Today’s music video of the day is the just-released video for Call My Name by Priest. This song is taken from Priest’s latest album, New Flesh.
Reading the comments on YouTube, it would appear that several people are of the opinion that this video has a Girl With The Dragon Tattoo feel to it. Myself, I’d say that this video has more in common with David Cronenberg than David Fincher. I mean, just the title of the album brings to mind Cronenberg’s Videodrome.
That said, I have to admit that, for me, the imagery in the video mostly brought to mind Jean Rollin’s 1970 film, The Nude Vampire.
Jean Rollin’s The Nude Vampire
As anyone who has regularly read this site over the years can tell you, reminding me of a Jean Rollin film is always a good thing.
Speak To Me Of Abduction is a song that played over the end credits of William Control’s first live DVD, Live in London Town and I absolutely love the song. As for the video, it’s primarily clips of Wil Francis (a.k.a. William Control) walking around and performing in one of the greatest cities in the world, London!
The city of London was itself founded in 43 AD, by the Romans. It was originally known as Londinium. No one is quite sure why the Romans called the town Londinium, though there is speculation that the name was of Celtic origin and originally meant “place that floods.”
I also picked this song because today is … and this not a joke … Alien Abduction Day! Seriously! According to this website, Alien Abduction Day is always celebrated on March 20th. Why, you may ask? I have no idea. Maybe someone famous got abducted by aliens on this day. I’m not even sure how exactly we’re supposed to celebrate Alien Abduction Day. Should I go out in the woods and stare up at the sky until a bright light appears? Considering that today is also the first day of Spring, a road trip sounds like fun but I don’t necessarily want to end up getting grabbed by any of those little gray men. Though, honestly, I don’t think they’re that tough.
I did, however, decide to see if I could find any footage from last year’s Alien Abduction Day. Here’s the best that I could find:
Seriously, I wouldn’t want to get abducted by one of those things!
I guess my point is that everyone should be careful today. Remember, alien abductions are always fun until this happens:
You’re going to have to forgive me if I don’t have much to say about this video. I’ve been traveling a lot today and, quite frankly, I am exhausted right now. I calculated it all in my head earlier and, with all of the time zones that I’ve crossed today, my Sunday lasted 28 hours and I was pretty much been awake for every single one of them!
(Time zones are odd, yes? Personally, I’ve always been obsessed with the International Date Line.)
So, enjoy this video. It’s for a song called Beam Me Up, which is performed by the British band Django Django. It’s a good song and I love the video, largely because it never stop moving upward. We should all try to do the same!
I have to admit that one of the main reasons that I picked this video is because, assuming everything goes as scheduled, Jeff and I will be returning home on this day. (I’m writing this on February 20th, just to provide some context for you.) I wanted to pick a video for a song that has the word “American” in the title.
With all that in mind, though, American Slang is a good video for a good song from a good album by a good band. The song and the video take a look at the contrast between the American dream and what, for many, is the American reality. Myself, I just like the look of this video. New York is beautiful in black-and-white.
There are apparently two videos for I’m Shipping Up To Boston available. The one above was apparently released at the same time that The Departedmade the song famous. It features the band performing and footage from the film.
The other version is below. This version was directed by Mark Higgins and it basically involves the band, as Higgins put it on YouTube, “hanging with hooligans and runnin’ from the cops.” Personally, I prefer the version below but they’re both good.
To be honest, I was hoping this song would be a cover version of the song that Coyote Shivers and Renee Zellweger perform at the end of Empire Records but no, it’s not.
It’s still a good song, though. And I like the simplicity of the video.
I’m not sure why March 12th would be considered Alfred Hitchcock Day, seeing as how Alfred Hitchcock was born in August of 1899 and passed away in April of 1980. But no matter! It’s always a good day for Hitchcock!
So, in honor of Alfred Hitchcock Day, today’s music video of the day is Laeticia de Valer’s Hitchcock Blonde!
What exactly is happening in this video? I’ll leave that for you to interpret. All I’ll say is that it reminds me of my favorite movie about cults, Ticket to Heaven.
Then again, if you can remain happy after slipping in a pool of blood then you’ve obviously achieved something.
Through the Shattered Lens 