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.
Murders. I don’t want to spoil any more than that because it has a twist.
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.
Lone Digger by Caravan Palace. It’s about a murder-brawl at an animal strip club.
Also, Mr. FEAR by SIAMÉS has a nice animation about an alien (?) and a human merging to make a larger alien (?).
Love it - it’s like if Zootopia was more honest about it’s seedy underbelly
There is no video plot here. It’s just some guy having frankfurters thrown at him.
Dating myself a bit, but Men Without Hats " Safety Dance" is a clear indicator of how much cocaine was consumed in the 80s.
Hah, that music video is genuinely a pretty accurate depiction of your average England village’s May Day celebrations. I went to one this year, got drunk watching old men skipping about while wearing bells, kids tying up a pole with ribbon, folk band (minus the fabulous Mike Edmonds as seen is this video) playing fiddle and more, sitting around on a bunch of straw bales, and cuddled a goat kid while my dog obsessed over a Shetland pony until my partner told us to go home.
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You're dating yourself? That doesn't seem healthy.
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So her music videos are a bit strange, but they’ve got nothing on the dozens or hundreds of random other videos (some of which are crazy long)
Lotta 90’s stuff comes to mind:
Primus - Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver
Not 90’s but:
DJ Shadow/Run the Jewels -Nobody Speak
First ones that come to mind.
That RTJ video is one of the few I’ve loved since it released.
Then, I discovered Kendrick Lamar had made a video for Alright. Wow.
- I didn’t see it until 2018.
Frankie Sinatra by The Avalanches
I like music videos as a genre. Anyone know if there’s a good community/reddit sub/yt channel for them?
[email protected] exists, but isn’t active. I also have my community [email protected] but that’s a particular niche that I’m not sure if anyone else is interested in, haha. I wish there was somewhere better to discuss music videos but I haven’t found such a place either.
I always liked Radiohead - Just.
Twenty One Pilots’ videos have ragged continuity from song to song, and tell a pretty out-there story. Example song: Twenty One Pilots - Nico and the Niners
man i love how thom looks like a preppie as much as he looks like a gangsta
When a strip tease goes just a bit too far.
This actually gave me nightmares as a child and I was only recently brave enough to watch it again after finding a behind-the-scenes on it on YouTube to squash my fears
I’ve never seen it before but after your comment had to check it out.
That was unexpected.
That isn’t even, imo, the weirdest Basement Jaxxs video - I’d give that crown to Where’s Your Head At
However, I think the HK Slap is also incredibly weird.
The darkness - i believe in a thing called love.
Hes on an alien planet in a hot tub playing guitar and shooting lighting out of the guitar. Still a good song though.
Meteor worshipping cult you say
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven’s_Gate_(religious_group)
Their website is still up btw. Wild shit but a cool 90’s website. Pretty chilling though
Especially this
She’s not gonna pick you up, Phil, she’s just stopping for the iguana.
Phil can’t dance, so maybe that is the reason why he’s being blatantly ignored by the pretty lady.
