BearTube

Up until recently, The Bears loved YouTube and have been ardent followers of the site for a few years. Many happy hours have been spent watching music videos and laughing at some of the crazy antics of people who post videos on the site. Although officially, you were not meant to post copyright music or film/television clips no one cared if you did. The copyright holders couldn’t be bothered chasing people to remove clips because as soon as one was taken down ten more would appear.

…and then Google bought out YouTube and everything changed!

Google have lots of money and vast resources at their disposal so now all of a sudden everything has changed. Copyright holders can threaten Google with legal action if they don’t remove their copyright owned material. YouTube pre-google wasn’t worth the effort because they didn’t have much money and so it wasn’t worth taking them to court.

So now Google spend vast amounts of resources removing copyright material from the YouTube site. One day you can watch a video and really enjoy it and the next it has gone only to be replaced with a sign saying; “Video has been removed following a copyright claim from…”. This was brought to a head recently when we went back through all our Musical Sundays only to find that half the videos no longer worked!

To combat this we set Edward to work to code our site to host and play our very own videos so we do not need to rely on YouTube… he has come up with BearTube and we all love it!

So here, in one place, are all the BearTube videos for you to enjoy…

Kraftwerk – Autobahn

Tina Dico – In The Red

Tracy Chapman – Fast Car

REM – The Great Beyond

Tone Loc – Funky Cold Medina

Tone Loc – Wild Thing

Pretenders – I’ll Stand By You

Radiohead – Creep

Joan Armatrading – Love And Affection

Rickie Lee Jones – Flying Cowboys

Massive Attack (Feat. Hope Sandoval) – Paradise Circus

Owl City – Fireflies

David Bowie – Heroes

Alicia Keys – Empire State of Mind (Part II)

Björk – Big Time Sensuality

Massive Attack – Karmacoma

Nina Simone – My Babe Just Cares For Me

Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby

Class of ’99 – Everyone’s Free To Wear Sunscreen

Free – All Right Now live at The Isle of Wight Festival:

Gary Jules – Mad World:

REM – Leaving New York

Ozzy Osbourne – No More Tears

Black Eyed Peas – Meet Me Half Way

Vanessa Paradis with Alain Lanty – Lucky Guy

Vanessa Paradis – Joe Le Taxi

Zero 7 – Destiny:

REM – Everybody Hurts:

Blind Melon – No Rain:

Marillion – Sugar Mice:

Radiohead – Fake Plastic Trees:

Elvis Presley & Celine Dion – If I Can Dream:

Led Zeppelin – Trampled Underfoot (Live at Earls Court 1975):

Michael Jackson – Billie Jean:

B52′s – Love Shack:

Edwyn Collins – A Girl Like You:

Nirvana – Heart Shaped Box:

Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit:

REM – Electron Blue:

Keane – Bedshaped:

Yes – Turn Of The Century:

The Verve – Bittersweet Symphony:

David Gray – This Year’s Love:

The Omid Djalili Show featuring Signature:

The Gypsy Kings – No Volvere:

Björk – All Is Full Of Love:

Leonard Cohen – The Future:

Neil Young/Nils Lofgren – Sample And Hold:

Neil Young/Nils Lofgren – Computer Love: