Videos and Memories (a series, part 1)

[christopher575]

When I used to see this video on Thursday Beat, the public access music video show, it made me afraid of concerts. Most of the concerts I ever went to turned out to be pretty tame, though. Two notable exceptions were Thrill Kill Kult with Lords of Acid, where I was shocked to see so many glass bottles in the crowd, and Parade of Losers during Edgefest, where my sunglasses were knocked off my face by a flying plastic water bottle, thus making me worry about what a glass one could do for the rest of my life.

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[emramesha.livejournal.com]

I got into Ministry in 1991 and loved the three albums LORAH, TMIATTTT, and Psalm 69. I had never seen any videos by them though; I never realized what a debt Nine Inch Nail's "Wish" owed to this video. Incidentally, do you know if this video is an H-Gun production? It seems to have that sensibility...

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

I don't really know who directed any of these videos. The NIN video for "Head Like a Hole" also uses some of the same images from this one. But maybe this and "Wish" are just copies of "Rock You Like a Hurricane" by Scorpions.

Just kidding.

Oh and speaking of NIN videos, if Joel Peter Witkin wasn't involved in the making of "Closer" he should have sued.

[emramesha.livejournal.com]

If I recall "Head Like A Hole" was indeed made by the H-Gun production house and so the similarities (if this Ministry video was the same). And nope, the video director for "Closer" was Mark Romanek and in a "Making Of" about the video I don't believe he mentions Joel Peter Witkin. And having just went and looked at some of his photos courtesy of Wikipedia I am shocked that the obvious influence hasn't been acknowledged!