Music: like a microwave or successful relationship, I don’t understand how it works. Obviously, when God was handing out musical understanding and skill I must have snuck back into the penis line wearing an eye patch. This is a video of Neil Diamond’s 1969 classic ‘Sweet Caroline’ in a minor

This is a video of the Village People’s iconic alphabet shape learning song ‘YMCA’ as edited by Youtuber Oleg Berg in a minor key. It hits different than the original. Is that what the kids are saying these days? See, I’m hip. How do you do, fellow kids? Seriously though,

This is a video of musician Charles Berthoud (previously) playing an electric bass with its strings replaced with a cello’s. The result is beautiful, it almost sounds like a harp. Speaking of — have I told you I pay a woman dressed as an ancient Greek to play a large

Because nothing quite says gangster’s dreamworld like a resonant transformer producing high-voltage, low-current, high-frequency alternating-current electricity, this is a video of Coolio’s 1995 banger ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ performed by a trio of Tesla Coils. Damn, that came out in 1995? Feels like it was just yesterday, doesn’t it? “Not at all.”

These are two videos of musician Marc Chouarain performing the Interstellar and Harry Potter themes on a crystal baschet (aka crystal organ). What’s a crystal baschet? Hey — I donated, Wikipedia, don’t you side-eye me: Models of the crystal organs range from 3.5 to 6 octaves and are made of

Music: it’s all around us. Except in an airport bathroom, those are just farts. This is a video of musician Nicolas Bras building a four and a half octave PVC percussion instrument to recreate the sound of popping a finger out of your cheek or the top of a bottle,

Because Youtuber There I Ruined It (previously) won’t stop until it has indeed all been ruined, this is a cover of The Rolling Stones’ 1965 classic ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ in the style of a ragtime song. I feel like it’s the sort of song that, had it been

The Beatles: some people love them, some people hate them, and some people are indifferent to their music. Me? I’ve never heard of them until now. But Youtuber Broccaloo has used OpenAI’s Jukebox, a “neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres