Hunted By A Freak

[MasterHiatus]

To those who think that this video is sick and senseless, have you never wondered if you are really any different?

[zeem8z]

Correction: It's been happening for six years (not months) from right about the time this track was released. The plot thickens...

Google: the standard New cat case turns up heat on the police

Sorry, can't post hyperlink.

[zeem8z]

Truth is stranger than fiction:

"mogwai" translated from Cantonese means evil or devil, Cantonese is the first language of Hong Kong. Over the last 6 months or so, a big news story in Hong Kong concerns a disturbed serial offender who has been dropping stray cats from high rise buildings. Do you suppose the HK police have made the connection, or is it just macabre coincidence?

[azuredivina]

what an effort to not tear up. :(

[foop309]

always makes me cry

[favs247]

This is sick

[9polianna]

Conhecer Mogwai foi uma das melhores coisas que já me aconteceu.

[Hansjee1]

I never watched the video. Now that I watched the video I can never listen to this again... I got sick.

[awitherspoon18]

this was in MLB 2k6!

[DenienN]

@awitherspoon18 "Life" too

[sparky0370]

I fucking love Mogwai!!

[gnome1882]

such a beautiful song, but bit at 2.03 makes me cry when they hug. god im a sissy, but highly charged. love it, so nice, if only many people in the world had a heart it would be a better place.

[gnome1882]

it like the pyramid song by radiohead, great song, highly emotional video!

[springjet1]

i regret i watched this video. it's really made me sick. But great song.

[LekkerBewegen]

now im sad.

[trevor9763]

Every time I watch this video i think maybe, just maybe he's going to spare the last one. Unfortunately he never does, R.I.P little dudes. Awesome video.

[thewhitemonkey100]

haha this vids wicked:)brill tune by the band2:):)

[vulcanica75]

hi quality? the audio sucks!

[TheUkiDuki]

for a moment I thought he was going to spare that last animal... =/

[kmishka1]

ist trai ce ore fif ce a vri l deus 9 pan

[rossawe]

As a fellow Scot I really wanted to like this group, but to me they are more about message than music, the antithesis of God is an Astronaut who seem to have a philosophy of 'less is more fulfilling' to the extent that they appeal to so many different moods and emotional states.

But what the hell do I know, except what I like....Then it is all about freewill and subjective objectiveness...There I go trying to get all deep, must be the music!

[FelixDCmusic]

saw them, loved them

[KayteePotaytee35]

Fuck that's disturbing </3...lovin' the song <3

[minedarea]

Oh yeah, torturing animals is part of the MacDonald Triad, btw...

[minedarea]

Sound quality is atrocious, which is a shame because this track is fucking epic. In fact epic doesn't even come close to describing this.

[kmishka1]

i came to i, may be

[nishantmittal001]

a great video..

[aftherthesky]

a weboooo mogwai en mexico corona capitall saludos.. jeje xD.

[replandor1]

@aftherthesky Ya na más falta que traigan a Explossions y ya!!!



[irucabridge]

its so high quality its low quality

[maysguy]

I wanna fuckin kill the bastard who made this video, but nice song tho!

[Jaxin30993]

@maysguy Don't hate the guy who made the video, hate the sick fucks who do this stuff in real life.

[FlanJa]

@Jaxin30993 Yeah let's all hate on sick people, that helps.

[o0O0ooO0Oo]

@Jaxin30993 kill the people who do that in real life !

[surf4jas]

@maysguy bit violent?

[MisterJIGSAW1995]

33 people are haunted by a freak !!!!

[mynameisluke1971]

i won't sleep 'till next monday night......Mogwai in Montreal !!!!!!!!!

[TheeMikester]

The turtle part made me sad :(

[cyroxxx]

makes me cry everytime



[TheHorsenation]

sorry, but this video makes me sick. I don't consider even an animated video of hurting animals funny .

[zeninvention]

@TheHorsenation I don't think the video was intended to be funny. It is heart-rending in fact...that is the whole point.

[replandor1]

RIP

[grooveyfeel]

awesome song

[drebbo]

ye i agree coffer97 it really fucks me up hard!

[riseup20twelve]

somebody! somewhere! phone Rolf Harris

[fuzybass]

27 people wouldn't know good music if it slapped them right in their stupid faces. 

[mindatrisk]

The first time I smoked salvia I had this song on. It was incidental as I had no idea what the trip would be like, but it crafted it so beautifully, so otherworldly, so apt, I sat with a stream made of fairies weaving its way around me. THUMBS UP! Yeahhh.

[coffer97]

this song fucks me up

[Pixiesforever7]

what animation programme did you use to make the video?

[Veivorok]

Creepy video. I liked it though, alot.

[RaziiRomance]

Saw this music video on holiday, and it just put a depressing tone on the rest of my day :L

[siesio]

what happened to cat from 2:26? :(

[Kioftes412]

@siesio probably you ate her at your latest Mc'Donald's meal ;)

[nomyek200]

Hi-quality my ass.

[ondrin2556]

@nomyek200 this was uploaded to youtube half a decade ago. . .

[nomyek200]

@ondrin2556 There were high quality videos on youtube in 2006.

it'd be kinda funny if the video aged.

[stickmand123]

@nomyek200 its from 2006 idiot

[cannabisabuser]

@nomyek200 It was high quality in 2006, it's been five years, dood.

[BIGpav018]

@nomyek200 I LOL'D

[Raindogno7]

@nomyek200 yeah !my ass!

[doobeedoobeedooo]

@nomyek200 When he says high quality I think he means the song itself.

[4thwonder]

@doobeedoobeedooo the song is low quality too. it doesn't compare to my CD rip version.

[antibling]

@nomyek200 6 years ago though ?

[allmodcons1965]

spymagicianzero,well fucking said....

[Thebarbienegra]

Joder con el gordo de los huevos...

[PanyaraSpain]

Pero que triste

[WilkoParts]

Gayest video ever seen.

[Spymagicianzero]

Additionally - I don't think Mogwai as a band ever intended to evoke such a philosophical evaluation... but it's a testament to the beauty and mastery of their craft that such discussions are a result. I think they just wrote a great song - the fact that some of us ascribe such meaning to it just makes it all the more special.

[Spymagicianzero]

God (the universe) is cold and unfeeling. Your fate (our individual fate) is as random as a man throwing helpless animals off the roof of a tall building. If you believe there is any greater meaning to existence than pure chaos you're just rationalizing that someone or something actually cares you exist. While this is an expected reaction to the indiscriminate nature of being, it is wholly irrational. You are truly, completely alone. Do with that knowledge what you will.

[P0stR0cks]

@Spymagicianzero Existentialism much?

[SimulacronX]

@Spymagicianzero You must also know that your view is just one of billions of various perceptions. What you think and you define as "knowledge" is not important.

[Spymagicianzero]

@SimulacronX

My initial post was merely my take on the animator's fairly obvious though poignantly illustrated perspective. The statement "Do with this knowledge what you will" is a reflection of the animator's theme. But thank you for contributing so eloquent an opinion on the matter.

[SimulacronX]

@Spymagicianzero You're welcome.

[claudiapublic]

Deep Music

[goddesssugar]

24 people have never had a pet !!!!!!!!!!

[dy30n]

@goddesssugar 24 are deaf n dumb

[SebFlower]

Video always ruins a song...

[Gastrophetes]

@SebFlower

Comment always ruins a video.

[SebFlower]

@Gastrophetes Your pathetic life ruins yourself.

[Gastrophetes]

@SebFlower

The word you're looking for is "itself"... itself.

Grammar always ruins an insult.

[hillysats]

@Gastrophetes

Bazzinga!!! =D.

Great song.

[FreakishPower]

Lots of comments below about veganism - I don't see it in this vid. I dont think that's what its about.

When I watched for the first time 6+mths ago, there was a comment (15 pages of searching FAIL) about how this video was really about how people deal with death.. some cry, some struggle, and some savor the last fleeting moment of life by doing backflips. And after all that, even after you live and escape a life ending experience, you are blindsided (turtle-car) - so who knows?

[anjusha]

solo soul mix

[cofpaddy]

Mogwai are awer-some

[UncleFuncleMuncle]

This could be about a fat cunt who dropped things off buildings. We all know one.....

[Anonymous122131]

LMAO. Steak is gud lolololol

[olifka773]

shit this almost reduced me to tears... and has now depressed me :L @AngelRose11 i totally aggree with you on that one.. this is really powerful and really says a lot about the human race.. how we can kill creatures we belive are 'below' us and feel nothing... reminds me of when i saw a woman kick a pidgeon the other day and i actually shouted at her :L

[doobeedoobeedooo]

i want to fuck up that fat dude

[trveum]

i loled

[AngelRose11]

This was well done and thought provoking but I almost wish I hadn't watched it. Is that weird?

[simonk3y]

As is the dichotomy of life, without all of the shit that our eardrums endure every day via the cash driven, in-the-pocket radio stations and the tele-visual handshakes this would just be mediocre. As it stands, and as is the way of things, this is epic.

[defpoet28]

I literally got introduced to this song, courtesy of a short documentary, on Bansky, that I saw earlier, on YouTube. It's such a beautiful, ethereal song. And this video is the perfect accompaniment.

[jilldosekk]

美しい

[teeia]

This was sad to watch dropping animals from the ruff and etc... I'd prefer just to listen to the music but great band and song

[YodaFZ]

'Memento Mori' comes to my mind...

[transformerwreckage]

my heart skipped a beat when he let go the the dog at the end

[monodistortion]

Too bad the audio quality here is really bad.

[andreahowe]

@wehateyourhate

[lombaya]

speechless i am

[Alltogetherknow]

you bastard! throwing animals! how could you! X(

[jaribosko]

awsome

[AzzaDazzler]

i don't even have words

[PaulBarte]

Wow.

[nameisrobertpaulsen]

wow...god sucks...i guess

[Enigma316]

@rnp2003 It doesn't really matter since they used so much vocal distortion that you can't make out a word there saying. Still a great song though with deep meaning, unlike the mainstream crap you hear on the radio.

[tattvam4]

@Enigma316, it's not distortion, they have a thing called a vocoder that modulates the voice with a synthesiser

[skorthase]

it's being distorted with a vocoder...

[sorstyle]

just amazing

[andaddd]

The song and video is so heart-breaking and in the same time so powerful. <3 it

[sianisit]

This video is almost impossible to watch, Jesus Christ.

[Junuxx]

wow, thoughtful, intelligent comments on youtube.

[gertelberth]

@Junuxx

yours isn't shitfuck

[crackstar540]

@thetowercard wow awesome thought

[2buscuits]

This video speaks of our fate. Then again, they were better off than staying caged by a rogue. They were free if only for a second. :( Made me cry.

[emmziwemmzi]

@2buscuits I cried too :(

[Varmer]

You think this is odd? The album started by this song (Happy Songs for Happy People) ends with the Happy Tree Friends theme song. Talk about disturbing...

[wikuk]

it angers me so much that there are people like that. GARRRR!!!!

[TheBerryVerry]

i hate that fat man

[SoulTrain75]

the music to this song makes my balls ache with passion.

[Blobsterisation]

@SoulTrain75 LOL

[mankeymunkey]

I love this fucking SONGGGGG AAAAGAGHAGHAHGAGAGAGA!!!!!

[sivheedno1]

i love this video and the music is ,well, top of the fucken pops man,a true combo of the arts,my friends share a different view,but what the fuck do they know,the twats

[bb6f44]

daaaaaamn, that's the most depressing music vid I've ever seen

[2buscuits]

agreed!

[R83145]

How cruel ;_____;

[DeadShotKeen]

Neat vid. Genius tune.

[yrsnkd]

The animation kinda reminds me of Arcade Fire's video for Power Out. Except much, much more disturbing.

[Tearjerker88]

yeah...now let's all hate fat people...

[2buscuits]

agreed!

[sivheedno1]

especially fat people that throw wee animals from tall buildings

[michellemooo]

Very disturbing, Is it to make people sit up an notice animals are mistreated so badly, on a daily basis,

Or is it just a shock value film?

I hope the reason was the former..

People suck..

[Yuvwah]

You are over-analyzing it.

It is meant to be emotional not intellectual.

[wilddolphin1]

Oh gawd, even though its an animation, I'm crying my eyes out here. The worst part for me is 0:58 :( Watching the bird with its wings tied back, falling to its death... so terrible, so sad... it hurts me every time I watch this :*(

[2buscuits]

Yeah...this spoke to the sheer abuse of power. This video wasnt about the animals per se.

[demirox51]

oh god!

[jenniffercoco]

this almost broke my heart. :(

[Jaymzthedude]

This song destroys me every time I hear it....but I have to listen....beautiful

[dewitttttt]

@Jaymzthedude

mogwai is one owerrated band, there are much better songs to destroy you

[michcookies]

I know it's only animation but oh my god those poor animals! Love this track, I'll never tire of it.

[foxkoma]

staggering

[qprmanzz]

heard this on football factory, i always get the feeling of paranoia, confusion.. total mind **** when i hear this, i dont care about vegetarian or not, or carbon footprint...

im just here to listen to the music...

[LanMANDRAG0RAN]

@qprmanzz thank you so fucking much, heard this song the otherday, got all of there stuff. brilliant song, but as soon as heard it i knew it from somwhere but spent a week pulling my bloody hair out trying to remember where from. fucking footbal factory. i never would have remembered that. thank you very much!!!

[floomdesk]

I love Mogwai and this video is god aweful.

"putting animated pets to death", that's a good title - the video has nothing: no message, no composition, no face.

[meccarian]

The sense of this video is composed in that beautiful music. Everyone can imagine different things.. Somebody finds this song happy, anybody else can find it sad and painfull..

[zachenstein]

that's the point dick

[markkickmark]

Great song, but one twisted-ass video!

[27rav]

WTF :O

[gor069]

Fucking music!

[xn0153x]

I love Mogwai, I love this song and I LOVE meat.

[slayerxxs]

hellvoicccccccccccccccce

[TookiGuy]

There's much worse people in real life.

You'd think that being a nihilist would be soothing when thinking about this kind of stuff. Not so, really.

[MrCockSlut]

awesome song sad video, i hate that guy next time i play this video im not gonna watch

[elliotwibley]

does anybody know what the lyrics are? or does he sing it different every time it's played?

[labrat882]

A bullet of sunlight pierces the clouds; golden heaven touches ground

I see that childhood toy that hangs above the crib and spins around

Except it is suspended from a golden yellow sky

With paper mache animals and gargoyles hoisted from it

The golden Porsche makes its way up a Great Plains highway

Glaring sunlight from its grill

We never get a glimpse but there is the suspense

Of being hunted by a freak

:) the song gets just better when you know the lyrics!

[trickmast]

I honestly prefer the mystery of not knowing =)

[supertrackxc]

are there really lyrics?

[supertrackxc]

I dont think there are lyrics?

[ScottyCollinson]

Who cares, it's just a poorly animated video. You should be listening to the wicked song!

[DmonkeyD1994]

wow....that was gay

retarded music video trying to be artsy and strange music

[trickmast]

"Trying" ? Going by your profile I wouldn't expect you to be the sort of person to even remotely understand art let alone a good piece of music.

[DmonkeyD1994]

this isnt even that good

hmm lets see what you listen to

(in b4 mainstream shit)

[jessmichellej]

Okay, this song is called 'Hunted By A Freak'. Did you EXPECT this video to be pleasant?

I have a softspot for animals, espeacially cats, and yes, this video hurt me deeply to watch. But this is what poor little animals go through day by day. But, actually, humans suffer through absolutley horrendous things too. If you think about it, we're all hunted by freaks at some point or another. This is full of symbolism. Sick, or not, this means something. You just have to anylize it all.

[Kaitlynn1336]

this is haggard

[NEWDEAL01]

Mogwai=Respect.Its easy to think about life when its not yours,,think that's all their saying??