That boy needs therapy (Samples edition)

The Avalanche's "Frontier Psychiatrist" is certainly not a new tune, but its one I've always liked because of its sheer genius. Take a million sound samples, splice them together and lay a drum over top of the whole mess, and you've got a tune that throws you off at the beginning but hooks you and pulls you in.

I love the video so much because they didn't go the basic route of filming a montage of some sort with the song playing in the background, they actually act out each of the samples. It's fantastic, and makes for an end product that's hard to describe.

Here's another video that breaks down the individual samples. I feel like there were some late nights spent putting all this together, but the finished track was well worth it.

Others choose a different technique, sampling video clips and playing them with audio in time to the song in the background.

^That one's good but this one's my favourite

Still others play one track behind a video sample they loop and cut to use as the lyrics to the song. Shatner of the Mount is a perfect example.

Here's another example that doesn't really fall into any of the previous categories. It seems like she had 80 different music video ideas and decided to go with them ALL, yet it works SO WELL. Probably one of my favorite vids right now.

Charlotte Gainsbourg "Heaven Can Wait" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.