Major Scaled #1 : Metallica – “Nothing Else Majeur” from major scaled on Vimeo.

You’ve probably seen/heard the video where REM’s Losing My Religion is pitch shifted so that all those depressing minor notes are replaced by upbeat major notes. It’s all the work of Vimeo’s Major Scaled – but as awesome as Hearing REM sounding all happy is, personally I think their best work was done on Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters, above.

I know this song back and forth from my high school years spent blasting it through 80 watts of pure, angsty, four speaker power out the open windows of my Volvo Station Wagon. It was cool, and therefore by association I was cool. Together, we were awesome.

And now…now…all I hear is…

Oh man have I been negligent in my posting duties. So to make it up to you wonderful, beautiful people, today I’m posting a double-whammy – two of my favorite videos from 2012 (really, they’re both from about 2010, but I didn’t discover either until 2012 so deal with it.)

You might remember Bobby McFerrin from an earlier post called Music Is A Human Universal – or from his 80’s hit Don’t Worry – Be Happy. If you only know him from the second reference, what you might not know is that the dude is as close as we’ve come to a living, human synthesizer. He’s able to do with his mouth and body what us less evolved people are only able to do with a five piece backing band. Even more impressive, he’s also an enabler of others.

For my first piece of evidence, above is Bobby getting 50,000 people singing in nearly perfect harmony along with a purely improvisational piece he’s inventing on the spot.

Not impressed yet? Fine, lemme bring out the big guns: Here’s Bobby McFerrin getting a crowd of hundreds of complete strangers to simultaneously sing one of the most difficult arias ever written: Gounod’s Ave Maria.

I think even the most doubtful of you can admit that’s impossibly, impressively, talented.

When the robots inevitably rise for the final battle against humanity, this is the video that we’ll mark as the beginning of the end. That being said, the concept of “Cognitive Computing” is pretty cool…

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a HUGE Tron fan, but this is above and beyond fandom and delving straight into pure unadulterated awesomeness.

Red Bull isn’t the kind of brand to half-ass things. They’ve got a lock on their particular style and voice, and when they decide to do something, they go big.

So when Red Bull decides to do a Rube Golberg Machine partially powered by their stable of sponsored athletes, (and they have some experience in this area) you can imagine the results. (Or you can just click play and not have to imagine, but where’s the fun in that? Give it 30 seconds of imagination first. I guarantee it’ll impress you.)

This is the halftime performance of The Ohio State University Marching Band on 10/6/12 against Nebraska. The theme was Video games and includes references to Zelda, Halo, Pokemon, Tetris, and more.