Best YouTube videos on Music
4 videos our team picked as worth your time. Paste any of them into YouTube Collector for the full transcript, a chaptered summary, and search across everything you save.
Before 1989: How Manchester Became MADchester
How a grey post-industrial city birthed one of Britain's most euphoric music scenes, the bands, clubs and clashing subcultures that fused guitars with acid-house rhythms. (Published 28 Sep 2022)
From Detroit With Love: A History of Techno Music
How three friends in 1980s Detroit turned drum machines and synthesizers into techno, and how that sound traveled the world. An accessible deep-dive into the origins, pioneers and machines. (Published 2 Aug 2024)
Note by Note: The Making of a Steinway Piano | Musical Instrument | ENDEVR Documentary
It takes a year and 12,000 parts to build one Steinway grand piano. A beautiful, meditative film following a single instrument from raw timber to concert stage. (Published 1 Jan 2021)
What Makes This Song Great? "Comfortably Numb" (Pink Floyd)
Producer Rick Beato pulls apart the master tracks of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb," isolating Gilmour's vocals, the layered guitars and those two legendary solos to reveal exactly why the song hits the way it does. (Published 2 Jun 2021)