$1.1 Billion in Ringtones & Other Music Oddities



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Billion-dollar ringtones, trance music at the airport, 1950s indie rock: This is your second round-up of weird music facts that didn’t make the cut for a full Bandsplaining video, but are deliciously intriguing nonetheless.

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0:10 Fact #1: Weird Music Formats
1:00 The Champs – “Tequila” (ringtone edition)
1:23 Franz Ferdinand – “Take Me Out” (ringtone edition)
1:30 Soulja Boy – “Crank That” (ringtone edition)
2:05 Arctic Monkeys – “A Certain Romance”
2:13 Incogni
3:35 Fact #2: Weird Music Venues
4:30 Zero Gravity – “Sensorium”
5:37 Sylvester – “You Make Me Feel”
5:58 Moskwa TV – “Tekno Talk”
6:12 Dance 2 Trance – “Sit Together”
8:02 Fact #3 Weird Eras
9:18 “Boogie Woogie” Royalty free music by Giorgio Di Campo
9:25 Howlin’ Wolf – “Smokestack Lightning”
9:30 The Supremes – “Come See About Me”
10:00 The Coasters – “Searchin”
10:09 Led Zeppelin – “How Many More Times” (live)
10:46 Sigur Rรณs – “Svefn-G-Englar”
10:47 Lil B – “Flex 36”
10:49 SOPHIE – “It’s Okay To Cry”
10:52 Saint Pepsi – “Enjoy Yourself”
11:20 Chuck Berry with John Lennon & Yoko Ono – “School Days”
11:25 Fact #4: Weird Languages
11:39 The Kingsmen – “Louie Louie”
11:47 Las Ketchup – “The Ketchup Song”
11:51 Sigur Rรณs – “Untitled #8”
12:12 Adriano Celentano – “Prisencolinensinainciusol”
12:22 Adriano Celentano – “Jailhouse Rock”
12:25 Adriano Celentano – “Impazzivo Per Te”
12:30 Adriano Celentano – “L’emozione non ha voce”
13:13 Adriano Celentano – “Prisencolinensinainciusol” (Bandsplaining Remix)

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