Basically, the only way to describe the music video for The Avalanches’ 2001 song “Frontier Psychiatrist” is… completely ridiculous, hilarious and bizarre. The song itself is a conglomeration of 37 various spoken word recordings throughout time and the video depicts direct representations of everything each clip is saying. For example, one line states: “He was white as a sheet! And he also made false teeth.” For the first part of the lyric, the video shows and old lady wearing a sheet with eye holes pretending to be a ghost. For the second part of the lyric, the camera zooms in on dentures in a jar. The video continues this way with each lyric amusingly being “acted out.” I would say that every artistic choice that’s made is deliberate in some way. Each image follows suit with each lyric and never ceases to be funny and entertaining.
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