POE - ANGRY JOHNNY (Music Video - Original 1995)

What this video is

Released in 1995 from Poe's debut album Hello on Modern Records/Atlantic, 'Angry Johnny' emerged at the apex of the mid-90s alternative rock boom, when MTV's Alternative Nation was the primary gateway for non-mainstream rock acts to achieve mass visibility. The song peaked at #7 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and received heavy alternative radio airplay, though mainstream pop radio largely ignored it.…

Why it matters

A landmark artifact of the mid-90s female alternative rock wave, 'Angry Johnny' demonstrated that genre-hybrid production — fusing trip-hop rhythmic beds, jazz-inflected sampling (The Rascals' 1971 'Icy Water'), layered vocals, and confessional spoken-word — could achieve significant modern rock…

The director

Paul Andresen is an American cinematographer, producer, and music video director active from the early 1990s onward. His music video credits span 1991–2010 per IMVDb, with peak activity in 1996–1997. He also worked as a cinematographer and director on…