Category Archives: Music

Music Video Of The Day: Women by Def Leppard (1987, directed by Doug Freel and Jean Pellerin)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

This music video represents the fantasy of almost every 80s kid, skateboard wherever you want, read a comic book about your favorite hero having an amazing adventure, and doing it all while your favorite band performs behind you.

Depending on what part of the world you were living in, Women was either the first or the second single to be released off of Dep Leppard’s best-selling album, Hysteria.  Hysteria was a great album that was helped immeasurably by MTV.  Fans of the band already knew that Def Leppard rocked but MTV gave everyone the chance to watch them as they did so.

This was the first Dep Leppard video to be filmed after Rick Allen lost his left arm.  A good deal of the video’s popularity comes from Rick showing that he was still one of the best drummers in the business.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Are You Ready For Freddy? by the Fat Boys (1988, directed by Harvey Keith)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

I always assumed that this song was specifically written for one of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies but actually, the Fat Boys were just fans of the movies and they decided to put a song about them on one of their albums.  The song was included in The Freddy Krueger Special, which aired on CBS in 1988.  That’s amazing to think that Freddy got his own primetime special.

This video, which features several of Freddy’s victims and Robert Englund himself, was written by Wes Craven and directed by Harvey Keith.  Keith directed a few films, including 1988’s Mondo New York and 1990’s Jezebel’s Kiss.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Can I Play with Madness by Iron Maiden (1988, directed by Julian Doyle)

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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.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Prison Sex by Tool (1993, directed by Adam Jones)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

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.

Enjoy!

Horror AMV of the Day: Horror Movies (Mieruko-chan)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

With Halloween approaching, how about an AMV to celebrate?

Song: Horror Movies by Neoni

Anime: Mieruko-chan

Creator: ilyalniy

Past AMVs of the Day

Music Video of the Day: Voyeur by Kim Carnes (1982, directed by Russell Mulcahy)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

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.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Lonely In Your Nightmare by Duran Duran (1982, directed by Russell Mulcahy)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

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.

Music Video of the Day: Lonely In Your Nightmare by Duran Duran (1982, directed by Russell Mulcahy)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

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.

Enjoy!