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  1. 1.Bran Van 3000 – Drinking in L.A.★ favorite

    11K Likes

    5:22

    Best comments

    1.“I am so glad I was a teen in the '90s. Best years, best music, best clothes...”

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    1. 2.“For the life of me, I don't know why this track didn't get bigger.”

  2. 2.The Chemical Brothers – Midnight Madness★ favorite

    8.5K Likes

    4:12

    Best comments

    1.“Harry Potter gave Dobby a sock... and look what happened.”

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    1. 2.“Because even Nosferatu needs to get his groove on sometimes.”
    2. 3.“Coming back to play this every December 31st since 2010, before the midnight madness starts.”

  3. 3.Die Antwoord – Enter the Ninja★ favorite

    702K Likes

    5:13

    Best comments

    1.“Die Antwoord is a strange mix of trying to figure out if you actually like it... and wondering what the fuck you need to smoke to come up with this.”

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    1. 2.“Who said meth never gave us anything positive?”
    2. 3.“My dad showed me this when I was like 5, and I still don't understand why.”

  4. 4.Datsik – Jenova Project★ favorite

    5.9K Likes

    6:29

    Best comments

    1.“Just when you think people dancing to dubstep in light suits is pretty frackin' cool, somebody puts them in a kaleidoscope!”

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    1. 2.“Can you say DMT?”

  5. 5.Caravan Palace – Plume★ favorite

    100K Likes

    3:08

    Best comments

    1.“So THAT'S what happened to the third Daft Punk robot.”

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    1. 2.“Caravan Palace was NEVER about the music. It was ALWAYS about the robots.”
    2. 3.“I just want to point out that the robot changes 'COSPLAY PEOPLE' to 'COSPLAY FRIENDS' at 1:34. What a sweetheart.”

  6. 6.DJ Snake & Lil Jon – Turn Down for What★ favorite

    11M Likes

    3:37

    Best comments

    1.“Imagine a hundred years from now, people studying our culture... and they find this.”

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    1. 2.“This is the reason aliens won't contact us.”
    2. 3.“Producer: How much weirdness do you want in this video? DJ Snake: My goals are beyond your understanding.”

  7. 7.Dev – In the Dark★ favorite

    580K Likes

    3:45

    Best comments

    1.“Her voice is so croaky and seductive. Never thought I'd use those two in a sentence.”

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    1. 2.“I loved this song when I was a kid. Now I understand the lyrics and I'm–”
    2. 3.“Who else is only here for the saxophone?”

  8. 8.Röyksopp ft. Karin Dreijer – This Must Be It★ favorite

    14K Likes

    3:33

    Best comments

    1.“I've finally found it! Saw this video ages ago on TV and loved the song, but forgot the name... and googling 'naked guy driving on a drum set' didn't help.”

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    1. 2.“Is this how people in Norway live?”
    2. 3.“Ordinary Norwegians before they found oil.”

  9. 9.Caravan Palace – Miracle★ favorite

    275K Likes

    3:25

    Best comments

    1.“I don't remember this part of The Road to El Dorado.”

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    1. 2.“Me: Why is this age-restricted? Caravan Palace: *V A G I N A P L A N T* Me: Ah, yes. Of course.”
    2. 3.“The real miracle here is that this is still on YouTube.”

  10. 10.PNAU – Chameleon★ favorite

    75K Likes

    3:22

    Best comments

    1.“When I grow up, I want to be a professional luminescent-paint-for-naked-people application specialist. That's a thing, right?”

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    1. 2.“Whoever did the face paint is a legend.”
    2. 3.“Took me fucking ages to find this song, because the only lyric I could understand was 'chameleon.'”

  11. 11.Sevdaliza – Darkest Hour★ favorite

    60K Likes

    4:34

    Best comments

    1.“She looks like she's sitting in a cup of matcha. Beautiful.”

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    1. 2.“Sevdaliza really said, 'I'm giving y'all diversity whether you like it or not.'”
    2. 3.“As a mom, I'm so happy my dear daughter was invited to be part of this, along with all these beautiful, interesting women.”

  12. 12.James Blake – Can't Believe the Way We Flow★ favorite

    32K Likes

    4:43

    Best comments

    1.“The fact they took that long to flush that toilet stressed me out, lmao.”

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    1. 2.“Can't believe the way we flush.”
    2. 3.“Weird to think how great life would be with the right companion.”

  13. 13.Pogo – Nicey Nicey★ favorite

    35K Likes

    3:32

    Best comments

    1.“Doctors should be prescribing this video as an antidepressant.”

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    1. 2.“Me and my best friend love this! We had no idea what the show was. I thought it was a kids' show... I was dead wrong.”
    2. 3.“My 3-year-old is obsessed with this song. She says, 'Mommy, play nicey nicey zoo zoo.'”

  14. 14.Pogo – Hoo Ba Ba Kanda★ favorite

    26K Likes

    3:13

    Best comments

    1.“Televangelists are the worst kind of people. And this is the best kind of music. Now I'm conflicted.”

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    1. 2.“This song brainwashed me, and now I send all my money to Robert Tilton!”
    2. 3.“I was Robert Tilton's music minister when much of this footage was shot (I was barely 21). All I can say is 'WOW!' I left Bob and never looked back... but I'd stand by this.”

  15. 15.Pogo – Homarge★ favorite

    94K Likes

    3:33

    Best comments

    1.“Depression: *exists*. Pogo: Imma ruin this man's whole career.”

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    1. 2.“Cute fact: the French voices of Homer and Marge are married. They met dubbing this show.”
    2. 3.“My wedding is tomorrow, and listening to this made me cry. We've been together 9 years, since high school... I'll gladly listen to this song again when we have our first kid. UPDATE: My baby has been born!”

  16. 16.Mike Diva – Kazoo Kid (Trap Remix)★ favorite

    1.4M Likes

    1:20

    A bowl-cut kid from a 1989 kazoo-lesson VHS tape became a meme, and Los Angeles musician Mike Diva turned him into a trap banger with trippy rotoscoped visuals. Posted in February 2016, it passed three million views within weeks.

  17. 17.Elvis vs. JXL – A Little Less Conversation (JXL Remix)

    316K Likes

    3:52

    Best comments

    1.“So many characters that haven't been unlocked yet.”

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    1. 2.“This could have been made in 2020 – everyone is perfectly social distancing!”
    2. 3.“And to think Elvis was worried no one would remember him after he was gone.”

  18. 18.The Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatrist

    425K Likes

    4:18

    Best comments

    1.“I've worked in a psych ward for 20 years, and that is the craziest thing I've ever seen.”

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    1. 2.“*Walks into retirement home* 'Hey guys, who wants to be in a music video?'”
    2. 3.“When you put ecstasy in the nursing home's water supply...”

  19. 19.Basement Jaxx – Where's Your Head At

    493K Likes

    4:12

    Best comments

    1.“I showed this to my kids today, because I'm a responsible parent who grew up in the '90s.”

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    1. 2.“My science teacher showed the whole class this video when teaching about genetics, lmao.”
    2. 3.“People on Facebook probably think this is real.”

  20. 20.Wax Tailor – Que Sera

    24K Likes

    2:01

    Best comments

    1.“Whoa, listening to this stoned tripped me the f*** out. Alfred! Get me some cookies and milk!”

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    1. 2.“I work at Chipotle, and this song is played literally all the time. Glad I finally found it – it's stuck in my head all the time.”
    2. 3.“This sounds like a companion song for Frontier Psychiatrist.”

  21. 21.Laika – Badtimes

    53 Likes

    2:29

    London band Laika set the Bad Times email warning, a spoof of the 1994 Good Times virus hoax, to a trip-hop groove, with Margaret Fiedler reciting it as the promised damage gets sillier. It's a single from their 2000 album Good Looking Blues.

  22. 22.Die Antwoord – Baby's On Fire

    2.3M Likes

    6:55

    Best comments

    1.“This is clickbait – there are no babies on fire.”

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    1. 2.“Finally, some good Christian music.”
    2. 3.“I'm a generic white 48-year-old American with three kids and an office job, and God help me... I fucking love this band.”

  23. 23.Shpongle – Divine Moments of Truth

    3.4K Likes

    10:22

    Best comments

    1.“A round of applause for all the graphic designers who took psychedelics and made this visualizer experience possible.”

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    1. 2.“Timeless. You can laugh to it, dance to it, trip on it, cry on it, eat on it... the every-situation song.”
    2. 3.“The 7 people who disliked this video must've had bunk shit.”

  24. 24.Gramatik – Solidified

    2.3K Likes

    3:49

    Best comments

    1.“Found this song listed in an old notebook I found. I don't know who owned it, but she had good taste in music.”

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    1. 2.“This video's dope as hell. The imagination it must take to think up this kind of shit... props to whoever it was.”

  25. 25.Grimes ft. Blood Diamonds – Go

    125K Likes

    4:16

    Best comments

    1.“I'm glad Rihanna rejected this song. I prefer Grimes' vocals anyway. [Edit: Grimes wrote it and offered it to Rihanna, you goons.]”

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    1. 2.“This confirms that in medieval days, women wore Adidas slippers.”
    2. 3.“My 8-year-old won't let me sing along when we're listening to Grimes in the car. She looks out the window all serious and says, 'Mom, please, this is listening-and-thinking music. Sorry, buuuut you're ruining it.'”

  26. 26.The Chemical Brothers ft. Beck – Wide Open

    317K Likes

    5:32

    Best comments

    1.“I've been searching for this video using 'girl dancing alone progressively becomes hollow' for 25 minutes. Finally found it.”

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    1. 2.“FWIW, the dancer is Sonoya Mizuno – the service robot in Ex Machina, the alien mirror to Natalie Portman in Annihilation, and Mysaria in House of the Dragon.”
    2. 3.“She's dancing in my old abandoned Delphi warehouse in Rottenchester, NY, where I used to work when I had a good-paying job with General Motors. Kinda sad... but at least she's an awesome dancer!”

  27. 27.Madonna ft. Nicki Minaj – Bitch I'm Madonna

    2.8M Likes

    4:03

    Best comments

    1.“Legend says people are still cleaning the place where this was filmed...”

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    1. 2.“I like how every celebrity is there except the one actually featured in the song, lmao.”
    2. 3.“I love the way Nicki couldn't be there, so they just held up a TV with her on it...”

  28. 28.Lorn – Anvil

    667K Likes

    3:41

    Best comments

    1.“Lyrics, for anyone wondering: H M M M M (chorus) H M M M M... H M M M M (chorus) H M M M M (ending verse) H M M M M.”

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    1. 2.“All she did was choose the nachos :/”
    2. 3.“Something I find terrifying: dying and realizing I should have paid a few bucks more for the commercial-free version of the afterlife.”

  29. 29.Skrillex ft. Ellie Goulding – Summit

    1.3M Likes

    6:11

    Best comments

    1.“Most nostalgic nostalgia since I've ever felt nostalgia (nostalgia).”

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    1. 2.“Back when my brain was able to produce serotonin.”

  30. 30.The Avalanches – Frankie Sinatra

    106K Likes

    4:24

    Best comments

    1.“I always wondered why people told me not to drink the juice from glow sticks.”

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    1. 2.“Fun fact: to make this, they just filmed an average day in Florida.”
    2. 3.“My kids and I are in this video, lol. At the beginning, walking to the ice cream truck – my son runs past the lady doing the splits, slinging a shirt around. We had so much fun that day.”

  31. 31.Die Antwoord – Ugly Boy

    1.5M Likes

    4:53

    Best comments

    1.“These two are like the crackhead versions of the Joker and Harley Quinn, I swear.”

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    1. 2.“Die Antwoord: *writes a song about finding unconventionally attractive people sexy*. Also Die Antwoord: *puts a world-renowned supermodel in the music video*.”
    2. 3.“I like how the shot of Ninja and Cara smoking weed is at exactly 4:20.”

  32. 32.Caravan Palace – Supersonics (Out Come the Freaks Edit)

    104K Likes

    3:01

    Best comments

    1.“Hold on – he's got spray paint on his nose. Did he just huff a ton of spray paint until he got so high he imagined all of this and painted this masterpiece? Because I don't really care – that's my interpretation now.”

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    1. 2.“My takeaway from this: 'Man, I need to stop huffing paint.'”
    2. 3.“And that, kids, is why huffing paint is a fun pastime.”

  33. 33.The Chemical Brothers – Got To Keep On

    226K Likes

    3:07

    Best comments

    1.“Ah yes, the infamous Soul Train Critical Mass incident of '73.”

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    1. 2.“When you dance so hard you turn into a non-Newtonian fluid.”
    2. 3.“Don't you just love it when you're so in sync with your dance partner that you turn into a viscous goo?”

  34. 34.Breakbot – Baby I'm Yours

    3.4M Likes

    2:36

    Best comments

    1.“Little brother: *takes Dad's 'special' brownies to school* His classmates:”

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    1. 2.“Whoever animated this is an absolute hero.”
    2. 3.“I don't understand how songs like this came out in 2010 and I never heard them until 2022. Makes me wonder how many other gems are out there.”

  35. 35.Cassius – Go Up

    27K Likes

    3:13

    Best comments

    1.“French house legends Cassius, pop producer Pharrell and singer-songwriter Cat Power – a helluva unusual collaboration. The video is brilliant in its complicated simplicity.”

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    1. 2.“I have a drawing assignment on diptychs, and I think I just found a treasure trove.”
    2. 3.“And I thought Nike's new ad was freaking innovative.”

  36. 36.Major Lazer – Light It Up (Remix)

    4.4M Likes

    2:50

    Best comments

    1.“This is what the monsters under our beds do when nobody's home.”

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    1. 2.“When you're at the car wash and the brushes come alive.”
    2. 3.“I'm glad to see the music industry finally using people of color in their videos... Color. No? No one else? Okay, I'll leave.”

  37. 37.The Supermen Lovers – Starlight

    407K Likes

    3:57

    Best comments

    1.“For a time, this song was everywhere. Then it was nowhere. For years, its existence was forgotten. Then last year I heard it playing in a petrol station... and it was like part of my brain was being unlocked.”

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    1. 2.“FINALLY FOUND IT!!! Can't believe I had to search 'potato DJ alien rat' for this to appear.”
    2. 3.“I FOUND IT. AFTER 14 FUCKING YEARS. I FOUND IT.”

  38. 38.The Avalanches – Since I Left You

    190K Likes

    4:50

    Best comments

    1.“I dunno how the YouTube algorithm figured out I have a deep and abiding love for big guys who can dance... but it did, and I do.”

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    1. 2.“The dancing miner was my musical theatre teacher, Steve Elias. What a legend.”
    2. 3.“Came here expecting another WTF video from The Avalanches. Came out with tears in my eyes. Goddammit.”

  39. 39.Star Slinger – Mornin'

    9.3K Likes

    2:14

    Best comments

    1.“Watched this video while I was high and felt like I was flying above all the deserts and all the forests. And even when I was sober and asleep, I dreamt of that happiness.”

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    1. 2.“This song samples 'Let's Do It Again' by The Staple Singers, in case you were wondering.”
    2. 3.“This song reminds me of when I first met my husband in 2008. That was the most amazing summer! We're in our 30s now with two kids, but man, this song brings me right back.”

  40. 40.Die Antwoord – I Fink U Freeky

    1.3M Likes

    3:55

    Best comments

    1.“This video makes Billie Eilish look like a Disney princess.”

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    1. 2.“If I ever become an English teacher, I'll have my students analyze this video just to break them.”
    2. 3.“Billie Eilish: I make the weirdest music videos ever! Lady Gaga: Aw, that's cute. Die Antwoord: Aww... they grow up so fast.”

  41. 41.Flairs – Truckers Delight

    94K Likes

    3:20

    Best comments

    1.“This was deeply confusing... and then I saw the French names in the credits, and it all made sense.”

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    1. 2.“So many things got deleted, censored and banned from YouTube over the years. And yet this titan still stands.”
    2. 3.“I'm a trucker IRL and can confirm this is an accurate representation of what happens on a daily basis.”

  42. 42.Caravan Palace – Lone Digger

    4.2M Likes

    2:51

    Best comments

    1.“Ever since Jerry died, Tom was never the same.”

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    1. 2.“Gotta respect the work ethic of the gazelle – never stopped dancing.”
    2. 3.“'And she just... kept dancing...' – Judy Hopps, in therapy for PTSD”

  43. 43.Nigel Stanford – Cymatics

    1.1M Likes

    5:53

    Best comments

    1.“When the DJ comes back from college with a physics degree.”

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    1. 2.“'What instrument do you play?' 'Tesla coil.'”
    2. 3.“'All of the experiments in this video are real.' Does that include the cloning experiment?!”

  44. 44.Caravan Palace – Suzy

    80K Likes

    3:05

    Best comments

    1.“See a random robot fall from the sky? TRY TO KISS IT!”

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    1. 2.“I see. So if you can't kiss it, you sing into it. It all makes so much sense!”
    2. 3.“Caravan Palace will be safe during the robot uprising.”

  45. 45.Boxcutter – TV Troubles

    336 Likes

    2:16

    Best comments

    1.“Hurt my brain, but it felt goooood.”

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    1. 2.“I finally realized where the base footage was from, before the psychedelic editing: Looker.”

  46. 46.BANKS – Brain

    106K Likes

    3:51

    Best comments

    1.“BANKS makes me wanna sob, drink a whole bottle of rum, and then go slap the fuck out of my ex. God, I love her.”

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    1. 2.“I saw a pole dancer on my Facebook page smoking a bong and dancing to this song, and now I'm obsessed.”
    2. 3.“OMG, I heard this on the pole dancer video! I'm going to tell everybody... like nearly EVERYONE ELSE in the comments.”

  47. 47.Nosaj Thing – Eclipse/Blue

    48K Likes

    4:30

    Best comments

    1.“In the future, the most powerful computers will be controlled through interpretive dance.”

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    1. 2.“There's a projector behind the screen for the moving backgrounds, another projector in front of the dancers, plus Xbox Kinect sensors to scan the dancer's body and project images on them.”
    2. 3.“In 2014 I was high as fuck on the way back to my parents' house. It started raining, and I decided to lie on the ground in the middle of a field listening to this track. Probably the best experience of my life.”

  48. 48.The Avalanches – The Divine Chord

    29K Likes

    3:08

    Best comments

    1.“This song feels like it was conceived by Buddy the Elf on a golden yacht in the Mediterranean.”

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    1. 2.“The Avalanches? OK, I'm listening. MGMT? Well, you have my attention. Johnny Marr? Take my money now.”
    2. 3.“I just failed a test. This song makes me feel like I passed.”

  49. 49.Son Lux – Change Is Everything

    40K Likes

    3:44

    Best comments

    1.“If that's stop-motion, I'm giving up on life.”

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    1. 2.“I was really hoping the beginning was just a trick to make me think the animation was real... but then I saw the holes in the board. Man... so much time.”
    2. 3.“Revisiting this in an age swamped by AI slop. The amount of labor in this video could send someone into a seizure today.”

  50. 50.Polo & Pan – Coeur Croisé

    53K Likes

    3:40

    Best comments

    1.“Is France just a Wes Anderson movie?”

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    1. 2.“This wasn't even choreographed – the French just naturally do this.”
    2. 3.“There must be a sexual innuendo in here somewhere... but where?”Translated from French

  51. 51.Galantis – Holy Water

    43K Likes

    3:00

    Best comments

    1.“Synchronized swimmers KILLING IT to electropop, instead of the usual classical track.”

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    1. 2.“I can't even swim without getting a whole mouthful of chlorine.”
    2. 3.“One of the recommended videos under this: 'WEIRD THINGS THAT SWIMMERS DO.' Lmao, YouTube is so clever.”

  52. 52.Kelis – Acapella

    90K Likes

    4:04

    Best comments

    1.“If the apocalypse doesn't look like this, I don't want it.”

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    1. 2.“Kelis is the reason your fave got grey hair... years later! She's such a trendsetter.”
    2. 3.“The fact she wrote this about her baby son makes the song 10 times better.”

  53. 53.Weval – Someday

    146K Likes

    4:25

    Best comments

    1.“Exactly what plays through my mind when I try to remember where I put my keys.”

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    1. 2.“As an architecture student, I feel like this will be something I see before dying.”
    2. 3.“I wanted to pick a song and go smoke. I watched the entire thing with a joint hanging in my mouth – and just realized I didn't even light it. *Lights up* Again, please.”

  54. 54.Björk – Tabula Rasa

    43K Likes

    4:27

    Best comments

    1.“The video looks like a jellyfish mated with a live-action Georgia O'Keeffe painting.”

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    1. 2.“I'm quite certain he simply filmed Björk as she is, without the human filter. Beautiful.”
    2. 3.“'What genre of music do you listen to?' '...Björk.'”

  55. 55.Max Cooper – Resynthesis

    32K Likes

    4:25

    Best comments

    1.“'On this episode of How It's Made, we'll be taking a look at lysergic acid diethylamide.'”

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    1. 2.“Whatever drugs Kevin McGloughlin's on... give them to me. Now.”
    2. 3.“Fun fact: in there somewhere is a normal shot of an escalator.”

  56. 56.Carpenter Brut – Turbo Killer

    284K Likes

    4:15

    Best comments

    1.“Man, these Hot Wheels commercials are getting weird.”

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    1. 2.“This is my favorite video about a guy rescuing his Australian Christian sister-in-law from go-go dancer jail. Fast cars, action, upbeat music... it's got everything!”
    2. 3.“This is how my mom and dad met...”

  57. 57.Anna Lunoe & Flume – I Met You

    33K Likes

    3:58

    Best comments

    1.“Flume is only 22, but he's so talented and famous already. When I'm 22, I'll probably be in my parents' basement, rolling around despairingly in student loans.”

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    1. 2.“She looks like a hot female version of Carl Sagan.”
    2. 3.“WARNING: Do not use your keyboard in water.”

  58. 58.Batzorig Vaanchig & The Kiffness – In Praise of Genghis Khan (The Kiffness Remix)

    123K Likes

    4:05

    Best comments

    1.“I made my dog listen to this song. Now he's a horse.”

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    1. 2.“I made my cat listen to this. Now he's a khat.”
    2. 3.“I made my mom listen to this. Now she's Mongolian.”

  59. 59.Björk – Utopia

    101K Likes

    3:45

    Best comments

    1.“I am so glad computer-generated graphics became advanced enough to handle recreating what goes on in Björk's mind.”

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    1. 2.“This is exactly how I picture the process of digestion.”
    2. 3.“Björk songs are like the long intros to some sick metal songs... but they forgot to record the metal part.”

  60. 60.Dan Black feat. Kelis – Hearts

    2.2K Likes

    3:36

    Best comments

    1.“That's dedication, man – I would pass out after like the first two hours.”

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    1. 2.“From 9:50 to 16:45, he isn't in the scene – only on printed media. That's 7 (!!) hours. Enough for a long, relaxing sleep.”
    2. 3.“I hope he wore enough sunblock...”

  61. 61.Éric Serra & Inva Mula – The Diva Dance

    473K Likes

    4:47

    Best comments

    1.“This is what a concert looks like in Area 51.”

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    1. 2.“Fun fact: this song was written to be technically impossible to sing. The singer came in, read the music, and sang 85% of what the composer thought was impossible. The rest was added in post.”
    2. 3.“As a child, this was one of the weirdest and most sexually confusing things I ever saw on TV.”

  62. 62.Stromae – Carmen

    1.7M Likes

    3:38

    Best comments

    1.“I don't think Stromae likes Twitter very much.”

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    1. 2.“If Stromae thinks Twitter is bad, just wait until he finds out about TikTok.”
    2. 3.“Moral of the story: close your window.”

  63. 63.Gesaffelstein & Pharrell Williams – Blast Off

    115K Likes

    3:37

    Warren Fu's video for Gesaffelstein and Pharrell's Blast Off looks like a lost reel from Tron: Pharrell pulls off his sunglasses and fires beams from his eyes, Gesaffelstein glows at a control panel, and the slick world slides into something darker. It premiered on the Coachella livestream in April 2019.

  64. 64.Steve Mason – Planet Sizes

    2.1K Likes

    3:51

    Best comments

    1.“So so so so so so so good. (Apologies if I under-so'ed that.)”

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    1. 2.“This is pretty much a massage for my ear and eye things.”

  65. 65.Massive Attack – Teardrop

    815K Likes

    4:45

    Best comments

    1.“Ma'am, from what I can see on the ultrasound... your baby appears to be singing.”

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    1. 2.“As a former baby, I can confirm this used to play in the womb.”
    2. 3.“That baby's old enough to buy liquor now, lol.”

  66. 66.Yello – Rubberbandman

    405 Likes

    3:29

    Best comments

    1.“Bonkers and brilliant!”

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    1. 2.“I enjoy how Boris and Dieter always seemed to be having a load of fun in their music videos.”
    2. 3.“How in the name of God these guys got a record deal is beyond me... absolutely awful, everything they do.”

  67. 67.Röyksopp – Happy Up Here

    36K Likes

    2:48

    Best comments

    1.“Alternate title: East German car defeats early capitalist Western computers in a game of Space Invaders.”

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    1. 2.“This video is better than Pixels... yes, I'm being serious.”
    2. 3.“I've sung this song to my child since birth. He's 19 now and super happy with himself as a person! Couldn't feel more blessed. This will always be our song.”

  68. 68.Phantogram – Fall in Love

    193K Likes

    3:49

    Best comments

    1.“Half the people in the comment section are like, 'I heard this in a porno.' I can't relate.”

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    1. 2.“When the whole video is 'most replayed.'”
    2. 3.“Oh, nothing... just a millennial looking at my daughter's recent searches. I am proud.”

  69. 69.Gorillaz – DARE

    2.7M Likes

    4:50

    Best comments

    1.“I love the classic 5th Gorillaz member: Giant Fucking Decapitated Head on backing vocals.”

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    1. 2.“Fun fact: this song was originally meant to be called 'It's There,' but Shaun Ryder's Manc accent made it sound like 'It's Dare' – so they changed the name.”
    2. 3.“When Gorillaz keep a human head in their house, it's cool. But when I do it, I get arrested. Unfair.”

  70. 70.Daft Punk – Around the World

    1.2M Likes

    4:02

    Best comments

    1.“Remember, kids: this is your future if you get a university degree in modern dance.”

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    1. 2.“For those who don't know: the skeletons are the guitar, the mummies are the drums, the aliens are the vocals, the dancing women are the keyboard, and the tall, small-headed guys are the bass.”
    2. 3.“How did the singer manage to memorize so many lyrics?!”

  71. 71.French 79 – Hometown

    558K Likes

    5:18

    Best comments

    1.“It's unfair how good the French are at electronic music.”

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    1. 2.“This song has a lot of potential as the soundtrack for an ad announcing the arrival of 5G on your local network.”
    2. 3.“This feels like the Dolby Surround ad before a movie starts at the cinema.”

  72. 72.The Orb – Golden Clouds

    6.7K Likes

    4:04

    Best comments

    1.“For anyone who came of musical age blissing out to Little Fluffy Clouds and zoning out to Lee Scratch Perry, this team-up is nothing short of magical.”

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    1. 2.“Both these guys are legends. Can't believe they collaborated – that's like a wet dream come true or something!”
    2. 3.“Gorgeous to see Thomas, the Dr. and Scratch... no doubt burning one in nature.”

  73. 73.Polo & Pan – Pays Imaginaire

    42K Likes

    4:51

    Best comments

    1.“Debussy is spinning in his grave. To the beat.”

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    1. 2.“When I meet Walt Disney in heaven and we're smoking a blunt.”
    2. 3.“Bro, I heard this in Chipotle, and I have to say this song has been more valuable to me than the burrito I got.”

  74. 74.Duke Dumont ft. Jax Jones – I Got U

    1.6M Likes

    3:59

    Best comments

    1.“More things happened in 4 minutes than in my entire life.”

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    1. 2.“Where can I buy one of those?”
    2. 3.“Unrealistic. Stuff never comes with batteries in the box.”

  75. 75.M83 – Oceans Niagara

    17K Likes

    4:29

    Best comments

    1.“Every time I listen to M83, I feel like I'm the main character.”

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    1. 2.“Heard this for the first time walking through the Atlanta airport. I was there for a job interview – my 4th time interviewing for this position – and I finally got the offer. Next thing I knew, tears were streaming down my face... but they were happy tears.”

  76. 76.GENER8ION feat. 070 Shake – Neo Surf

    133K Likes

    4:29

    Best comments

    1.“In a post-apocalyptic world, this is the kind of freedom I want my future and nonexistent children to feel.”

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    1. 2.“I'm 65 years old. Something in the whole vibe of this song found a hidden part of the soul of my youth from about 1960, and it haunts me. Given the age of these artists, I can't begin to imagine what they were channeling to create this. I'll just accept the magic.”

  77. 77.Deep Forest – Sweet Lullaby

    69K Likes

    3:54

    Deep Forest built this dance hit on a 1970 recording of Afunakwa, a Solomon Islands woman singing a traditional lullaby, without her permission. Tarsem Singh's video sends a little girl on a tricycle around the world in search of sleep, shot in eight countries in late 1993.

  78. 78.The Orb – Daze (Missing & Messed Up Mix)

    3:08

    Best comments

    1.“This video is based on a true story.”

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    1. 2.“Back in 2000 or 2001, in Hobart, Tasmania, at a club called Syrup, I was sitting on a speaker listening to the track selection... and the bald motherfucker from the Orb flipped me the bird for no reason. To this day, I don't know why.”

  79. 79.Flanafi & Ape School – Gjuijar

    201 Likes

    4:43

    Best comments

    1.“Watching this evokes a hazy, psychedelic-tinged memory of staying up late in the summertime as a teenager in the late 2000s, watching bizarre internet Flash animations and Adult Swim cartoons.”

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    1. 2.“Hahaha, I'm on 🍄 right now, and this song + music video is great on 'em.”

  80. 80.RÜFÜS DU SOL – Innerbloom

    1.5M Likes

    9:39

    Best comments

    1.“Doctor: 'You have 10 minutes to live.' Me: *turns on this song*”

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    1. 2.“I was deep into a mushroom experience, and at 5:50, when those synth trumpets started playing, I understood the entire universe for a good 10 seconds. Can't explain it or describe it. The feeling was just bliss.”
    2. 3.“This was the first thing I heard when I got Narcan'd after my last heroin overdose. I now have 11 months clean because of this majestic-af song. RIP old me.”

  81. 81.Orbital – Belfast / Wasted

    5.1K Likes

    4:35

    Best comments

    1.“These sound so much better when not blasted through early-'90s VW Golf speakers at motorway speeds... no wonder I have tinnitus now.”

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    1. 2.“The female voice's melody was composed in the 10th century by Hildegard von Bingen. It has something heavenly.”
    2. 3.“First time I played this to my mum, it was about 4:30 in the morning. I'd just got home from a rave and the sun was coming up. It was a brilliant day.”

  82. 82.Vangelis – Aquatic Dance

    682 Likes

    3:42

    Best comments

    1.“As I listen to your music, I realize humanity hasn't gone completely wrong.”

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    1. 2.“Dolphins are allegedly more intelligent than (some) humans. I tend to believe that.”

  83. 83.Vangelis – Song of the Seas

    7.3K Likes

    5:36

    Best comments

    1.“I love dolphins, and I really like this music. Good combo!”

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    1. 2.“I was 12 when my foster mother bought me a Vangelis CD at a marketplace back in Hungary. I fell in love with life after listening to his music. I'm almost 40 now.”

  84. 84.Nufonic (Mike Oldfield & Vangelis) – Sentinel Of Love

    172 Likes

    3:19

    A 2017 fan mashup by Nufonic, not an official release: Mike Oldfield's Sentinel, the Tubular Bells II opener that reworks the theme everyone knows from The Exorcist, blended with Vangelis's The Tao of Love from his 1979 album China.

  85. 85.alt-J – Deadcrush

    231K Likes

    4:59

    Best comments

    1.“When I forget the name of this song and try to sing it to people, they think I'm smoking crack.”

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    1. 2.“Lee Miller, Anne Boleyn and Sylvia Plath – the 'dead crushes' of each band member – conjured up by a supercomputer in a post-apocalyptic world.”
    2. 3.“Thanks to this music, I now have a 2-year-old son.”

  86. 86.Mike Oldfield – Let There Be Light

    3.5K Likes

    3:46

    Best comments

    1.“If I believed in heaven, this is what I'd play in my church.”

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    1. 2.“Good psychedelic sketch. It was also in the 1996 Computer Animation Festival.”
    2. 3.“Arthur C. Clarke wrote a sci-fi novel called The Songs of Distant Earth – and for this album, he wrote a tribute to Mike Oldfield ending with: 'Welcome to space. There's room for all of us out there.'”

  87. 87.The Orb – Wireless (Leandro Fresco Mix)

    268 Likes

    7:07

    Argentine producer Leandro Fresco, longtime collaborator of Gustavo Cerati, remixes Wireless from The Orb's 2016 album COW / Chill Out, World!, which Alex Paterson called their most ambient yet. It closed the digital edition of Kompakt's Sin in Space Pt. 3 EP in 2017. Posted by Kompakt.

  88. 88.Jon & Vangelis – Horizon

    25K Likes

    22:55

    Best comments

    1.“Vangelis' sounds need no voice, Jon's voice needs no music... and yet together they make it extraordinary.”

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    1. 2.“I bought all of this on CD, and I'm proud of it – in Poland 20 years ago, buying one album meant working 3-4 days and spending nothing on bills or food. I worked as a very young welder.”
    2. 3.“In the early '80s, trying to make ends meet (kids, eye-watering mortgage), my wife and I would put this album on after the kids were tucked in, turn the lights down low and just chill. By the end of Horizon, all the stresses of the day had melted away.”

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