Shot In the Back of the Head

Moby recorded this haunting instrumental for his ninth studio album, Wait For Me. Tired of the constant push towards commercialism, the electronic artist was emboldened after hearing filmmaker David Lynch speak about creativity and commerce at a British Academy of Film and Television Arts ceremony. He told Entertainment Weekly: "I feel like for a while I'd lost my way as an artist. I wanted mainstream success because I thought I should want it. Everyone around me wanted it, everyone at the record company wanted it. So I was like, 'Oh I guess these smart people know what they're talking about.' But I was unhappy. I was in the audience at BAFTA in London about a year and a half ago feeling a lot of artistic confusion. And David Lynch was talking about how creativity in and of itself is great. I was like, 'He's right! Life is short. What is more important: accommodating a marketplace or aspiring make great art?'"

Moby's fascination with Lynch's iconic TV series Twin Peaks led to his breakthrough hit, "Go," which was built on a sample of the show's "Laura Palmer's Theme."

Lynch created the animated music video, a surreal black-and-white visual that follows a man's dangerous love affair with a woman's disembodied head. Moby had sent the director a copy of the song and asked if he had any existing footage that might suit it. But Lynch decided to go all-out and make the video himself.