PickVidsBest Music performance & songs Videos
The 239 Music performance & songs videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 2 introductory, 6 intermediate, 231 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a music video. What they share is that the performance or the making of it is the thing being watched. Channels you will keep seeing include The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel, OK Go, Vic Firth.
Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop
Nate Harrison's 2004 video history of the Amen Break, a six-second drum sample from a 1969 b-side that became the basis of hip-hop sampling, jungle and drum and bass.
Fear the Boom and Bust: Keynes vs. Hayek - The Original Economics Rap Battle!
A rap battle in which John Maynard Keynes and F.
Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol
A 1972 song by Adriano Celentano whose lyrics are nonsense syllables designed to sound like American English to non-English speakers.
Youtube duet: Miles Davis improvising on LCD Soundsystem
A mashup that plays a Miles Davis improvisation video alongside an LCD Soundsystem clip with no editing, so the two seem to perform together.
The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End Of Time - Stages 1-6 (Complete)
The complete six-stage album series Everywhere at the End of Time by The Caretaker, about 6.5 hours of music that depicts the progression of dementia through distorted, decaying old ballroom recordings.
Steve Reich, "Music for 18 Musicians" - FULL PERFORMANCE with eighth blackbird
A full performance of Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians by eighth blackbird with Third Coast Percussion and others, recorded in Chicago in 2011.
OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine - Official Video
OK Go's music video for This Too Shall Pass, featuring a huge Rube Goldberg machine built in a warehouse in Los Angeles with Syyn Labs.
MC Frontalot - It Is Pitch Dark
MC Frontalot's nerdcore rap about the text adventure Zork, made for Jason Scott's Get Lamp documentary and featuring a cameo by Steve Meretzky.
Danny Carey | "Pneuma" by Tool (LIVE IN CONCERT)
Drummer Danny Carey performs Tool's 'Pneuma' live in Boston, in a Vic Firth session with close views of his playing.
William Shatner - Common People
William Shatner's spoken-word cover of Pulp's 'Common People', from his album Has Been.
The most feared song in jazz, explained
Vox Earworm explains why John Coltrane's Giant Steps is so hard to improvise over: it is fast and moves through three keys.
Space Oddity
Commander Chris Hadfield performs a revised version of David Bowie's Space Oddity, recorded aboard the International Space Station.
OK Go - Upside Down & Inside Out
OK Go's music video for Upside Down & Inside Out, filmed during parabolic flights so the band and performers are weightless in the plane.
Welcome to the Internet - Bo Burnham (from "Inside" -- ALBUM OUT NOW)
Bo Burnham's song from his special Inside, a satirical take on internet culture, attention and extremism.
Pink Floyd Echoes & 2001 A Space Odyssey HD
Pink Floyd's Echoes played in sync with the final Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite segment of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen
The original music video for Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen, a spoken-word piece built on Mary Schmich's 1997 column of life advice, produced by Baz Luhrmann.
Sample Breakdown: Daft Punk - One More Time
A short Tracklib video visualizing the disco sample that Daft Punk's One More Time is built from.
Nardwuar vs. N.E.R.D - The Extended Version
Nardwuar interviews Pharrell and Shay of N.E.R.D.
Making of "The Prodigy - Voodoo People" in Ableton by Jim Pavloff
Jim Pavloff rebuilds The Prodigy's 'Voodoo People' in Ableton from its listed samples.
The Commodordion
Linus Akesson demonstrates the Commodordion, a fully functional 8-bit accordion built around Commodore 64 hardware with bellows made of floppy disks.
Land of Lisp- The Music Video!
A playful music video promoting the book Land of Lisp, with a song about Lisp programming.
Christopher Tin - Baba Yetu (Official Video) feat. Soweto Gospel Choir
The official video for Baba Yetu, Christopher Tin's Swahili-language choral piece written as the theme to Civilization IV.
Pipe Organ (5-story instrument)
Rob Scallon explores a five-story pipe organ, the largest in the Midwest, with organist John Sherer.
Snarky Puppy - Lingus (We Like It Here)
A live, overdub-free performance of 'Lingus' by Snarky Puppy, from the 'We Like It Here' DVD recorded in Utrecht.