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.
Yo-Yo Ma Bach Cello Suite No.1 in G Major
Yo-Yo Ma performs Bach's Cello Suite No.
Shop Vac (kinetic typography animation)
A kinetic typography animation for Jonathan Coulton's song 'Shop Vac', made by Jarrett Heather with Illustrator, After Effects and other tools over 500-1000 hours.
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (FULL)
A full piano performance of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.
Secrets From The Future
MC Frontalot's nerdcore song "Secrets From The Future" (2007), about secrets not staying hidden once future technology can break today's encryption.
Frank Zappa explains the decline of the music business
A short Frank Zappa interview clip on the decline of the music business, contrasting old cigar-chomping executives with younger industry people.
Brother Ali - Uncle Sam Goddamn (Official Video)
The official video for Brother Ali's 'Uncle Sam Goddamn', a politically charged rap song critiquing the United States, produced by Ant.
Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun - with intro
Tom Lehrer performs his satirical song about rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, with an introduction, in a short clip posted for the Apollo 11 anniversary.
We're Gonna Build a Framework
Dylan Beattie's parody of 'We Didn't Start the Fire' with lyrics made entirely of real software framework names, ending in the chorus about building yet another framework.
David Bowie Criticizes MTV for Not Playing Videos by Black Artists | MTV News
A 1983 interview clip in which David Bowie questions MTV VJ Mark Goodman about why the channel played so few videos by black artists.
First Techno (Kraftwerk 1970)
The earliest existing concert video of Kraftwerk, from a 1970 performance shortly after the band formed.
Big Ideas: Don't get any -- by James Houston
James Houston's entry to Radiohead's Nude remix contest, performing the 6/8, 63bpm song on obsolete hardware such as hard drives, a dot matrix printer, a scanner and a ZX Spectrum.
Glenn Gould plays Bach
Extracts from the documentary The Art of Piano showing Glenn Gould playing Bach's Partita No.
Final Teleutaion Antiphon Before the Entrance
A choral recording by Cappella Romana from the album Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia.
They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (Official Music Video)
The official music video for They Might Be Giants' "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" from the 1990 album Flood.
The Light It Up Contest -- geohot
A one-minute rap by George Hotz (geohot) aimed at Sony, made as an entry for a contest while Sony was suing him over the PS3 jailbreak.
Afroman - Lemon Pound Cake (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
Official music video for Afroman's song Lemon Pound Cake, built from footage of a police raid on his home.
T-Pain: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
T-Pain performs three songs at NPR's Tiny Desk, backed by only a keyboardist and showing his natural singing voice.
Tom Lehrer - National Brotherhood Week - with intro
Tom Lehrer performs his satirical song "National Brotherhood Week" with a spoken intro.
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Mission Statement (Official 4K Video)
Weird Al's whiteboard-animated music video parodying corporate buzzword culture, from the album Mandatory Fun.
Dumb Ways to Die
The viral Dumb Ways to Die music video, a cheerful animated song created for a Melbourne rail safety campaign.
Todd Snider - Statistician's Blues
A live 2007 performance of Todd Snider's song 'Statistician's Blues' at the Great American Music Hall.
CYMATICS: Science Vs. Music - Nigel Stanford
Nigel Stanford's music video Cymatics, in which real science experiments, such as Chladni plates, ferrofluid and water, visualize the audio.
MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS - THRIFT SHOP FEAT. WANZ (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
The official music video for Macklemore & Ryan Lewis's Thrift Shop featuring Wanz, a hip hop hit celebrating secondhand shopping.
The music theory of V A P O R W A V E
Adam Neely analyzes vaporwave through music theory, timbre and nostalgia, and includes a parody track made for the video.