# The Youtube "I don't know how I got here" thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 13, 2019, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-youtube-i-dont-know-how-i-got-here-thread/844804 "2019-12-13T12:44:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-youtube-i-dont-know-how-i-got-here-thread/844804/1 "2019-12-13T12:44:57Z")
[Tchaikovsky’s 1812 overture, on two melodicas.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3L_jYY2KC8) Feel free to add one when you find yourself there. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-youtube-i-dont-know-how-i-got-here-thread/844804/2 "2019-12-13T13:04:12Z")
Well if you liked that (I did, thanks!), you’ll probably enjoy a Lithuanian teenager playing Vivaldi’s Four Seasons on an accordion: [Alexandr Hrustevich Vilnius 2013 A.Vivaldi-P.Fenyuk. The four seasons "Summer" 1-3part - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SE222v1eyM) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-youtube-i-dont-know-how-i-got-here-thread/844804/3 "2019-12-13T14:01:12Z")
And here’s a Polish ocarina quartet playing the finale to Beethoven’s First Symphony. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/QuzzDZN4i_w/maxresdefault.jpg "Beethoven Symphony No 1 Finale") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuzzDZN4i_w) ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-youtube-i-dont-know-how-i-got-here-thread/844804/4 "2019-12-13T19:33:09Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/RqXt9wGjTIw/maxresdefault.jpg "Rye Whiskey - Spoon Lady & the Tater Boys") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqXt9wGjTIw) Abby the Spoon Lady - Rye Whiskey ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-youtube-i-dont-know-how-i-got-here-thread/844804/5 "2019-12-13T20:01:16Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/7YeLuDgzxCM/hqdefault.jpg "Princess Chelsea - Monkey Eats Bananas") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YeLuDgzxCM) Princess Chelsea - Monkey Eats Bananas Funny thing is she doesn’t make children’s music, she actually has some great (IMO) songs. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-youtube-i-dont-know-how-i-got-here-thread/844804/6 "2019-12-13T21:30:08Z")
I’m still not entirely sure how I ended up at [these gravure idols](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeyu92mBL_7Ef3qA5I3txVg/videos). ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-youtube-i-dont-know-how-i-got-here-thread/844804/7 "2019-12-13T21:43:22Z")
_[Teenage Dirtbag](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw8ZDwdyHJQ)_ covered by the The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. This … is … a … thing. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-youtube-i-dont-know-how-i-got-here-thread/844804/8 "2019-12-13T21:55:43Z")
I can’t remember how I wound up watching [this video of a Korean musician playing AC/DC’s “Back in Black” on a gayageum](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEpVDafY6Z8) (a traditional Korean harp). ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-youtube-i-dont-know-how-i-got-here-thread/844804/9 "2019-12-13T22:15:20Z")
Here’s a catchy tune on a marble machine. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/IvUU8joBb1Q/maxresdefault.jpg "Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-youtube-i-dont-know-how-i-got-here-thread/844804/10 "2019-12-14T02:31:00Z")
Don’t know why it appeared on my feed but this video about [Fostering a Newborn Piglet!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvPNL1ShBPQ) is a cuteness overload. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-youtube-i-dont-know-how-i-got-here-thread/844804/11 "2019-12-14T07:41:46Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > Well if you liked that (I did, thanks!), you’ll probably enjoy a Lithuanian teenager playing Vivaldi’s Four Seasons on an accordion: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SE222v1eyM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SE222v1eyM) People should take a minute to consider that he is playing those thousands of notes and the thousands of precise lapses of time between them from memory, without even looking at the keys. The human mind is amazing. Philosophical sidetrack here: Music as a meme, in Dawking’s original meaning, those notes, in that particular combination; Vivaldi created the meme way back then and since that time, as the DNA in an organism does, it has used humans as it’s host to replicate and evolve. It’s a bundle of information, not written in molecules but the fundamental language of the universe, that of mathematics and the properties of waves, which after its creation has used our innate and unconscious appreciation for those principles to live on as a sort of spiritual being that only materializes before us as a ritual of invocation is performed. In this case with an accordion, neat, no? > [@Cumberdale](#): > > Abby the Spoon Lady - Rye Whiskey That’s good, but I got hooked on the life story of that lady; people, check it out, it’s fascinating. > [@Skywatcher](#): > > I’m still not entirely sure how I ended up at [these gravure idols](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeyu92mBL_7Ef3qA5I3txVg/videos). Uhmmm, I’d go with the “It’s research!” excuse. > [@ftg](#): > > _[Teenage Dirtbag](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw8ZDwdyHJQ)_ covered by the The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. > > This … is … a … thing. And the world is a better place for it. > [@control-z](#): > > Princess Chelsea - Monkey Eats Bananas > > Funny thing is she doesn’t make children’s music, she actually has some great (IMO) songs. I think the banana was laced with LSD. > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I can’t remember how I wound up watching [this video of a Korean musician playing AC/DC’s “Back in Black” on a gayageum](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEpVDafY6Z8) (a traditional Korean harp). Korea, mid 18th century, at a suddenly very quiet great hall: _“I guess you guys aren’t ready for that, but your grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand kids are gonna love it”_ > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Don’t know why it appeared on my feed but this video about [Fostering a Newborn Piglet!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvPNL1ShBPQ) is a cuteness overload. Is it redundant to go _squeeee!_? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-youtube-i-dont-know-how-i-got-here-thread/844804/12 "2019-12-14T13:54:13Z")
“Zadok the Priest”, the British coronation anthem, on a ukelele. It’s actually quite good. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xXuRitKtaRQ/hqdefault.jpg "Zadok The Priest") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXuRitKtaRQ) ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-youtube-i-dont-know-how-i-got-here-thread/844804/13 "2019-12-14T16:57:33Z")
How do you do this with only four strings - Alexei Arkhipovskiy [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/jvL_oinkNlc/maxresdefault.jpg "Alexey Arkhipovsky in California") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvL_oinkNlc) ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2019, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-youtube-i-dont-know-how-i-got-here-thread/844804/14 "2019-12-15T15:10:07Z")
[NESSUN DORMA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEcZFvGVGf0) on Theremin by Thomas Grillo. Hey, y’know what? One good theremin performance of Nessum Dorma deserves another: [Peter Pringle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2cQ7NYM_Wc) using theremin and talking machine. (The most disturbing thing about that is the fact that the orchestral backing track exists - karaoke, anyone?) Light relief: an early teen [Amy Winehouse does Shakespeare](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_C4dYHm6ZQ) on the Fast Show (@ 0.04). j ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2019, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-youtube-i-dont-know-how-i-got-here-thread/844804/15 "2019-12-15T20:22:08Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > Korea, mid 18th century, at a suddenly very quiet great hall: > > _“I guess you guys aren’t ready for that, but your grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand kids are gonna love it”_ Hee hee hee. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2019, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-youtube-i-dont-know-how-i-got-here-thread/844804/16 "2019-12-15T22:26:29Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > _[Teenage Dirtbag](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw8ZDwdyHJQ)_ covered by the The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. > > This … is … a … thing. This is an amazing thing. At the Royal Albert Hall, as part of one of the Proms, transforming _Teenage Dirtbag_ into a kind of folk song is just wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-youtube-i-dont-know-how-i-got-here-thread/844804/17 "2019-12-16T00:19:56Z")
On my old computer I had some YT links to a Vietnamese woman playing classic rock standards on some traditional Vietnamese stringed instrument. Lost it when my old computer tanked. Anyone know who I’m talking about? ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-youtube-i-dont-know-how-i-got-here-thread/844804/18 "2019-12-16T00:22:45Z")
[Nevermind, found her.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfOHjeI-Bns) ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-youtube-i-dont-know-how-i-got-here-thread/844804/19 "2019-12-16T00:32:06Z")
[Korean, not Vietnamese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayageum) Eh, [here’s more.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naEagcsjLNw) ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-youtube-i-dont-know-how-i-got-here-thread/844804/20 "2019-12-16T01:38:38Z")
[Reverend Peyton](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWCcLW08dsU) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-youtube-i-dont-know-how-i-got-here-thread/844804.md?page=2)