By the title, I was half expecting a Cask of Amontillado sequel. posted by sarastro at 5:38 PM on November 5, 2012 [17 favorites]
They've kept the leading notes in the backing track. The loop ends where the chord should change. It's driving me nuts. posted by Rustic Etruscan at 5:39 PM on November 5, 2012 [6 favorites]
It's a natural after Scissor Sisters and "Comfortably Numb," given the Sisters' BG-esque reading of that tune.
Careful with that jive talkin', Eugene posted by hal9k at 5:48 PM on November 5, 2012 [7 favorites]
(A few clicks later...) You know something weird? I don't think I've ever read the lyrics to Us and Them before now. Interesting.
I still don't like saxophones much, though. posted by Wolfdog at 5:49 PM on November 5, 2012 [4 favorites]
Sometime someone should do a study on why almost every Pink Floyd (after A Piper at the Gates of Dawn) song is in the second person. posted by shakespeherian at 5:51 PM on November 5, 2012 [5 favorites]
That's most excellent. Nicely done mashup overall.
Is that really Waters' vocals being used? Or is it someone else, or maybe it's been processed a bit? It's not sounding quite right to my ear. posted by hippybear at 5:53 PM on November 5, 2012 [1 favorite]
I was captivated, entranced - it hit me like a thunderbolt! I had to ask the guy next to me to pinch me, to make sure I wasn't dreaming.... posted by mannequito at 5:55 PM on November 5, 2012 [9 favorites]
this is only slightly related, but it's another great mashup which somehow pushes similar buttons for me: Jacko Under Pressure. posted by hippybear at 6:06 PM on November 5, 2012 [1 favorite]
In these contentious times, it's almost sadly appropriate that these mashups are usually listed as "Artist VS. Artist". Because when the Bee Gees battle Pink Floyd, nobody wins.
This is much better than sitting here chewing my nails off! posted by sallybrown at 6:16 PM on November 5, 2012
I'm going to link to this almost completely unrelated River Flows in You (Dubstep Remix) mostly because the top-rated comment on there is exactly what the media commentary in the US is going to sound like for the next fucking week. posted by Wolfdog at 6:18 PM on November 5, 2012
They've kept the leading notes in the backing track. The loop ends where the chord should change. It's driving me nuts.
Yeah, leading notes a.k.a. pickups, the curse of loops. Pretty good though on the whole. posted by Rich Smorgasbord at 6:45 PM on November 5, 2012 [1 favorite]
Is that really Waters' vocals being used? Or is it someone else, or maybe it's been processed a bit? It's not sounding quite right to my ear.
Sounds like its pitch-shifted and/or sped up. And I believe its Gilmour + Waters in unison. posted by googly at 6:50 PM on November 5, 2012 [1 favorite]
Great! posted by sfred at 6:54 PM on November 5, 2012
i think i may have latent hipster tendencies, because all i could think about was how much better-dressed the disco people were than those dreary pink floyds. posted by facetious at 6:56 PM on November 5, 2012
I needed some Stayin' Floyd right about now. Thanks, Alia. posted by Grlnxtdr at 7:00 PM on November 5, 2012
I have never considered Pink Floyd and the Bee Gees with the same part of my brain before...this was really enlightening! posted by dabug at 7:01 PM on November 5, 2012
So this is the official election thread, yeah? posted by Greg Nog at 7:11 PM on November 5, 2012 [15 favorites]
I'm old enough to remember Terry Wogan playing this track from The Wall on his BBC Radio One morning show, but it's still weird for me seeing Pink Floyd when they weren't middle aged geezers. posted by Flashman at 7:23 PM on November 5, 2012
Hard to believe there's only five years between Europe and Nirvana. It's not quite the gulf between, say, 1963 and 1968; but its pretty impressive nonetheless. posted by professor plum with a rope at 8:25 PM on November 5, 2012 [1 favorite]
This made me think of an idea for a mashup of Wish You Were Here and Muskrat Love. Both are in E minor, and well... frankly the idea scares me. Makes me feel as if I just realized how to create a mind poison that the world is just not ready for. posted by chambers at 8:44 PM on November 5, 2012 [1 favorite]
I have nothing to contribute but to sing the Gilligan's Island Theme Song to the tune of 'Amazing Grace.' posted by shakespeherian at 8:48 PM on November 5, 2012 [1 favorite]
Bee-cause I could not stop for Death - he kindly stopped for me
The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality
We slowly drove - he knew no haste - and I had put away
My labour - and my leisure too - for his civility
For his civility posted by infinitewindow at 9:07 PM on November 5, 2012 [5 favorites]
Someone is going to hell over this.
And, ah, Johnny, I hardly knew ya. posted by mule98J at 9:15 PM on November 5, 2012
Everyone calm down and get ready for tomorrow night's longboat. posted by vrakatar at 9:26 PM on November 5, 2012
This isn't a mashup. It's not new. It's the Clash in Japan in 1982 doing Mitt Romney's favorite song, Charlie Don't Surf.
At this rate, I fear that before the polls close we ARE going to be doing Gangnam Mashups, AND I'M NOT TAKING THE BLAME FOR IT. posted by oneswellfoop at 9:52 PM on November 5, 2012 [1 favorite]
Speaking of Gilligan's Island, I remember in youth group we used to try and find songs that "Amazing Grace" couldn't be sung to. I don't remember if we ever found any. posted by Pope Guilty at 10:33 PM on November 5, 2012
That said, here is "Nirvana VS. Europe" with "The Final Teen Spirit Mashup".
This is truly awful, thus utterly brilliant. I saw Kid Koala last night and he played a Raining Blood/drum and bass mashup thing which was a bit too messy to work but was great in a similar way.
Well, that's ruined one classic song for me because now I won't be able to hear it without hearing this mashup version in me head. I leave it to the gentle reader to decide which song is the ruined one. posted by Purposeful Grimace at 1:28 AM on November 6, 2012
They've kept the leading notes in the backing track. The loop ends where the chord should change. It's driving me nuts.
posted by Rustic Etruscan at 5:39 PM on November 5 [5 favorites +] [!]
I love it, only now listening to it did I realize that I hate that chord change. posted by From Bklyn at 1:29 AM on November 6, 2012 [1 favorite]
Finally reached a point in my life where I don't have to kill when I hear Robert Plant sing, only to discover that wonderful Zeppelin/Sabbath mashup. Yes they would have been a much more entertaining band with Ozzie. posted by evilDoug at 8:02 AM on November 6, 2012
Man, The Wall really is one of the most humorless, heavy-handed, self-important things ever committed to film. posted by nanojath at 8:35 AM on November 6, 2012 [1 favorite]
That works so much better than it ought to. It's like the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup of Internet Mashups. posted by chavenet at 9:32 AM on November 6, 2012 [1 favorite]
I've tried and tried, but I still can't show my upper teeth like the bee gees do. posted by leo_r at 1:29 PM on November 6, 2012
How can you have any jive if you haven't eaten your meat?!
Hurm. That doesn't sound quite right.
If you don't move your feet, you can't do any grooving!
How can you do any grooving if you don't move your feet?? posted by Atom Eyes at 3:05 PM on November 6, 2012 [1 favorite]
reminds me of my favorite Outkast lyric:
See, at the end of the week I live by the beat like you live check to check
If you don't move your feet than I don't eat so we like neck and neck posted by mannequito at 6:26 PM on November 6, 2012 [1 favorite]
infinitewindow, that's nothing. You can sing the beginning of Paradise Lost to the tune of the Flinstones theme song.
Of MAN's first - DISobBEdience - AND the fruitofthatfor bi dden treeeee ... posted by Rustic Etruscan at 7:30 PM on November 7, 2012
Of course, I meant The Flintstones. The Flinstones was also a fine program, though. posted by Rustic Etruscan at 7:36 PM on November 7, 2012
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