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Music Video Of The Day: What’s The Matter Here? by 10,000 Maniacs (1988, directed by Matt Mahurin)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

Like Suzanne Vega’s Luka, this song is about a woman realizing that a child who lives in her building is a victim of child abuse.

This video is one the many video to have been directed by Matt Mahurin.  Matt Mahurin is one of those all-purpose music video directors.  Since the 1980s, he’s done videos for everyone from U2 to Peter Gabriel to New Kids On The Block to Marilyn Manson.  He also directed the video for Bush’s Everything Zen but let’s not hold that against him.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Because The Night, covered by 10,000 Maniacs (1993, directed by Milton Lage)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

Today’s music video of the day features Natalie Merchant and 10,000 Maniacs covering Patti Smith’s Because The Night on MTV Unplugged in 1993.  This is a good example of what MTV used to be, before it sold its musical soul and became the Rob Dyrdek channel.

Milton Lage, the director of the video, was also the director of Unplugged.  He’s also done music videos for James Taylor, 98 Degrees, Bonnie Raitt, and others.

Enjoy!