Beethoven is the best orchestrator, but how do you explain this?
Music Nerding
Kick!
Bach – pretty sure this is performed on the Flentrop Organ at Harvard:
This is probably my favorite piece of music – wish I could find the Moog version on YouTube, but it’s not there:
Falls apart a bit at the end, but bravissimo!
I can’t believe it took this long.
And the fact that it’s from the ultimate ’80s musician Devo just makes it all the better.
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A recent New Yorker article made a reference to this video from 2010, which I missed the first time.
Ladies and gentlemen, performing Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair,” is Jimmy Fallon as Neil Young, and Bruce Springsteen as….’70s Bruce Springsteen:
Bonus video: Fallon’s “Tebowie”:
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