Music
Unusual musicians, songs, instruments, styles of music, and music-related articles.
ABC-DEF-GHI A song sung by Big Bird of Sesame Street where he tries to discern the meaning of a very long word (which is actually the alphabet). (This is not an article about the other, more popular, alphabet song.)
Animutation The practice of taking lyrics of foreign songs, "mishearing" them into English, and producing a flash video to go along with it.
As Slow As Possible A piece of music by John Cage to be performed until 2640.
Rosemary Brown A spiritualist who claimed that dead composers dictated new musical works to her.
Dark Side of the Rainbow What happens when you mix Pink Floyd and The Wizard of Oz?
Das erste Wiener Gemüseorchester An Austrian orchestra whose musical instruments are made solely from vegetables.
Earworm A term used for an annoying song that a person cannot get out of their head.
Elvis sightings There are many who still believe.
Florence Foster Jenkins An American soprano famous for her singing ability or lack thereof.
Joyce Hatto A minor pianist who had many doctored recordings falsely attributed to her long after she stopped performing in public.
Kazumi Totaka A music composer who hides his own song in many video games.
Helikopter-Streichquartett A string quartet that must be played in four circling helicopters, the sound remixed, chopper sounds an all, for an audience on the ground.
Hitler Has Only Got One Ball Was the führer only half a man?
Industrial musical A musical production performed for the employees of a business, intended to create a feeling of being part of a team, and/or to educate and motivate the management and salespeople to improve sales and profit.
Jandek A prolific and pseudonymous singer/songwriter active since 1978 who only grants the occasional interview and has never provided any biographical information.
Katzenklavier The "Cat piano"; making music from howling cats
Keepon A music video starring a little yellow robot designed to work with autistic children
Lick me in the a** A canon by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Manualism The little-known art of playing music by squeezing air through the hands.
More cowbell I got a fever, and the only prescription... is more cowbell!
Musikalisches Würfelspiel A system written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in which the musical piece is decided randomly by playing dice.
P Funk mythology An article about the whimsical universe surrounding the P Funk all stars.
Paul is dead Was Paul McCartney replaced by a lookalike in the 1960s?
Pink Floyd pigs The band's recurring props and references.
Thai Elephant Orchestra An orchestra of elephants playing specially designed instruments.
Ugly stick The ugly stick: a real instrument in Newfoundland, part of an insult everywhere else.
Up to eleven This article is one louder.
William Shatner's musical career His rendition of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds regularly wins radio station competitions to find the "worst music of all time".
You Suffer At a full 1.316 seconds in length, the shortest song of all time
Give everything but up.
