Man, I miss videos.
I could make a gigantic list of the good ones from the 80s and early 90s.
Back in the 80s, videos were a huge part of the music and the bands.
Too bad eMpTyV couldn't lay off their crack pipe.
One great one was Accept's "Midnight Mover." They set up about a thousand small cameras on the inside of a silo, painted like something from an Imperial Death Star. As the band played, the only lights were the flashes of the cameras which went off in patterns circling around the band like a whirlwind. The effect, synchronized faster then more slowly, then faster, synched with the music, was like the viewer was in a hurricane flying around the band (or I guess some would say the band was spinning and looping). Might sound nauseating, but the video turned out to be pretty dynamic and powerful. Nice dark grey and midnight blue colours. The solo to that song is cool too.
Another was the black and white, grainy, video for "The Calling," by LeatherWolf. There's a middle part to the song that's like a Celtic anthem, and when the video gets to that part, the focus on the bands, playing in the shadows, with a storm going off in the background, gives ya chills. And we're talking one of the earliest metal videos that got regular rotation by eMpTyV, yet the quality and settings, the shadowy etherealness, it was pro.
I could go on and on. Wish there was some good medium nowadays for good videos.
Especially "The Power and the Glory"!
. Besides the video of Power & The Glory is edited so the song is shorter.
