# Weirdest freakin' music video... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 24, 2001, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-freakin-music-video/77922 "2001-08-24T15:38:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lateralus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@Lateralus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lateralus)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-freakin-music-video/77922/21 "2001-08-25T00:37:23Z")
[/Lurker Mode] Finally a thread worthy of me popping out of lurker mode. I have to agree with you on the Tool videos. Weird. Weird = good. They rule. That is all for now. [Lurker Mode] ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-freakin-music-video/77922/22 "2001-08-25T00:51:17Z")
Only _Tool_ video I’ve seen is **Sober**. Kind of weird, to say the least. When it comes to mainstream weirdness, I’d have to go with Tom Petty’s **Mary Jane’s Last Dance**. Necrophilia w/Kim Basinger. Gotta love it! ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-freakin-music-video/77922/23 "2001-08-25T01:59:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by False\_God \* > \*\*And going all the way back to the '80s, I’d have to nominate the video for _Don’t Come Around Here No More_ by Tom Petty. Alice in Wonderland being stalked by Tom Petty, then she turns into cake and gets eaten? WTF? \*\* OH… I am SO with you on this one!!! That used to scare the HELL out of me… had to change the channel every time. And those freaky women playing basses with flamingos??? There was one a few years before that that gave me the wiggins… I can’t even remember the song (wanna say ‘Mexican Radio’) but there was a scene of a guy’s face coming out of a pot of beans. Ugh. Lady Marmalade isn’t too far behind, though… _shudder_ -BK ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-freakin-music-video/77922/24 "2001-08-25T02:00:05Z")
As much as I love Nirvana, the video for **Come As You Are** is vaguely creepy. The camera effects to blur the band member’s faces, the dog wearing the weird medical collar… ---
**Author:** ![flickerwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/13edae/32.png) [@flickerwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickerwolf)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-freakin-music-video/77922/25 "2001-08-25T02:29:19Z")
**bobkitty** - the video yer thinking of is by Wall of Voodoo…it is indeed called “Mexican Radio”. Hmm I must now make a contribution. God I have that new channel VH1 Classic and constantly see these videos that make the hair on yer neck stand up but can never remember the titles of em. I’ll post when my brain returns. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-freakin-music-video/77922/26 "2001-08-25T02:36:24Z")
lawoot took the words right outta my mouth. Stealing a corpe, dressing her up, feeding her dinner, and dancing with her limp, dragging body has to rank up there. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-freakin-music-video/77922/27 "2001-08-25T03:05:36Z")
The freakiest video I’ve seen in a long time is for a song I don’t even know the name of–it was on one of those MTV “worst videos” compilation. It featured the singer on a small stage in the middle of a room full of various dancing people. As he sang, he took off his clothes. Then he took off his skin. Then he started peeling off his muscles and flinging them into the crowd. About the time he started tossing organs I started thinking about changing the channel. All of this was _way_ too realistic for its own good. Anybody know which one I’m talking about? Morbid curiosity, I guess. Then there was the one with the guy having sex with the kitchen appliances. That one was in the same compilation. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-freakin-music-video/77922/28 "2001-08-25T03:24:06Z")
**winterhawk** , does [this](http://members.nbci.com/tomssexyguys/rockdj.html) look familiar? It’s a video along those lines by Robbie Williams for _Rock DJ_. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-freakin-music-video/77922/29 "2001-08-25T03:34:45Z")
Eww, yes! That’s the one. Thanks, **SmackFu**. ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-freakin-music-video/77922/30 "2001-08-25T04:57:11Z")
The video for that Rockwell song, “Somebody’s Watching Me.” Talk about NIGHTMARES. ---
**Author:** ![sewalk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sewalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sewalk)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-freakin-music-video/77922/31 "2001-08-25T05:38:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by winterhawk11 \* > \*\*Then there was the one with the guy having sex with the kitchen appliances. That one was in the same compilation. \*\* Perhaps you’re thinking of Beck’s “Sex Laws”. That one defies analysis. ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-freakin-music-video/77922/32 "2001-08-25T05:48:05Z")
Beck videos generally defy analysis. ---
**Author:** ![darian00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@darian00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/darian00)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-freakin-music-video/77922/33 "2001-08-25T06:07:15Z")
The video for _Closer_ by **NIN** has creeped me out from the first time I saw it. Tom Petty’s videos that I’ve seen have tended to be…interesting…to say the least. Truth be told, I laughed pretty hard when I saw the video for _Don’t Come Around Here No More_. I like the flying skull thing from **ACDC** ’s _Big Balls_ song. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-freakin-music-video/77922/34 "2001-08-25T06:44:39Z")
My younger brother was freaked out by a Lou Reed video called “No Money Down”, I think. It just shows Lou Reed’s head as he sings, until he reaches up and starts tearing the flesh off his face to reveal that the head is really that of a robot. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Raven\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@The\_Raven\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Raven_1)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-freakin-music-video/77922/35 "2001-08-25T06:48:33Z")
Howyadoin, Wouldn’t it be great if there was a TV channel that played music videos? All these great videos people are talking about that nobody ever gets to see because of the infomercials for Nelly and Shaggy and Scooby and Cisco and the Pop Tarts… what’s that? Oh, those are videos TOO? [Emily Litella mode - engage} [sub] never mind… [/sub] [RET] -Rav ---
**Author:** ![sc913](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@sc913](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sc913)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-freakin-music-video/77922/36 "2001-08-25T09:11:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Doghouse Reilly \* > \*\*A few years ago I saw a pretty weird video. It was all in black and white, and seemed to be shot to resemble a silent movie. We see shots of this ghoul creature floating along chasing a cowboy on a horse, interspersed with shots of another cowboy at some Old West jail. Eventually the first cowboy reaches the jail, and the ghoul kills them all, or something like that. > > Could someone tell me what band and song this was? Somehow it reminded me of 4 Non Blondes, but I’ve never been able to find any information about this video. \*\* Was it the Cranberries, by any chance? I seem to remember one of their videos which went something like that… don’t remember the name of the song though. S. ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-freakin-music-video/77922/37 "2001-08-25T20:49:16Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **Turpentine** > “Army of Me” by Bjork is pretty weird. > > She drives this enormous truck fueled by diamonds that grow in her teeth that are extracted by a gorilla dentist. > > I think that pretty much says it all. Yep, I remember this one still–I’d really like to see it again sometime; I haven’t got MTV and I last saw it about 6 years ago. Great. I’ve seen some of her others, ‘Oh So Quiet’, ‘Human Behaviour’, but ‘Army of Me’ is the best. Isn’t quite the best and weirdest video I’ve seen though–that’s _Black Hole Sun_ by Soundgarden. ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-freakin-music-video/77922/38 "2001-08-25T21:46:58Z")
The unedited version of **Yes** ’s _Owner of a Lonely Heart_ and **Bonnie Tyler** ’s _Total Eclipse of the Heart_. The edited **Yes** video isn’t that strange. I haven’t seen that video in years. I’d love to find it again. We used to have it on tape—on Betamax tape… ---
**Author:** ![OcularGold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3e96dc/32.png) [@OcularGold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OcularGold)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-freakin-music-video/77922/39 "2001-08-25T21:55:20Z")
no ones mentioned radioheads knives out video? too new probably. that one has got to be the wierdest video ever… ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-freakin-music-video/77922/40 "2001-08-25T22:47:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sc913 \* > **Was it the Cranberries, by any chance? I seem to remember one of their videos which went something like that… don’t remember the name of the song though.** [“Promises”](http://www.cranberries.ie/nonflash/video/promisesvid.ram) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-freakin-music-video/77922.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-freakin-music-video/77922.md?page=3)