Today’s music video of the days comes from one of my favorite musical artists, the great Lindsey Stirling. This otherworldly video has a wonderfully dream-like feel to it. Lindsey has said that the video is meant to serve as a tribute to the memory of her father.
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Yesterday, I saw that Courtney Love was trending on the site formerly known as Twitter. Assuming that the news would be bad, I clicked to find out why.
It turned out that the news was not bad at all. Courtney gave an interview in which she said that she personally didn’t care for Beyonce’s music and that she thought Taylor Swift was boring. Needless to say, the fandoms are in an uproar over someone daring to have a different opinion. Personally, regardless of my feelings about any of the singers that she mentioned, I applaud Courtney Love for reminding us that we are not required to all feel the same way about every artist. There’s nothing wrong with having your own tastes.
A lot of Swifties responded to the interview by tweeting, “Who is Courtney Love?”
She’s been around for a while. Maybe today’s music video of the day will help.
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Happy Theft Day! I hope the government didn’t rip our readers off for too much of their hard-earned money.
Today’s music video of the day is also about money!
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In this video Pantera pays homage to and offers up respect for the bands that influenced them when they were kids and when they were just starting out.
Director Jim Van Bebber is best-known for his horror films and has a strong cult following.
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This video is just Megadeth doing what Megadeth does best.
The Blair Underwood who directed this video is the same Blair Underwood who co-starred in L.A. Law and several subsequent films. They seem like an unlikely combination, as Underwood was outspoken in his support of President Obama while Dave Mustaine was definitely not. However, this is actually just one of several videos that Underwood did with Megadeth. Music brings us all together.
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In this video for Wild Child, Blackie Lawless follows one woman through the desert, just for her to always disappear when he gets too close. Maybe she knows that W.A.S.P. and Blackie Lawless were among the top targets of Tipper Gore’s anti-rock campaign in the 80s. Supposedly, at the heyday of Gore’s crusade, venues that booked W.A.S.P. would get bomb threats while the members of the band were themselves receiving death threats. Someone even tried to shoot Blackie Lawless.
(Ironically, Blackie Lawless was raised in the church and is reportedly even more of a Christian than Tipper Gore was at the time she was accusing W.A.S.P. of corrupting America’s youth.)
This video was directed by Rick Friedberg, who went from working with W.A.S.P. to working with Leslie Nielsen on several projects.
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Oh look, it’s another Nigel Dick-directed hair metal video.
And it’s another Cinderella video featuring the band doing their version of rocking while being watched by a bunch of hot woman who were probably hoping Bon Jovi would show up instead.
But wait? Who’s that? It’s Wayne and Garth!
This song appeared on the Wayne’s World soundtrack and the video was shot to promote the film. Dana Carvey and Mike Myers show up as the duo who, at the time, were America’s favorite cable access hosts. Wayne and Garth were Cinderella fans? Guys, even Beavis and Butthead knew better than that!
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Serenity in Murder was the first single released off of Slayer’s 6th studio album, Diving Intervention. Tom Araya said that the songs on the album were largely inspired by what he was watching on television at the time. Both the song and the video for Serenity in Murder appear to have been inspired by the crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer.
Director Jon Reiss also did videos for Nine Inch Nails, Type O Negative, Danzig, and Diamanda Girls.
Remember when everyone’s parents were scared to death of finding cassettes from bands like Slayer and Anthrax in their child’s music collection?
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Rest in Peace, C.J. Snare. The lead singer of FireHouse passed away on April 5th.
FireHouse is interesting in that it was a glam metal band that hit it big right before the start of the Grunge revolution. While a lot of other glam metal bands, many of which had been around far longer than FireHouse, tried to change their sound to compete with Nirvana and the other Seattle superstars, FireHouse stuck with its glam metal roots.
This video was directed by Nigel Dick, who has done music videos for practically everyone.
I was torn about whether or not to listen to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon during the eclipse because — bleh! — Roger Waters. But then I remembered that the other members of the band hate Roger Waters as well and I was able to use that to justify things. I mean, seriously, some things are just made for eclipses and that’s certainly true of the somewhat silly and portentous but still effective Dark Side of the Moon.
(Silly, portentous, and effective is also a good description of Pink Floyd as a whole.)
So, with that in mind, here is today’s special Eclipse Day song of the day. Actually, I guess I should say that these are today’s songs of the day because technically, they are two separate songs. But they might as well be two.
Through the Shattered Lens 