For their latest release, The Wack Album, comedy-rap group The Lonely Island launched #WackWednesday, which dropped a new video every week leading up to the album’s release date. The standout video of the series, which also produced the remarkable “Go Kindergarten,” was “Spring Break.” The video started with “Between Two Ferns” host Zach Galifianakis interviewing James Franco for his fake online talk show, but soon broke out into a spontaneous The Lonely Island concert, combining, at last, the two viral juggernauts.

Indie band Beach House recruited Eric Wareheim of comedy duo Tim and Eric fame for their video — and the results are gloriously strange. It features Ray Wise (most notably from Twin Peaks) as a football coach who sings the wistful lyrics from the sidelines as the crowd cheers. It adds an unsettling charm that manages to perfectly highlight the song, while being completely mesmerizing to watch. Also worth checking out is Wareheim’s video for Major Lazer’s “Bubble Butt,“

Sometimes (most of the time, probably) being Justin Timberlake works in your favor. Like being able to call in a big name to direct the video for the first single off your highly-anticipated new album. David Fincher, whose previous body of work includes Se7en and The Social Network –in which Timberlake played Sean Parker – has directed dozens of big-budget music videos for the likes of Madonna (“Express Yourself”) and the Rolling Stones (“Love is Strong”).

Director JD Dillard constructed an entirely new fantasy world for this video from Aussie dance duo Empire of the Sun. As the song’s chipper beat plays, the video transports viewers into a sci-fi world with its own mythology, strange inhabitants, outlandishly futuristic costumes and an apparent romance. Which is just fun to watch. While fans of the band know that this is par for the course, the video serves as both a primer for newcomers and a continuation of the strange story for long-time listeners.

David Bowie himself wrote the script for this video, which Floria Sigismondi directed. In the video, Ziggy Stardust swaps his otherworldly outfits for a simple Christ-like habit resigning himself to the corner. It features Gary Oldman as a priest with a wandering eye and French actress Marion Cotillard as a seductress who gets hit with an unexpected case of Stigmata. The Catholic League was quick to denounce it, which probably meant it was suitably controversial for the living legend’s return to making music videos.

Mercury music prize nominees Django Django teamed up with director Jim Demuth to make this video, which drops viewers into the middle of a stone arena as the infamous Indian Well of Death riders zip around them at incredible speeds and at jaw-dropping angles. Filmed in Allahabad, India, the video makes for edge-of-your-seat viewing as the daredevil motorcycle riders zip around the edge of the concrete pit. The clip builds in tempo and pitch — and pairs perfectly with the music.

Joey Bada$$ has yet to find the mainstream success he really deserves for his impressive skills behind the mic. On this track, he teamed up with rap producer DJ Premier and conscripted Coodie and Chike for a video filled with dazzling images of Joey rapping. (This was done via an animation technique called rotoscoping, in which animators trace over footage, frame by frame.) The video is eye-catching enough that it should zip around the internet and hopefully introduce more people to one of the best young rappers around.

For Passion Pit’s Gossamer track “Cry Like A Ghost,” directing team Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known collectively as DANIELS, went the route of spectral and mysterious. The clip begins with a distraught young woman, twisting in the dark, crying by herself as she runs through the woods. The video jerks through time, showing the girl drinking in a bar and flashing back on past romances and seemingly constantly on the brink of tragedy — all the while incorporating dance steps worthy of a Selena Gomez song or a Step Up dance routine. The result is simultaneously ominous and uplifting and eminently watchable.