice Cooper, L.A. Gun, and Faith No More.
The little girl at the end of the video is Kelly Osbourne.
Enjoy!
Song of the Day: John’s Theme From Don’t Look Now by Pino Donaggio
Music Video of the Day: Beautiful Girl by INXS (1992, directed by Mark Pellington)
Supposedly, this song was written about a runaway that Michael Hutchence had befriended and who he wanted to protect in a platonic way. However, when the song was released in the United States, it was selected to be the theme song of an eating disorder awareness campaign and the music video, directed by Mark Pellington, reflects that.
Mark Pellington, of course, should be a familiar name. He directed music videos for just about everyone was relevant in the 90s.
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Through the Shattered Lens 