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The Weirdness, Part 5

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In my order

  1. 1.Yello – Rubberbandman

    405 Likes

    3:29

    Best comments

    1.“Bonkers and brilliant!”

    More comments
    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.”

  2. 2.Billy Strings – Catch and Release

    17K Likes

    2:15

    Best comments

    1.“My dad is the cop that stopped him – the one he's talking about in this song. Our whole town went crazy about it when it came out.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“I love it when the dog hands over the weed.”
    2. 3.“My daughter once told me it was amazing how many of my stories from my younger days ended with 'and the cops came and we all ran away.'”

  3. 3.SpaceHunterM – two different issues

    61 Likes

    0:12

    GagA conversation that goes off the rails twice in twelve seconds.

    Best comment

    “This is the most Kung Pow: Enter the Fist-tier performance in a non-Kung Pow dub.”

  4. 4.SpaceHunterM – eggs

    115 Likes

    0:04

    GagHard-hitting financial analysis, four seconds long.

    Best comment

    “This is a bad eggsample of a good business.”

  5. 5.Melaverde – Marmotta curling★ favorite

    474 Likes

    0:12

    GagThe Winter Olympics have nothing on the Italian Alps.

    Best comments

    1.“This is a sport for them?”

    More comments
    1. 2.“This has been put into my health assignment.”

  6. 6.Zlad! – Elektronik Supersonik

    3.3K Likes

    Watch on YouTube ↗3:16

    Best comments

    1.“When you know you want Freddie Mercury's moustache and David Bowie's hair, but you don't really care what kind of music you make.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“We must give him credit for correctly predicting how people in the future would speak.”
    2. 3.“They play this video over and over again to torture informants!”

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

    1.3K Likes

    2:41

    Best comments

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

    More comments
    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.”

  8. 8.tomcoben (TikTok), via PsychNet – Surreal Room

    0:26

    GagA surreal room, credited to TikTok creator tomcoben and reposted by PsychNet, who collect trippy and psychedelic shorts. Twenty-six seconds.

  9. 9.Black Cat (BlackCatco.) – Noggin Noodles

    0:13

    GagNoggin Noodles, a thirteen-second surreal collage piece by an artist who goes by Black Cat. The tags say trippy, psychedelic, art.

  10. 10.Scott Gairdner – Sex Offender Shuffle

    1.3M Likes

    3:57

    Best comments

    1.“We need a 'Where Are They Now?' reunion special.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“Update: that offer for the barbecue is still open.”
    2. 3.“Update: the only people who showed up to my BBQ were the FBI.”

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

    42K Likes

    3:53

    Best comments

    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.'”

    More comments
    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.”

  12. 12.Animal Collective – Bluish

    13K Likes

    5:15

    Best comments

    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.”

    More comments
    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.”

  13. 13.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.”

    More comments
    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.”

  14. 14.The Black Crowes – I Ain't Hiding

    1.4K Likes

    6:48

    Best comments

    1.“I saw the 'TURN IT UP' thing at the beginning and was like, 'Nahh.' Then the music started... and it was on full blast.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“Mostly hate this band. But this is effing phenomenal.”
    2. 3.“Rich Robinson thinks this song is garbage.”

  15. 15.Satellite and The Harpoonist – Satellite Man

    330 Likes

    3:06

    Best comments

    1.“Coolest ad I've ever gotten.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“I have never seen a bass like that. What is going on there?”
    2. 3.“Giving me Dr. John vibes, and I fooking love it.”

  16. 16.Howto – Super trippy video

    0:10

    GagTen seconds to melt your brain a little. No refunds.

  17. 17.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.”

    More comments
    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.”

  18. 18.Melody's Echo Chamber – I Follow You

    44K Likes

    4:08

    Best comments

    1.“This is in English, and yet it's the most French song I've ever heard.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“Dude, how can she be underwater for so long?!”
    2. 3.“Evidence that mermaids exist.”

  19. 19.Cate Le Bon – Are You With Me Now?

    5.6K Likes

    4:40

    Best comments

    1.“This is the strangest pottery-making tutorial I have ever seen.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“Are the cups for sale?”
    2. 3.“Patrick Swayze is there!”

  20. 20.John Cale feat. Weyes Blood – Story of Blood

    2.9K Likes

    7:44

    Best comments

    1.“When a vampire starts making music... haha. Very good.”Translated from Spanish

    More comments
    1. 2.“These two scary ladies have a promising future in show business.”
    2. 3.“In an interview 7 years ago, Natalie literally said, 'It would be dreamy to record with John Cale in a huge church somewhere... I'm drooling just imagining it.'”

  21. 21.Raez¡Lude – TikTok Dinosaur Pranks 2020

    488 Likes

    0:37

    GagJurassic Park had it coming. So did these people.

    Best comment

    “RIP the guy who lost his lunch!! 😆”

  22. 22.Ken Nordine – Levi's: Strangers (TV commercial)

    854 Likes

    1:00

    GagA 1971 jeans commercial made by people who were clearly having a very good afternoon.

    Best comments

    1.“"How do we sell pants to heavy drug users?"”

    More comments
    1. 2.“Acid: not even once.”
    2. 3.“RIP, Ken Nordine. We'll miss that stranger.”

  23. 23.Tennis TV – Monfils & Schwartzman: Tennis With A Smile!

    140K Likes

    0:31

    GagProfessional tennis, minus the tantrums. Plus whatever this is.

    Best comments

    1.“I think that hand shot should count. Lol”

    More comments
    1. 2.“Chair umpire: I'll allow it.”
    2. 3.“Some players play to win slams, others play to win hearts.”

  24. 24.Levi's – Evolution (TV commercial)

    2K Likes

    1:01

    GagA 1975 jeans commercial that asks the big questions about pants.

    Best comments

    1.“Just another normal day in the '70s.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“So this means Levi's technically invented furries.”
    2. 3.“"Psst, hey." "What?" "Dacron polyester."”

  25. 25.Gorillaz – On Melancholy Hill

    2.6M Likes

    4:23

    Best comments

    1.“Did I just see Snoop Dogg in a submarine?”

    More comments
    1. 2.“I just realized that everyone with a soul is animated, and everything without one is computer-generated.”

  26. 26.SpaceHunterM – I use just 10% of my strength

    63 Likes

    0:16

    GagA humble man, modestly describing his abilities.

    Best comment

    “He really knows how to advertise his skills.”

  27. 27.SpaceHunterM – Frank Welker's finest hour

    194 Likes

    Watch on YouTube ↗0:25

    GagThe voice of Fred from Scooby-Doo, in a role he probably left off the résumé.

    Best comments

    1.“Look, I know your thing is not giving context... but I could really use some context right now.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“Frank Welker had like a million acting credits. He was bound to do some weird shit in his time.”
    2. 3.“Fred would never do this.”

  28. 28.SpaceHunterM – get outta there

    85 Likes

    0:05

    GagShaggy has seen a lot of ghosts. He has never seen this.

    Best comments

    1.“Shaggy goes from spooked to bugged in only a few seconds.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“Dear spectre, this is the no-no square. You're not supposed to touch there!”

  29. 29.SpaceHunterM – colorful carpool

    61 Likes

    0:06

    GagA major breakthrough in linguistics, announced from the back of a cab.

    Best comment

    “Oddly relatable taxi moment.”

  30. 30.Gorillaz feat. De La Soul – Feel Good Inc.

    9.5M Likes

    4:15

    Best comments

    1.“Murdoc – the only bassist to ever get any.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“When my mom hears this song, she mistakes 'feel good' for 'mealtime.' I don't know how she got there, but she did it.”
    2. 3.“I used to teach ear training at a conservatorium and had my students transcribe the bassline and the rhythm of the first rap section. It was always good value watching a room full of classical violinists figure out the best way to write the rhythm for the ass-crack line.”

  31. 31.Gorillaz – DARE

    2.7M Likes

    4:50

    Best comments

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

    More comments
    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.”

  32. 32.Big Special – TREES

    1.9K Likes

    3:05

    Best comments

    1.“In these trying times, it does my soul good to know that even the likes of Brutus and Popeye can be brought together by music.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“You guys deserve to be bigger than Asia (the continent, not the progressive band)!”
    2. 3.“Ooo... Dad's smoking buddy sent me this. Glad he did.”

  33. 33.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.”

    More comments
    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?!”

  34. 34.French 79 – Hometown

    558K Likes

    5:18

    Best comments

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

    More comments
    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.”

  35. 35.Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Downtown

    1.3M Likes

    5:23

    Best comments

    1.“Uptown Funk and Thrift Shop had a baby... and you just watched it.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“Jesus, Nally puts more passion into singing one 'downtown' than I've put into my entire life.”
    2. 3.“His knees gotta be killing him to this day.”

  36. 36.MGMT – Little Dark Age

    2.6M Likes

    5:11

    Best comments

    1.“It's like watching a bunch of art students celebrate Halloween on mass amounts of LSD.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“He looked so offended when she bit into that apple.”
    2. 3.“So cool to see Edward Scissorhands finally drop his debut single. Always knew he could pull it off.”

  37. 37.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.”

    More comments
    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.”

  38. 38.Ralph Giese – Georgia on My Mind

    14K Likes

    2:35

    Best comments

    1.“I love how everyone in the audience is staring in horrified fascination. It must be a timeless response.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“I firmly believe the mullet is half of his whistling powers. Without it, he could not perform.”
    2. 3.“He had me with the mullet. My legs are wide open.”

  39. 39.Faith No More – We Care a Lot

    97K Likes

    4:08

    Best comments

    1.“The new anthem of any corporation that has made an ad starting with 'in these uncertain times.'”

    More comments
    1. 2.“Companies during Pride Month:”
    2. 3.“I spent three days in an editing room cutting this, and I never got tired of the song or the band.”

  40. 40.Joanna Rohrback – Prancercise: A Fitness Workout

    0:31

    GagYour gym membership just became obsolete.

    Best comments

    1.“It's nice to see that the Ministry of Silly Walks is keeping up with the times.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“I came for the Prancercise, stayed for the camel toe, and left with the shred-tastic guitar riffs.”
    2. 3.“I'm so happy I can finally put a name to this type of movement. I've been walking out of pubs at closing time like this for years. Prancercise – that's me.”

  41. 41.The Waterboys – Freak Street

    209 Likes

    2:45

    Best comments

    1.“The older Mike gets... the groovier he becomes.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“I was in the same year as Mike Scott at Belmont Academy in Ayr in the '70s – same English class! He always wanted to be a rock star. Nice to see him get the success he deserves!”

  42. 42.INXS – What You Need

    59K Likes

    3:39

    Best comments

    1.“Whenever anyone asks, 'Beatles or Stones?' my answer is always INXS.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“I know what I need... a time machine.”
    2. 3.“This song is tough! I pulled up to an intersection, windows down, blasting it. In the lowrider next to me were two guys in shades with tattoos on their necks. They looked mean. The driver turned, looked at me... and started nodding his head to the beat.”

  43. 43.Starship – Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

    2.9M Likes

    4:28

    Best comments

    1.“If there's one decade where men and women had the same hairstyle, it was the '80s.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“Doctor: You have 4 minutes to live. Me: Play 'Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now.' Doctor: But it's 4:30. God: It's OK.”
    2. 3.“It's 1984, late autumn. My girlfriend got a job at O'Hare on 2nd shift. I'd go meet her on her break, and we'd lay on the hood of my car together watching the jets take off. Almost 40 years later, we're still together... and I still own the car.”

  44. 44.Polo & Pan – Pays Imaginaire

    42K Likes

    4:51

    Best comments

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

    More comments
    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.”

  45. 45.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.”

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

  46. 46.M83 – Oceans Niagara

    17K Likes

    4:29

    Best comments

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

    More comments
    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.”

  47. 47.Heilung – Anoana

    252K Likes

    5:00

    Best comments

    1.“I don't always listen to Heilung, but when I do... SO DO THE NEIGHBOURS!”

    More comments
    1. 2.“I don't want to sit at a desk and stare at Excel spreadsheets eight hours a day for forty to fifty years. I want whatever the fuck this is.”
    2. 3.“My wife insisted on listening to this on loop during her labor. We now have our 4-day-old son, Leif. Life is good.”

  48. 48.The Waterboys – The Golden Work

    181 Likes

    3:07

    Best comment

    “Far out! A cross between Massive Attack and Joe Walsh!”

  49. 49.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.”

    More comments
    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.”

  50. 50.The Hots (EV Nautilus footage) – EVNautilus encounter the amazing Halitrephes maasi jelly

    0:16

    GagThe research ship EV Nautilus meets a Halitrephes maasi, a deep-sea jelly. Sixteen seconds, posted by The Hots.

  51. 51.Naughty Boy feat. Sam Smith – La La La

    8.8M Likes

    4:04

    Best comments

    1.“Sees random kid covering his ears saying 'la la la'... agrees to walk 216,320 miles with him.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“I covered my ears and said 'la la' to my mother... she threw a slipper at me.”
    2. 3.“I tried this while my dad was yelling at me... *Belt has joined the server*”

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

    87K Likes

    9:05

    Best comments

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

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

  53. 53.Muse – Supermassive Black Hole

    796K Likes

    3:31

    Best comments

    1.“Every time I listen to this, I can't help but picture a bunch of vampires playing baseball...”

    More comments
    1. 2.“Great video quality, considering the camera was more than 50 million light-years away from the studio when they shot this.”
    2. 3.“My neighbours love this song so much, they threw a brick through my window so they could hear it better.”

  54. 54.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.

  55. 55.Ween – Transdermal Celebration

    23K Likes

    3:33

    Best comments

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

    More comments
    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.”

  56. 56.KNOWER – I'm The President

    60K Likes

    4:23

    Best comments

    1.“We put the lyrics in the description. Also, stop being pussies about the snare drum mix.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“Bassist came out of the womb with bass face.”
    2. 3.“The neighbors called the cops with a noise complaint. Genevieve called an airstrike with a neighbor complaint.”

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

    3:08

    Best comments

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

    More comments
    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.”

  58. 58.Jungle – Back On 74

    1M Likes

    4:01

    Best comments

    1.“This dance is like one big mating call. I love every second of it.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“I can't get over how TONED everyone's arms are. Like... damn.”
    2. 3.“One shot. The camera operator deserves all the awards.”

  59. 59.Caroline Polachek – Ocean of Tears

    36K Likes

    3:26

    Best comments

    1.“Dressed like a pirate, but sounding like a siren luring men to their deaths. I dig it.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“Plank: walked. Timbers: shivered.”
    2. 3.“I met her on the subway once. She showed me pictures of her cat, named 'Spider' at the time.”

  60. 60.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.”

    More comments
    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.”

  61. 61.Caroline Polachek – Welcome to My Island

    82K Likes

    3:57

    Best comments

    1.“I don't know why people are having such a hard time with this video. The story is obvious: Caroline meets you in a coffee shop, you drop acid together in a box, then she turns into a manticore, says something that gives you a panic attack and chases you through a construction site trying to explain herself. To make it up to you, she invites you along on her latest museum heist. Whatever was in the jug you stole gives her a severe allergic reaction, so you take her back to your place. Then you turn into a goat, and she throws you into the sea. Very obvious three-act structure, folks. Perfectly straightforward storytelling.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“The construction workers seeing Caroline run through their site at 9 a.m.: 😐”
    2. 3.“Caroline is always on the move in her videos, but she really hoofed it for this one.”

  62. 62.Ren – Hi Ren

    1.7M Likes

    9:20

    Best comments

    1.“It's like Shakespeare was reborn, learned guitar, wrote a rap lyric and staged his own performance.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“I'm a psychiatric nurse. I actually learned about you from another psych nurse. Your music is spreading and inspiring both patients and staff. It makes a difference. It really does.”
    2. 3.“I'd never had a song make me cry before. Today is 29 days sober. Fuck the cravings – I'm making it to 29 years. Edit: 7 and a half months and counting. Edit 2: Still going strong – 2 years! Edit 3: Well past 3 years. Life's been tough, but I'm still squeaky clean.”

  63. 63.The Shins – Simple Song

    192K Likes

    4:36

    Best comments

    1.“For those who don't know, this video was directed by Daniels, who went on to be nominated for a shit-ton of Oscars for Everything Everywhere All at Once. Edit: Yeah, they won everything.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“The other son's cake said 'Happy Belated Birthday.' Me as a parent, honestly.”
    2. 3.“In 2017, I was at a Shins concert in Portland, Maine, with my girlfriend. It started pouring so badly they had to cut the show short and play one last song – this was it. I had no ring and no intention of proposing that night, but suddenly I knew with my whole spirit it was time. We were soaked, cold and shivering... and happier than we'd ever been. We're still together.”

  64. 64.Carpenter Brut – Turbo Killer

    284K Likes

    4:15

    Best comments

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

    More comments
    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...”

  65. 65.Barry McGuire – Eve of Destruction

    119K Likes

    3:41

    Best comments

    1.“At the age of eleven, I got my first transistor radio, and this was the first song I heard on it. I'm now 70, and NOTHING HAS CHANGED. What is wrong with us?”

    More comments
    1. 2.“When is the worst time to have children? Eighteen years before a war.”
    2. 3.“Barry and his wife are friends of ours – we once went lobstering together off the Maine coast before his concert in Portland. He told me this song should never have had to be written, and he hated taking royalties for it... but a man has to live. You know where the money went? His children's and grandchildren's housing and education.”

  66. 66.Modest Mouse – Float On

    829K Likes

    3:35

    Best comments

    1.“Fun fact: this almost became the theme song for The Office!”

    More comments
    1. 2.“I love how the inspiration for this song was just that the lead singer was tired of writing depressing songs and wanted to write a happy one for a change of pace.”
    2. 3.“A few years back, I lost where I was staying, the girl I was seeing and my job in the span of two days. Got a pack on Craigslist and set off to hitchhike to Colorado. A friend dropped me off on the side of the road out in the boonies, and after the first bend this song came on my headphones. I cried my eyes out, feeling the weight of those years slide off me – and all the potential of a new adventure in front of me.”

  67. 67.Mondo Cozmo – Hold On to Me

    3K Likes

    3:40

    Best comments

    1.“I come here once a month to cry.”

    More comments
    1. 2.“That's MY DAD dancing with Anna! 93 years young!!! Love you, Dad! Keep smiling for all the pretty girls...”

  68. 68.Fiona Apple – Across the Universe

    156K Likes

    4:17

    Best comments

    1.“It's so sweet that the Beatles decided to cover this Fiona Apple song. She really launched their careers.”

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    1. 2.“A really sad fact about 'Across the Universe': about a month before he died, John Lennon said the Beatles never embraced the song – they never took the time to record it properly. It makes me happy that decades later, Fiona recorded an absolutely breathtaking version.”
    2. 3.“This was one of my grandma's favorite songs. We played it at her funeral after she was mauled to death by a grizzly bear. The whole family was camping when it happened. At just 9 years of age, I wasn't very fast... but I was faster than her that day. Rest in peace, Nana.”

  69. 69.Gystere & esperanza spalding – Another Story

    1.1K Likes

    5:56

    Best comments

    1.“The summer blockbuster we didn't know we needed: Esperanza 'Foxy Brown' Spalding slaying Nazis with an afro pick.”

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    1. 2.“I can't believe how high it's appropriate to be watching this.”

  70. 70.Y La Bamba – Ojos Del Sol

    13K Likes

    4:33

    Best comments

    1.“I don't know how to accurately articulate that I would straight up die for someone who sang like this to me.”

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    1. 2.“Holy wow... I thought this was a song made in the 1940s, and I'm blown away it's from 2016.”
    2. 3.“I'm not fluent in Spanish, so learning the story in this song is a bit like unwrapping a gift – one wrapped so beautifully you almost don't want to tear the paper. Each time I listen, it blooms into another layer.”

  71. 71.Jason Mraz – I Won't Give Up

    1.3M Likes

    4:28

    Best comments

    1.“This was my song with my ex. She gave up. Lol.”

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    1. 2.“I'm going to have to sing this badly to her someday soon and make a complete fool of myself... God damn you, Jason.”
    2. 3.“I'm 61 and love this song. Army vet, and I'll love my wife till the day I die. Yes, I will dance in the kitchen late at night with her. That's the way life is.”

  72. 72.Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal

    263K Likes

    2:28

    Best comments

    1.“I always thought this song was less 'Christmas song' and more 'oblique murder ballad.'”

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    1. 2.“Why is no one discussing the clay art? Fools.”
    2. 3.“A month after I first saw this video in 2009, I was at a friend's art showing in Seattle and asked a guy what he did for a living. 'Stop-motion animation,' he said. 'No way – I recently saw this video by Fleet Foxes!' I went on about how amazing it was... and he said, 'Thanks, I made it.' We've been really good friends ever since.”

  73. 73.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.”

  74. 74.Wolf Alice – No Hard Feelings

    14K Likes

    2:37

    Best comments

    1.“This song got me through my divorce, and I haven't even gotten married yet.”

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    1. 2.“Wolf Alice saved my marriage. My wife and I were an argument or two away from cutting it off. Long ago, we'd dated at 16 and broken up – a good breakup, no hard feelings – before getting back together at 20. When this came out, I sent it to her on a whim (we were barely talking at that point) and said it captured how I felt when we were young. We listened together, cried together... and THAT was the moment that changed our energy toward each other. Wolf Alice saved my marriage.”

  75. 75.First Aid Kit – My Silver Lining

    398K Likes

    3:51

    Best comments

    1.“How do two young women from Sweden make better country-folk music than country musicians in the U.S.? I don't care – just keep on keepin' on...”

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    1. 2.“As a multilinguist, I can't stress enough how impressive it is that not only is their English perfect, they absolutely nail a Southern U.S. accent!”
    2. 3.“My girlfriend said this song sucked. Now she's single.”

  76. 76.Cut Worms – Castle in the Clouds

    921 Likes

    4:23

    Best comments

    1.“If John Lennon were a cowboy, he'd sound like this.”

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    1. 2.“Dwight Yoakam's been phoning it in for decades. Now I'm Team Cut Worms.”

  77. 77.Birdy – Wings

    1.2M Likes

    4:25

    Best comments

    1.“People here: 'Vampire Diaries!' Me: 'Depressed.'”

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    1. 2.“The kinda music I listen to when the homies aren't around.”
    2. 3.“If this isn't played at my funeral, I'm not dying.”

  78. 78.Cage the Elephant – Cigarette Daydreams

    628K Likes

    5:28

    Best comments

    1.“This song means a lot to me because 12 years ago I went to the gas station for a Snickers, and the clerk told me they were all out.”

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    1. 2.“So I got an anti-smoking ad on this video. Not sure what to say.”
    2. 3.“That's Matt's actual wife, Juliette.”

  79. 79.Michael Kiwanuka – Light

    25K Likes

    3:07

    Best comments

    1.“I'll be honest: I thought this was a 1970s, Bill Withers-ish song. I was surprised to find out this masterpiece is from 2019... it gives me hope that real music isn't dead.”

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    1. 2.“This should have been the soundtrack for the new 007.”
    2. 3.“I'm 83 years old, a classical/jazz buff, and relieved to hear something genuinely new – something kind, something not canned!”

  80. 80.Al Di Meola – Sequencer

    1.2K Likes

    4:11

    Best comments

    1.“Al really kept his cool with those dudes kicking around and handling swords near expensive equipment.”

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    1. 2.“With Chuck Norris on guitar. Alright... we get it, Al.”
    2. 3.“I spent years in the '80s wishing I had several hundred thousand dollars to buy a Fairlight. And now it's an app in the App Store... haha!”

  81. 81.Songhoy Blues ft. Iggy Pop – Sahara

    2.2K Likes

    3:07

    Best comments

    1.“I love the sound of the guitars! I'm in France – you make so much noise we hear you from here ;)”

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    1. 2.“Wow, did not expect to hear Iggy Pop here.”

  82. 82.Mitski – Your Best American Girl

    237K Likes

    3:34

    Best comments

    1.“I wanna be Mitski's left hand.”

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    1. 2.“Day 236 without sex: hand started looking just fine.”
    2. 3.“'I wasn't trying to send a message. I was in love. I loved somebody so much, but I also realized I could never be what would fit into their life.' – Mitski, on this song”

  83. 83.The Echo Friendly – Same Mistakes

    11K Likes

    3:16

    Best comments

    1.“I'll come back to this song when I'm in my 20s, because right now I actually am a teenage girl.”

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    1. 2.“Have loved this song for 7 years... and I'm still making the same mistakes.”
    2. 3.“I'm 72 and still make the same mistakes!”

  84. 84.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.”

  85. 85.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.”

  86. 86.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.”

  87. 87.Richard Hawley – I Still Want You

    4.3K Likes

    4:06

    Best comments

    1.“What's with all these happy couples? This can't possibly be a true reflection of society.”

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    1. 2.“Definitely not actors in this video – real couples. My husband and I are the ones on the sofa!”
    2. 3.“Just sitting here hoping someone still wants me.”

  88. 88.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.”

  89. 89.Of Monsters and Men – Phantom

    46K Likes

    4:47

    Best comments

    1.“My dog's name is Phantom. We played this for him on his birthday yesterday. He likes it.”

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    1. 2.“This is one of their old unreleased songs – so glad they're getting back to the old Icelandic folk vibe.”
    2. 3.“No matter how fearsome their creature designs look, the music makes them all seem impossibly gentle.”

  90. 90.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.

  91. 91.PJ Harvey – I Inside the Old I Dying

    18K Likes

    3:11

    Best comments

    1.“Music to either sadly look back upon life... or conjure up an ethereal forest creature.”

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    1. 2.“I want my life to be directed by David Lynch and soundtracked by PJ Harvey.”
    2. 3.“Watched this with my 5-year-old daughter. She asked why the fire didn't protect the man from dying. She also thought the dog peeing on the bones was hilarious.”

  92. 92.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.”

  93. 93.Guided By Voices – If We Wait

    901 Likes

    2:56

    A fan upload, posted in 2014 with a dedication to a friend. The song is a Robert Pollard tune that floated around on 1993 split singles before landing on Guided by Voices' 1996 Matador EP Sunfish Holy Breakfast, a ten-song blast of outtakes from the Under the Bushes Under the Stars sessions.

  94. 94.Wussy – Halloween

    129 Likes

    3:45

    A Lisa Walker song from Wussy's Attica!, which Robert Christgau named the best album of 2014. It looks back at her teenage years with dreams out of reach and regret settling in. Lincoln Messerly made the video, with Riley Bachman filming a shootout in a parking lot and Mark Messerly shooting the rest.

  95. 95.Mike Oldfield – Five Miles Out

    7K Likes

    4:15

    Best comments

    1.“Only Mike can add bagpipes to a rock song and make it sound amazing.”

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    1. 2.“True story, too: Mike Oldfield was in a light aircraft that came through a huge storm... five miles out!”
    2. 3.“Overheard my boyfriend and his dad listening to what I was sure was Tubular Bells. I walk in and ask, 'Is that Mike Oldfield?' They both just look at me, bewildered. Then I – the youngest person in the room at 30 – played them this for the first time. My boyfriend looks at me and says, 'Y'know, you never cease to surprise me.'”

  96. 96.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.'”

  97. 97.The Waterboys – Why Should I Love You

    385 Likes

    4:00

    Best comments

    1.“A really nice version of the Kate Bush song. I love the 32-bar drum fill!”

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    1. 2.“You listened to all my comments on the SoundCloud video and released it!”

  98. 98.Mike Oldfield – Earth Moving

    1.8K Likes

    4:05

    Best comments

    1.“Gary Busey's sister sure can sing.”

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    1. 2.“Glad you all seemed to like the voice! I now have my own band, Never The Bride. I used to use my mother's maiden name, Nikki B. Bentley... but my real name is Nikki Lamborn. That's me now.”

  99. 99.Mike Oldfield – The Bell

    6.7K Likes

    3:09

    Best comments

    1.“Don't worry, folks – no bells were harmed in the making of this video.”

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    1. 2.“Every time I listen to Tubular Bells, it's the first time. Been happening for 52 years now.”
    2. 3.“Oldfield refused to write Tubular Bells 2 for Virgin Records because they tried to pressure him into it... then went to another label and immediately wrote it just to annoy Richard Branson. Class.”

  100. 100.Mike Oldfield – Magic Touch

    2.2K Likes

    4:06

    Best comments

    1.“Always loved this song back in the day but never knew its title or singer. It was my very first internet search. Thanks, AltaVista!”

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    1. 2.“Curious fact: this video was directed by Alex Proyas, director of The Crow, I, Robot and Dark City.”Translated from Spanish
    2. 3.“Fun fact: this song is from 1988. Yeah, I know... stylistically, it shows.”

  101. 101.Andrew Tuttle – New Breakfast Habit

    42 Likes

    5:09

    Australian banjo player Andrew Tuttle, with Luke Schneider on pedal steel and Darren Cross on acoustic guitar, making slow sunrise music for his 2022 album Fleeting Adventure. M.C. Schmidt of Matmos made the video: a rising sun layered with a kid running and leaping and birds gliding, all glowing orange.

  102. 102.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.

  103. 103.Dawes – I Will Run

    994 Likes

    5:47

    Best comments

    1.“Came here for the goodest boy in the thumbnail.”

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    1. 2.“I've had the single since the album came out, and I'm just now realizing it's about dogs.”
    2. 3.“My dog wouldn't run!”

  104. 104.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.”

  105. 105.Vangelis – Mythodea: Movement 9

    6.2K Likes

    5:49

    Best comments

    1.“NASA transmitted this in SPACE!!!”

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    1. 2.“The lyrics aren't random, my friend. If you look into it, they're an invocation to Ares not to let what fate decrees happen – the destruction of humanity.”Translated from Greek
    2. 3.“Makes you cry... because it lets you know what's coming for humanity. There's no turning back when God has had enough of humans' bullshit...”

  106. 106.Clown Core – Hell

    233K Likes

    1:36

    Best comments

    1.“Smooth jazz implies the existence of rough jazz.”

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    1. 2.“A porta-potty, 2 guys, a bunch of instruments, 2 music degrees and 4 disappointed parents. And 6.1 million views.”
    2. 3.“I'd recognize that drummer's lanky frame and raw percussive talent anywhere. That's Mr. Twiggins, who lived in my wardrobe when I was 7 and used to float inches from my face as I slept.”

  107. 107.Genesis – Land of Confusion

    195K Likes

    5:29

    Best comments

    1.“One of my clearest childhood memories is sitting on my dad's lap watching this video, absolutely terrified of the puppets.”

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    1. 2.“As a child, this video terrified me superficially. As an adult, it terrifies me substantively.”
    2. 3.“They didn't make a Phil Collins puppet – that's really him.”

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