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Hear the World’s Oldest Known Song, “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” Written 3,400 Years Ago
https://www.openculture.com/2025/04/hear-the-worlds-oldest-known-song-hurrian-hymn-no-6.html
Do you like old timey music? Splendid. You can’t get more old timey than Hurrian Hymn No. 6, which was discovered on a clay tablet in the ancient Syrian port city of Ugarit in the 1950s, and is over 3400 years old.
Leonard Bernstein Introduces the Moog Synthesizer to the World in 1969, Playing an Electrified Version of Bach’s “Little Fugue in G”
When Wendy Carlos released Switched-On Bach in 1968, her “greatest hits” compilation of the Baroque composer’s music, played entirely on the Moog analog synthesizer, the album became an immediate hit with both classical and pop audiences.
Take a Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House, the Mansion That Has Appeared in Blade Runner, Twin Peaks & Countless Hollywood Films
https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/take-a-tour-of-frank-lloyd-wrights-ennis-house.html
There are more than a few of us who'd enjoy the opportunity to live in a house that appears in Blade Runner; there are rather few of us who would value that opportunity at $23 million, the asking price given in the 2019 Architectural Digest video on Frank Lloyd Wright's 1924 Ennis House above.
Watch Errol Morris’s "Tune Out the Noise" Free Online: A Documentary About the Financial Revolution That Transformed Investing
https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/watch-errol-morriss-tune-out-the-noise-free-online.html
How Kraftwerk’s 22-Minute Song “Autobahn” Became an Early Masterpiece in Electronic Music (1975)
It takes about five hours to drive from Düsseldorf to Hamburg on the Autobahn. During that stretch, you can listen to Kraftwerk's album Autobahn seven times — or if you prefer, you can loop its eponymous opening song thirteen times.
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When Soviet Youth Bootlegged Western Rock Music on Discarded X‑Rays: Hear Original Audio Samples
A catchy tribute to mid-century Soviet hipsters popped up a few years back in a song called “Stilyagi” by lo-fi L.A. hipsters Puro Instinct. The lyrics tell of a charismatic dude who impresses “all the girls in the neighborhood” with his “magnitizdat” and guitar. Wait, his what?
The Psychedelic Animated Video for Kraftwerk’s “Autobahn” (1979)
https://www.openculture.com/2023/08/the-psychedelic-animated-video-for-kraftwerks-autobahn-1979.html
“The Virtues of Coffee” Explained in 1690 Ad: The Cure for Lethargy, Scurvy, Dropsy, Gout & More
According to many historians, the English Enlightenment may never have happened were it not for coffeehouses, the public sphere where poets, critics, philosophers, legal minds, and other intellectual gadflies regularly met to chatter about the pressing concerns of the day.
Algerian Cave Paintings Suggest Humans Did Magic Mushrooms 9,000 Years Ago
We moderns might wonder what ancient peoples did when not hunting, gathering, and reproducing. The answer is that they did mushrooms, at least according to one interpretation of cave paintings at Tassili n'Ajjer in Algeria, some of which go back 9,000 years.
