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Music Video of the Day: Money by The Backbeat Band (1994, directed by Nick Egan)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

In 1994, a film about the early days of the Beatles in Hamburg was released.  The film was called Backbeat and it starred Ian Hart as John Lennon, Stephen Dorff as Stu Sutcliffe, and Sheryl Lee as Astrid Kirchherr.  In order to promote the film, a supergroup called The Backbeat Band recorded covers of several of the songs that the Beatles performed while in Germany.

The members of the Backbeat Band were:

Dave Pirner (Soul Asylum): vocals (Paul McCartney)
Greg Dulli (The Afghan Whigs): vocals (John Lennon)
Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth): guitar
Don Fleming (Gumball): guitar
Mike Mills (R.E.M.): bass guitar
Dave Grohl (Nirvana): drums
Henry Rollins (Black Flag): vocals (Stuart Sutcliffe)

The video for Money features clips from the film, along with Stephen Dorff, Ian Hart, and Scott Williams (as Pete Best) pretending to perform the song.  The video was directed by Nick Egan, who went on to do videos for Duran Duran, Oasis, and Alanis Morrissette.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Money (That’s What I Want) performed by The Flying Lizards (1979, dir by ????)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

I already shared another video for this song back in May of this year.  In fact, I shared it on May Day, because I felt like poking some fun at socialism.  That video featured the Flying Lizards performing on a Danish show.  At the time, I didn’t realize that there was an actual “official” video for their cover of Money.

But, last night, I came across that official video so here it is!

I have no idea who directed this or any of that good stuff.  I just like the song.

Enjoy!

 

Music Video of the Day: Money (That’s What I Want) by The Flying Lizards (1979, dir by ????)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Hi, everyone!  Welcome to the merry old month of May!

So, today is May Day, which is apparently some sort of communist new year.  (Actually, technically, the holiday is International Workers Day or something like that but May Day sounds prettier and little bit less grimy.)  Anyway, with that in mind, it only seems appropriate (to me, at least) that today’s music video of the day should be about wanting money.

This song was originally recorded by Barrett Strong in 1959 and subsequently become heavily identified with the Beatles.  There have been quite a few covers over the year but my favorite version is by The Flying Lizards, largely because this version achieves a perfect balance between sincerity and satire.

This video was recorded for a show called TopPop, which was apparently some sort of Danish music show.  I have to admit that I have a weakness for bands that were willing to be openly eccentric.  That’s something that the world is missing today.  Everyone’s so tediously earnest.

Anyway, enjoy!