I mean music videos that have nothing to do with the music and mostly just do their own thing and tell their own story.
An example –
Basement Jaxx’s Red Alert seems to be about a meteor-worshiping cult awaiting the arrival of their rocky messiah in some unsuspecting greasy spoon cafe in the middle of nowhere.
Once the meteor crashes into Earth, everyone gets horribly mutated and convulses to the strange rays exhibited by the meteor. The infection seems to be localized entirely within the cafe. The End.
Edit: Please link to a video, or at least summarize the plot.
Edit2: Please actually link to a video, or tell me why the video plot is cool. Come on, it’s just 30 seconds of your time.
https://youtu.be/PZbkF-15ObM?si=NYywD6MJD4m9ni1b
This is about aliens(?) and a warrior king.
More fan made, but the combo is killer: mukinabaht with nature will have unintended consequences. Boards of Canada with a trippy french animation, the two feel made for each other.
I’ve always been puzzled by the Stabbing Westward video Shame. It features a fairly disturbing plot of a woman and her boyfriend who escaped from an insane asylum. However, the portions where the band is playing are completely contrary to the “plot” of the video and almost comical.
Portugal. The Man’s video for All Your Light is freaking weird. Complete with human heads in shopping bags, trailer parks, and what I think are aliens.
That’s pretty cool. Music definitely different than the video.
A girl sees mortality and decay in everything she encounters, and it makes her sick. Rather than continue to reject it, she accelerates the cycle and is hit with a holy accepting light after fulfilling her carnivorous destiny. She and her brother also might have been a vampires all along.
Check out the claymation videos from Tool!
edit: or really any of his videos
My vote is for Windowlicker. Wicked satire of “horny ho” videos saturating the market at the time.
I was afraid noone is going to mention this!
But note that it is Chris Cunningham, who is a twisted brain behind these.
Another classic: Come to Daddy
The video opens with an old woman (played by Coral Lorne) walking a dog in a grimy, industrial setting. The dog urinates on an abandoned television lying on the pavement, causing it to sputter unexpectedly into life, and a distorted and warping headshot of Richard D. James chants the lyrics. This unleashes a spirit, accompanied by a gang of small children, all of whom bear James’ grinning face and who appear to inhabit the abandoned buildings
See also: Monkey Drummer and of course Windowlicker, with its ridiculous 4 (?) minute intro.
Well… It’s difficult to even say wtf is going on there 😅
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CnnGYaqjW-A
Einstürzende Neubauten - Sabrina, maybe not the weirdest, but weird enough to have stuck with me for the past 20 years
This isn’t that weird but a wolf and a bear are investigating another planet and come across these sexy pixies only for them to turn into robots that attempt to harvest their organs once they’ve all had a mad night on the booze.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhheiPTdZCw
It’s visual commentary on society itself, as well as how fucked this system we’ve all built is to both our inner & outer nature.
Are these media systems self-sustaining? Aren’t apples the symbol of knowledge? Or will our inner animalism escape, in spite of the processed knowledge, given even the slightest chance?
Might be reading into it too much, though.
Stuck in the sounds - Let’s Go also has a crazy video about an astronaut.
“When I get mad, my hand gets huge.”
Honorable mention to Ludacris’ Get Back for also using the big arm thing (though the video matches the song in this case)
People punch animals. Animals helpless. Man save animals by breaking into houses with his shoe car.
Half boy, half motorbike. Travels the world to meet the half girl, half jetski.
Really anything from this guy
Salvatore is great! I’ve watched every single video he made I could find on YouTube. Step-Grandma and Take Me to America are amazing as well.
I have questions. I’m not sure what those questions are yet, but I definitely have some
How about, what size shoe was he driving?
I do not know about the weirdest, but Quiet Riot’s The Wild and The Young video is pretty out there.
The government bans and confiscates all music, and locks up musicians with their instruments and outfits in an underground bunker, where the musicians “cunningly” use these resources to sing in protest, but wait it’s actually a premonition for something that hasn’t happened yet and time loops itself. Pretty cool
