Music performance & songs Videos Recommended on Hacker News (239)
Music performance & songs is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 239 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 340 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Music performance and music videos: electronic music, Aphex Twin, IDM, 80s and 90s pop videos, DJ sets, classical music, Bach, jazz, rock, folk, concerts, live sessions, singer-songwriters, Leonard Cohen, Pink Floyd, opera, orchestras, famous songs and albums.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop: “this is an excellent 20-minute video about the history of the Amen Break” — an HN commenter, 2013.
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11 mo on HNVideo explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop
10 mo on HNFear the Boom and Bust: Keynes vs. Hayek - The Original Economics Rap Battle!
6 mo on HNAdriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol
4 mo on HNYoutube duet: Miles Davis improvising on LCD Soundsystem
5 mo on HNThe Caretaker - Everywhere At The End Of Time - Stages 1-6 (Complete)
5 mo on HNSteve Reich, "Music for 18 Musicians" - FULL PERFORMANCE with eighth blackbird
5 mo on HNOK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine - Official Video
5 mo on HNMC Frontalot - It Is Pitch Dark
4 mo on HNDanny Carey | "Pneuma" by Tool (LIVE IN CONCERT)
5 mo on HNWilliam Shatner - Common People
4 mo on HNThe most feared song in jazz, explained
3 mo on HNSpace Oddity
3 mo on HNOK Go - Upside Down & Inside Out
3 mo on HNWelcome to the Internet - Bo Burnham (from "Inside" -- ALBUM OUT NOW)
3 mo on HNPink Floyd Echoes & 2001 A Space Odyssey HD
3 mo on HNBaz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen
3 mo on HNSample Breakdown: Daft Punk - One More Time
3 mo on HNNardwuar vs. N.E.R.D - The Extended Version
3 mo on HNMaking of "The Prodigy - Voodoo People" in Ableton by Jim Pavloff
3 mo on HNThe Commodordion
3 mo on HNLand of Lisp- The Music Video!
3 mo on HNChristopher Tin - Baba Yetu (Official Video) feat. Soweto Gospel Choir
3 mo on HNPipe Organ (5-story instrument)
3 mo on HNSnarky Puppy - Lingus (We Like It Here)
3 mo on HNJ.S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565
3 mo on HNNanobot (Havana Parody) | A Capella Science ft. Dorothy Andrusiak
3 mo on HNRapping, deconstructed: The best rhymers of all time
3 mo on HNLazerhawk ~ Redline Full Album
3 mo on HNZX Spectrum 1-bit music: Agent X (Tim Follin, 1985)
3 mo on HNTom Lehrer - New Math (Animated)
3 mo on HNStevie Wonder - Superstition live on Sesame Street
3 mo on HNRazor1911
2 mo on HNJohnny Cash - Hurt
3 mo on HN電磁祭囃子 in NEO TOKYO 🏮
3 mo on HNThe Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Here Be Dragons (Full Album)
3 mo on HN