eightone81 — Best Music Video Ever

This week on the pod: we’re lying down on the pavement because the truth we just learned is too much to bear. “Just” will likely be the first of many Radiohead music videos we cover on the pod, but James wanted to do this one first because he loves the way it plays like a mini Twilight Zone episode.

We’re doing our first future legendary filmmaker on the pod today, with Aerosmith’s “Janie’s Got A Gun,” directed by David Fincher. We’re all in agreement that the mom shot him, right? But how did the body get down to the train tracks?

This week on the pod, we might actually be talking about the best music video ever. It’s a-ha’s “Take On Me.” An excellent song with an iconic music video and effects that still hold up today. There is nothing we don’t love about this jam.

This week on the pod: the first of likely many appearances by the Material Girl, with her bizarre late-80s video for “Like a Prayer.” She taught us all an important lesson about racial justice by dancing in front of a burning cross in Natalie Wood’s lingerie. If you’re born after 9/11, you’ll likely never guess which group boycotted this video.

Welcome to eightone81, a podcast about the best music videos ever. Benjamin Light (aka James Taylor) and Marco Sparks explore the signature music videos from the launch of MTV to 9/11, looking back at an art form that no longer holds the sway it once did. We’ll talk about the artists, the music, the videos, the culture, and how things have changed since the heyday of the medium. In the debut episo...