History YMMV / LandOfConfusion

* FriendlyFandoms: Where there's a bit of divide between the Collins-era Genesis vs. Music/PeterGabriel's era and his solo career, pretty much everyone will agree towards appreciating both the music videos for "[[Music/Sledgehammer1986 Sledgehammer]]" and Music/LandOfConfusion, which were both famous for being [[WeirdWork incredibly trippy]] and being collaborations with other artists (Creator/AardmanAnimations for "Sledgehammer" and the team behind ''Series/SpittingImage'' for "Land of Confusion").

** "Land of Confusion" is a ProtestSong against the perceived excesses of the [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Reagan]] and [[UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher Thatcher]] administrations and features a line where Music/PhilCollins optimistically states that "my generation will put it right." While the line was intended as a ShoutOut to Music/TheWho's "My Generation" (as shown by it being immediately followed by Pete Townsend's puppet giving a thumbs up), it nevertheless rings more hollow in the 21st century, which saw increased generational conflicts between Baby Boomers (Collins' generation) and Millennials & Gen Z, with the latter camps accusing the conservative-leaning boomers and the neoliberal policies they voted for of doing more to exacerbate the problems that the song was railing against.

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* CoveredUp: Similarly to what befell [[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel "The Sound of Silence"]], younger audiences tend to be more familiar with the Music/{{Disturbed}} cover of this song than the Genesis-made original.
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: A lot of the video is this. It's fitting, given that it was put together by one of the most famous political satire shows in British history.

** "Land of Confusion" is a ProtestSong against the excesses of the [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Reagan]] and [[UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher Thatcher]] administrations and features a line where Music/PhilCollins optimistically states that "my generation will put it right." While the line was intended as a ShoutOut to Music/TheWho's "My Generation", it nevertheless rings more hollow in the 21st century, which saw increased generational conflicts between Baby Boomers (Collins' generation) and Millennials & Gen Z, with the latter camps pointing out how the conservative-leaning boomers and the neoliberal policies they voted for did more to exacerbate the problems that the song was railing against.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Most Genesis fans agree that the song and music video are a huge highlight of the post-Gabriel, post-Hackett era of the band's career; even those who dislike anything the band made after Gabriel & Hackett left tend to enjoy at least ''this'' song.

** Reagan is portrayed as physically and mentally unable. Years later he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and would die from complications of it in 2004, nearly 20 years after the music video came out.
** "Land of Confusion" is a ProtestSong against the excesses of the UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan and UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher administrations and features a line where Music/PhilCollins optimistically states that "my generation will put it right." While the line was intended as a ShoutOut to Music/TheWho's "My Generation", it nevertheless rings more hollow in the 21st century, which saw increased generational conflicts between Baby Boomers (Collins' generation) and Millennials & Gen Z, with the latter camps pointing out how the conservative-leaning boomers and the neoliberal policies they voted for did more to exacerbate the problems that the song was railing against.

* NightmareFuel: The grotesque nature of the ''Spitting Image'' puppets can be a factor in this, but the shots of the swamp filled with unfinished puppet heads, with their empty eyes and vacant expressions, can be pretty unnerving already.

* HarsherInHindsight: Reagan is portrayed as physically and mentally unable. Years later he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and would die from complications of it in 2004, nearly 20 years after the music video came out.

* ValuesResonance: The fact that the song's subject matter -- uncertainty about how unstable the world's political situation really is -- remains relevant after ''thirty years''.

* NightmareFuel: The [[UncannyValley grotesque nature]] of the ''Spitting Image'' puppets can be a factor in this, but the shots of the swamp filled with unfinished puppet heads, with their empty eyes and vacant expressions, can be pretty unnerving already.
* UncannyValley: The puppets, as is stock and trade for the ''Spitting Image'' team.

* ValuesResonance: The fact that the song's subject matter- uncertainty about how unstable the world's political situation really is- remains relevant after ''thirty years''.

* ValuesResonance: The fact that the song's subject matter- uncertainty about how unstable the world's political situation really is- remains relevant after ''thirty years''. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment That's all that need be said.]]

* NauseaFuel: Reagan is literally drowning in his own sweat. Nancy [[RuleOfFunny has to use a snorkel]] in bed, and at one point, [[RuleOfFunny a rubber duckie passes by]]...

* CoveredUp: Similarly to what befell [[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel "The Sound of Silence"]], younger audiences tend to be more familiar with the Music/{{Disturbed}} cover of this song than by the Genesis-penned original.
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: A lot of the video is this. Fitting, given that it was put together by one of the most famous political satire shows in British history.
* HarsherInHindsight: Reagan is portrayed as physically and mentally unable. Years later he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease, and would die from complications of it in 2004, nearly 20 years after the music video came out.
* NauseaFuel: Reagan is literally drowning in his own sweat. Nancy [[RuleOfFunny has to use a snorkel]] in bed, and at one point [[RuleOfFunny a rubber duckie passes by]]...
* NightmareFuel: If you are afraid of puppets, that is. But even the shots of the swamp filled with unfinished puppet heads, with their empty eyes and vacant expressions, can be pretty unnerving.

* ValuesResonance: The fact that the song's subject matter -- uncertainty about how unstable the world's political situation really is-- remains relevant after ''thirty years''. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment And that's all that need be said.]]

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: A lot of the video is this.
* HarsherInHindsight: Reagan is portrayed as physically and mentally unable. Years later he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Syndrome.

* UncannyValley: The puppets.
* ValuesResonance: The fact that the song's subject matter -- uncertainty about how unstable the world's political situation really is -- remains relevant after ''thirty years''. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment And that's all that need be said.]]

* TearJerker: The fact that the song's subject matter -- uncertainty about how unstable the world's political situation really is -- remains relevant after ''thirty years''. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment And that's all that need be said.]]

* TearJerker: The fact that the song's subject matter- uncertainty about how unstable the world's political situation really is- remains relevant after ''thirty years''. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment And that's all that need be said.]]

* TearJerker: The fact that the song's subject matter- uncertainty about how unstable the world's political situation really is- remains relevant after ''thirty years''. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement And that's all that need be said.]]

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: A lot of the video is this.

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: As can be expected from the creators of ''Spitting Image'', the puppetry is top notch.

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: If you are afraid of puppets, that is. But even the shots of the swamp filled with unfinished puppet heads, with their empty eyes and vacant expressions, can be pretty unnerving.