Blog: JamsBio Magazine

Nobody would have guessed, in the years before MTV, that the children of the United States would surrender so much of their waking life to experimental art. But, during the 1980s, that's essentially what music videos were. And few videos were as unrelentingly experimental as those by Manchester band New Order. It didn't hurt that the band had actual, pedigreed artists at work behind the camera Blue Monday (1983) New Order's original video for "Blue Monday" was an early masterpiece. It brought war, Warhol, and video games to the nascent music video. [...]