I meant to share this yesterday for Johnny Cash’s birthday but I was pretty tired when we got home from the lake and I missed my chance to do so. But the voice of Johnny Cash was so strong that it can justify a song of the day even after his birthday.
So, with a belated happy birthday to the spirit of Johnny Cash, here is today’s song of the day!
For today’s music video of the day, we have the latest from Texas’s own Selena Gomez!
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Indeed, it is a weird world.
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George Harrison would have been 81 years old today. Sadly, he was taken from us at far too young an age. It only seems appropriate to honor him with today’s music video of the day.
When We Was Fab, which appeared on Harrison’s album Cloud Nine, was one of the many songs that the surviving Beatles wrote about their time as members of the world’s greatest band. For the music video, Ringo Starr made an appearance, as did old Harrison friends like Elton John and Jeff Lynne. It has been rumored that Paul Simon also appears in the video but directors Godley & Creme have both denied that Simon was present during filming. Godley & Creme were known for their technically innovative music videos and I remember that the effects in When We Was Fab, as simple as they seem today, were considered to be ground-breaking when the video was first released.
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Shot In The Dark was the ninth and final track on Ozzy Osbourne’s 1986 album, The Ultimate Sin. The video features a group of attractive women looking for a good time, which, in this video, means going to an Ozzy show.
Director Andy Morahan was a director who worked with everyone who was anyone in the 80s. He directed music videos for Pet Shop Boys, Wham, Luther Vandross, The Human League, Tina Turner, Cyndi Lauper, Wang Chung and others. Later he would move on to feature films and direct the infamous third Highlander film.
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Today’s music video of the day is a recent one from Kedr Livanskiy. I always assume that all of Kedr Livanskiy’s videos either deal with vampires or takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. This one seems to definitely take place in a world where, much as in Argento’s Tenebrae and Rollin’s Night of the Hunted, there are now far fewer people.
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Today’s music video is this melancholy mood piece from Adi Ulmansky.
For the record, HMFMH stands for Hate Myself For Hating Myself. Hey, we’ve all been there! I was there just three weeks ago! Fortunately, this week has been a marked improvement.
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Today, the Shattered Lens wishes a happy birthday to Texas’s own Jennifer Love Hewitt!
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Kurt Cobain would have been 57 years old today.
Come As You Are was Nirvana’s first video after the monster success of Smells Like Teen Spirit. Despite the commercial success of the previous song and video, Cobain has not enjoyed working director Samuel Bayer so, when it was time to do the Come As You Are video, photographer Kevin Kerslake was hired to direct. At the time, Cobain told Kerslake that he just wanted the video to pay homage to the cover of Nevermind and to feature a lot of “purples and reds.” Cobain and the band were happy with the way that Kerslake visually interpreted their song and he subsequently directed many more videos for the band.
This video was shot in a park in Hollywood Hills.
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Continuing our tribute to Lee Marvin on what would have been his 100th birthday, our song of the day is a reminder that Lee Marvin was not just a tough guy actor.
He was also a singer who had a number one single in the UK and Ireland with this song from 1969’s Paint Your Wagon! The same two weeks that Lee Marvin had the number one spot, The Beatles had the number two spot with Let It Be.
