The Web’s Best Video Clips: Videos With A Brain

A very unique acoustic guitar performance by Erik. There’s not much in the way of a discernable melody, but the guitar tone and the mix of percussive and tap-style playing and quite intricate and multi-layered. More about him at ErikMongrain.com.
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The full title is actually “Leaping Shampoo and the stable Kaye effect”….but Leaping Shampoo just seemed more compelling somehow. This short scientific video is an exploration of an observed phenomenon when pouring a thin stream of liquid shampoo. The explanation itself is interesting, but the photography alone makes it more than worth the time investment [...]

Cute goofs with Janeway, Q, Riker, Sisko, Tuvok and others.
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A DJ is sent to a busy city block where his job is to untangle a series of related tragic events. Behold…the power of…”the groove”.
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Jeremy Clarkson laments the “safe” methods of car disposal…and suggests that there are other, more “fun”, routes to the same end.
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Originally written and recorded by Switchfoot, this scintillating pop masterpiece is from the soundtrack of the 2002 film “A Walk to Remember”, which stars Mandy along with Shane West (currently seen as Dr. Ray Barnett on NBC’s ER). Very powerful.
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One of the most unique (and often imitated) singers in pop/rock music over the past 30 years. Michael McDonald took over the lead vocal responsibilities of the Doobie Brothers for several years after serving as a studio vocalist for Steely Dan on many of their greatest hits. This video contains clips from the 1986 film [...]

Mylon was the offspring of a famous family in Southern Gospel music: The LeFevres. He was successful at an early age. At 17 years old, he wrote his first song, “Without Him,” while in the Army. The gospel song was recorded by Elvis Presley in 1963, and within the next year, 126 artists had recorded [...]

Possibly the strongest song from the powerful musical Jesus Christ Superstar by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Ted, who portrayed Jesus in the 1973 film of the musical, really delivers an emotional performance on Leno’s Tonight Show. He began playing the role in the early Seventies and is finally retiring from it 35 years [...]

A great Southern California band that had hit after hit. The songs were all skillfully-performed, but the real power of the band was its great songwriting. In this 1976 recording of what is generally considered one of the great rock songs of all time, the band lineup is: Don Henley on drums and lead vocals, [...]