Best Music from Sesame Street

A few years ago there was a thread in the BOC sub-forum discussing the various samples that came from Sesame Street (ROYGBIV alphaquest mix, Whitewater, Sunshine Recorder, ect). Considering that many of us probably grew up with Sesame Street music being some of the first music we ever listened to, I was curious know if anyone had particular favorites? I grew up with the late-80s/early 90's songs that I still love the new-wave/synthpop aesthetic from.

We're tapping on that space bar, moving to the beat, rolling on the track ball, computing with our feeeeeeeet!
Watch the cursor moving! Hear the disk drive groovin'!

Only song I've ever heard that fairly seamlessly mixes vague dark-wave with 50s rock and roll, thoroughly terrified me of everything though when I was 3 years old

Stuck in my head continuously since I was 4, still one of the coolest art styles I've ever seen in a kid's show

Does anyone else have any favorites either in terms of either music or video aesthetics?

Obvious IDM-approved choice:

Still one of my favourites:

  On 6/15/2015 at 3:45 PM, Araungzeb said:

 

Stuck in my head continuously since I was 4, still one of the coolest art styles I've ever seen in a kid's show

 

 

Does anyone else have any favorites either in terms of either music or video aesthetics?

Dude, I just got smacked with the memories of hearing this as a kid. I'm going to have this stuck in my head all day, sincere thank you for that!

Awhile back Mike Haley (tabs out podcast) posted a bunch of found experimental music on kid's tv, a lot of which is on PBS or Henson productions from the same era as classic Sesame Street.

my personal favorite for tabla and sitar psychedelia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euJmyBimDBM

Sesamstraat incoming

Good ole Phily G

  On 6/15/2015 at 11:53 PM, ShammenDelly said:

Good ole Phily G

 

The last time I saw this was as a kid, I only remember that I liked it a lot. And now I find out it was Philip Glass behind it! Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYEqIVGskuY

prog as fuck!!

no wonder I ended up loving prog, it was all throughout my childhood and I didn't even know it.

  On 6/15/2015 at 8:33 PM, joshuatx said:

 

Awhile back Mike Haley (tabs out podcast) posted a bunch of found experimental music on kid's tv, a lot of which is on PBS or Henson productions from the same era as classic Sesame Street.

This video is like the entire visual/sonic basis of Oneohtrix Point Never's most recent album, especially "problem areas." Also is that a young LeVar Burton, or am I just really awful with faces? If so, Reading Rainbow was WAY more awesome than I remembered.

  On 6/15/2015 at 11:48 PM, th555 said:

Sesamstraat incoming

This sounds 100x more awesome in German, I never thought the English version was particularly special but this rocks. Does anyone know if German was the original language for this one and then got translated for the American version?

  On 6/16/2015 at 12:06 PM, Araungzeb said:

 

  On 6/15/2015 at 11:48 PM, th555 said:

Sesamstraat incoming

This sounds 100x more awesome in German, I never thought the English version was particularly special but this rocks. Does anyone know if German was the original language for this one and then got translated for the American version?

It's not German, it's Dutch :) I'm also pretty sure the original is from the US.

German lol

  On 6/16/2015 at 12:17 PM, Herr Jan said:

 

It's not German, it's Dutch :) I'm also pretty sure the original is from the US.

 

Gah, that's my stupid American lack of language knowledge right there :P I guess my German is my default guess for anything that isn't French, Spanish or Latvian. I'm curious though, does anyone else have interesting non-English clips? I've never really known to what extent non-American versions had simple translations of English language sketches vs original country-specific material.

Yea I'm fine with every language. Latvian sesame stritski would be cool.

Big Bird is blue in the Netherlands (and some other countries) instead of yellow.

Another good one:

  On 6/16/2015 at 12:06 PM, Araungzeb said:

 

  On 6/15/2015 at 8:33 PM, joshuatx said:

 

Awhile back Mike Haley (tabs out podcast) posted a bunch of found experimental music on kid's tv, a lot of which is on PBS or Henson productions from the same era as classic Sesame Street.

This video is like the entire visual/sonic basis of Oneohtrix Point Never's most recent album, especially "problem areas." Also is that a young LeVar Burton, or am I just really awful with faces? If so, Reading Rainbow was WAY more awesome than I remembered.

Pretty sure it is. Music is from 1984 by a guy named Daniel Lentz and it's very OPN-esque, fits into that category of music that he seems to, knowingly or not, draw from and/or have a lot of similarities with.

It's funny how much electronic and experimental music I liked as a kid through stuff like this, but not active listening, considering I really didn't listen to much besides rock and pop until high school. But kids programming, those synth bits in rock songs, VGM, etc. all steered me toward music like IDM and ambient and drone.

I made this track with heavy sampling usage from a famous Sesame Street bit many years ago... Man, I haven't listened to this one ina long time, this one was a fun track to make.

  On 6/15/2015 at 8:21 PM, Joyrex said:

Still one of my favourites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqPcQeMEnFc

https://youtu.be/C7bbuvgV2Fo

  On 6/16/2015 at 6:22 AM, modey said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYEqIVGskuY

 

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One of my favorites as a kid!

I like this one for the simple, wholesome message

top marks to this one for unusual instrumentation