Why is it that when Pink Floyd made music videos they were always nightmare fuel?

[Danger Mouse]

I saw their video for 'Welcome to the Machine' for the first time last night. It's not so bad at first. The first minute or so it just focuses on this weird looking metallic creature. Then after the first verse the 'oh my god no' starts in full force.

Pink Floyd likes giving small children nightmares. That's the only possible conclusion I could come up with.
Watch it here, if you'd like to see the most horrifying looking rats ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTPdqSz_IaM

I have to admit, parts of it are really cool.

[Brickbat]

1. The Wall came out when I was about nine and I kept bugging my mom to take me to a theater so I could

see it because I kept seeing trailers on TV and IT WAS A CARTOON SO OBVIOUSLY GOOD FOR KIDS, AMIRITE?

The wise woman that she is, Mom said HELL to the NO and I had to wait until I was old enough to rent it and watch it at a friend's house.

[Danger Mouse]

2. The 'Goodbye Blue Sky' sequence from that movie freaks me out.

Ugh.

[Brickbat]

3. Good God, seriously.

The Wall and the Who's Tommy I think are excellent examples of the complete fuck-upedness and socio-economic scars WWII and the postwar period left on England.

[Danger Mouse]

4. Or at the very least, on Roger Waters.

:P

[Brickbat]

6. And Pete Townshend.

[NightWatcher]

8. Never Ever sit front row at a midnight showing of the Wall in a hallucinogenic state

'nuff said?

[Brickbat]

9. *makes a note of it*

[NightWatcher]

11. I would have sworn I was IN that movie

[Mike 03]

5. Luckily, I never saw Pink Floyd videos, I guess, although I certainly

have seen THE WALL dozens of times.

[Danger Mouse]

7. This video's animation is VERY similar to the kind that's in the wall.

I wonder if they used the same people?

[Mike 03]

10. Just speaking from the heart, it was scary. NT

[Danger Mouse]

12. Supposedly it symbolizes the relationship between a recording company and a musician.

So...they didn't like their recording company much, apparently.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

14. Yes..........

This video, the animated segments of The Wall movie, and the original album's artwork were done by British artist Gerald Scarfe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Scarfe#Pink_Floyd_and_Roger_Waters

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. Aha.

A fellow TVTropes addict reader.

[Danger Mouse]

16. I got this video from Cracked actually...but...

what is this TVTropes of which you speak?

[keroro gunsou]

18. the best

5-10 hours you'll ever waste in the intertoobs.

www.tvtropes.com

[Orrex]

15. But have you seen the videos from The Final Cut?

I'd say that they're some of the worst, most boring film ever shot. Incredibly lame.

[Archae]

17. First time I saw that video...

Was on cable TV at 3 AM.

Was pretty rattled! :scared:

[jobycom]

19. My daughter saw "We don't need no education" for the first time at a Hard Rock Cafe.

She couldn't finish her burger after the meat-grinder scene, and still fears that song. :rofl:

[Urban Prairie]

20. I have a double vhs video bootleg of all Pink Floyd videos ever made

along with some live clips of their early performances with Syd, I think that I will dig them out of my old video music collecton and watch them again soon, and then copy them to convert to DVD format later...:smoke:

[mitchum]

21. "That looks like a Pink Floyd visual" was the first thing I said when I saw the plane...

go into the WTC.
It looked like something designed by Hipgnosis.

[Brickbat]

22. And also, the masks were terrifying. I used to see these faces in the ceiling stucco in my bedroom

and freak out. And I wasn't even high!

[rcrush]

23. Did you forget the Acid?

Cause thats important.