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  1. 1.Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Swim and Sleep (Like a Shark)★ favorite

    64K Likes

    2:46

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    1.“That painting is actually pretty realistic, considering how the horse looks.”

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    1. 2.“Tag yourself – I'm the guy painting 'USB STICK' on a wall.”

  2. 2.Tame Impala – Apocalypse Dreams★ favorite

    3.5K Likes

    5:53

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    1.“Probably the craziest acid trip... without the acid.”

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    1. 2.“I saw this with my mom.”
    2. 3.“Requiem for a Dream, Pulp Fiction, Scarface, American Psycho, Friday, The Big Lebowski, Trainspotting, A Clockwork Orange, Donnie Darko, Pineapple Express... and Ted.”

  3. 3.Butthole Surfers – Pepper

    166K Likes

    4:11

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    1.“Fun fact: 'butthole surfing' is an old Texas pastime where you ride an inner tube down an irrigation ditch while being towed by a pickup truck.”

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    1. 2.“Butthole Surfers in the mid-'90s: 'Hey, we've been making crazy experimental music and having fun. Let's do one mainstream album – it'll be nice to have some money, haha.' *Creates mega-hit, makes money, goes right back to crazy experimental music.* Absolute legends.”
    2. 3.“This was my dad's favorite song. Naturally, he abandoned me as a child.”

  4. 4.Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Thought Ballune

    1.7K Likes

    2:40

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    1.“This guy looks like Patrick Carney of The Black Keys.”

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    1. 2.“I think the video is a response to what happens when you eat 'special' cupcakes. Your head goes up... 'high.'”
    2. 3.“I need the recipe for those cupcakes.”

  5. 5.Tame Impala – The Less I Know the Better

    1.9M Likes

    5:43

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    1.“Director: How trippy do you want this video to be? Tame Impala: The less I know the better.”

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    1. 2.“Everybody's gangsta till a gorilla steals your girlfriend.”
    2. 3.“Me, casually watching this. Sex scene comes on. My dad, who I haven't seen in 18 years: 'Whatcha looking at there, buddy?'”

  6. 6.Butthole Surfers – Who Was in My Room Last Night?

    62K Likes

    3:16

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    1.“I played this on a jukebox in a small bar. The bartender heard the slow, quiet fade-in of the intro and thought he needed to turn the volume up to 100. I remember thinking 'uh oh'... within seconds, I was berated by an enraged gentleman and his wife. I couldn't hear a word they were saying. They stormed out. I still think about it all the time.”

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    1. 2.“My Gibby Haynes story: he played at a venue I worked at around 2004, and before the show he was just silently standing in the employee elevator, riding it up and down, for no reason, stopping on every floor... for like an hour.”
    2. 3.“Going in for my first colonoscopy in a few days, and I'm gonna wear an old Butthole Surfers T-shirt to my procedure. Hope the doctor and staff appreciate my sense of humor.”

  7. 7.The 13th Floor Elevators – You're Gonna Miss Me

    8.7K Likes

    2:39

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    1.“A group that should have gone somewhere. Maybe the problem was the elevator. Maybe there wasn't a 13th floor – I've seen that in buildings.”

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    1. 2.“They played the San Bruno National Guard Armory in '66 or so. Nice folks. Burned one down with them in their van at halftime.”
    2. 3.“Once at the Living Eye in Houston, Stacy got lost after a break. I helped look for him. The hash was stronger than expected.”

  8. 8.Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit

    506K Likes

    2:29

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    1.“It looks like she's staring through the camera into the future and knows I'm watching this on YouTube.”

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    1. 2.“The problem with artists these days is very few are willing to take the heroic amounts of LSD it takes to make a classic like this.”
    2. 3.“Most people think this song is about drugs. It's actually about the book Alice in Wonderland. Which is about drugs. I'm writing this while high.”

  9. 9.The Flaming Lips – Are You a Hypnotist??

    7.3K Likes

    4:47

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    1.“Doctor: Are you prone to having seizures? Patient: I don't know. Doctor: Watch this...”

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    1. 2.“The title of this track is what Wayne asked Steven when he laid down this drum beat. Even he could feel his soul leave his body when he heard it.”
    2. 3.“I saw the Flaming Lips on tour when Wayne was jumping around with a giant strobe light on his chest. Someone in the audience collapsed, and Wayne handled it calmly – stopped the show, got the lights on, cleared space for first aid. (The person was fine.) Then he said, 'Yeah, this happens probably one show out of every ten.' Which kind of explains this video: Wayne sees seizures as an occupational hazard for Flaming Lips fans.”

  10. 10.Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – Hymn for a Droid

    85K Likes

    3:31

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    1.“I really need to clear my search history.”

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    1. 2.“This is the kinda band that gets asked to open for an act like Tame Impala, and they just smoke them out of the water.”
    2. 3.“True story: I bumped into this band in a cafe in Hull, UK. Two things struck me – how friendly they were, and the fact that the guitarist had ordered two Bloody Marys and a jar of pickles. It was 10 a.m.!”

  11. 11.Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – Dezi's Adventure

    2.5K Likes

    4:08

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    1.“I have no idea what I'm looking at, but it's awesome.”

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    1. 2.“Someone in the chat replay said 'free trial drugs,' and I agree.”
    2. 3.“Alright, someone in Australia is handing out research chemicals, and I need to know who... for, uh... personal research.”

  12. 12.Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – Keen For Kick Ons?

    4.4K Likes

    3:56

    Best comments

    1.“Those looking for promiscuous breakfast foods on hallucinogens: unfortunately, you have been gravely misled. For the uninitiated, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets are in fact a four-piece rock outfit from Western Australia.”

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    1. 2.“Will this be available for Nintendo Switch?”
    2. 3.“My daughter smiles every time I play this song at home... and she's 3 months old.”

  13. 13.King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Trapdoor

    1.3K Likes

    2:41

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    1.“I'm sorry, what kind of door was it again?”

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    1. 2.“When you and your bandmates all drop acid, then faff about in an old castle until you start scaring yourselves.”
    2. 3.“I can't believe they blew their $200 budget for this video on the witch's spell to turn Joey into a table.”

  14. 14.The Dandy Warhols – Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth

    42K Likes

    3:53

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    1.“In the Dig! documentary, the lead singer didn't like how he looked in this video, and the director was like, 'I'm sorry, but that's how you look.'”

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    1. 2.“Maybe I'm an asshole, but as an ex-junkie, this cracks me right the hell up.”
    2. 3.“I'll be clean 16 years this December. Love this song.”

  15. 15.Animal Collective – Bluish

    13K Likes

    5:15

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    1.“It still blows my mind that it takes that many people to make a great video like this. I've had a piece of popcorn in my teeth for three hours, and me and one piece of dental floss can't figure this shit out.”

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    1. 2.“I like how the things in the video are bluish.”
    2. 3.“Shoutout to my ex for ruining this song for me. EDIT: I've come to realize she didn't ruin it. She actually gave it so much more meaning than I understood.”

  16. 16.King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Iron Lung

    87K Likes

    9:05

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    1.“King Gizzard is my favorite psychedelic heavy metal jazz fusion blues band.”

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    1. 2.“Holy fuck. I've never tripped balls sober before.”
    2. 3.“Bro, just eat the whole bag... you'll be fine.”

  17. 17.Ween – Transdermal Celebration

    23K Likes

    3:33

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    1.“I'm here fucked up in the crib, crying at this video, and I don't even know what I'm crying at.”

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    1. 2.“That's Dean Ween soloing on Carlos Santana's guitar. Santana had a GMA show, and Ween heard his equipment was in town. He snuck in, used the guitar for this solo, and put it back like he was never there. Took 10 minutes to record.”
    2. 3.“Thank you, Mr. Santana, for the service you didn't know you contributed.”

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