When you’ve got three ghosts following you around on a bicycle, it’s going to make you a little anxious.
Actually, in all seriousness, I’m sure everyone can relate to this video. We all have our ghosts following us.
Enjoy!
Category Archives: Music
Music Video of the Day: My Best Friend’s Girl by The Cars (1978, directed by ????)
On Sunday night, it was announced that Ric Ocasek, the co-lead singer and songwriter of the Cars, had died at the age of 75. First Daniel Johnston. Then Eddie Money. And now Ric Ocasek. We’ve lost some of the truly great ones this past week.
My Best Friend’s Girl is one of the many songs that Ocasek wrote and recorded as the lead singer of The Cars. Sung from the point of view of a man whose girl has left him for his best friend, it was one of the Cars’s biggest hits and it continues to endure as one of the signature songs of the 70s and 80s.
Ric Ocasek, R.I.P.
Music Video Of The Day: You Belong With Me by Anna Ternheim (2019, dir by Elle Kunnos de Voss)
So, this video is kinda brilliant both visually and musically. In fact, this might be the first video that I’ve seen this year that I’ve enjoyed as much as I enjoyed the video for UPSAHL’s Drugs. This video is a riddle and an enigma. It’s like a dream of dark and disturbing things, with just enough wit to keep you watching.
Sit back and allow the mood to take you away.
Enjoy!
Music Video of the Day: I Wanna Go Back by Eddie Money (1986, directed by Nick Morris)
Eddie Money, who was one of the major voices of the 80s, died on Friday. He had been in poor health for a while and had recently been diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer. He was 70 years old and he will be missed. He leaves behind a legacy of music that epitomized a decade.
I Wanna Go Back was not originally recorded by Eddie Money. The song was first performed by a band called Billy Satellite. Their version was released in 1984 and was their first song to place on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Eddie Money’s cover version, which featured backing vocals by Marilyn Martin, came out in 1986 and was included on his Can’t Hold Back album. Both the song and the video were released as a follow-up to Money’s monster hit, Take Me Home Tonight.
The song is about a man thinking about the past and wishing that he could go back to the way that things were. The video features Eddie revisiting his old high school. (I don’t know if that’s actually Eddie’s high school in the video or not.) The scenes of Eddie wistfully remembering the past are interspersed with scenes of Eddie and his band playing for an enthusiastic audience so maybe the present wasn’t as bad as the song suggests.
Enjoy!
Music Video Of The Day: Synth Off by Glowline & Ace Buchannon (2019, dir by ????)
This is a fun and retro video and it’s kind of easy to watch it and pretend like it’s trailer for some low-budget 80s sci-fi film.
Enjoy!
Music Video Of The Day: Accident by Jenny Hval (2019, dir by Zia Anger)
The woman in the video is actually the mother of director Zia Anger, which adds a whole new layer to this video. This is a video that’s about …. well, everything. What does it mean to be a woman? What does it mean to be a mother? What does it mean to be an accident or a quirk of fate?
Plus, it’s trippy! That’s always a good thing.
Enjoy!
Music Video Of The Day: Wish You’d Made Me Cry (2019, dir by ????)
As far as I’m concerned, 2019 might as well just be known as the year of UPSAHL. This is her latest video, in gorgeous black-and-white.
Enjoy!
Hellhound On My Trail: Walter Hill’s CROSSROADS (Columbia 1986)
‘Well the blues had a baby/and they named it rock and roll” –
Muddy Waters
Hi, my name’s Gary, and I’m a bluesoholic! Whether it’s Deep South Delta or Electric Chicago, distilled in Great Britain or Sunny California, the blues has always been the foundation upon which rock’n’roll was built. Yet there aren’t a lot of films out there depicting this totally original American art form. One I viewed recently was 1986’s CROSSROADS, directed by another American original whose work I enjoy, Walter Hill.
Hill was responsible for cult classics filled with violence and laced with humor, like HARD TIMES (with Charles Bronson as a 1930’s bare knuckles brawler), the highly stylized THE WARRIORS , the gritty Western THE LONG RIDERS, and SOUTHERN COMFORT (a kind of MOST DANGEROUS GAME On The Bayou). He scored box office gold with the 1982 action-comedy 48 HRS, making a movie star out of…
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Music Video Of The Day: Open Your Eyes, covered by David Hasselhoff (2019, dir by Vincent Cordero)
Uhmmm …. okay.
So, this is from David Hasselhoff’s upcoming new album, Open Your Eyes. The entire album is going to be cover tunes. This song was originally recorded by a group called The Lords of the New Church, which had a line-up of four musicians who had previously made a name for themselves as members of punk bands in the 1970s, Stiv Bators (The Dead Boys), Brian James (The Damned), Dave Tregunna (Sham 69) and Nick Turner (The Barracudas).
(Why yes, I did copy and paste that from Wikipedia. Why do you ask?)
Anyway, I know that when I think of punk rock or even post-punk rock, David Hasselhoff is the first name that comes to mind. In this video, the Hoff’s voice actually sounds okay but he goes a bit overboard with the facial expressions. To be honest, the whole video has kind of a 90s feel to it but I get the feeling that might be intentional. Certainly, the wall of TVs feels a bit retro, as does the family watching in amazement. Families today are more likely to be gathered around twitter than gathered around the television. My favorite part of this video would have to be the politicians and the bankers throwing the money around. You can literally hear them yelling, “Look how evil we are!”
As always, the Hoff seems to be having fun and if you’ve ever wanted to see David Hasselhoff sing about income inequality …. well, here you go!
Enjoy!
Music Video Of The Day: Actress by Hana Vu (2019, dir by ????)
This video has a nice retro feel to it. Watching it, it feels like one of those music videos that would have been made in the late 70s or the early 80s in order to show what aspiring musicians could accomplish if they invested in a personal computer of their very own. You keep expecting someone to say, “Now that I’ve got a Next Generation Mojo Video Maker, I can really make my music come to life.”
Enjoy!
Through the Shattered Lens 