Best soundtrack for cute animal videos?

November 25, 2023 10:27 AM

For animal-focused videos without natural sound, what's on the other end of the spectrum that starts with human-speaking-as-animal or fast vaudeville music? If you've been favorably impressed with a non-topical soundtrack, what was it?

In a way this is subjective, but there are probably answers that work best for a few large groups of people.

If you're watching a video of animal activity, cute or otherwise (cats, horses, wombats, whatever), what's the best soundtrack for you?

There's an obnoxious end of the sound spectrum (people speaking in character as the animals, vaudeville music). What's on the other end?

If you have training in this, awesome. If you don't, please tell me what works for _you_ specifically.

I mean, if you're not Randall or Ze Frank.

Thanks!

I see no reason not to answer with good example links - but I swear I didn't think of that until just now as I am typing this.

posted by amtho to Grab Bag (4 answers total)

It depends on what the animal is doing, but Mancini's Baby Elephant Walk is an inoffensive background to low-key activity.
posted by SPrintF at 11:02 AM on November 25, 2023

I remember finding The Inchworm by Jack Costanzo to be a perfect puppy video soundtrack.
posted by rongorongo at 4:30 PM on November 25, 2023

Are you planning on uploading this to YouTube? If so, you'll want to pick something that isn't in the content ID database (e.g. most music from major and even some minor record labels) if you want to monetize it and/or not worry about it being removed; this is why most videos like yours end up with some random track from the YouTube Audio Library or similarly-licensed source.
posted by Aleyn at 4:40 PM on November 25, 2023

Response by poster: Thanks for the answers so far.

I should have said: I'm not looking for a specific song so much as a genre or qualities of the sound. Also, it doesn't have to be music/a song. But the song recommendations are good too -- I can analyze them and figure out if there is a class of song that fits.

Thanks! More please!
posted by amtho at 2:26 AM on November 26, 2023