10. Basement Jaxx: What’s Your Head?
On first look, this could be any animal testing center around the world. A frantic record label manager is ushered into a room, and is promised “the new thing on the scene in popular music.” The monkeys performing (metaphor of course, but how much?) are released, and they take on an instrument… What is it that makes them different? They also have human faces. They have the look of Jaxx, but with a base to be precise. The situation gets bleak when the scientific basis for the hybrids between humans and animals is revealed. The man realizes that he will be the next victim of an experiment where the brains of musicians can be transferred onto monkeys. The video ends by him running down a laundromat to a room populated by men sporting monkey-like faces.
9. The Smashing Pumpkins- Tonight, Tonight
American alternative rock group The Smashing Pumpkins was founded in the year 1991. The song is a bizarre and old-fashioned clip that shows the spectral circus of performers fighting monsters and aliens within an unsettling space-themed setting. However “Tonight Tonight” by The Smashing Pumpkins will always remain an iconic song. The initial concept for the music video featured “people drinking champagne glasses” as well as an aesthetic influenced by Busby Berkeley. An artist named Wayne White made the majority of the backgrounds and animation. This video was shot using a style that resembles a silent film that was made at the early 20th century, featuring theater-style backgrounds and crude effects. The video was awarded numerous awards and was aired extensively on MTV.
8. Girl Band – Paul
The British pop group Spice Girls perform the track “Who Do You Think You Are.” Costumes that resemble an animal may be frightening or a nostalgic remembrance of childhood. Through a particularly tense and swaying interpretation of the concept, Girl Band makes the most of the former. “Paul” is not a short video. At nearly seven minutes long, it takes advantage of its peculiarity to tell a bizarre story.
7. Clowny Clown Clown
The music video and song “Clownly Clown Clown” by Crispin Glover was avant-garde when it came out in 1988. Glover has a career as an actor and filmmaker, artist writer, writer, esoterica enthusiast and archiver. This film features Glover Himself, a gorgeous dancing clown, a creepy mask of a pig, and bizarre footage of a woman sitting in a hospital bed. The song is engaging. Clowny Clown Clown could be exactly what you’re searching for if your taste is for weird or avant-garde sounds.
6. Whatzupwitu
We are confident that this is the real deal. Eddie Murphy and Michael Jackson sang on the 1993 hit song “Whatzupwitu,” featured on Murphy’s third studio album. Although Eddie Murphy and Michael Jackson are just talking in their conversations, they create the impression that they’re having a romantic relationship. If you thought that it couldn’t get any more insane, it also features the sky as a background, a choir of children that appears out of thin air, as well as animated hearts and doves. The film, which was co-directed by Klasky Csupo who is the creator of some of the most infamous cartoons from the 1990s, was so hated by MTV users that it was “permanently removed” at the request of the company. Yes, it was memorable and enjoyable however, it was also a bit silly.
5. Soundgarden- Black Hole Sun
It is believed that the American band Soundgarden has a track called “Black Hole Sun.” It’s among the group’s most popular and well-known tunes. The group plays the song in an open space. The video shows a suburban area and its condescending residents, with hilariously overdone smiles. They become sucked up as the Sun suddenly transforms into an erupting black hole. Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon provided Cornell with the fork necklace which you can see him sporting in the clip. British filmmaker Howard Greenhalgh created the fantastical and world-ending music video “Black Hole Sun.” The first video was later replaced by another one with more intricate visual effects after getting exposed to MTV for a number of weeks.
4. Little Big- Hateful Love
Little Big is the first party group of rave music that hails from Russia and they are rocking dance floors all over the world. The most popular breakup song was composed by them, however it is also accompanied by an odd music video. A dish with hands that are severed on it? Utilizing females in naked form as horses? Skateboards made of hideous chunks of meat? Little Big, a St. Petersburg electro-wave band that has been compared to “a Russian mental patient’s answer to Die Antwoord,” has taken it all down in this video excellent track.
3. David Hasselhoff- Hooked on the Feeling
Hoff has released a cover version from the B.J. Thomas classic in 1997. Perhaps the oddest video of the last decade. (He can fly like an Eagle!) (He soars like an eagle!) “Hooked On a Feeling,” that serves as an epitomize to his whole career Hasselhoff and his fans embark through an intense, unrelenting tour of the world in acid climbing arctic tundras swimming along shores of grassland as well as riding motorcycles in hazardous circumstances, and landing massive pieces of fish with his mouth.
2. Bonnie Tyler- Total Eclipse of the Heart
The film follows Tyler who is employed at the school for prep students, scurrying around the halls in the evening terrified and enraged by her deep desire to be with her male students. Within the next minutes or so, a lot of things happen that do not appear to be logical, yet appear to be amazing, which is a hallmark of the majority of music videos from the current era. Doors are slammed open beneath thick, gauzy scarfs. Millie Bobby Brown begins to throw birds at the camera once she gets there. The water splashes over male swimmers wearing goggles. There was a reason why you would think that a group of dance Ninjas emerged. A group of men toast and smash their goblets on each other while eating at a formal table. Many Grease T-Birds suddenly appear at the table. The whole video is strange in general.
1. Aphex Twin- Come to Daddy
The song Come To Daddy was published by Cornish electronic music guru Aphex Twin in October 1997. The film begins with a spooky background sound and a low-angled camera shot of empty buildings. The director Chris Cunningham provided a music video to accompany it, transforming the track into a real horror material. As an older person and her dog wander through a shabby area, she spots the TV’s broken screen with an unsettling, deformed face. Then, she’s assaulted by a group of youngsters, and every one of them is flaunting Richard D. James’ famous smile. But just when she believes she’s escaped to safety, something more sinister awaits her in the shadows of the estate. The footage is as terrifying and bizarre as it was a quarter of a century ago.
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