Amazing Music Videos #6 - Weapon of Choice

Amazing Music Videos #6 – Weapon of Choice

Submitted by Salman (The Editor) on July 29, 2010 – 11:33 amOne Comment

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Weapon of Choice is a single by UK DJ Fatboy Slim, and is best known for it’s video directed by Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich – 1999, Adaptation – 2002). It features amazing dance moves by Christopher Walken. Shooting took place over 2 days in the lobby of a Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles shortly before Christmas in 2000.

This music video won 6 MTV Video Music awards: Breakthrough Video, Best Direction, Best Choreography, Best Art Direction, Best Editing, and Best Cinematography. It also won a Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video.

Weapon of Choice (featuring Bootsy Collins) first appeared on the Fatboy Slim album Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars, released in November 2000.

(You can also watch the video in HD on YouTube as embedding is disabled.)

Weapon of Choice

Artist: Fatboy Slim
Directors: Spike Jonez

Visit the artist at Fatboy Slim on MySpace

Lyrics:

Break, eject
Eject, eject
Break, eject
Eject, eject

‘For they catch ya Chainsmokin’ (Word)
‘For they catch ya Chainsmokin’ (Word)
‘For they catch ya Chainsmokin’ (Word)
‘For they catch ya Chainsmokin’ (Word)

‘For they catch ya, ‘For they catch ya,
‘For they catch ya, ‘For they catch ya,
‘For they catch ya, ‘For they catch ya,
‘For they catch ya, ‘For they catch ya,

Don’t be shocked by tone of my voice
Check out my new weapon, weapon of choice
Don’t be shocked by tone of my voice
Check out my new weapon, weapon of choice, yeah

Listen to the sound of my voice (aah…)
You can check it on out, it’s the weapon of choice, yeah

Don’t be shocked by the tone of my voice (aah…)
It’s the new weapon, the weapon of choice

You can blow with this
Or you can blow with that
You can blow with this
Or you can blow with that
Or you can blow with this
Or you can blow with that
Or you can blow with us

You can blow with this
Or you can blow with that
You can blow with this
Or you can blow with that
You can blow with…

Walk without rhythm, it won’t attract the worm
Walk without rhythm, and it won’t attract the worm
Walk without rhythm, and it won’t attract the worm
if you walk without rhythm (uh), you never learn, yeah

Don’t be shocked by the tone of my voice
Check out my new weapon, weapon of choice

(Can’t forget to load it)
Before they catch ya Chainsmokin’
(Can’t forget to load it)
Before they catch ya Chainsmokin’
(Can’t forget to load it)
Before they catch ya Chainsmokin’
(Can’t forget to load it)
Before they catch ya Chainsmokin’

You can go with this
You can go with that
You can go with this
Or you can go with that
Or you can go with this
Or you can go with that
Or you can go with us

You can go with this
You can go with that
You can go with this
Or you can go with that
Or you can go with…

Organically grown
Through the hemisphere I roam
To make love to the angels of light, yeah
and my girl
I guess you just don’t understand
It’s gone beyond bein’ a man
As I drift off into the night
I’m in flight

Break, eject
Eject, eject
Break, eject
Eject, eject

Break, eject
Eject, eject
Eject, eject
Eject, eject

Break, eject
Eject, eject
Break, eject
Eject, eject

fatboy slim weapon of choice