Difficulty: Newbie
United Kingdom
Learn and practice the days of the week in English with this fun kids’ video from the American alternative band They Might Be Giants’ album Here Come the 123s!
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Laina "Walker" Morris created this video for a contest held by Justin Beiber to create a "Girlfriend" song in response to his popular song "Boyfriend." When posted to youtube on June 6, 2012, it quickly became a hit through social media.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Here’s another fun clip from the American alternative band They Might Be Giants’ Grammy award winning children’s album Here Come the 123s!
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
From the Monty Python film The Meaning of Life: In heaven, a bright Las Vegas style hotel where every day is Christmas, Graham Chapman plays a cheesy lounge singer resembling Wayne Newton and in this clip he performs the song “Christmas in Heaven.”
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
Monty Python goes posh with this excellent rendition of the above song with choir and fully symphony orchestra. Enjoy it while you are still alive!
Difficulty: Beginner
Northern Ireland
Katie Melua's music video "If You Were a Sailboat" taken from the album Pictures.
Melua said of the song: “What I liked about the song is the fact that a lot of love songs tend to deal with the fluffy nice side of love, but this one deals with how you get very selfish when you fall in love with someone, and you don't want to share them with the world, you just want them all about yourself."
There are plenty of examples of the conditional tense in this song. It's common to say "if I was," but it's technically incorrect. It should be, "if I were." We have left it as is in this song.
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
The band They Might Be Giants constructed a song with lyrics consisting just of the names of countries, so this is a great chance to brush up on the English forms of place names. But one hint: West Xylophone is, unfortunately not really the name of an actual country!
Difficulty: Beginner
New Zealand
Here's another clip from the hilarious Kiwi comedy duo Flight of the Conchords off their self-titled debut album. Its serious subject is our current violent world.
Difficulty: Newbie
United Kingdom
Minidisco presents a song that reviews the names of the family members as well as the names of the different fingers! Enjoy!
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
"Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer" is a beloved Christmas song about a reindeer who is teased about his bright nose until it leads him to a great opportunity.
Difficulty: Newbie
United Kingdom
This song will help you review the names of various jungle animals in English. Just beware of the crocodile!
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Here is a live performance of American singer songwriter Jack Johnson singing his hit song "Taylor". Enjoy!
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
"Frosty the Snowman" is a popular seasonal song, written by Walter "Jack" Rollins and Steve Nelson, about a snowman who comes to life and plays with the kids who built him. He knows very well he won't stay alive for long.
Difficulty: Beginner
Australia
Australians Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave of the band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds sing a beautiful but macabre duet about a man who brought his sweetheart to a river and killed her. A 19th century Irish song entitled “Down in the Willow Garden” inspired Cave to write the song.
Difficulty: Beginner
United Kingdom
The British band Madness had a major UK hit with this song, and with good reason: heartfelt and nutty in equal measure, it would bring the house down at every Madness show. The video — filmed above and below water — is one of their classics, with cameo appearances by Big Bird, a killer whale, and Labi Siffre, who wrote the song.
Difficulty: Newbie
United Kingdom
An animated video of the festive British carol, “We Wish You a Merry Christmas.” The carol's origins are not known, but it was first written down in 1935 by Arthur Sydney Warrell, a Bristol choirmaster.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Canada, Northern Ireland
The Irish Rovers is a Irish-Canadian folk band. Their song "Titanic" is a tribute to the famous RMS Titanic, written on its 100th Anniversary. It tells of the ship’s beginnings and Irish pride, as well as its devastating sinking.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom, USA
Here is Ellie Goulding's hit "Close to Me" featuring Swae Lee and produced by Diplo. The video was filmed in Budapest and has the look of a fashion shoot.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
“Sucker” is the hit single from Jonas Brothers’ album Happiness Begins. It’s their first new music together in five years, and has already been hugely successful. The luxurious video features each of the brothers’ wives, and was filmed in an English country mansion, which was in fact the childhood home of Queen Elizabeth the First!
Difficulty: Beginner
United Kingdom
Michael David Rosenberg, better known by his stage name Passenger, is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Enjoy this acoustic solo performance of his song "Anywhere."
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
The song "Satellite" from the album One Way Home by the Philadelphian rock band The Hooters sees the band railing against TV evangelist schemes.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
The song “Touch Me” by The Doors from their 1969 album “The Soft Parade”.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
"Bad Guy," a song from Billy Eilish’s first studio album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? tells us that although she’s young, she’s not at all afraid to be bad. Any guy she knows had better watch out!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Canada
“How You Remind Me” is from Nickelback’s 2001 album Silver Side Up. Apparently written about a dysfunctional relationship, this power ballad obviously strikes a chord with many people, and is often considered to be the Canadian rock band’s signature song.
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