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Notoyax17 When all you have is a blowtorch... Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: I've got a total eclipse of the heart
When all you have is a blowtorch...
#51: Oct 8th 2013 at 12:16:06 PM

TLC's "Waterfall." I can't even remember why (It was probably a domestic violence thing) but I can't even listen to that song without just feeling paranoid. "Pretty" (or something like that, can't really remember the name) also made me feel that way. ...I guess TLC's serious songs just scare me or something.

Soundgardens' "Black Hole Sun" has a creepy MV. I love the song so so much, but will never watch the video again.

"Yo, those kids are straight up liars, man. All I told them to do was run product. And by product, I mean chewing gum."
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#52: Oct 9th 2013 at 7:10:32 AM

[up] That's "Unpretty". Amusingly, the video for "Black Hole Sun" was what inspired me to give Superunknown a try, and I knew within the first few bars of "Let Me Drown" that I'd love Soundgarden.

Akalabth Self-loathing and sandwiches. from Ghost Planet Since: Feb, 2012
Self-loathing and sandwiches.
#53: Oct 15th 2013 at 9:25:16 AM

I think this reaches new heights in terms of nightmarish : http://pointnever.com/

It works so well it's almost sickening.

Big warning here, NSFW all the way. You've been warned.

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.
ScarletNebula Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: Abstaining
#54: Nov 4th 2013 at 8:43:49 PM

The Toothgrinder video from Therapy? (fitting name BTW, cause i think i do need therapy after that nightmare).

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#55: Nov 5th 2013 at 5:19:14 PM

[up][up] What...the...fuck...?!

edited 5th Nov '13 5:19:40 PM by Willbyr

ScarletNebula Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: Abstaining
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#57: Nov 14th 2013 at 6:44:22 AM

[up] The thing that's really disturbing about it to me isn't the gross anime imagery, it's those hideously filthy/trashed computer areas. I'm no neat freak but that level of mess is almost nauseating.

edited 14th Nov '13 6:44:32 AM by Willbyr

Akalabth Self-loathing and sandwiches. from Ghost Planet Since: Feb, 2012
Self-loathing and sandwiches.
#58: Nov 15th 2013 at 5:38:15 AM

The mix of everything is really fucking unsettling yeah.

Ditto the above.

I actually really love the guy's music, but I'm pretty sure I don't need to watch this one again.

edited 15th Nov '13 5:39:32 AM by Akalabth

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.
tropeslave Pop Culture Addict from Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Hello, I love you
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#59: Feb 16th 2014 at 7:32:21 AM

No one mentioned Spice Girls' "Viva Forever"? Gosh, Spice Girls in fairy form are... unsettling. And how the boy enters the gigantic Rubik's Cube and the cube shrinks.

ObasaReisan Underfail from free fallin' Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: Robosexual
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#60: Feb 16th 2014 at 6:51:50 PM

PONPONPON by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu.

I haven't got a clue what's going on.

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Xeroop Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
#61: Feb 17th 2014 at 4:05:26 AM

[up] Hey, I've actually seen that one before! ...No wonder I have decided to forget about it afterwards.

tropeslave Pop Culture Addict from Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Hello, I love you
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#62: Feb 17th 2014 at 6:50:05 AM

How about Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart"? One day, I heard the song on the radio and I thought " This song is so overblown. I wonder how the music video looks like." Then, I went on Youtube and checked it out.

RANDOM PEOPLE JUMPING IN THE AIR! A BUNCH OF PEOPLE WITH GLOWING EYES! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

Jinxmenow Ghosts N' Stuff Remix from everywhere you look, everywhere you look Since: Oct, 2012 Relationship Status: Not caught up in your love affair
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#63: Feb 17th 2014 at 8:06:26 AM

Willbyr, can you tell me exactly what happens in that video? Because I'm terrified to even look.

"Monsters are tragic beings. They are born too tall, too strong, too heavy. They are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy."
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InverurieJones '80s TV Action Hero from North of the Wall. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#65: Feb 17th 2014 at 12:13:58 PM

What kind of prep school would let in these kinds of guys?
It started off as Hogwarts now its Lord of the Flies...

Ah, I love that video.

edited 17th Feb '14 12:14:17 PM by InverurieJones

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NEO from Qrrbrbirlbel Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
#66: Feb 17th 2014 at 2:53:34 PM

oh my

NSFW, although the genitalia is barely noticeable in that infernal mess...

edited 17th Feb '14 2:54:10 PM by NEO

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#67: Feb 18th 2014 at 6:15:36 PM

[up] That looks like a really bad video game.

Willbyr, can you tell me exactly what happens in that video? Because I'm terrified to even look.

I don't remember the specifics anymore...it's a lot of random imagery with some gross anime stuff mixed in. What I was referring to is multiple scenes of computer areas that look like someone has based their entire life around sitting in that one spot. Levels of trash that look like something out of Hoarders, food and drink garbage, cigarette butts/ash and similar detrius...it's skin-crawling to think that people would actually be in those conditions for any length of time.

edited 18th Feb '14 6:16:09 PM by Willbyr

Halberdier17 We Are With You Zack Snyder from Western Pennsylvania Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Dating Catwoman
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#68: Feb 18th 2014 at 6:22:01 PM

Closer by Nine Inch Nails; it was on TV when I was 7 or 8 years old and it was just really weird. As an adult the video is cool but as a child I was scared.

Batman Ninja more like Batman's Bizarre Adventure
Lyra. positively shocking Since: Jan, 2014 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
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#69: Feb 18th 2014 at 8:12:41 PM

The video for Dig Your Own Hole, by Gotye... the song's surprisingly cheerful for a song about drug addiction, and the video certainly looks like someone tripping balls. The faces...... egghhhhhh.

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#70: Feb 19th 2014 at 9:22:38 AM

[up] Gotye's one of those whose videos are much darker and trippier than his music would suggest they'd be. Personally, I really dig the video for "Somebody That I Used To Know."

Heh...that reminds me, I actually wrote out spoof lyrics of STIU2K talking about a junkie getting stiffed by his dealer called "Somebody Who Won't Sell Me Blow."

edited 19th Feb '14 9:30:00 AM by Willbyr

Warron from New York Since: Jul, 2010
#71: Mar 10th 2014 at 6:50:08 PM

Goldfrapp's video for "Ride a White Horse." Occasionally the video pops into my head at a random time and it just makes me nauseous.

EDIT: A link might be nice

edited 13th Mar '14 10:53:42 AM by Warron

sanfranman91 from Boston, MA Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#72: Mar 11th 2014 at 4:06:07 PM

The music video for I Fink U Freeky by Die Antwoord, anyone?

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Jarina casually taking over the world from Austria Since: Jun, 2014 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
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#73: Jun 28th 2014 at 12:30:28 PM

I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned yet (sue me if it has), because this is actually very well-known and everyone I've ever known agreed that this is highly disturbing: Dye Fantasy It's not NSFW but pretty close to it, and it's gross and you probably don't want to see it, really, consider twice before you click.

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jupiterrocks24 Life is like Betty Crocker frosting. Mediocre. from that place... you know? Yeah, that one. Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Life is like Betty Crocker frosting. Mediocre.
#74: Jul 8th 2014 at 11:29:58 AM

I'm honestly surprised no one has mentioned Metallica's "One" yet. Just thinking about living, trapped in your own mind, when your only way of communication is to bang your head in morse code and hope someone understands, begging to be killed because life is hell itself. I'm never watching Johnny's Got His Gun.

edited 8th Jul '14 11:32:29 AM by jupiterrocks24

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FromtheWordsofBR Since: Apr, 2012
#75: Sep 27th 2014 at 8:32:14 AM

Gnarls Barkley's cover of "Gone Daddy Gone" has a disturbing video. The band perform as Uncanny Valley Conspicuous CGI bugs who get thrown around a house and then get sprayed by bug spray and.....

There's also Jamie T's "Zombie", which is far less extreme than anything on this list but still creeps the flarp out of me, particularly because it shows Jamie and the rest of his band turning into zombies. Not just gradually, they completely turn them into by the second verse.

edited 17th Nov '14 2:10:44 PM by FromtheWordsofBR


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