This is a song that Claudio Simonetti composed for Dario Argento’s 1985 film, Opera.
Compared to the film, the video for this song is decidedly low-key but it’s still a lovely piece of music.
Category Archives: Music
Music Video of the Day: Voyeur by Kim Carnes (1982, directed by Russell Mulcahy)
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 video was directed by Russell Mulcahy, who perhaps did more than anyone to perfect the early music video aesthetic.
Enjoy!
Horror Song of the Day: Ghostbusters by Ray Parker, Jr.
Today’s song of the day is this 1984 classic from Ray Parker, Jr. Have you busted a ghost today?
Music Video of the Day: Frontier by Dead Can Dance (1984, directed by ????)
Frontier is from Dead Can Dance’s self-titled debut album. This is the sound that largely defined goth in the 80s.
Enjoy!
Horror Song Of The Day: Bela Lugosi’s Dead by Bauhaus
In memory of Bela Lugosi on his birthday, here is today’s song of the day.
Music Video of the Day: Bullet With Butterfly Wings by Smashing Pumpkins (1995, directed by Samuel Bayer)
The world is vampire
For a period of time in the 90s, you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing that. It was one of the original memes, thanks to both the song and the video that was made to promote it. The video, which was inspired by photographs of a Brazilian gold mine, was filmed in a quarry near Simi Valley. While the extras dressed like miners and were meant to represent the Biblical lepers who asked Jesus to heal them, the band goes for a glam rock look. It pays to be in the band.
This video was directed by Samuel Bayer, who has done music videos for everyone who is anyone.
Enjoy!
Horror Song of the Day: Main Theme From Psycho by Bernard Herrmann
Today’s horror song of the day really needs no introduction.
From 1960, here is the main theme from Alfred Hitchcok’s Psycho, composed by Bernard Herrmann.
Music Video of the Day: Preacher Man by Fields of Nephilim (1987, directed by Richard Stanley)
A cemetery, an atomic wasteland, a chainsaw, a preacher with a bunch of mutant worshippers, it doesn’t get more 80s gothic than this.
Director Richard Stanley directed several gothic music videos but he’s best-known for his feature films, including The Colour From Outer Space, Hardware and Dust Devil. (In many ways, the video for Preacher Man feels like a dry run for both Hardware and Dust Devil.) He was also the original director of the infamous The Island of Dr. Moreau until his conflicts with both the studios and actors Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer led to him being replaced by John Frankenheimer.
Enjoy!
Horror Song of The Day: Cat People (Putting Out Fire) by Giorgio Moroder and David Bowie
Today’s song comes the hypnotic soundtrack of Paul Schrader’s Cat People. This song was so good that it later showed up and was used to equally strong effect in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.
Music Video of the Day: Anxiety (Get Nervous) by Pat Benatar (1982, directed by Mark Robinson)
If you’re suffering from anxiety, it is nothing to be ashamed of. As today’s music video of the day shows, even Pat Benatar can get nervous! Of course, when your dentist is named Dr. Pain, who can blame you for getting nervous?
This video was directed by Mark Robinson, who also did videos for The Pretenders, Tina Turner, and Eddie Money.
Enjoy!
