Bon Jovi - Runaway

In a 1986 interview with Spin magazine, Jon Bon Jovi had some harsh words for this video. He said: "I hate videos. If you wanted to torture me you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos. Five times you're chump before you learn what you're doing. The first time we'd just made a record and we were all excited and some a--hole decides we're going to make a video for 'Runaway.' So instead of making it about what the song's about, he decides to put a concept to it with his little niece in it. It's the worst piece of s--t I ever saw in my life. There's a girl with like fire coming out of her eyes. They dressed the band. Richie's wearing a jumpsuit and shoes that are three sizes too big. They kept squirting us down with this greasy solution to make it look like we were sweating. We all look like assholes."

Alvin És A Mókusok - Kurva Élet

Alvin és a Mókusok (‘Alvin and the Chipmunks’) is a hungarian soft-punk/punk-rock/ska-band, formed in 1993. Their first record, “Jézusnak volt-e szakálla?”(‘Did Jesus Have a Beard?’) was released on tape in 1995.Since that they have made 9 studio albums, 2 cover albums (with hungarian classic songs) and two best of albums. Most of their songs are well-known classics about common situations. They are mostly listened to by teenagers, but since they are quite popular in Hungary, they’ve got a lot of older fans, too. The fan favourite song is “Kurva Élet” ('Fucked Up Life'), played as the last song on every concert. Enjoy. :)

Alen Ant Farm - Movies

There were three music videos made for this single, one, which was shot before the success of "Smooth Criminal" features a 'behind the scenes' style shooting of the video, with grips and lighting crew interrupting shots to fix equipment, while the band performs before a tacky Hollywood Hill backdrop.
The second video revolves around their playing at a house party, and the imagined events after they each pick up a different girl at the party.
There is a bigger budget re-shoot music video (you can watch it below), released after the success of "Smooth Criminal", which shows the band jumping through the screen at a movie theatre, and interacting with the audience in homages to Ghostbusters, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, The Karate Kid (including an appearance by the film's costar Pat Morita) and Edward Scissorhands. At the end of the video, the entire audience jumps through the screen and joins the band.

Lionel Richie - Hello

This song has one of the creepiest music videos ever... :)

The song was promoted with a much derided video which included dialogue. Lionel Richie plays a teacher, Mr. Reynolds, who falls in love with a blind pottery student, Laura. When he looks in at her class, he finds that she has made a perfect clay model of his head During the making of the video, Richie protested to the director Bob Giraldi that the story about the blind woman had no relationship to the song. Giraldi replied to him, "You're not creating the story, I am."

The video was voted the worst music video of all time in a poll of 8,000 music fans by UK TV music channel The Box, but Giraldi, who also directed Michael Jackson's "Beat It," stands by it. He's quoted in the book I Want My MTV as saying, "I came up with the idea of a blind girl and Lionel as a teacher. 'Hello' is one of the top videos ever." Giraldi adds that Richie was concerned that the bust didn't look like him, until Giraldi pointed out that the girl making it was supposed to be blind.

Skillet - Awake And Alive

Frontman John Cooper explained: "Tying in with 'Hero,' here's one about feeling like you're falling under from all the stresses of life. Even though you feel like everyone around you is trying to take your hope away from you, no one has the right to do that and you shouldn't allow those negative influences to weigh you down. Live what you believe and don't be afraid to stand up for your faith."

Switchfoot - The Sound (John M Perkins' Blues)

This song references American civil rights activist John M. Perkins. Jon Foreman told NewReleaseTuesday: "Lyrically, I feel like this song is a corollary of Hello Hurricane. I was reading a book at the time, Let Justice Roll Down - it's the autobiography of John Perkins, given to me by a friend of mine. I was struck by Perkins' honesty and humility. He describes the Jim Crow world of not so very long ago with brutal honesty. We are a haunted nation. Whether we admit it or not, the past runs through our veins. Listen to the streets, they'll tell you the same. We can cover up our racism and narrow-minded bigotry with excuses and time but the sins of the past cry out from the ground. The undercurrents from our history are always buzzing around our ears. But rising above the constant gnawing of past wrongs is the song of Love. Love is the reconciliation. The deliberate act of forgiveness. The deliberate act of moving forward unencumbered by the past. This is the sound. This is the sound."

Vampire Weekend - Holiday

Koenig explained the song meaning to the NME: "It's about a member of my family who gave up meat when we invaded Iraq. They were horrified by what was happening and they lost their taste for meat. It wasn't even an overt protest, it was a physical reaction."

 

The song's music video was directed by The Malloys, who also were responsible for "Giving Up The Gun." It features the band dressed up as Aristocrats from a few centuries ago participating in modern day activities. Koenig told the The NME May 29, 2010 about the clip: "I wrote a very vague idea, which I gave to the Malloy Brothers, it just said, 'Four knuckleheads with powdered wigs running around LA!' The Malloys can get a crazy idea like that and turn it into a video."
He added that the video, "was filmed on our day off before playing Coachella. It was this really hot and sunny day and we spent it all dressed up!"

 

 

Bon Jovi - You Give Love A Bad Name

Jon Bon Jovi, Desmond Child and Richie Sambora wrote this in the basement of Sambora's mother's house in New Jersey. Child came up with the title, and Jon immediately thought up the first line ("Shot through the heart..."). From there, they put the rest of the song together, with "Shot Through The Heart" as the working title. The song ended up being about a guy whose girlfriend is really bad for him - common material, but a very interesting way to say it. Jon Bon Jovi dated actress Diane Lane in the mid-'80s, and there were rumors that she was the inspiration for this song, but the lyrical inspiration was more of a universal feeling.

Lifehouse - All In

This is the second single from American alternative rock band Lifehouse's fifth studio album, Smoke and Mirrors. The song's narrator has reconciled with his girl after a break in their relationship. He realizes that he needs her and vows that they are not going to split up again - this time he's "all in for life."

 

Lifehouse bass player Bryce Soderberg told About.com: "'All In' was the last song that was written for the record. Funny enough it wound up being the first song on the record. It was the puzzle piece that was missing on this album to kick it off and kind of show people, 'Whoa, this is Lifehouse and they're back.' That song kind of hits you in the face."

 

 

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass

This is the third single from American rock band OK Go's third studio album, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky.

 

The band recorded a video for this anthemic song with the Notre Dame marching band. Frontman Damian Kulash told Spin magazine: "That was a hell of a lot of fun. There were 200 kids from the marching band and local elementary schools making it with us. That was a real high."

 

A second video was filmed (which is linked below), for which the band spent six months designing, building and implementing a two-story-tall Rube Goldberg mechanical device with the help of Syyn Labs, a Los Angeles-based arts and technology collective. The contraption they developed triggers a series of complex reactions all in time to the upbeat tune. Frontman Damian Kulash told MTV News: "Our band has always had a running list of things we'd like to do if somebody gave us the time or the money, and the Rube Goldberg machine has been on there for a long time. The barrier to entry with it is that you have to be a little crazy, you have to have a lot of time, and you have to be really, really patient. Of course, we had a lot of help. The people we were working with, they have day jobs at the jet-propulsion labs. They built the Mars Rover. They know how to make a set of dominoes fall over. I don't think any of us anticipated how much work it would be."