From the details section in the YouTube page

The new music video from OK Go, made in partnership with Chevrolet. OK Go set up over 1000 instruments over two miles of desert outside Los Angeles. A Chevy Sonic was outfitted with retractable pneumatic arms designed to play the instruments, and the band recorded this version of Needing/Getting, singing as they played the instrument array with the car. The video took 4 months of preparation and 4 days of shooting and recording. There are no ringers or stand-ins; Damian took stunt driving lessons. Each piano had the lowest octaves tuned to the same note so that they’d play the right note no matter where they were struck. For more information and behind-the-scenes footage, see http://www.LetsDoThis.com and http://www.okgo.net. Many thanks to Chevy for believing in and supporting such an insane and ambitious project, and to Gretsch for providing the guitars.

Director: Brian L. Perkins & Damian Kulash, Jr.
Director of Photography: Yon Thomas
Editor: Doug Walker
Producer: Luke Ricci

EDIT: I got a couple of concerned emails. No, this did not happen to me. Yet.

Once I lived the life of a PI so rich,
Research was going along without a hitch.
Lab manager, four postdocs and grad students eight,
My lab took up the whole floor, and that felt great.

Five years later it all went to hell,
My renewal was declined, because no papers in Cell.
But I just read an RFA that is out,
I’m going to apply, and get it, without a doubt.

Nobody knows you,
when you lose your grant.
In your funding, not one penny,
and as for postdocs, I haven’t any.

If I ever get back on my feet again,
My department chair will not treat me with disdain.
It’s mighty strange, which is why I’m doing this rant,
Nobody knows you when you lose your grant.

Best version of the original, IMHO:

What a Chevrolet El Camino might look like:

1968 El Camino

Anyhow, the music is great. Here is the first track, Lonely Boy. Enjoy:

And if that gave you a taste for the original, go here.

Source: xkcd.com

The thing is, the game also has a great soundtrack, which introduced me to a band called Koop. Their music alternates between eerie ambient and big-band-ish. They may have a big-band sound, but Koop is just two guys, Magnus Zingmark and Oscar Simonsson. Their sound is completely sampled, from thousands of different sources. The result is, well, judge for yourself:

Having rediscovered “Leck mich im Arsch” (lick my ass, Mozart’s scatological party hit which was unearthed 20 years ago), the musicians revel, Beavis & Butthead fashion in the contrast between the highbrow music and the lowbrow words, setting the three voice canon to a hip-hop beat. The result is, well… words fail me.

NSFW for English and German speakers. Warning: press “play” below at your own risk. What has been heard, cannot be unheard.

Insane Clown Posse – Leck Mich Im Arsch by Third Man Records

If you are still around after that, then here is the original: