# Re-opening the Nominations - weirdest music video **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 1, 2018, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573 "2018-04-01T05:46:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2018, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/1 "2018-04-01T05:46:09Z")
What’s the very weirdest music video you’ve seen? (Link required.) I nominate [“Vitas - Seventh Element”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwzUs1IMdyQ) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2018, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/2 "2018-04-01T09:50:01Z")
Undoubtedly [Frontier Psychiatrist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS3AZ12xf6s), which takes its lyrics and instrumentation literally which manages to make it all the weirder. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2018, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/3 "2018-04-01T11:12:20Z")
In the early days of MTV (1981 to about 1983), videos like Gary Wright’s [I Really Wanna Know You](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ghEA62Wx71Y) would transport me to another world — a _weird_ world — and not just because I was an impressionable eleven-year-old. Others like this included the Tubes, Split Enz, and David Bowie. ---
**Author:** ![mistymage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mistymage/32/459_2.png) [@mistymage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mistymage)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2018, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/4 "2018-04-01T18:14:42Z")
David Hasselhoff’s Hooked on a Feeling [David Hasselhoff - Hooked on a Feeling - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsFF8) ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/5 "2018-04-02T00:46:33Z")
My all-time weird-favorite video is Blondie’s original video for Rapture. [Blondie - Rapture](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g) I’m sorry that the audio is muddy. Any versions I could find with better audio cut off the weirdness at the end. I just noticed the following comment on the youtube page: “The DJ at 1:54 is Jean-Michel Basquiat, the painter whose art work (called untitled) recently sold for 110.5 million. The most amount paid for any American art work.” They later reissued the video cutting out most of the randomness and replacing it with scenes of old churches. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/6 "2018-04-02T02:12:01Z")
No contest here: “Leave It” by Yes, version 11. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/8-hJFoSgXfM/maxresdefault.jpg "Yes - Leave It (Official Music Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-hJFoSgXfM) At the time, I worked with a woman who I overheard several times saying, “There’s this video with these men, and they’re all flipping around…” Actually, IIRC 17 versions were made, and several others (which were devoid of special effects) did air on MTV but this appears to be the only one on You Tube. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/7 "2018-04-02T02:21:14Z")
ETA: Shouldn’t this thread be in Cafe Society? ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/8 "2018-04-02T03:12:35Z")
Lawyers in Love Jethro Tull – Steel Monkey although to be frank a lot of the stuff from Crest of a Knave was a little strange in terms of the official videos. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/9 "2018-04-02T19:19:41Z")
_Alice_ by _Pogo_ [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/pAwR6w2TgxY/hqdefault.jpg "Alice") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAwR6w2TgxY) ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/10 "2018-04-02T19:41:14Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > No contest here: “Leave It” by Yes, version 11. > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-hJFoSgXfM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-hJFoSgXfM) > > At the time, I worked with a woman who I overheard several times saying, “There’s this video with these men, and they’re all flipping around…” Actually, IIRC 17 versions were made, and several others (which were devoid of special effects) did air on MTV but this appears to be the only one on You Tube. The reason why 17 versions of the video were made was it was supposed to be part of a contest by MTV where viewers would call in and spot the differences between the videos in return for prizes and cash. However, MTV cancelled the contest at the last minute and only one version of the video was aired. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/11 "2018-04-02T19:44:26Z")
“Electronic Supersonic”-Zlad. It has to be a put-on but it’s still weird. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/38UVs8onKKw/hqdefault.jpg "Zlad! - Electronic Supersonic") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38UVs8onKKw) ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/12 "2018-04-02T20:36:25Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > What’s the very weirdest music video you’ve seen? (Link required.) > > I nominate [“Vitas - Seventh Element”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwzUs1IMdyQ) I was unaware Johnny Weir had a musical career. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/13 "2018-04-03T02:40:20Z")
Some are hard to call. Lou Reed’s one for Modern Dance is strange but it fits the artist and song pretty well. The first time I saw it after it was issued/released my first thought was that it was a sort of answer to “viaduct”. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/14 "2018-04-03T02:54:55Z")
Nirvana, [“Heart-Shaped Box”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6P0SitRwy8) ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/15 "2018-04-03T03:07:05Z")
Pretty much anything by the Residents. An example for the Academy’s consideration: [Third Reich](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRweyGHJ3bc). ---
**Author:** ![journeyman\_southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/16 "2018-04-03T04:11:48Z")
Weird Al Yankovic’s [“Dare to be Stupid”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMhwddNQSWQ) is very self-consciously weird and hard to beat for sheer amount of absurdist random images. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/17 "2018-04-03T04:40:03Z")
> [@journeyman\_southpaw](#): > > Weird Al Yankovic’s [“Dare to be Stupid”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMhwddNQSWQ) is very self-consciously weird and hard to beat for sheer amount of absurdist random images. One of my all-time favorites! It’s a “style parody” of Devo songs. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/18 "2018-04-03T04:41:55Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Nirvana, [“Heart-Shaped Box”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6P0SitRwy8) When this came out, I was writing for a music zine and another zine writer described it this way: “Did this band go out of the way to offend the highest number of people? Guess what? You can only say ‘fuck’ so many times before the shock value wears off.” Yeah, I know I rarely use profanity in posts, but it was necessary in this case. And I happened to agree. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/19 "2018-04-03T04:45:38Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > The reason why 17 versions of the video were made was it was supposed to be part of a contest by MTV where viewers would call in and spot the differences between the videos in return for prizes and cash. However, MTV cancelled the contest at the last minute and only one version of the video was aired. I didn’t know that. TYVM. There was a “Making of ‘Leave It’” special that I vaguely remembered. The sound and video quality is very poor. Part 1: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IRUpFxqLKo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IRUpFxqLKo) Part 2: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2kXoOIfACw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2kXoOIfACw) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/20 "2018-04-03T05:33:23Z")
[Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-9UvrLyj3k) [Infant Annihilator - Motherless Miscarriage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SxT8GaiYDc) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573.md?page=2)