10 Greatest Rock Music Videos Of The 1990s

Written in the aftermath of the suicide of frontman E (Mark Everett)’s sister, many of the songs on Eels’ second album are drenched in sorrow, rage, despair, or some combination thereof.

First single “Last Stop This Town” is on the surface a bouncier number with DJ scratching and a goofy baritone voice on the chorus, though the lyrics reflect much of the morbidity that permeates the album as a whole.

Garth Jennings’ video similarly starts off fun but slowly turns into Cronenberg-esque body horror. While E sings, a collection of scientists conduct experiments on vegetables. Over the course of the video, we watch a carrot get zapped by a mysterious ray, eventually becoming a conical clone of the frontman, which is inserted into a toy robot which marches off.

It’s difficult to conduct a Freudian analysis of the video’s connection to the band’s often troubling lyrics, but the whole thing is an unnerving scene delivered with as dispassionate a response as one can have to a human/carrot hybrid.