Song of the Week #13

When An American Werewolf in London came out in theaters in 1981, Michael Jackson was so impressed with the effects in the film that he said get me in touch with the makers of this movie. So John Landis, Rick Baker, and most of the original crew from the movie, came to make the Thriller video for Michael Jackson. When this video was released, no one had ever seen a merging of film-making and music like this before. It has since been called the most successful music video of all time. The first music video to have entered into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. The most watch video of all time, see by more that 4 billion people across the world. And at the time was the most expensive music video ever made, at $1,000,000.

Song of the Week #12

Here's a Halloween-ish song of the week for ya. It's not really the song, more the music video that is Halloweeny. It's about the band making a home made french zombie movie. From Phantom Planets third album (self titled) for the song "Big Brat", directed by Spike Jones.

Song of the Week #11

One of my favorite bands of all time, off the Ramones eleventh studio album Brain Drain. Written for the Stephen King adaptation of Pet Sematary. Which became one the Ramones most popular hits. The song out shines the movie in every way possible. Just listen to the song, and ignore the movie.

Song of the Week #10

I'm changing music video of the week to song of the week. Because I think that doing just a music video of the week is limiting to a lot of great songs, that I would like to feature on my blog. So now it's song of the week.

Today's song of the week is from the Groovie Ghoulies, with the song Bye Bye Brain, off the album Travels with my Amp. A very simple and punchy song about being brainless in love. I think this song works perfectly with this weeks reviews of zombie movies. It only takes a couple of listens and you can start singing along to it, as you carve pumpkins for the Halloween season. Enjoy!