Amanda Seyfried: Thank You For The Music

Amanda Seyfried from the film and play MAMMA MIA.. just her and a solo piano, terrific arrangement..

Miles Davis: So What (live/tv, 1959)

Miles Davis, live on CBS tv, 1959, with John Coltrane - this is historical stuff and as good as Miles ever played.. it's hard to believe that this was a television show!

Vince Guaraldi/Peanuts: Skating

Unreal jazz from Vince Guaraldi, hilariously used as the soundtrack for Snoopy's skating fantasy at Rockefeller Center..

Police: Message in a Bottle, live Synchronicity DVD

Police, MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE, live from Omni, Atlanta, the "Synchronicity Concert" dvd, directed by Godley and Creme from 10cc..

Police: Driven to Tears (live, France)

Awesome live performance by Police of Driven to Tears, France, 80's - they disabled the embedding: here is the link to YouTube

Drummer Stuart Copeland is amazing on this.. actually, he drives all their best songs

Police: King of Pain, Synchronicity concert DVD

Police, KING OF PAIN, live from the Omni, Atlanta, 1980, the Synchronicity Concert DVD, dir by Godley and Creme of 10cc..

Uncle Earl: Streak O Lean, Streak O Fat

Total Insanity! Irish jig kung fu gang fight in Chinese restaurant.

Thanks to "pigeatinginfidel", we have the CHinese lyrics translated:
"Braised fatty meat
Some like it, some say No
I love me some braised fatty meat
Don't forget to drink a little liquor
Cup by cup we all get drunk
Dance til the break of day
She dances like a crazy mother in law
She's freakin crazy
She plays that thing like she's starting a revolution
Bring on the braised fatty pork
And don't forget the liquor
Cup by cup we all get drunk
Living like this, how can we go on?
Today we drink, today we're wasted
Long live braised fatty meat!"

Abigail Washburn and Sparrow Quartet: Captain

live studio recording, and with Bela Fleck on banjo

Uncle Earl: The Last Goodbye

Capercaillie: Mi le m-uilinn Gaidhlag

Beautiful song, in Gaelic by the Scottish band Capercaillie

Anuna: Cormacus Scripsit

This is truly ethereal - amazing singing and the video fits the sound as well, shot in some 12th century ruins - a superb work of art

Anuna: In Performance

Video sampler of Anuna live in a cathedral - stunning vocals

Pink Fuzzy Yeti: Original Christmas Music

nice acoustic guitar music, altered on a sound card, set to Charlie Brown videos

Vince Guaraldi/Peanuts: Christmas Time is Here

The beautiful Christmas song from Vince Guaraldi for the Peanuts tv special

Philip Aaberg: The Gift

Aaberg's solo piano composition is used for video of an ice storm in Lexington, Ky 2009

Carol of the Bells: Belmont Univ Percussion Ensemble

aka Ukrainian Carol - telecast on PBS, good video quality.. amazing sound, this is very difficult stuff..

Brian Auger: Beginning Again from Straight Ahead

Great jazz rock, terrific keyboardist, very nice drum and congas solo at the song's end..
Note: Audio only

Nobel for Medicine 2009: Carol W. Greider's speech

Carol W. Greider's acceptance speech - this is really a scientific lecture of a summary of her genetic work, and runs 50 minutes.. her work in discovering and naming "telomerase", the enzymes in DNA/RNA that relate to aging, rejuvenation, and will help cure cancer by stopping it's telomerase from working by aging them rapidly and killing them by reversing the new growth process.. She's the Stephen Hawking of genetics, and her work will be more ground-breaking than Curie's or Einstein's over time.. the entire biotech and stem cell industry would not exist in present form without her work..

Original Composition: Gone (for Piccolo)

Written for a musician friend named Mandi who was leaving town, and who plays flute, recorder and pennywhistle. This used the piccolo on my Yamaha Digital Grand. When she said it sounded like film music, I put it on a video I made for them called "A Year in Pine Mountain"

Original Composition: Awakening (Midi Version)

Awakening: This was my first composition, done in three hours the day I got my Yamaha Digital Grand synthesizer. This is the original midi file from the keyboard with no alterations, just as I played it myself, errors intact.. I've never had music lessons and can't read or write music notation. I think I was maybe a little too excited by all the instruments available (650 total).

Original Composition: Eulogy (For Angie)

Originally written for the passing of my mother, my 3rd composition, done 2 weeks after getting my Yamaha Digital Grand synthesizer. I renamed it for a rock singing girlfriend who thought it was my best composition. It originally was done with strings and horns, then I ported it into Cakewalk and changed the instruments into guitar and piano so it could be easily performed onstage by a duet.

Laura Nyro: Poverty Train (live at Monterey Pop)

the end of Wedding Bell Blues, followed by Poverty Train, live at the Monterey Pop Festival

Marvin Gaye: What's Goin On (live)

Live, from a new dvd of some of Marvin's best live versions..

U2: Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own

another one live from Chicago

U2: Miracle Drug (live)

One of U2's best songs.. live from Chicago

Terry Reid: Mayfly (live)

This is live, over 35 yrs after he first recorded it..

Terry Reid: The Whole of the Moon

From Reid's 1991 CD, "The Driver", with backing vocals from Enya.. he can still sing and write great rock songs..

Western Road Trip Part 2

Some guy from Vancouver called "bpither" posted this at YouTube, I stumbled on it hunting for Herbie Mann's "In Tangier" from his Stone Flute lp, not put on cd for some reason - maybe it's because it was a stony, trippy, meditative music and it's now being censored (they'll say "it didn't sell enough" or some lame excuse).. ANYWAY, great job on the travel video, Mr. BPITHER!! love the editing and music selections! and of course, having been to these locations, love the sights as well..

I've had three dreams that I was a Native American at Vermillion Cliffs, and that's one place I've never been!

Guide to the score used:
Musical Score: Country Song (Pink Floyd) from "Zabriskie Point" (1970). Main theme (Bernard Herrmann) for "Fahrenheit 451" (1966). In Tangier (Herbie Mann) from "Stone Flute" (1970). Main theme (Bernard Herrmann) for "Vertigo" (1958). Prologue (Paul Horn) from "Inside the Taj Mahal" (1968) and "Fanfare for the Common Man" ( by Aaron Copeland (1942)

Dream Academy: Life in a Northern Town (Live, tv)

Live on Sat. Nite Live, intro by Terri Garr.. check out the guy on timpany with a cummerbund.. classic!

Dream Academy: Life in a Northern Town

One of the best pop rock songs of the 80's, the rare first version of the video

Oasis: Wonderwall

Apparently, the official video for the CD version - great sound

Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger (acoustic)

Live on Japanese TV, acoustic version

Soft Machine Legacy: Chloe and the Pirates

Newer and shorter version of the CD original.. (7 min vs 9+)

Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger

Ever hear 50,000 in a stadium sing so loud they drown out the band? This is tremendous - Oasis broke the Beatles' record for first LP sales in England..

Kenny Loggins w Will Ackerman: Will of the Wind

beautiful! great sound too..

Kenny Loggins: Leap of Faith (live)

Live from the Redwoods - excellent sound!

Kenny Loggins: Conviction of the Heart

Acoustic version, live in 2007 - Loggins' best lyrics, this song was a revelation for me..

Loggins and Messina: Be Free (live, 2009)

Recorded live on Oct 2, 2009! One of their best 3 songs, along with "Keep Me In Mind", and "Brighter Days"

Doobie Brothers: What a Fool Believes (live)

Doobie Bros w Michael McDonald (their best incarnation), singing Kenny Loggins' What a Fool Believes

Soft Machine: Chloe and the Pirates

This is my favorite Soft Machine music - they used to open for Jimi Hendrix! was he "from the future" or what?? Ethereal and spacey, like cosmic music should be..

Lisa Gerrard: Serenity

Quite simply the greatest singer alive.. Lisa Gerrard of DEAD CAN DANCE, a beautiful video

Why You Don't Want Kids, Part 3

just another ad for not having kids..

Little Feat: Teenage Nervous Breakdown (live)

High octane rock at its best, with Lowell George in his prime on slide guitar

Little Feat: Tripe Face Boogie (live in Paris)

Rare video of Little Live at L'olympia Theatre in Paris, 1975 (bad video, but such an exciting rendition)

Little Feat: Fat Man in the Bathtub

Lowell George was one of the great music talents to die young - Little Feat was one of the best American rock bands and this was one of their best.. Lowell George was first in Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention band.. some of Little Feat's backup singers included Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt..

Sigur Ros: Heima (last part)

Sigur Ros, last part of Heima, live - compared to Nothing Song, this is an anarchist frenzy..

Sigur Ros: The Nothing Song

Sigur Ros "The Nothing Song", live - this was first seen at the end of the movie Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe film with Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz) - ethereal, transcendent, wordless, this is a beautiful piece of spiritual creativity, beyond cultures and definition... some of the most universal and cosmic music ever created..

Carlos Santana: Song of the Wind

Just the audio and a still picture, but still one of Santana's most beautiful and lyrical melodies..

Buddy Guy: Sweet Home Chicago

You can definitely hear where Clapton and Hendrix came from in this one song! He also influenced Jeff Beck, Duane Allman, Smokin' Joe Kubek, and countless others.. this is SWEET HOME CHICAGO live from Houston..

Fats Waller: This Joint is Jumpin' (and lyrics)

This Joint is Jumpin by Fats Waller

They have a new expression along old Harlem way,
That tells you when a party is ten times more than gay:
To say that things are jumpin' leaves not a single doubt,
That everthing is in full swing when you hear someone shout.
Here 'tis:
The joint is jumpin',
It's really jumpin',
Come in, cats, and check your hats,
I mean this joint is jumpin'!
The piano's thumpin',
The dancers are bumpin',
This here spot is more than hot,
In fact, the joint is jumpin'!
Check your weapons at the door,
Be sure to pay your quarter,
Burn your leather on the floor,
Grab anybody's daughter.
The roof is rockin',
The neighbors knockin',
We're all bums when the wagon comes,
I mean, this joint is jumpin'!
Let it be! Yas!
Burn this joint, boy!
Yas! Oh, my! Yas!
Don't you hit that chick, that's my broad!
Where'd you get that stuff at?
Why, I'll knock you to your knees!
What? Put this cat out of here!
What? Get rid of that pistol! Get rid of that pistol! Yeah! Get rid of it, yas!
Yeah! That's what I'm talkin' about! Ha, ha! Yas!
Now it's really ready!
No, baby, not now, I can't come over there right now.
Yeah, let's do it!
The joint is jumpin',
It's really jumpin'!
Every Mose is on his toes,
I mean this joint is jumpin'!
Uh-oh! No time for talkin',
This place is walkin', yes,
Get your jug and cut the rug,
I think the joint is jumpin'.
Listen! Get your pig feet, bread and gin,
There's plenty in the kitchen!
Who is that that just came in?
Just look at the way he's switchin'!
Aw, mercy, Don't mind the hour,
I'm in power. I've got bail if we go to jail.
I mean this joint is jumpin'!
Don't give your right name, no, no, no, no!

Yardbirds: I'm Not Talking

That's lead guitarist Jeff Beck on the left, and rhythm guitarist Jimmy Paige behind him - this is a terrific song from Mose Allison, the white jazz-blues musician from Tupelo, Mississippi (there's another musician from Tupelo?? LOL -- ELVIS!) This was from about 1964 and was the hottest rock band in the world at the time, maybe ever..

Top reality show prank: Rat Monster

A PETA worker inspects a bio-genetics lab for possible animal rights violations in some experiments there.. this is pretty funny..

Neil Peart: Drum Solo R-30

Good drummers are subtle and understand rhythm, they don't just play fast or hit random notes.. they can also play rock or jazz, as Neil Peart demonstrates here.. all drummers admire this guy

Billy Cobham: Drum Solo II

Cobham is the best drummer I ever heard live, with the Mahavishnu Orchestra.. those jazz drummers don't just go nuts hitting random notes, they understand rhythm.. he really drove the Mahavishnu sound, without him they would have had far less impact.

Terry Bozzio: Drum Solo

I only knew that Terry Bozzio was in the terrific band MISSING PERSONS, but this was under Frank Zappa at YouTube, so did he play with Zappa at one time? I saw Zappa and the Mothers three times, but he was never the drummer...

THIS IS AMAZING video and sound both..

Jeff Beck: My Thing

This is about as hard as anyone can rock without self-imploding! Guys half his age can't even imagine rockin this well.. since Hendrix, Beck has been the rockin-est guitarist bar none..

Malcolm in the Middle used this song - during a baseball game, Malcolm wanted to get mom, the umpire, and they played this as he rounded the bases..

Otis Redding: Can't Turn You Loose (live)

The most exciting R&B song ever, and the most dynamic live singer.. My mom knew him from the Macon GA airport, he lived in nearby Grey GA.. was only 26 when he died, that was a tough one to get over cuz I met him and son Otis Jr, and he gave me his LIVE IN EUROPE lp.. Janis Joplin's favorite live performer, she styled herself after him. LIVE from ENGLAND, and not a lip sync.

Jason Pollock's iParticipate from the EMMYS

Tangerine Dream: Bent Cold Sidewalk Pt 2

Salma Hakek: Dance from Dusk Til Dawn

All I can add is "now THIS is entertainment!"

Joe Cocker Subtitled

This is one of the funniest videos ever, Joe Cocker at Woodstock, captioned for the "clear-headed"

Shirley Horn: Once I Loved

From the Tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim, a concert film by Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries, Central Station). "Love is the saddest thing when it goes away".. Shirley Horn is the greatest vocalist ever, and must be about 75-80 here - this will give you goosebumps.

Temptations: My Girl Medley

The best R and B/soul group ever, the best Motown group! Thanks to Smokey Robinson for giving them the song MY GIRL when they hadn't had a hit yet.. There is no better oldie to me..

Memories Come Alive

Beatles Rooftop Concert at Apple

"Get Back" and "Don't Let Me Down"

Wow, I just discovered this through a friend! There are three of these at YouTube, use the little scrolling selector that comes up, #2 has "I've Got a Feeling"

Happy July 4th Rocket War

This is terrific stuff, we should do this here on July 4th, after all missiles are our last remaining expertise!


Greek Rocket War - For more funny movies, click here

Like the Chinese, the rockets can't be aimed well, so they just light up the whole batch, hoping one hits the target!

Molsen Canadian Beaver Commercial

Molsen Canadian commercial that ran in Canada, but not in the U.S.

Taco John starring Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey

Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey

Rally Monkey

Original Skateboarding Dog

This is Tillman, the one-year old dog in the original skateboarding dog film, now up to 7 million views. The new re-edited one has a rock soundtrack. The cool thing is he knows how to get out of jams, and away from the grass..

Suara's Carmen: La Tabacalera

Choreographed by Antonio Gades, this is the most exciting dance scene in any film, in my opinion (but I could be wrong..)

Cebu Prisoners Dance to Jai Ho

MysteryGuitarMan: Marriage of Figaro

MysteryGuitarMan - he's top 50 in all of YouTube for subscribers, and #1 in Brazil. Turns out he's Joe Penna, from Brazil, now in New York? His home page at YouTube says NY, I thought one video said "LA".

Mozart on the Floor Piano

Bach by Foot on a Giant Piano

Camera Man: the Human Camera

Stephen Wiltshire has been called the "Human Camera." In this short excerpt from the film Beautiful Minds: A Voyage into the Brain, Wiltshire takes a helicopter journey over Rome and then draws a panoramic view of what he saw, entirely from memory.

100 Movie Quotes in 200 Seconds

[Thanks to Beth G for finding this one, she's a fellow cinemaniac]

Post-It Animation: Deadline

Pretty amazing stop-action film, all done with post-it notes!

Flight of the Conchords: Foux Da Fa Fa

Flight of the Conchords: Business Time

Hilarious video from Flight of the Conchords on HBO - this expression is now being used nationwide..

Flight of the Conchords: Bowie's in Space

MysteryGuitarMan: Guitar Bumble

MysteryGuitarMan: he says this is 1600 images that he took 30 seconds apart.. watch for the sun going down twice!

MysteryGuitarMan: Guitar Battle

[Note: do NOT follow the instructions, it can't be done, that's the point, just watch!]

Charles Trippy: Twitter Ruined My Life

The Evolution of Dance

Both parts put together

Bride and Prejudice: Punjabi Wedding Song