Music Nerding

Beethoven is the best orchestrator, but how do you explain this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrWWw4LFUh8

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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[Dogs Against Romney]

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”: