Music Video of the Day: Bela Lugosi’s Dead, covered by Massive Attack (2019)

Posted on October 21, 2020 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Burn by Nine Inch Nails (1994, dir by Hank Corwin and Trent Reznor)

Posted on October 20, 2020 by Lisa Marie Bowman

I like Burn, even though it’s not exactly subtle song. I mean, Trent Reznor has never exactly been the most low-key of songwriters but Burn is a bit heavy-handed by even his standards. That said, it’s got a good beat and you can dance to it and it’s fun to music to play while you’re setting a fire or trying to freak out a boomer.

The video was apparently included on a special VHS tape of Natural Born Killers. And now it’s on YouTube so watch it while you can because I have a feeling this video will probably get yanked down for copyright reasons in another month or so. Stuff like that just makes me want to burn it all down. The video pretty much follows the Natural Born Killers aesthetic. It’s a type of style that’s good for music videos but a bit much for a 2 hour-plus film. Natural Born Killers is one of those films that I always get bored with before it ends but the soundtrack’s pretty good.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Freedom by Alice Cooper (1987, directed by ????)

Posted on October 19, 2020 by Jedadiah Leland

Alice Cooper singing about freedom is exactly what we all need to hear today.

This song was the first and only single off of Alice Cooper’s seventeenth solo album, Raise Your Fist and Yell. Despite celebrating freedom and being promoted by the music video above, the single failed to chart in the United States. However, in the UK, it reached #50 in the charts. Maybe across the pond, it was better appreciated that the video featured Rambo on guitar. (That’s actually Kane Roberts on guitar. Roberts co-wrote this song and is a legitimate rock and roll great. The presence of Roberts makes it easier to forgive the fact that Kip Winger played bass on Freedom.)

This song came out at around the same time that the Senate was investigating rock music and there was a strong push for warning labels to be put on albums. This song was Cooper’s response to the Tipper Gores of the world. “Stop pretending you’ve never been bad,” the lyrics say before going on to take a stand for freedom of speech.

Enjoy!