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March 4, 2011 4:48 AM Subscribe
monkey_g at 0.59, 5 days ago, writes: "this totally kicks ass". BUT... generationXile, 7 days ago, writes: "oh god this is a travesty. Why god why would anyone do this? Im sorry, I mean this person obviously has skill, but this is just a horrible mash of two great songs. I feel sick having listened to it. I just registered for this site, probably never going to come back, just to voice my disgust for the amazingly horrid error in judgment that is this song. I hurt having listened to it.". Now YOU decide, which one of them (if either) is correct in their critical assessment of Imagine A Jump?
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Ain't the worst that I've see-een.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 4:54 AM on March 4, 2011 [4 favorites]
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 4:54 AM on March 4, 2011 [4 favorites]
Ain't the worst that I've see-een.
D'oh! Shoulda been my post title!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 4:58 AM on March 4, 2011
D'oh! Shoulda been my post title!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 4:58 AM on March 4, 2011
I've heard some utterly brilliant mashups. I've heard some astoundingly terrible mashups. Never have I heard a mashup that is quite this... disorienting. I feel like I need to go sit down and I'm already sitting down.
This is very something.
posted by NMcCoy at 5:10 AM on March 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
This is very something.
posted by NMcCoy at 5:10 AM on March 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
Jesus fuck, this makes David Lee Roth sound . . . well, thoughtful. Egad. And yet so catchy that I'll be cursing flapjax's name roundly when I'm humming this for the millionth time while dog walking sometime soon.
posted by FelliniBlank at 5:12 AM on March 4, 2011
posted by FelliniBlank at 5:12 AM on March 4, 2011
Well, I made it 15 seconds into the thing.
If there is any justice in this world, this would be the big asteroid that makes the mashup extinct.
posted by Thorzdad at 5:13 AM on March 4, 2011
If there is any justice in this world, this would be the big asteroid that makes the mashup extinct.
posted by Thorzdad at 5:13 AM on March 4, 2011
I love Lennon, and Van Halen bores me to tears, but surprisingly, I like this. Incredibly well done, I thought - I'd even throw the song on my iPod for occasional play...
posted by newfers at 5:20 AM on March 4, 2011
posted by newfers at 5:20 AM on March 4, 2011
Not a fan of the originals, but this I really enjoyed.
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies at 5:24 AM on March 4, 2011
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies at 5:24 AM on March 4, 2011
You are exactly right, it does make David Lee Roth sound thoughtful. Which is exactly why I never really listen to song lyrics. There's basically no information content there.
posted by DU at 5:24 AM on March 4, 2011
posted by DU at 5:24 AM on March 4, 2011
I like it. Takes two songs that have been played to death and turned into schmaltz and makes something new out of them. What's not to like? What hasn't already been done with "Imagine" that's a hundred times worse?
posted by blucevalo at 5:26 AM on March 4, 2011
posted by blucevalo at 5:26 AM on March 4, 2011
Looks like the creator is one "Mighty Mike" who has a bunch more here.
(Hopefully not a repeat from the post link--I can't follow it. I had to find the same thing at YouTube.)
posted by DU at 5:27 AM on March 4, 2011
(Hopefully not a repeat from the post link--I can't follow it. I had to find the same thing at YouTube.)
posted by DU at 5:27 AM on March 4, 2011
well, i have to give this a thumbs up. i'll just go off to the corner and cry now.
posted by quonsar II: smock fishpants and the temple of foon at 5:28 AM on March 4, 2011
posted by quonsar II: smock fishpants and the temple of foon at 5:28 AM on March 4, 2011
I imagine this becoming the new Gloomy Sunday. A string of disillusioned suburbanites will be found amongst scattered pills and spilled vodka with this still spinning on the turntable.
posted by RokkitNite at 5:28 AM on March 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by RokkitNite at 5:28 AM on March 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
I don't care what people say about the derivativeness of mash-ups. That someone can listen to Imagine and Jump and think of a way for them to work together such that something entirely different from either one emerges? Pure genius.
posted by charred husk at 5:37 AM on March 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by charred husk at 5:37 AM on March 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
Better than either song it mashes, by quite a wide margin.
JUMP is actually a very well-written song which is destroyed by VH's performance. It's been covered by oodles of people, often well. Roddy Frame's version with Aztec Camera was my previous favorite and was very much in the spirit of this version, but the tinkling Imagine piano plus DLR's hoarseness really makes this better.
IMAGINE on the other hand is a piece of dreck as a song, which is betrayed by the fact that it is impossible to cover without sounding like a complete moron. Lennon's version only persists, perhaps rightly, because of the context of who's singing it, when they sang it, and what happened to them afterwards. Coming out of his mouth, it sounds poignant and naive, although still fundamentally annoying.
Coming out of anyone else's, it's a trainwreck.
posted by unSane at 5:47 AM on March 4, 2011 [2 favorites]
JUMP is actually a very well-written song which is destroyed by VH's performance. It's been covered by oodles of people, often well. Roddy Frame's version with Aztec Camera was my previous favorite and was very much in the spirit of this version, but the tinkling Imagine piano plus DLR's hoarseness really makes this better.
IMAGINE on the other hand is a piece of dreck as a song, which is betrayed by the fact that it is impossible to cover without sounding like a complete moron. Lennon's version only persists, perhaps rightly, because of the context of who's singing it, when they sang it, and what happened to them afterwards. Coming out of his mouth, it sounds poignant and naive, although still fundamentally annoying.
Coming out of anyone else's, it's a trainwreck.
posted by unSane at 5:47 AM on March 4, 2011 [2 favorites]
Like making a beautiful calzone filled with cat shit.
posted by rdone at 6:08 AM on March 4, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by rdone at 6:08 AM on March 4, 2011 [2 favorites]
Metafilter: like making a beautiful calzone filled with cat shit.
posted by nonreflectiveobject at 6:13 AM on March 4, 2011
posted by nonreflectiveobject at 6:13 AM on March 4, 2011
I have yet to hear a mashup I liked. This doesn't change anything.
posted by Daddy-O at 6:13 AM on March 4, 2011
posted by Daddy-O at 6:13 AM on March 4, 2011
Oooh, I'll just jump in and say something really controversial about one of the most revered figures in the history of music. That'll get them going!
And then I'll say something equally outrageous about John Lennon!
posted by kink at 6:23 AM on March 4, 2011 [3 favorites]
And then I'll say something equally outrageous about John Lennon!
posted by kink at 6:23 AM on March 4, 2011 [3 favorites]
I heard this on the radio back in January. It made me rage. Thumbs-down.
posted by dry white toast at 6:29 AM on March 4, 2011
posted by dry white toast at 6:29 AM on March 4, 2011
Clever does not equal good. I was going to link to the Aztec Camera cover because I remember how surprising it was when it came out. Which is kind of what this is - two songs that have cultural lives that are distinct from the quality of the songs themselves, smashed together to make something that has less musical impact than it does cultural/associative.
Imagine isn't a crappy song either- it's brutally simple, which means a shitty interpretation has no fancy stuff to hide it's shittiness behind.
" Loud Magic Song" this was not.
posted by From Bklyn at 6:36 AM on March 4, 2011
Imagine isn't a crappy song either- it's brutally simple, which means a shitty interpretation has no fancy stuff to hide it's shittiness behind.
" Loud Magic Song" this was not.
posted by From Bklyn at 6:36 AM on March 4, 2011
And
might as well say the old folks, just goes to show you never can tell
posted by From Bklyn at 6:38 AM on March 4, 2011
might as well say the old folks, just goes to show you never can tell
posted by From Bklyn at 6:38 AM on March 4, 2011
I should also link to David Lee Roth's absolutely awesome, in a mind-altering way, bluegrass cover of JUMP.
posted by unSane at 6:50 AM on March 4, 2011
posted by unSane at 6:50 AM on March 4, 2011
What's to get angry about? The two songs work perfectly together. You can't blame the mash-up artist for this fact any more than you can blame Reese's for discovering that if two people are walking down the street, one carrying an unwrapped chocolate bar, the other an open tub of peanut butter, and they smack into each other, they're going to accidentally discover two great tastes that taste great together.
posted by Astro Zombie at 7:00 AM on March 4, 2011 [3 favorites]
posted by Astro Zombie at 7:00 AM on March 4, 2011 [3 favorites]
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