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Surreal Music Video
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There are a few basic routes you can take when making a music video. You can show the band performing the song, or tell a story (which may or may not relate to the song itself)... Or you can take the artistic path and just throw a bunch of weird stuff on the screen in time to the music. These videos either have no story at all or random Mind Screwy stories. Many Animated Music Videos fall into this category. Usually the imagery will be inter cut with or somehow involve the band performing, but sometimes they go all-out and dispense with the band shots as well. |
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Most of Information Society's videography fits the bill: Their '80s videos such as "Walking Away" and "What's On Your Mind" were especially trippy. Their 2016 take on "Heffalumps and Woozles" (featuring Ayria) cranks the trippiness of the film's Disney Acid Sequence up tenfold. |
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Metallica's video for "Until It Sleeps" is full of imagery taken from the surreal paintings of 16th century Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch. | |
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Take for instance "Once in a Lifetime." The entire video is David Byrne doing a very unusual dance (inspired by marionettes and African rituals, and to a lesser extent epilepsy sufferers), with the rest of the band missing. | |
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Faith No More has some pretty weird videos, especially "Epic." | |
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The original video for Ozzy Osbourne's "Mama, I'm Coming Home", which had Ozzy and his band miming over a Conveyor Belt Video-style collage. Some of the imagery at least obliquely had to do with the general idea of "coming home" - airplanes, the Statue Of Liberty, and the New York City skyline for example. More of it was arbitrary and surreal, like Ozzy carrying a pig or miming the lyrics towards a raven perched on his shoulder, visual Shout Outs to René Magritte, and gratuitous use of fire. A Performance Video for the same song was also made, specifically because Ozzy didn't think this approach suited the material. | |
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Lower Dens' video for “Candy� shows members of the band at a woodland retreat with some drag queens and a teen boy with a yarmulke. The activities at the camp are only a little weird, but at the end the whole picture explodes into strange gaudy logos. | |
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David Guetta & Sia's "She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)." | |
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Afrojack's "Ray Bomb" is about a woman dancing outside of a club with headphones until she, and her own heart get surrounded by animated alien tree roots. | |
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Imagine Dragons has a few examples: "I Bet My Life" has a young man, portrayed by Dane Dehaan, get sucked into a dam during a fistfight. He goes through different environments of sea, air, and land, which become revealed as All Just a Dream as the other fighter pulls him out of the river. Imagine Dragons themselves only appear a few seconds during the opening. "Shots" places Imagine Dragons in environments inspired by the works of surrealist painter Tim Cantor, who produced covers for the band's second album and its singles. |
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Practically every Beck video besides "Where It's At." Especially "Loser" and "E-Pro." And "Jackass." "Where It's At" had a pretty surreal video; while it wasn't incomprehensible, it's that it's hard to understand what's going on, as the video various switches to random scenes and situtations. "Gameboy/Homeboy (Que Onda Guero 8-Bit Remix)." Given that it was made by the same people that brought us The Problem Solverz, it's not really that surprising. |
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Royal Blood has "Out of the Black," which consists of live-action and (rather gory) animated sequences of alien mascots battling the police and a gas-station attendant. | |
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All of Death Grips's music videos, really. A lot of them exploit Stylistic Suck to almost Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff levels. Take the videos for "Guillotine", "The Fever", and "Takyon", for example. | |
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"Vogue," which shows an art deco collection and a Hollywood's Golden Era-esque photography; the dance is influenced by the underground dance of the same name. | |
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Melvins' "Bar X The Rocking M" involves imagery associated with the Day Of The Dead mixed in with actors dressed as nuns, angels, devils, skeletons, and pigs. Meanwhile, "The Talking Horse" has a Mind Screw of a plot that seems to spoof conspiracy theories about the Illuminati and reptiloids, then throws in lip-syncing scenery for good measure. Even when they do relatively straightforward Performance Videos there always seem to be a few cuts to surrealist imagery. | |
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"America's Suitehearts," which depicts the band members in a cartoon universe and according to Pete Wentz was based on Who Framed Roger Rabbit. | |
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OneRepublic got some among their more down-to-earth videos: "Stop And Stare" has lead singer Ryan Tedder listening to a preacher in front of a grave. He generates a "clone" of himself, who walks toward a motel, where other Ryan is waiting at the reception. Somewhere near, he is performing the song with the band, while other people (including Ryan and the other members) watch from the outside. As one of Ryans crosses the street, he is almost ran over by another Ryan Tedder, driving a car with a pregnant woman in the backseat. "Love Runs Out" happens in some kind of desert with colorful sunset/sunrise skies. In this desert there is an old woman playing the piano, kids clapping and girls dancing with tambourines, all donning weird clothes (natives, maybe?). Shady creatures ride dancing horses, a man in a shiny outfit does some stunts, youngsters play with a ball, "ninjas" kick stacks of books, women in craters wave with the song, and then there is a plastic sea. Also, Brent Kutzle is golden and Zach Filkins blows things up. |
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Death from Above 1979 has "Caught Up," which features the duo performing in a mysterious room before being shocked by lightning and transformed into geometrical figures. | |
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"Like a Prayer," where she kisses a saint, is about racism in a surreal / artistic form. It was controversial enough back then to cost her her Pepsi endorsement deal. | |
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The Chemical Brothers, "Let Forever Be." Life is tough, especially when you keep splitting into parallel selves who perform Busby Berkeley Numbers. Also by them, "Star Guitar," is very surreal, but that doesn't stop it from being the coolest thing ever. Not that surreal when you notice that everything is going in the beat of the music. |
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The video for Disturbed's "Asylum" borders on this. Schizophrenic and Undercrank-heavy camera editing give the insane delusions within a deranged and erratic quality similar to psychosis. The brutality of the asylum's doctors and staff add a sadistic touch. | |
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A few of Sleigh Bells' music videos. The "Rill Rill" video has a picture day session at a school from hell, shrine filled lockers, a bleeding telephone… Also the "Locust Laced" video, which stars Alexis as a Dolly Parton-esque performer who slowly starts losing it on stage and keeps repeatedly running into the wall behind her before she vanishes in a cloud of smoke. There's also several close-up of a bored basset hound and Derek drinking until he passes out. |
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His Name Is Alive collaborated with famously eccentric stop motion animators the Brothers Quay to create two music videos for their songs "Are We Still Married" and "Can't Go Wrong Without You" as part of the brothers' Stille Nacht series of short films. The Quays, already well known for their Signature Style of gothic, stop motion Surreal Horror, obliged with gusto, turning in a nightmarish pair of videos featuring blood, dolls, anthropomorphic rabbits, implications of sexual trauma, and a skull-faced figure who moves like something from Jacob's Ladder. | |
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Sparklehorse's "Someday I Will Treat You Good": There seems to be a loose plot about a woman having a troubled relationship with a puppet of main member Mark Linkous - it's broken up by shots of vintage toys and knick-knacks (including the Monster Clown head sculpture used for the front cover of Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot) and things like Mark Linkous wearing chicken or snowman masks, or a Dalmatian running around with costume wings on its back. | |
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The video for "Telegraph Ave. (Oakland by Lloyd)" mostly fits with the themes of the song, following Gambino on vacation with Jhené Aiko, until the last minute, where Gambino is revealed to be an alien. | |
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For that matter, the last 30 seconds or so of "Burning Down the House". Byrne's head, complete with slack jaw and thousand-yard stare, projected on to a road from a moving car. What. | |
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Ever feel like Japanese media was becoming too normal for you? Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's "PONPONPON" is here to fix that. And if that wasn't enough, we also have Tsukema Tsukeru from the same artist. Better yet, E.T.. |
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Pakito has two videos "Living on Video" is about mirrored videos of dancing TVs with legs, and lips with stereos that engulf the scenery. "Are U Ready" is about a Pakito concert that gets attacked by animations of stars and pictures. |
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Bastille: "Good Grief." The music video starts off with lead singer Dan Smith trying to call someone on a pay-phone, then quickly veers off into complete and utter Mind Screw involving female roller skaters, burning buildings, giant living teddy bears, game shows, bank robberies, and Dan's disembodied head lying on the ground by some sports equipment. All this set to the eponymous song: an upbeat song about grieving after losing a loved one. You may need a shower after watching it...and that's only the uncensored version. | |
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Xiu Xiu's video for "Pumpkin Attack On Mommy and Daddy." Bubbles, pigs, chains, celery, garlic, Korean folk legends... what else would you expect from a video for a song with that title? | |
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Hobo Johnson's video for "Typical Story" is about a wild party with lots of unsettling things going on: people's faces being distorted by puffs of air, creepy bikini babes with the heads of orcs circling around, and shots at the end of people whose faces obviously don't match their bodies (Hobo's face is superimposed on a twitching, shirtless bodybuilder's torso). | |
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CHVRCHES's "Gun" depicts the band performing the song normally while being subjected to various psychedelic effects. | |
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At some point Knorkator started making music videos, which usually tend to be even weirder than the lyrics themselves. The most surreal would probably be Weg nach unten which seems to be about a person escaping from the world by digging a tunnel deep into the earth, away from everything. While digging a tunnel does appear in one part of the video, it has no other connections to the lyrics, and is really, really weird. note Yes, that ending show accidentally digging all the way to Australia. It also happens to be the most artistic of their videos. | |
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Preschool Popstars music videos sometimes have trippy visuals, especially in the choruses: "Wash Your Hands" has the girls standing on giant bars of soap and kicking Monstrous Germs. The sky is also orange in some scenes. "I Didn't Mean to Burp" has the background changing colour and shows scenes of the Asian girl shrinking and wandering through a world of food. "Juice Box" also has multicoloured backgrounds, along with many scenes of the girls swimming in juice. "Bounce" also has the background changing colour, along with the beginning showing jello and clouds being bounced on. |
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You'd think the music video for "I'm Gonna Always Love You" from The Muppets Take Manhattan would be simple. The Dream Sequence scene of Baby Piggy singing is already practically a music video, so just use that, right? Nope! Record new Muppet Babies scenes, and intermix with a very eighties pig band, Jim Henson in flipper slippers, a bunch of references to other music videos, the adult Kermit and Piggy, a ton of increasingly bizarre effects shots, and an actual frog and pig. | |
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In Inna's Wow video, she gets knocked unconscious at a beach party and dreams of being a stripperific Snow White erotically dancing with the Seven Dwarfs, then after "falling dead" from consuming the poisoned apple, she becomes a similarly oversexualized Dorothy Gale on the Yellow Brick Road. Cut to her as sexy Alice in Wonderland performing some more erotic movements in a tiny house and at the Mad Hatter's tea party, where the characters from the previous stories join in for the final dance. | |
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MGMT's "Time To Pretend", from Oracular Spectacular. Hell, ANYTHING by MGMT. The video for "Kids", also from Oracular shows all kinds of hideous monsters terrorizing an infant (among other things), eventually turning into an even more surreal animated sequence. The one that makes the most sense, the video for "Electric Feel" is still quite trippy and vaguely incomprehensible (like, what the hell is the stuff that's pouring out of the Moon? And what on Earth is that one-toothed... creature?). The "Electric Feel" video is fairly comprehensible up until the puppets and space motorcycles show up. "Flash Delirium" starts out fairly surreal, and then descends deep into the pits of Lovecraftian what the fuck-iness, never to emerge. And then there's "Alien Days" from the self-titled. Even without the aliens eating the birth-balls, and the FUCKING ALIENS, there is still what happens to Andrews eyes on the spinny machine. Eyes shouldn't do that... |
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The music video of Rezz's track Premonition is pretty much this. | |
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The Mind's Eye is a series of four animated films that consist entirely of Surreal Music Videos. They are also compilations of various CGI clips submitted to them, and thus fall under No Plot? No Problem! The coherentness of each song's video varies. | |
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Koyaanisqatsi: The "qatsi" trilogy is feature-length films, but otherwise they definitely qualify— nothing but abstract ambiguous shots of nature and people at work, shot with pioneering use of undercrank and other distorting effects, set to the trippy minimalist music of Philip Glass. | |
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Caroline Polachek has "Door," featuring multiple sets of concentric portals, an alternate universe where the horizon line bends over on itself, a 3D animated abstract marble track, and, as a final course, Caroline's disembodied eyes and mouth singing the song's outro. "Welcome To My Island" includes scenes of her repelling giant animated sperm, and vomiting out coffee in front of an erupting volcano. |
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Foo Fighters, "Everlong." Takes place partially in dreams, but not All Just a Dream as such. It involves giant phones, band members discarding false skins to reveal their true identities, nunchucks made literally from two pieces of firewood hastily chained together, and Dave Grohl (dressed as Sid Vicious) gaining a massive right hand with which to administer bitch slaps of death. | |
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The Cure. Any music video, and I really mean any video. Pick one. Highlights include the second version of "Close to Me", in which the bandmates go under the sea and essentially do battle with a dazzling variety of technicolour marine life, and "The 13th", involving guys in wedding dresses having a fight with Robert Smith looking on. The latter gets even more surreal when you take into account the fact that the song is basically a typical sex-driven Cure song. Squick central. | |
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Joywave's music videos are almost invariably a certain degree of surreal, ranging from an MP3 player becoming a member of the band ("Destruction"), hunters searching for nudists to shoot clothes back on them ("Tongues") to a man's slow descent into drug addiction disguised as a medicine ad ("Half Your Age") and the band glitching through reality while skateboarding ("Somebody New"). | |
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Noah: Peterpan's "Diatas Normal" music video is composed of the band performing the song, except the background, their outfits (which gets bizarre at times) and their instrument change every beat. It reflects the I-don't-understand-my-own-mind theme of the song. Noah's "Mendekati Lugu" video shows a girl dancing to the song and touching people around a stadium which makes them dance too, all while weird visual effects happen. At the end, the girl suddenly nearly drowns (while still struggling to dance) in the swimming pool, but she (now the size of human hand) is picked up by Ariel. |
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So is Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer." | |
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The video for Tom Petty's "Don't Come Around Here No More" is heavily inspired by The Mad Tea Party from Alice in Wonderland with elements such as Alice's body turning into a cake thrown in to make it ever weirder. | |
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Lemon Demon's song, Word Dissasociation features this to go along with its Word Salad Lyrics, with the words written on scraps of paper which are lying around in completely random places, such as a watermelon, a chandelier, stuck to a piece of tape, inside a toaster and...well, just watch the video. Possibly the ultimate example of this trope is Neil Cicierega's masterpiece BRODYQUEST. Adrien Brody takes a walk across the world... and space... and through the sun... and to the centre of the universe? Which he then proceeds to assimilate or... something. |
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Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)." There's Pete Burns alternating between a kimono and an eye patch and then sprouting four extra golden arms, a disco ball popping up, and guys in purple tunics twirling banners in the air. And that's the whole video. | |
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Bestial Mouths' cover of The Human League's "Being Boiled." | |
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Perhaps his best video is the one for "Come On My Selector" by Squarepusher. Every sound in the song is synchronised to the video. The video itself is about a Japanese girl who escapes an asylum by swapping her dog's brain into one of the guards trying to chase her. It really must be seen to be believed. | |
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Aerosmith has "Pink" and "Falling In Love (Is Hard On The Knees)." "Livin' On The Edge" is mostly a Concept Video but it also has some surreal imagery as part of the footage of the band performing. | |
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a-ha's "Take On Me" involves a woman being pulled into a comic book world by the animated Morten Harkett, then he breaks into the real world at the end. The video for A1's cover is even better, moving the setting to TRON-style cyberspace, as well as having shoutouts to The Matrix. | |
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Ego Likeness's "Treacherous Thing" video has Donna Lynch going completely nuts, randomly cuts to close ups of her face while she is coughing up blood and red stones with red ''tears'' down her face, while Steven Archer does nothing but sit very still with a blank face. | |
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Just about all of DragonForce's videos are this to some degree. Example. | |
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