This song and video comes from Megadeth’s final album. Dave Mustaine may have retired but it’s good to see that he went out doing what he did best.
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Music Video of the Day: Foreclosure of a Dream by Megadeth (1992, directed by Jeff Richter)
In this video, Megadeth takes on the 1990s mortgage crisis with a song that feels just as relevant today as when it was first released. It’s hard to imagine Metallica ever doing a song like this.
Director Jeff Richter has also worked with everyone from Michael Jackson to Faith Hill to John Fogerty and Nine Inch Nails.
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Music Video of the Day: A Tout Le Monde by Megadeth (1994, directed by “Justin Keith”)
When today’s music video was first released, it was banned by MTV. MTV claimed that the song and the video glorified suicide, which was certainly not the case when it came to either one. As Dave Mustaine explained in interviews at the time, the song was about what Mustaine would say to his friends if he learned that he only had a few minutes left to live. Mustaine sings that he would want to say, “I love you all and now I must go.”
(Some of the misunderstanding probably came from the song appearing on an album entitled Youthanasia. Megadeth’s lyrics could certainly be dark and serious but they were just as often misunderstood, even by people who should have known better.)
Most only sources list Justin Keith as the director of this video. In an interview with a German site, Mustaine explained that Justin Keith was actually the incredibly prolific Wayne Isham and that MTV apparently told Megadeth not to use Isham as their director because the channel was already “saturated” with videos that Isham had directed. So, when Megadeth submitted the video, the listed Isham as being “Justin Keith.” According to Mustaine, this — and not the the video’s content — is what actually caused MTV to ban the music video.
Mustaine later rerecorded this song for 2007’s United Abominations.
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Music Vide of the Day: Angry Again by Megadeth (1993, directed by Wayne Isham)
Megadeth’s Angry Again was a part of The Last Action Hero soundtrack, which was as acclaimed as the film itself was criticized. The song was a hit for Megadeth and the video, which featured scenes from the film mixed with the band performing, went into heavy rotation on MTV.
This video was directed by Wayne Isham, who directed several videos for Megadeth and just about every other band that was prominent during the 80s and the 90s. If you were in a famous band, you probably worked with Wayne Isham at least once.
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Music Video of the Day: Conquer or Die by Megadeth (2016, directed by Blair Underwood)
This video is just Megadeth doing what Megadeth does best.
The Blair Underwood who directed this video is the same Blair Underwood who co-starred in L.A. Law and several subsequent films. They seem like an unlikely combination, as Underwood was outspoken in his support of President Obama while Dave Mustaine was definitely not. However, this is actually just one of several videos that Underwood did with Megadeth. Music brings us all together.
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Music Video Of The Day: Anarchy in the U.K. by Megadeth (1988, directed David Mackie)
In 1988, Megadeth covered this Sex Pistols classic on their album, So Far, So Good … So What!? Even though they changed the name of the country to the U.S. for the song, they kept the title the same. Steve Jones also played on the song. The video, directed by David Mackie, mixes the brainwashing scene from A Clockwork Orange with the test video of the Parallax View.
This is one of the many song that, though having been a hit for the band, Dave Mustaine now refuses to perform. In this case, it’s because of the references to being an anti-Christ.
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Music Video of the Day: No More Mr. Nice Guy by Megadeth (1989, directed by Penelope Spheeris)
Happy birthday, Dave Mustaine!
No More Mr. Nice Guy was originally written for Wes Craven’s Shocker, a movie about someone who was never a nice guy. The video pays homage to the film’s electric chair-inspired plot. This video was directed by Penelope Spheeris, who is best known for Wayne’s World and The Decline of Western Civilization trilogy.
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Music Video of the Day: Dystopia by Megadeth (2016, directed by Blair Underwood)
Just to clear up some confusion that apparently shows up online, the Blair Underwood who directed this video for Megadeth is not the same Blair Underwood who co-starred on L.A. Law. Considering that Blair Underwood the actor reportedly based his L.A. Law character on a young Barack Obama and Dystopia was undoubtedly Dave Mustaine’s commentary on America under Obama, the collaboration would have been an unlikely one.
It was for Dystopia that Megadeth won their first Grammy. Unfortunately, during the Grammy ceremony, the house band played Metallica’s Master of Puppets when Dave Mustaine and the band went up to accept the award. Mustaine, who was famously kicked out of Metallica before then forming Megadeth, said that he didn’t take it personally. That doesn’t really sound like the Dave Mustaine that most people know but let’s take his word for it.
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Music Video of the Day: Wake Up Dead by Megadeth (1987, directed by Penelope Spheeris)
In this video, Megadeth performs behind a wire fence while their fans attempt to get to the band. It doesn’t have much to do about the song, which is about a man sneaking back into his house after cheating on his girlfriend. But it probably is a fair representation of what it was like to be in a popular thrash metal band in the 80s.
Directing this video was Penelope Spheeris, who has previously celebrated metal in the documentary, The Decline of Wester Civilization Part II. Spheeris would later direct the film for which she is best remembered, Wayne’s World.
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Music Video of the Day: Peace Sells by Megadeth (1986, directed by Robert Longo)
“I was homeless at the time, and I was living in a rehearsal place in Vernon, California. I was seeing a girl, Diana – there were a lot of songs I wrote about her. I actually wrote the lyrics to that song on the wall, in that building. I didn’t have any paper in the studio, but I had a Sharpie, so I just wrote on the wall. Whoever inherited our rehearsal room after I moved out, saw the original lyrics to ‘Peace Sells’ on the wall. They probably painted right over it and didn’t even know it.”
— Dave Mustaine on Peace Sells
The video for Peace Sells was directed by the painter, Robert Longo, and is probably best known for the cut scene that features a teenager in a Slayer t-shirt telling his angry father that the video and the news are one in the same. Among Longo’s other videos: R.E.M.’s The One I Love and New Order’s Bizarre Love Triangle. He also directed the regrettable cyberpunk movie, Johnny Mnemonic.
If the opening bass line sounds familiar, you may have heard it used as the opening theme for MTV News. Or maybe, like me, you spent an early being chased by the police in Vice City while listening to Megadeth on V-Rock.
Gotta love those Vice City memories!
Through the Shattered Lens 