not the designer's intent

[scarfman]

I've never surfed YouTube much. Till last January my major home computer was a laptop from the turn of the century that didn't stream well, and most of my recreational computer time is while the tv's on anyway. When I came across embedded videos in LJ entries I'd skip them, unless they were talked up intriguingly and then I'd remember and come back later. But now I've a better laptop, with a headset jack. I still skip most LJ-embedded video out of habit. But do you know what I use YouTube for? Music.

A selection of things I've found on YouTube that I hadn't heard in ages:
• What's The Name of That Song? [from Sesame Street]
• You Can Call Me Al [the Chevy Chase video]
• Beat It
• Eat It
• Hotel California from Hell Freezes Over
• Torn
• One Week
• I Wanna New Drug
• Girls Just Want to Have Fun
• Sequencer [Al Dimeola]
• The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys
• Shine On You Crazy Diamond
• Can't You Hear Me Knocking?
• Hot Rod Lincoln
• A dandy accoustical jazz guitar arrangement of All Of Me

If civilization falls and the internet fails before I die, I am screwed in so many ways.

Comments

[gordon-r-d.livejournal.com]

That's what i use YouTube for a lot, there's no decent music television shows any more and the two music channels we do pick up are mostly music I don't really like. (Which made it a bit odd when I heard three songs i'd bought on the music channel that was on in the pub last week) these days many of my favourite bands have their own YouTube channels where they put up new videos and diarys and stuff, it's nice.

If you're using Firefox you can get a nifty little add-on called DownloadHelper that lets you download videos off YouTube and many other sires.

[scarfman]

It's not you, man, it's me. Though I think I'm more likely to check out a video in a journal than a community.

[pedanther]

That Chevy Chase video - the existence of which I had somehow previously failed to be aware - is great. I laughed out loud at the bit with the glass of water.

[scarfman]

Simon has the most wonderful low-key sense of humor, and this video is the epitome of it.

[alienfish.livejournal.com]

I have subscribed to three people's Youtube channels. I adore them. This charming young Australian can be hilarious: http://www.youtube.com/user/communitychannel

Then there's someone's Born Again Trek video, which as a fan of the singer I appreciated. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6NfG6vLSbk

And then of course there's "Hey there Cthulhu" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxScTbIUvoA

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

You should check out some of the old commercials. I think my favorite is Joe Namath's pantyhose commercial.

[bewarethespork.livejournal.com]

Speaking of music on YouTube that I hadn't heard in ages, I found Sesame Street's "Put Down the Duckie" there a while ago and had to download it straight away. That was one of my favourite Sesame Street songs as a kid (along with "I would like to visit the moon" and "I am Chicken").

[scarfman]

All of those must be after my time...

[bewarethespork.livejournal.com]

I was born in 1989, but most of the Sesame Street I saw as a kid would have screened in the States in the 80s.

[scarfman]

I was a regular Sesame Street viewer in the early 1970s.

[bewarethespork.livejournal.com]

Ah, that would explain it.

Isn't it interesting how every generation reaches adulthood and suddenly feels like everything was better in their day? I look at the TV shows my younger siblings watch and think, it was all so much better when I was a kid, but it never occurs to me to think that when I was little, all the adults probably thought the same thing.