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Category Archives: Music
Music Video of the Day: Artifacts by Karate, Guns & Tanning (2021, dir by Andrew Knives)
You run and you run and you run and where do you end up? You just end up still running. This video appeals to my existential side, which is probably why I like it so much. The whole grainy retro feel, combined with the run through the universe makes this entire video feel like sort of existential daydream. Keep running because who knows where you’ll eventually end up.
Enjoy!
Music Video of the Day: (We Like To) Do It With The Lights On by islands (2021, dir by Tim Nackashi)
Don’t we all?
Enjoy!
Music Video of the Day: You Get In My Way by Ali Barter (2021, dir by Bryce Padovan)
When I first saw this, I have to admit that I misread the title as being “You got in my way” and, since I suck at understanding lyrics, I assumed that this song was about a hit-and-run accident or something like that. Like maybe Ali was explaining that it was unfortunate that she ran you over but she was driving home at four in the morning and she was a little distracted and then you just happened to step off the curb. Seriously — what were you thinking!?
Actually, though, this is song is abut Ali singing about a boy who seems to be perfect but who still kind of cramps her style. She’s got the stability of a relationship but sometimes, that stability gets in the way of her just doing what she wants to do. Is she sacrificing her freedom? It’s a legitimate question and one to which I think any former or current wild child can relate.
As for the video, I like it. It’s simple but fun.
Enjoy and stay out the way!
Music Video of the Day: Nyx by Laurence-Anne (2021, dir by Joey Desjardins)
Hi, everyone! I’m in charge of “music video of the day” for this week so let’s get things started with this trippy little video from Laurence-Anne.
Basically, you remember those big bulky computers that everyone used to have? Well, judging from this video, it’s a pretty good thing that we got rid of the because they’ll cause you to sucked into a maze and then melt away. Seriously, everyone …. melting is just not worth it. While I personally don’t know anyone who has melted, I imagine that it would be a pretty difficult thing to come back from. You melt and you can pretty much say goodbye to whatever future plans you may have had.
With that in mind, enjoy!
Music Video of the Day: No Money Down by Lou Reed (1988, directed by Godley and Creme)
“Lou decided to get Godley and Creme to do the video for ‘Video Violence’ with these robots. Then the label decided to change single, but Lou didn’t want to waste the robots, so you had this great clever pop song with a video of this robot tearing its own face off… MTV debuted it, and then we got a call saying people were complaining that their video was making kids cry.”
— Lou Reed’s bassist Fernando Saunders on the music video for No Money Down
That pretty much says it all. How many young viewers were traumatized by the discovery that Lou Reed was a terminator? I can’t imagine that the man between Metal Machine Music minded too much.
Enjoy!
Music Video of the Day: Winner Takes It All by Sammy Hagar (1987, directed by ????)
Winner Takes It All was written for the classic Sylvester Stallone arm-wrestling film, Over The Top. It was originally recorded by the lead singer of Asia but the film’s producers felt that his version wasn’t tough enough for a Stallone film so they instead offered it to Hagar. Hagar’s version is the one that appeared on the soundtrack. Eddie Van Halen plays bass on the track.
Hagar has said that he didn’t care much for the song but he did enjoy getting to arm wrestle Sylvester Stallone while filming the music video. At the end of the shooting, Stallone and Hagar both signed the black cap that Stallone was wearing and the cap was later auctioned off for $10,000. All of the money went to charity.
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Music Video of the Day: Dumb Waiters by The Psychedelic Furs (1981, directed by ????)
What is Dumb Waiters about? The song mentions nothing about waiters, dumb or otherwise. Nor does it appear to be about the elevator that some restaurants and hotels use to transport food from one room to another. Check out the lyrics for yourself:
Give me all your paper ma
Gimme all your jazz
Give me something that I need
Something I can have
Mrs. London’s coming round
She’s coming with her son
Gimme all your paper ah
So I can get a gun
She has got it in for me
Yeah I mean it honestly
She’s so mean
Give me all your paper ma
So I can buy a train
They just want to suck you in
To being one of them
Tell her that I’m not in here
Tell her I’m a freak
Tell her that I fall about
Every time I speak
She has got in for me
Yeah I mean it honestly
I just scream
Give me all your paper ma
So I can buy a train
I don’t know how I got in here
It’s making me insane
Have another cigarette
And have another cigarette
In a room where lovers go
Talking on the telephone
They have go it in for me
Yeah I mean it honestly
They all dream
According to guitarist John Ashton, the lyrics were meant to be surreal. As he told Songfacts, “I think they tend to make people use their imaginations really. The way we never play a song the same. It never means quite the same. I guess people relate to it any way, make something out of it themselves.”
The song reached #59 on the UK chart while doing slightly better in the U.S., peaking at #25.
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Music Video of the Day: Rock and Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution (1980, directed by Eric Dionysius and Eric Mistler)
“We were in London at the time and there were all those problems with the old Marquee Club because it was in a built-up area and there was this whole thing about noise pollution in the news, the environmental health thing that you couldn’t have your stereo up loud after 11 at night, it all came from that.”
— Malcolm Young
Angus and Malcolm Young reportedly wrote this song in just 15 minutes, after they were asked to come up with one more track for the Back in Black album. Rock and Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution became the 10th and final track on Back in Black. It was also the fourth and final single to be released from the album. The song reached number 15 on the UK charts, the highest of any of the singles that were released off of Back in Black.
As was always the case with AC/DC, the music video for Rock And Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution is simple and to the point. AC/DC was never a band that needed gimmicks to make itself heard.
Enjoy!
Music Video of the Day: Mony Mony, covered by Billy Idol (1987, directed by Larry Jordan)
The cover of a song by Tommy James & The Shondells would be Billy Idol’s only number one hit in the United States. As hard as it may be to believe, other Idol songs like White Wedding, Rebel Yell, and Dancing With Myself failed to even crack the top 30. Interestingly enough, when Mony Mony hit number one, the song that it replaced was another song that was originally recorded by Tommy James, Tiffany’s cover of I Think We’re Alone Now.
A good deal of the success of Billy Idol’s Mony Mony can probably be linked back to this music video, which features Billy Idol at his most energetic. During performances of Mony Mony, audience members would regularly shout, “Hey Motherfucker … Get Laid! Get fucked!” in between the lines. How this became a tradition is not known but it did lead to this otherwise innocuous song getting banned from several high school dances.
This video was directed by Larry Jordan, who has also done videos for Shania Twain and Mariah Carey.
Enjoy!
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