Cutting Crew - Between A Rock And A Hard Place

What this video is

Released in 1989 as the lead single from Cutting Crew's second album The Scattering, this video arrived at a pivotal cultural inflection point. The Scattering was released on 16 May 1989 in Canada and the USA on Virgin Records after a management-related delay that cost the band significant commercial momentum. The single failed to reach the Top 40 (charting at US #77, CA #54, UK #66). Nick Van Eede later stated the…

Why it matters

Represents the closing chapter of mainstream late-80s British melodic rock's MTV presence. The Scattering era bridged the glossy new wave of Broadcast (1986) and the commercial dissolution of the early 1990s. As a lead single video, it documents the genre's aesthetic language at its most…

The director

Alex Proyas (born 23 September 1963, Alexandria, Egypt) is a Greco-Australian filmmaker. He attended the Australian Film, Television and Radio School at age 17 and began directing music videos shortly after, later relocating to Los Angeles to work on MTV…