YT: I look at songs that use a sudden bar of 3/4 to 'skip a beat', including '"Heart of Glass" by Blondie, "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" by Joan Jet, "All You Need Is Love" by The Beatles, "Say A Little Prayer"... continue reading

posted by Zawash 1 week 6 days ago • 557 views • 9:26

Using foundational computer science theories, Colin Morris focuses on understanding trends in popular music. Borrowing from the areas of bioinformatics and compression algorithms, he shows that the lyrics... continue reading

posted by notarobot 1 month 1 week ago • 114 views • 14:23

YouTube description: After being diagnosed with a rare, potentially fatal brain condition known as Moyamoya, Jennifer Lee was forced to face her own mortality and consider the things in life she held... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 months 1 week ago • 583 views • 10:01

YouTube description: What do Skrillex, David Bowie, Salt-N-Pepa and basically every drum and bass track have in common? They've all used the Amen break, a four-bar drum solo that has become the most... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 months 3 weeks ago • 207 views • 4:05

Eric Bazilian was explaining 4 track recording to a friend, and in the process wrote this song. YouTube description: The story behind the song One Of Us by Joan Osborne, written by Eric Bazilian.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 months ago • 209 views • 6:37

In the animated short “Drawn & Recorded: Teen Spirit” by Drew Christie of Kalakala Animation, narrator T-Bone Burnett tells the story behind the famous 1991 Nirvana song “Smells Like Teen Spirit”... continue reading

posted by eric3579 3 months 3 weeks ago • 686 views • 2:55

Polyphonic explores the start of Metal rock, to several individual songs that could be considered the start, and one point where it couldn't be any later than.

posted by RFlagg 4 months 4 weeks ago • 486 views • 11:39

YouTube description: Thunderstorm time lapse and spectacular phenomenon with facts and information of where to witness these fascinating sights. Upward lightning, mammatus, sprites, gustnadoes and... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 months ago • 483 views • 6:19

YouTube description: Hi there! I'm (finally!) back with a new video explaining what is swing, a form of popular music developed in the United States that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s. The amazing... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 months 3 weeks ago • 456 views • 2:01

H/T @eric3579

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 months 2 weeks ago • 627 views • 10:30

Rick Beato breaks down the System of a Down song Chop Suey from the album Toxicity. (Thanks to spawnflagger for the heads up on my stoned self posting the wrong song name)

posted by w1ndex 9 months ago • 93 views • 12:30

Interesting breakdown by Rick Beato of The Hand That Feeds by Nine Inch Nails .

posted by w1ndex 10 months 1 week ago • 162 views • 10:45

YouTube description: It’s an 1980s pop music cliche that dates back to 1910. If you listen to the first few seconds of Bruno Mars’ “Finesse” (hint: listen to the Cardi B remix) you’ll hear... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 11 months 1 week ago • 581 views • 9:26

YouTube description: Recording music on 100-year-old wax cylinder recording equipment. Next week we put a metal band in front of it! Here are the full takes of Short Song: https://youtu.be/_sn7KyLHfr0 ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 3 months ago • 291 views • 10:04

(H/T @eric3579)

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 4 months 1 week ago • 386 views • 7:48

Summary: Fluidized beds are used in industry for various reasons. They also happen to be really cool to play with and swim in. I made a liquid sand hot tub by adding air in just the right way. MUSIC- ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 4 months 3 weeks ago • 866 views • 10:03

YouTube description: The fade out is underrated. It should come back. The fade out in music is one of those necessary tools in a record producers arsenal. But if you listen to today's hits it's much... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 7 months 3 weeks ago • 485 views • 7:42

Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon, the concert pianist, singer, civil rights activist, and international icon would go on to change culture itself with her peerless talent, fiery charisma, and unflinching political... continue reading

posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 1 year 11 months 1 week ago • 150 views • 4:59

"We're all familiar with Pomp & Circumstance, the graduation song that's the official soundtrack of almost every commencement. But how did it get so big? In this episode of Vox's Almanac, Phil Edwards... continue reading

posted by ant 1 year 11 months 1 week ago • 129 views • 5:34

It's been a long time since I did a linguistics video, but today Alex has stepped in and done a brilliant job. Song translations usually suck: and it's because you either have to lose the meaning or the... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 2 years 3 weeks ago • 327 views • 4:25