Music Video of the Day: Bullet With Butterfly Wings by Smashing Pumpkins (1995, directed by Samuel Bayer)


The world is vampire

For a period of time in the 90s, you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing that.  It was one of the original memes, thanks to both the song and the video that was made to promote it.  The video, which was inspired by photographs of a Brazilian gold mine, was filmed in a quarry near Simi Valley.  While the extras dressed like miners and were meant to represent the Biblical lepers who asked Jesus to heal them, the band goes for a glam rock look.  It pays to be in the band.

This video was directed by Samuel Bayer, who has done music videos for everyone who is anyone.

Enjoy!