I honestly don't know if anyone really cares about this bullshit apart from myself and EV Grieve, but herewith some more ancient music videos that were shot and/or prominently feature the streets of New York City.
Up first is The Cult's "Star." As I was strolling up 6th Avenue this morning on my way to work, this little nugget from the band's largely ignored, eponymous record from 1994 came bursting through my ear-buds at a richly ill-advised volume, and I was immediately reminded of its rather silly video. Herein, Ian Astbury and the boys throw heroic poses around the Meat Packing District, Wall Street, the East Village, Harlem and Times Square, flanked by a ludicrously silver-painted babe. Still, Billy Duffy remains the consummate guitar badass. Play it loud.
For this single from 1989's Violator album, Depeche Mode and noted photographer Anton Corbijn decided to film the video for "Policy of Truth" in good ol' Manhattan. Here, we see the Mode lads flouncing about the near the Central Park Reservoir (when it still boasted the chain-link fence), the Meat Packing District, East River Park and even in the interior of the fabled P&G Bar on the Upper West Side, all the while attempting to imply that they're being cuckolded by the two brunette hotties. While the plot line may be roundly unconvincing, the shots of New York City sure are nice.
Lastly, the video for The Church's evocatively spectral hit, "Under the Milky Way" features a decidedly hard-to-follow plot about an ersatz Edie Sedgwick with a fondness for picture frames and egg yolks. Regardless, it was filmed in Manhattan. Enjoy.
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