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.
This is about aliens(?) and a warrior king.
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
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?
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’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.
Come now, DJ Snake Turn Down for What makes no sense but is amazing.
That’s a lot of fun. I’m gonna go with: guy gets infected with a restless virus that makes body parts indestructible. Transmission is spread through breaking floors and body slamming people. Once it exhausts its hosts it lives on that guys dick. 10/10
'twas directed by the guys behind Everything Everywhere All At Once
A lot of movie directors start with commercials and music videos. It is training for making long videos by making a lot of short ones.
Lone Digger by Caravan Palace. It’s about a murder-brawl at an animal strip club.
Love it - it’s like if Zootopia was more honest about it’s seedy underbelly
Also, Mr. FEAR by SIAMÉS has a nice animation about an alien (?) and a human merging to make a larger alien (?).
Any one of the Lorn videos.
I love the video for Gung Ho
It’s like they spent a million euros on it but it still came out like a project by a media student.
The plot? Fuck knows. It starts with “3 days later” with zero context, then introduces half a dozen characters with even less context. Something about a detective? I dunno
The song itself absolutely fucking rocks which 100% makes up for the utter confusion though lol
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.
“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)
Stuck in the sounds - Let’s Go also has a crazy video about an astronaut.
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.
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.
Check out the claymation videos from Tool!
