Sure, gaming videos have been around since God wore short pants, but being a sound guy and an insatiable consumer of all things musical, I've noticed a new kind of gaming video that's starting to pop up on sites like YouTube.

Gaming musicals.

Maybe it's because I spent way too many nights of my youth dressed in fish-net stockings and singing "Let's do the time warp again," but I've always had a soft spot for cleverly written original music. Especially about popular issues not generally subject of songs.

So when I discover on YouTube a vid that melds gaming and music, I have to watch. And frequenly I enjoy.

Here's two that are well worth mentioning. First, this video puts to song the epic struggle between the PS3 and the XBox 360. Actually, it more than astutely highlights the epic struggle between Sony and itself. Through music and some conference clips of Phil Harrison, it susinctly nails down exactly what has gone wrong with the PS3 and why, ultimately, its phenominal failure can be laid flatly at the feet of the House of Kutaragi.

Even better, it's a really well-written song and performed pretty decently. Proof that not all people who really care about games are 15-year-old fankids!

The second, and by far my favorite, is a take on the bugs that plagued GTA-"inspired" Saints Row. As you all know, though many had an occasional burp, a surprising amount of people who purchased this title were plagued by massive glitches -- from cars disappearing to the dreaded "fall to the center of the Earth."

The author of this vid was obviously one of the unlucky. With nowhere left to complain (because there was certainly enough gripes on numerous forums to document these problems), he wrote "Buggy Saints Row: The Musical" to document how perfectly unplayable and frustrating the game had become.

And again, he kicks ass.

Here's to you, clever gamers, who rather than repeatedly whine in forums about what's wrong with the industry decided to take your frustration and put the energy and talent into finding a whole new way to protest!!

Woot!