Ok people, OK Go! If you haven't watched at least a dozen music videos by the band "OK Go" in your lifetime, then you probably will within the next week. I am about to whet your appetite for the best music videos since the 1980s with one that is undoubtably among the VERY best music videos of ALL TIME--the Rube Goldberg machine video for their song "This Too Shall Pass."

Now, it's astonishing that they got all this crap to go down properly in a single take in the first place--and believe me, that's amazing enough right there. That already puts it among the all-time greats. But what is absolutely magical is the impeccable TIMING of it all.

Right off the bat, these ball bearings are rolling down furrows in an inclined board to collide with other ball bearings, and all the little collisions are happening in exact time with the syncopated beat of the song!

And then about 1:20 in, the soundtrack stops and the song is carried on by spoons dangling from a rotating guitar and hitting glasses of water--all perfectly timed to the point that the soundtrack dropped out!

I guess they must be subtly changing the speed of the playback, to make the timing work out so perfectly like that, but if that's what they're doing, it's really not noticeable at all. And if they're NOT doing that, then I dunno, I guess magic is real or something.