Music performance & songs Videos Recommended on Hacker News (151)
Music performance & songs is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 151 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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3 mo on HNLeonard Cohen - Everybody Knows (Official Audio)
3 mo on HNPachelbel Rant
3 mo on HNSam Aaron live coding a DJ set with Sonic Pi
3 mo on HNTom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun
3 mo on HNHans Zimmer - Time (Inception)
3 mo on HNErik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1
3 mo on HNDan Deacon - Bromst - In The Studio
3 mo on HNWhy Spotify Will Ultimately Fail
3 mo on HNGil Scott-Heron - Whitey On the Moon (Official Audio)
3 mo on HNMicrotonal Guitar (Fixed Fret) - Tolgahan Çoğulu
3 mo on HNBach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, organ
3 mo on HNTransport Tycoon 2014 Soundtrack (remaster with real instrument from original creator)
3 mo on HNSpeaking Piano - Now with (somewhat decent) captions!
3 mo on HN4 Chords | Music Videos | The Axis Of Awesome
3 mo on HNFarbrausch & Neuro - Masagin (HD Stereo)
3 mo on HNWhy guitarists USED TO play more in tune! (Microtonal Frets)
3 mo on HNTeenage engineering OP1 - Live looping [Thoj]
2 mo on HNPhilip Glass - Sesame Street - Geometry of Circles.mp4
2 mo on HNRocker Jack White - Serious Jibber-Jabber with Conan O'Brien | Team Coco
2 mo on HNPublic Service Broadcasting - Go!
2 mo on HNBeats That Defy Boxes | Reggie Watts | TED
2 mo on HNTom Lehrer Full Copenhagen Performance
2 mo on HNJustin Bieber 800% Slower
2 mo on HNYacht Rock 1 HD
2 mo on HNSuper Mario World Ending Theme sight-read by Tom Brier
2 mo on HNWhat Makes This Song Great? "Into You" MAX MARTIN
2 mo on HNDelvon Lamarr Organ Trio - Warm-up Set (Live on KEXP)
2 mo on HNIn The Bleak Midwinter - Jacob Collier
2 mo on HNBobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale | World Science Festival
2 mo on HNRhyme: Why Eminem is one of the most impressive lyricists ever
2 mo on HNEduard Artemyev - Siberiade theme (1979)
2 mo on HNThe Most Unwanted Song (FULL VERSION)
2 mo on HNRobotic Liberation by PWP (VIC-20)
2 mo on HNAxis of Awesome - 4 Four Chord Song (with song titles)
2 mo on HNKylie Minogue - Come Into My World (Official Video) [Full HD Remastered]
2 mo on HNDeath Magnetic Retail vs Guitar Hero 3
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Mentioned in HN threads about music performance & songs, though never formally recommended:
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster) · United Breaks Guitars · PSY - GANGNAM STYLE(강남스타일) M/V · Edie Brickell - Good Times · Sir Mashalot: Mind-Blowing SIX Song Country Mashup · Daddy's Car: a song composed with Artificial Intelligence - in the style of the Beatles · Remy: People Will Die! · Tommy Tutone - 867-5309/Jenny (Official Video) · Richard Stallman Free software Song · Baby Shark Dance | #babyshark Most Viewed Video | Animal Songs | PINKFONG Songs for Children · The Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar (Official Music Video) · WIND ROSE - Diggy Diggy Hole (Official Video) | Napalm Records · warner music claimed my video for defending their copyright in a lawsuit they lost the copyright for · "Weird Al" Yankovic - White & Nerdy (Official 4K Video) · Rammstein - Amerika (Official 4K Video) · Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (HQ) · a-ha - Take On Me (Official Video) [4K] · Blues Traveler - Hook (Official Music Video) · The Secret of Monkey Island (Intro) (PC Speaker theme) · Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun · The Art of Noise with Max Headroom - Paranoimia (Official Video) · Frank Zappa on Crossfire · It'll Happen To You! (The Simpsons) · Public Enemy - 911 is a Joke (1990) · Badgers : animated music video : MrWeebl · Monzy performs at Stanford Univ. · Richard Feynman playing bongos · Always Look on the Bright Side of Life Sing-Along - Monty Python · Les Inconnus - Auteuil Neuilly Passy · The Internet Is For Porn - Avenue Q - Original Broadway Cast · kpmg song · Emily Howell - Track 1 · Eric Idle - "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" - STEREO HQ · The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again (Shepperton Studios / 1978) · Bagger 288! · Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting in a Room · Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire (Official HD Video) · Joshua Bell's 'Stop and Hear the Music' metro experiment | The Washington Post · My Fair Lady "Why Can't the English Learn to Speak" · The Floppotron: Sweet Dreams · Queen - Another One Bites the Dust (Official Video Remastered) · The Prodigy - Firestarter (Official Video) · julia ecklar - the eternal flame · Quarter-comma Meantone with split sharps · John Chowning - Stria (1977) · Piano Phase (solo) - First solo performance ever · Vader's Redemption: The Imperial March in a Major Key · Venetian Snares - Look (from Songs About My Cats 2001) · Every OS Sucks · Yamaha DX7 - the 32 classic factory patches · NENA | 99 Luftballons [1983] [Offizielles HD Musikvideo] · 【東方】Bad Apple!! ＰＶ【影絵】 · 29/31 by Garfunkel and Oates · The Ryanair Song - Foil Arms and Hog · [Equation] - Aphex Twin Spectrogram · Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball (Official Video) · How can less be more? · Moon Zappa Valley Girl · Tim Minchin - If You Open Your Mind Too Much... · Damn It Feels Good to be Banker -- A Wall Street Musical · Tennessee Ernie Ford - 16 Tons · Malvina Reynolds - Little Boxes (Weeds Theme Song) Full Version with Lyrics · Symphony of Science - 'We Are All Connected' (ft. Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye) · My Pal Foot Foot - The Shaggs · The Most COMPLEX Pop Song of All Time · $stdout - Side Projects · The Missile Knows Where it is (Remix) · The Simpsons Stonecutters Song · Galaxy Song - Monty Python's The Meaning of Life · One Tin Soldier - The Original Caste [Original] · Bach, "Little" Fugue in G minor, Organ · Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator · Barack Obama Singing Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen · Lazy Town | You Are A Pirate Music Video · Luis Fonsi - Despacito ft. Daddy Yankee · Spotify's Phony War On Bots · Rebecca Black - Friday · Trio -- Da Da Da [[ Official Video ]] · John Coltrane - A Love Supreme [Full Album] (1965) · Johann Sebastian Bach - "Coffee Cantata" BWV 211 (English Subtitles) · Michael Jackson - Thriller (Official 4K Video) · Elgar - Nimrod (from "Enigma Variations") · The Wurzels - Combine Harvester (Brand New Key) [totp2] · Fatboy Slim ft. Bootsy Collins - Weapon Of Choice [Official 4k Video] · Tom Lehrer - Poisoning Pigeons In The Park · YOLO (feat. Adam Levine & Kendrick Lamar) · vache · Albert Einstein vs Stephen Hawking. Epic Rap Battles of History