Awesome Music

According to our calculations, this should be the world’s six minutes of zen today: it’s Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, executed with laugh-out-loud élan from William Shatner. (Thanks Everyone!)

(NSFW) The music video for Fantasy by DyE. Animation director Jérémie Périn and his crew are French, but their product is undoubtedly Japanese. In the best and worst ways possible.

Last we heard from Police Academy’s (and Spaceballs‘) Michael Winslow, he was imitating typewriters. This time, he rocks out an incredible version of Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love.

The ending credits of Portal (and later Portal 2) feature some of the greatest song lyrics in the history of video games. Now you can enjoy GLaDOS’ Still Alive courtesy of your web browser.

Regret having quit piano in the 5th grade? Grab the free learning app and ION Audio’s Piano Apprentice and pick up where you left off – it turns an iPad and portable keys into a traveling music teacher.

The suburban version of Straight Outta Compton. This is probably blasphemous to hardcore N.W.A. fans, but hey, at least they’re not pretending to be somebody they’re not right?.

Two guys pull up at an intersection and start honking at each other. It starts off as a small duel, but ends with an epic outburst of honking, the likes of which you’ve never seen nor heard.

(NSFW: Lyrics, Spoilers) We haven’t seen the prequel to The Thing yet, but Carpenter’s version was one of the scariest films ever. Maybe some music will lighten the mood. Nope, still scary.

Weird Al’s anthem for people who are saddled with human spam. Share the song to them for a not-so-subtle hint. Of course they might think the song sucks and hate you for forwarding crap to them.

A typical YouTube clip with a little girl playing the ukulele. Despite the sappy premise, we can assure you that you’ve never seen (or heard) anything quite like this awesome edit. Don’t miss the end.

If there’s one thing we love at TA, it’s marching bands, so enjoy these three minutes of LMFAO’s Party Rock Anthem and choreography from the Ohio University Marching Band. (Thanks Kyle!)

…just push things forward. That’s the idea behind Chris of Ithaca Audio’s ultra-mashup which combines way too many different bits of music and doesn’t come up for air until it’s over. More here.

The first time we ever saw Jurassic Park, John Williams’ epic theme music was etched into our minds forever. Now Brett Domino tries to pour some words into those deep-set brain-grooves.

By carefully laser-cutting, then mashing up segments of vinyl records, designer Ishac Bershan manages to make (crudely) sampled music without need for a digitizer – just an unhappy needle.

A group of 8 to 10 year-olds performs Enter Sandman at the Buckleberry Beer Festival. We’re less perplexed by kids playing Metallica than why they’re playing at a BEER festival.

NPR’s Adam Cole and Robert Krulwich take us on a literary and historical tour as they sing a song about eponyms and whether or not it is a good or bad thing to become a noun. Go forth and Google.

The music video for Portugal. The Man’s single Sleep Forever is a beautiful tour of the Alaskan wilderness and a haunting treatise on isolation rolled into one. Directed by Michael Ragen.

Composer Matteo Negrin’s music soars thanks to the animated visual accompaniment that Alice Ninni, Luca Cattaneo and Alberto Filippini provided for his “Lacrime Di Giulietta.”

A group of guys in Moscow decide to take a motorcycle ride, and play a little concert while they head down the highway. We’d feel better if they were wearing helmets, though.

The trademark sounds of dubstep are typically achieved with electronic effects, but Pinn Panelle manages to reproduce the musical stylings of Skrillex with guitars, drum and bass (mostly).

26 classic songs, and not a single coherent lyric amongst them – at least not the parts Jane Lui, Michael T. and Jonathan Batiste chose to perform in this medley directed by Joe Sabia.

Marvel at the powerful spellth and legendary ekthploith of the Wizard. Best Merrie Melodie ever made. The only way this would be better is if the young Ozzy Osbourne sung the song.

Alejandro de Antonio made a series of sweet portraits of music icons using vinyl records for the Unconventional Materials project of the Art Room. No word if the pieces are for sale though.