This was the second Grim Reaper video to be watched and commented upon by Beavis and Butt-Head. The only difference was that, opposed to See You In Hell, the band actually requested that Mike Judge roast this video. They were definitely good sports about that whole thing, unlike a certain singer named Kip Winger.
Here are Beavis and Butt-Head, with their thoughts:
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David Lee Roth, the greatest rock frontman of the 80s, is celebrating his 68th birthday! Here’s hoping that wherever Diamond Dave is right now, it’s just like paradise!
Bed of Nails is from Alice Cooper’s 11th studio album, Trash. It was the album’s second most successful single, despite not even being released as a single in the U.S. Maybe some of that success was due to this music video, in which Alice the singer performs over and in a bed of nails while women in leather walk through the studio and play the cello.
This video was directed by Nigel Dick, who directed videos for anyone who was anyone. If Nigel Dick has not done a video for you, you are not really a rock star.
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Alice Cooper can’t get a girl be he doesn’t have a car and he can’t get a car because he doesn’t have a job and he can’t get a job because he doesn’t have a car. This is one of Alice Cooper’s catchiest songs. Whenever I watch any of Alice Cooper’s videos, I think about how interesting it is that Alice Cooper has gone from being the controversial face of shock rock to being an almost universally beloved American institution.
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This song appears on the Pet Sematary 2 soundtrack, which might be the best soundtrack to have never been given an official release. In the film, this is the song that plays over the end credits. The video follows the film’s story of the dead rising back to life.
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It’s October so I had to find room for some Danzig. This song appeared on Danzig’s second album, Lucifuge and it features this band at their best. In 1990, this was the type of music that caused the nation’s moral guardians to go into tizzy. There were actual Congressional hearings! Imagine your Congressman listening to Danzig and probably playing it backwards to look for hidden messages.
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I was trying to remember why I picked this standard 80s metal video for today’s music video of the day. Was it because of all the shapely legs? That seemed probable but that would not explain why I picked it for October. Then I remembered that this song was featured in the horror classic Black Roses, which is a movie about teenagers driven to murder by heavy metal music. In fact, the Satanic band itself was played by King Kobra.
As for this video, it doesn’t feature any Black Roses footage but it does feature Larry Fine and Humphrey Bogart.
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After a stint as lead guitarist for KISS, Vinnie Vincent went on to form Vinnie Vincent Invasion. Though the band was only together for four years before the members split up to pursue their own projects (two members of the band would go on to form Slaughter), Vinnie Vincent Invasion had a number of minor hits during its existence.
Love Kills was featured in Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master and Freddy repaid them for the song by appearing in the music video. This video was directed by Nigel Dick, who I think has directed at least one video for every band that has ever existed.
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Grim Reaper was so hardcore that they ever had Satan himself watching over their concerts!
See You In Hell is probably best remembered for Beavis and Butt-Head’s epic takedown of both the video and the singer.
Unlike certain other musicians — Oh hai, Winger — Grim Reaper was actually a good sport about Beavis and Butt-Head’s mockery. Mike Judge once told David Letterman that one of the scariest moments of his life was when he ran into Grim Reaper’s lead guitarist while backstage at a concert. Judge was expecting the guitarist to be angry with him but instead, he said that the band enjoyed and agreed with Beavis and Butt-Head’s critique. He also sent Judge copies of the band’s other two videos so that the boys could take a crack at them.
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Though he had retired from the band to pursue a solo career, Dee Dee Ramone wrote Poison Heart and gave it to Ramones. The story has always been that Dee Dee gave them the song as a way to thank the band for bailing him out of jail. I don’t know if that story is true or not but it does have a ring of truth to it. Print the legend, to quote The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
The song appeared on the soundtrack for Pet Semetary 2 and the video is clearly inspired by that song, with the child being forcefully dragged through the cemetery while the band performs in what appears to be an underground tunnel.
This video was directed by Samuel Bayer, who has done videos for just about everyone.
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Through the Shattered Lens 