h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This not youtube but Break, a *very flexible* girl, if it's been here before

http://www.break.com/index/extremely_flexible_girl.html

another Break one

http://www.break.com/index/flute_beat_boxing.html

Paul Shane's singing career begins and ends on Pebble Mill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKSb-B2aiJA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlRnCUnbFqE

The non-existent singing talents of Patrick McNee + Honor Blackman (1964). Serious candidate for the most horrible gouge-in-vinyl ever perpetrated.

The curious Electric Brae:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o3ael_PHyo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4URbeUXe1s

At one minute forty six seconds into this video, a pale blue glider flies straight out of the sun towards the camera, then banks out to the left of the frame.

That's me.

SoRB

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u9Vl2tPJaQ

A train collides with a nuclear container.

Thirteen seconds of brilliant juggling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUy1C3Qet9w

Right out of left-field

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jpNfPP3FKRA

For those of a certain age...a little compilation of your youth.

*swirlybackintimefog*

You're going back, baaaaack, baaaaaaack

Part the first

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WboSN1ApPM8&mode=related&search=

Part the twoth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmVhyBI_wfU&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nej4xJe4Tdg&mode=related&search=

I've always been a big fan of Weird Al Yankovic. He's really very, very good at what he does, visually, musically, and especially verbally. His lyrical pastiches are rarely less than very good and occasionally absolutely brilliant (I'm thinking here especially of his incredibly detailed summary of the plot of "The Phantom Menace" done as "American Pie").

But this one takes the cake. The video is of course a homage to "Subterranean Homesick Blues", and although the style is similar, the tune isn't that close to the original. But it's the lyrics that I find myself shaking my head in wonder at. The original lyrics were incredibly dense, swiftly delivered, and unless you were paying close attention and got the references, didn't seem to make a lot of sense.

Weird Al's lyrics may not seem to make much sense either... until you read them backwards. It's at that point you bow down to the sheer linguistic chutzpah (not to mention skill) required to write a song in which EVERY SINGLE LINE is a palindrome, then perform it in a style where it seems appropriate. We're not worthy.

SoRB

When the book was new technology, people called the medieval version of helpdesk to help them understand it. Maybe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek


Geggs

"It's at that point you bow down to the sheer linguistic chutzpah (not to mention skill) required to write a song in which EVERY SINGLE LINE is a palindrome, then perform it in a style where it seems appropriate. "

Not to mention the fact that they rhyme. That's what impressed me most.

B

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvWqOm8u2jQ&NR=1

No no no no no.

PP

Another Weird Al video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWc6QQ9JlMc

Ah. I didn't realise my mother was on Youtube.

B

Nah, this is the version of White & Nerdy you want:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw

But you can point and laugh at Donny for so much longer in the first one.

Here´s one for you steampunk-lovers out there. A man riding a mechanical tiger:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QMaS4pB9rw

Apologies if this has already been left.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLSRIeFz7Aw

I hope I don't get reported as a spammer, as this is the third place I've left that link...