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"Jacob's Ladder" is a song written by Bruce Hornsby and his brother John Hornsby and recorded by American rock band Huey Lewis and the News. The song spent one week at No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1987, becoming the band's third and final number-one hit.
Kim Manners prepared for directing The X-Files episode "Grotesque" by listening to the music from Jacob's Ladder. [44] The music video for the 2010 song "Nightmare" by Avenged Sevenfold is a homage to the famous hospital scene from the film, chosen by the director Wayne Isham, because the band's deceased drummer The Rev was a fan of the film. [45]
Glazer was unsatisfied with his "Karma Police" video, saying he had "missed emotionally and dramatically". He made the "Rabbit In Your Headlights" video as a companion, and felt he achieved what he had failed to with "Karma Police". [5] The video stars Denis Lavant as a man walking along a road in a tunnel, muttering. He is struck by several ...
"Jacob's Ladder" is a song written by Cal Sweat, Brenda Sweat, and Tony Martin, and recorded by American country music artist Mark Wills. It was released in May 1996 as his debut single, and was served as the first single from his self-titled debut album .
This generated two distinctive African American slave musical forms, the spiritual (sung music usually telling a story) and the field holler (sung or chanted music usually involving repetition of the leader's line). [1] We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder is a spiritual. [1] As a folk song originating in a repressed culture, the song's origins are lost.
The music video is heavily based on the infamous scene from Jacob's Ladder where Jacob Singer, played by Tim Robbins, is being pulled through a hospital on a stretcher. The band used Jacob's Ladder as inspiration for the video because they knew it was one of The Rev's favorite movies. Many homages and tributes are shown throughout the video.
Jacob's Ladder was released digitally and on CD by Nonesuch Records on March 18, 2022, followed by vinyl on June 17 that year. [1]Reviewers commented on the presence of prog-rock and Christian Scripture influences in the album.
Whereas most of the ideas we were dealing with this time were on the lesser side, and in some cases, like in "Jacobs Ladder", looked at as a cinematic idea. We created all the music first to summon up an image – the effect of Jacob's Ladder – and paint the picture, with the lyrics added, just as a sort of little detail, later, to make it ...