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Music Video of the Day: The Shining Main Titles, covered by Kevin Bias (2016, dir by Kevin Bias)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

For today’s music video of the day, we have a cover (by Kevin Bias) of the main title theme from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.  As I’ve often said on this site, The Shining is one of my favorite horror movies and I think it has one of the best scores to be found in a non-Italian horror film.

This is taken from Bias’s own description of the video on YouTube:

Written by Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind
Cover of the original from the opening credits of Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film ‘The Shining’.
Equipment: Alesis Ion, Ensoniq Sq2, OP-X PRO II emulation software

I pre-recorded my own sound effects and ambience which are not reflected in the visuals in the video. All of the visual takes seen in the video are the takes heard in the audio and mixed using Sonar X2.

If you like this cover, be sure to check out Kevin Bias’s YouTube channel and subscribe!

Music Video of the Day: Mad World, covered by Pentatonix (2020, dir by ????)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Welcome to October!

Since this is the first post of our annual Horrorthon, it only seems appropriate that today’s music video of the day should be for one of the most haunting songs ever written.  Originally recorded by Tears For Fears and then covered by Gary Jules for Donnie Darko, Mad World is a beautiful song and, if you ask me, an appropriate song for October.  After all, it’s a mad world out there.

I do have to admit that I usually absolutely hate anything a cappella.  Seriously, I usually find a cappella music to be one of the most painfully boring types of music around, second perhaps only to gospel and folk music.  However, I do like Pentatonix because they’re not as a self-important as most a cappella groups (as far as I know, they’ve never done a 10-minute version of I’ll Fly Away) and they’re from my home state of Texas.  (Y’know, home of the chainsaw massacre….)

Enjoy!