# 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:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/21 "2018-04-03T11:44:55Z")
> [@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. As I recall there was a night where they played all 18 (not 17) videos one right after another. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/22 "2018-04-03T15:12:52Z")
Radiohead’s [Paranoid Android](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHiGbolFFGw) cartoon has to be hard to beat. Or understand. Or sit through. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/23 "2018-04-03T15:35:11Z")
[New Order - “True Faith”](https://youtu.be/mfI1S0PKJR8). What do I win? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/24 "2018-04-03T15:59:19Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-9UvrLyj3k) Naah, _[Rubber Johnny](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRvfxWRi6qQ)_ ---
**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, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/25 "2018-04-03T17:22:32Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Naah, _[Rubber Johnny](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRvfxWRi6qQ)_ I disagree: that is a short film with background music, not a music video. And I think _Come To Daddy_ is not only a better song, the video is weirder imo. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/26 "2018-04-03T17:55:26Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I disagree: that is a short film with background music, not a music video. And I think _Come To Daddy_ is not only a better song, the video is weirder > imo. Fair enough. I don’t draw a real distinction when the group is involved in the making ([this is my favourite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL0r8tNnmMQ)), but YMVaried, and that’s OK. I agree \*Daddy \*is the better song, though. ---
**Author:** ![Rough\_Draft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@Rough\_Draft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rough_Draft)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2018, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/27 "2018-04-04T16:48:02Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > 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”. 😉 Lou Reed was the first person I thought of when I saw the thread title, but I was going to mention the video where he tears his own face off, revealing the robot underneath (sorry, I can’t remember the song title, just the imagery). I’m sure there are never, weirder choices, but I haven’t watched any music videos in probably twenty years. ---
**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 4, 2018, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/28 "2018-04-04T17:14:40Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I disagree: that is a short film with background music, not a music video. And I think _Come To Daddy_ is not only a better song, the video is weirder > imo. > [@MrDibble](#): > > Fair enough. I don’t draw a real distinction when the group is involved in the making ([this is my favourite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL0r8tNnmMQ)), but YMVaried, and that’s OK. I agree \*Daddy \*is the better song, though. The more I thought about this, the more I was convinced that my initial reaction was wrong; I can’t really delineate where the line falls to seperate the two forms. Hell, AFAIC, the Beatles _Yellow Submarine_ is technically jut a bunch of music videos with some other bits to make it seem like a coherent story. I withdraw my objection to the nomination (but I still think _Come To Daddy_ is wierder). ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/29 "2018-04-05T00:22:08Z")
Tool…Stinkfist [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TZemFKSu3lE/hqdefault.jpg "Tool-Stinkfist") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZemFKSu3lE) ---
**Author:** ![txtumbleweed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@txtumbleweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/txtumbleweed)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/30 "2018-04-05T03:00:53Z")
Bonnie Tyler’s video for [Total Eclipse of the Heart](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo) should easily make the Top Ten List of Ridiculousness. It’s set in a boy’s school and seems just thrown together without regard for the lyrics or meaning of the song. There are some weird bright eyes and turning around so maybe that is the tie-in. It did, of course, [inspire an outstanding parody so maybe that’s not all bad.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk) ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2018, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/31 "2018-04-07T03:15:01Z")
Hmm, there’s a lot of odd cartoon videos out there in recent years. Ty Segall - [Californian Hills](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZmsQteNwEw) has a narrative of some sort, but damned if I know what it is. That it has the sickest direct into the board tones ever recorded goes a long way, though. Lightning Bolt - [The Metal East](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9T0ICrAzqU) just decides to be the most awesomely incomprehensible kid’s show of awesome, and goes with it. Plus, it’s a Lightning Bolt video. The music behind it lends a lot to it’s oddness. Just glorious. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - [Hot Wax](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8azlP-FgHs) and [Rattlesnake](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-i1XZc8ZwA)- damned if I know what they’re doing to that live acton video, but it’s pretty disturbing. The computer graphics in both are pretty great on a “wow, that’s basic, but works” on a really prog rock/psych level. Plus, vibro-slap abuse. You’re more interested in live action? Peaches may be up your alley - [Diddle My Skittle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQH4dox8txY&has_verified=1). No, I have no real idea of what’s going on there. What can you do with ball bearings and tights? Similarly, Thee Oh Sees - [Toe Cutter - Thumb Buster](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R44Qh2P7wo0). Where will you stop covering up your shame, and will you be the casualty of someone else covering up theirs? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2018, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/32 "2018-04-07T04:31:07Z")
> [@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. Huh, I never noticed the T-Rex shadow behind the Roman guys playing chess before. ---
**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 7, 2018, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/33 "2018-04-07T04:38:35Z")
I’m going to give an honorable mention to [“Black Hole Sun”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbBbFH9fAg) from Soundgarden. (RIP, Chris) ---
**Author:** ![yellow\_sausage\_bandit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yellow_sausage_bandit/32/394_2.png) [@yellow\_sausage\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellow_sausage_bandit)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2018, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/34 "2018-04-07T04:53:25Z")
[Soft Cell’s Tainted love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlV5AKdIGOQ) The singer ignores the woman and sings the song to a little girl 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2018, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/35 "2018-04-07T12:32:35Z")
Pat Benatar , Shadows of the Night. She plays a WW II fighter pilot . [PAT BENATAR GUIDE (2010) - Part 6 of 16 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GonV0wKRxs) ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2018, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573/36 "2018-04-07T19:15:10Z")
I’ll throw out [Tongues](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqmwKi6KOSw) by Joywave. ETA: There is some nudity in that video… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-opening-the-nominations-weirdest-music-video/811573.md?page=1)