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The Weirdness, Part 6

15 music videos + 8 gags · 1h 31m · link to this player

In my order

  1. 1.Will Wood – Love, Me Normally

    48K Likes

    6:55

    Best comments

    1.“I love the idea of Will pulling various rats out of his pockets and gently placing them on an interviewer's table.”

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    1. 2.“Masterful secret: during the screaming and psychedelia, the sign that normally says 'The Night Mic with Norm Brenner' says, in the same font, 'Jesus Fucking Christ, Can Someone Help Me? I'm Scared.'”
    2. 3.“Our 18-year-old son introduced us to Will Wood, and now we're obsessed. He moved out of state for college and we miss him so much... so we send him pictures of Will Wood playing on our car playlist.”

  2. 2.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.”

  3. 3.Border Williams – LSD Tunnel Diffusion

    0:24

    GagAn AI-made psychedelic tunnel, built with Disco Diffusion by the channel Border Williams, which posts trippy visuals for the watch-while-high crowd. Twenty-four seconds.

  4. 4.Kelvin Murimi – when the clock goes from 4:59 to 5:00 pm on friday

    0:29

    GagEvery office worker's spiritual awakening, in twenty-nine seconds.

  5. 5.Cory Gagnon – Trippy video made with Glitch labs

    0:05

    GagFive seconds of digital art, made with Glitch Labs by Cory Gagnon as a test run.

  6. 6.Katica Illényi – The Swan (Saint-Saëns)

    6.2K Likes

    3:23

    Best comments

    1.“The first notes feel like being cradled in someone's arms and told everything's gonna be OK... after crying for like 3 hours.”

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    1. 2.“Katica, you are the reason I bought my first theremin two years ago.”
    2. 3.“Absolutely heaven! That said, my theremin is for sale. Rarely used, mint condition, 100% untouched by human hands.”

  7. 7.Dick Dale and the Del-Tones – Swingin' and a-Surfin'

    541 Likes

    2:28

    GagA 1963 beach party where everybody is clean-cut and having very wholesome fun. Very.

    Best comments

    1.“It always cracks me up watching Frankie pass a joint around the table in this number.”

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    1. 2.“Amazing he can get that sound from his Strat when it isn't even plugged in.”
    2. 3.“I love these accurate depictions of life in the 1960s. You'd never guess there was a war raging, the civil rights movement, or that heavy metal was barely five years away.”

  8. 8.Roberta Flack – The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

    463 Likes

    3:25

    Best comments

    1.“One of the greatest pairings of song to voice ever. Probably on God's playlist.”

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    1. 2.“Thank you, Ewan MacColl, for writing this song – which you had to sing over a transatlantic phone call to your beloved, because she was in the US, a country McCarthyite bigotry barred you from entering.”
    2. 3.“This is my number one song for my wife. Excuse me while I go dance with her, as we have since 1978.”

  9. 9.Al Di Meola – Innamorata

    19 Likes

    11:25

    Best comment

    “Too dang good! How great can one artist be? It's overkill! Less is more, man! Dang!”

  10. 10.Derek Brown and Jeff Coffin – The Jackalope

    14K Likes

    5:49

    Best comments

    1.“Here you can see two wild saxophones perform a once-in-a-lifetime mating ritual. Enjoy.”

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    1. 2.“My geese and ducks love this song... and sing along with it.”
    2. 3.“I once caught a jackalope outside of Albuquerque in 2013. Fucker was fast.”

  11. 11.The Traveling Wilburys – Handle With Care

    441K Likes

    3:17

    Best comments

    1.“When the teacher puts all the smart kids in one group... you get this.”

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    1. 2.“I'm 77, near the end of the line, and these days I need handling with care. These guys were the heroes of my youth. It's a joy to hear them together.”
    2. 3.“I'm 77 too, and these guys give me that musical rush... we've got plenty of time left.”

  12. 12.Margo Smith – He Taught Me How to Yodel

    9.1K Likes

    2:46

    Best comments

    1.“The earliest form of beatboxing.”

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    1. 2.“I ran out of breath just listening.”
    2. 3.“I'm Swiss, and I can't do this. That's not fair.”

  13. 13.Alvino Rey and His Orchestra – St. Louis Blues

    419 Likes

    3:40

    Gag1944 had a singing guitar puppet, and somehow we stopped bragging about it.

    Best comments

    1.“This is as cool as it is disturbing.”

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    1. 2.“Looks like a character from Rick and Morty: "Hey, Morty! I've turned myself into a guitar! A GUITAR, Morty!"”
    2. 3.“Didn't know Daft Punk existed in 1944.”

  14. 14.Mayakovsky Laughs (film) – Prisypkin's Dream

    10:07

    GagA 1975 Soviet cartoon dream sequence. The censors must have been on vacation.

  15. 15.Focus – Hocus Pocus

    882 Likes

    1:00

    Best comments

    1.“My brain just melted in my skull and dripped down my ass. This is batshit crazy and I love it.”

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    1. 2.“The original song was much longer and slower. They were closing a show that ran overtime, so instead of switching to a quicker song, they played it at double speed.”
    2. 3.“The singer looks like he's tweaking throughout the entire clip.”

  16. 16.Joselitoord104 – Born To Be Alive

    641 Likes

    0:31

    GagA pig with rhythm and an appetite to match.

    Best comments

    1.“You know this guy is a good dancer if he can dance like that in a chair. 😂”

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    1. 2.“I've got the pig and the chicken. I just need a parrot. Then I can achieve this god-tier life level and gain all the XP.”

  17. 17.Bella Poarch – Build a B*tch

    12M Likes

    2:50

    Best comments

    1.“If someone treats you like a toy, be Annabelle.”

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    1. 2.“The place: *collapsing*. Bella: 'It's dancing time.'”
    2. 3.“Finally, a TikToker song that doesn't dance for 3 minutes and sound like my 7th-grade SoundCloud.”

  18. 18.Adjágas – Mun ja Mun

    290 Likes

    3:43

    Best comments

    1.“Hauntingly beautiful.”

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    1. 2.“This track appeared on MTV2's '120 Minutes' on February 3, 2007.”

  19. 19.Rammstein – Angst

    878K Likes

    5:45

    Rammstein's song about fear, from a bogeyman story told to a bad kid to whole nations arming up. Robert Gwisdek shot it in Berlin, mostly in black and white: six identical suburban dads turn friendly plots of land into a fortress of walls, cameras, barbed wire and rifles while cheerleaders hand out the guns. Then a black hole eats them.

  20. 20.Johnny Blue Skies & The Dark Clouds – Situation

    20K Likes

    6:20

    Best comments

    1.“This album fucks so hard I wanna leave it money on the nightstand.”

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    1. 2.“The world may be going to hell in a handbasket, but someone's getting pregnant to this song.”
    2. 3.“I went to 3 record stores and finally broke down and bought the vinyl. Now I'm pregnant.”

  21. 21.Dead Fingers – Shoom Doom Babba Labba

    89 Likes

    3:46

    A rowdy alt-country stomp from Dead Fingers, the Birmingham, Alabama husband-and-wife duo of Taylor Hollingsworth (of Conor Oberst's Mystic Valley Band) and Kate Taylor. It comes off their 2014 album Big Black Dog: pounding drums, gritty guitar and a tired worker's daydream of floating away. Banner Gwin directed the video.

  22. 22.Everything Everything – Cough Cough

    38K Likes

    3:42

    Best comments

    1.“I literally typed 'cough song' in the search bar as a joke and this came up?! I'm shook, because this is actually fucking decent!”

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    1. 2.“This song is not helping my cold.”
    2. 3.“This is a ridiculously hot video. And I'm not talking about the lava.”

  23. 23.Master Ken – 101 Ways to Attack the Groin

    31K Likes

    3:18

    GagMaster Ken teaches self-defense. Todd volunteers. Todd always volunteers.

    Best comments

    1.“Girls at a sleepover: "OMG, your nails are so pretty!" Boys at a sleepover:”

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    1. 2.“@Master Ken I'm a disabled veteran who is wheelchair-bound. How do I re-stomp the groin?”
    2. 3.“I watch this every time I have a bad day, and it reminds me things could be worse. I could be Todd.”

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