Comments on: Call Me Maybe × 147

Call Me Maybe × 147

cgc373 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:08:58 -0800

Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" layered 147 times a cappella. via waxy

By: channey

channey — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:48:47 -0800

Good lord that was epic.

By: Petrot

Petrot — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:48:52 -0800

Best of the Web.

By: progosk

progosk — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:51:55 -0800

(Not to nitpick, but acapella this ain't; if anything, it's a canon.)

By: mannequito

mannequito — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:55:02 -0800

experiomentionential!

By: Mezentian

Mezentian — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:05:56 -0800

Well, that was a thing. The Carley Rae they play in the elevator to hell. It's the autotune that makes it flow, no?

By: sixohsix

sixohsix — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:06:41 -0800

Sweet, it's by Dan Deacon. Previously and previously.

By: dunkadunc

dunkadunc — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:08:00 -0800

I never heard this song until now.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:08:28 -0800

acapella this ain't The accepted definition of a cappella is singing without instrumental accompaniment. Here the instrumental accompanying tracks have been removed. There is only a vocal track. So I reckon we can indeed call this a cappella, even though the vocal track is layered 147 times. And "canon" and "a cappella" are by no means mutually exclusive terms.

By: NordyneDefenceDynamics

NordyneDefenceDynamics — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:10:31 -0800

This is the sound of madness

By: lumensimus

lumensimus — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:14:15 -0800

posted by sixohsix at 6:06 AM on January 8 [+] [!]

Eponytimely.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:15:32 -0800

Eponytimely. Not in Japan.

By: progosk

progosk — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:16:42 -0800

There is only a vocal track. They may be artefacts, but there are instruments in there, strings at the beginning, and some percussion later on - and they definitely contribute, in the layering, to the aural crescendo.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:21:56 -0800

there are instruments in there You're right. Fact is, I took the FPP text (which is taken directly from the website headline) at its word when it said "a cappella". My mistake. Should have known better!

By: progosk

progosk — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:26:08 -0800

Would be nice to hear other earworms imp-/exploded like this. (There must be someone out there doing that right now...)

By: kcds

kcds — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:39:47 -0800

I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves so that any semblance of my speech, with perhaps the exception of rhythm, is destroyed. What you will hear, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my speech might have. So call me maybe

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:43:04 -0800

A metaphor for the increasing chaos of our world finally reaching the point of white noise and spikes of pain. yeah, I'm a GREAT mood this morning....

By: item

item — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:43:25 -0800

Eponytimely. Not in Japan Or in Texas.

By: kaibutsu

kaibutsu — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:57:13 -0800

Just to save anyone else from figuring it out, the comment was eponysterical in the North American eastern time zone, parts of South America (including Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Haiti and Cuba), a patch of Russia including both Tomsk and Omsk (and a couple other provinces), and a good chunk of Southeast Asia, including Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and the western chunk of Indonesia. Also, I recently picked up Dan Deacon's 'America' and found it absolutely fantastic. Love the guy.

By: colie

colie — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:58:18 -0800

Carly's the Acid Queen.

By: The 10th Regiment of Foot

The 10th Regiment of Foot — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 04:12:48 -0800

Just last night my kindergardener was explaining the lyrics to this song to me. She said that the singer is giving the boy her number so that he can help her get "all the other boys" to stop chasing her.

By: From Bklyn

From Bklyn — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 04:20:21 -0800

That was Fantastic!

By: orme

orme — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:02:28 -0800

You can do this at home with a radio and a can of whipped creme.

By: nutate

nutate — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:15:43 -0800

Hey I did the next track on that comp! http://mabsonenterprises.bandcamp.com/track/call-me-8 (completely not arty or artful)

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:20:16 -0800

How did you guys last more than 5 or 6 seconds into that? That was like ear-repellent to me.

By: fungible

fungible — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:31:49 -0800

WHERE'S THE DROP

By: fungible

fungible — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:39:40 -0800

also Dan Deacon did something like this on his previous album that is also quite nice

By: GenjiandProust

GenjiandProust — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:44:01 -0800

This is the sound of madness Others would beg to differ.

By: Jon_Evil

Jon_Evil — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:45:57 -0800

SCIENCE!!!!!

By: ShawnString

ShawnString — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:52:18 -0800

...really likes that song and the layered version was kinda cool...in the middle it started to get all sine-wavy and modem sounding

By: The 10th Regiment of Foot

The 10th Regiment of Foot — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:59:27 -0800

Dan Deacon did something like this on his previous album Odd derail here, but when I was a college student in the summers I worked as a camp counselor at a camp in the mountains of east Tennessee. I usually had Sunday afternoons off, and I'd spend my time away from the campers at the ajacent conference center where we had a sort of hideaway office. Below the office was a small chapel that the camp rented out to a local church that did not have a building of its own. This was a very traditional mountain church with firey sermons, toung-speaking, occasional snake handling (seriously), and fantastic music. I would sneak down under the windows to listen to the music, traditional appalachian gospel songs accompanied sometimes by autoharps and dulcimers. The beginning of the song you linked sounds a lot like these multi-part (five or more) rounds they would sing acapella that sort of decended into chaos for a bit and then came back into harmony much the way that song starts out and begins to build.

By: GameDesignerBen

GameDesignerBen — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:59:36 -0800

At VIA festival in Pittsburgh a few months ago, Girltalk did a similarly layered Call Me Maybe while women in transparent masks threw hamburgers into the crowd. Yup.

By: graphnerd

graphnerd — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:02:43 -0800

That was..... Incredibly unpleasant.

By: Mr. Anthropomorphism

Mr. Anthropomorphism — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:20:56 -0800

Since the melodies are identical, isn't it actually a round? Regardless, it is great.

By: progosk

progosk — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:27:11 -0800

Touché, Mr. A.

By: ShutterBun

ShutterBun — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:44:13 -0800

Row, row, row your boat! Come on! Sing, dammit! Sing!

By: Foosnark

Foosnark — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:45:27 -0800

How did you guys last more than 5 or 6 seconds into that? That was like ear-repellent to me. The longer it runs, the weirder and better it gets. I like this far more than the original.

By: Bulgaroktonos

Bulgaroktonos — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:06:37 -0800

The longer it runs, the weirder and better it gets. I like this far more than the original. Yeah, it's notably better as it goes on. At first it's just sort of sounds, but eventually it starts to sound like something. It's not really my cup of tea, but I can see someone enjoying that.

By: schmod

schmod — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:16:59 -0800

Carly Rae Malthus

By: JoeZydeco

JoeZydeco — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:34:45 -0800

Wow, it's Boil The Frog with Carly Rae->Aphex Twin in 1 song.

By: rocket88

rocket88 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:40:16 -0800

At around the 2:45 mark I expected (wanted?) to hear "Number Nine...Number Nine...Number Nine..."

By: jamesonandwater

jamesonandwater — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:43:48 -0800

Wow, my dogs got really upset by that.

By: SharkParty

SharkParty — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:51:49 -0800

Nice, once it really builds it starts to remind me of that weird instrument from Alien Nation jamming with some trains and someone playing a stereo too loud next door.

By: stltony

stltony — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:54:57 -0800

Only $1, huh?

By: ChrisHartley

ChrisHartley — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:59:57 -0800

This is fantastic. Thank you.

By: Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific

Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:10:29 -0800

Dan Deacon is the man...if you liked that check out his mashup album. Someone's Area (Rod) makes me smile every time...

By: happyroach

happyroach — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:37:59 -0800

After about 3 minutes in, out sounds like the soundtrack to one of those oh-so-serious SF films from the 1970s, say a scene where they're exploring "inner space". Or maybe something Pink Floyd would do.

By: Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey

Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:01:02 -0800

I would have confessed to being a Nazi spy from the Moon if someone locked me in a room with that looping on the speakers. How many layers of vocal track can one slather on before it loses all semblance of musicality and just becomes a jumble of incoherent noise? Fewer than 147. This is the tune Azathoth's pipers play.

By: mcstayinskool

mcstayinskool — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:07:12 -0800

I have friends that received a wedding gift of original artwork from a relative. It was entitled "Love is the sound of 1000 violins playing". Egads, no it is not.

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:27:07 -0800

Can't say I cared for it, but I don't like the song much. The WANEGBT remix album is better.

By: GenjiandProust

GenjiandProust — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:46:15 -0800

This is the tune Azathoth's pipers play. But they do it on pipes, somehow.

By: The 10th Regiment of Foot

The 10th Regiment of Foot — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:55:36 -0800

This is the tune Azathoth's pipers play. But they do it on pipes, somehow. You should hear what they can do with a violin.

By: Apocryphon

Apocryphon — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:05:49 -0800

This removes the best part of the song- when the string chords go "dan dan dan" in the chorus. Someone please layer that segment 147 times thanks in advance

By: straight

straight — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:19:33 -0800

I had to turn it off half-way through because I was feeling increasingly certain that it was breaking my computer somehow. Like driving a car with no motor oil.

By: six-or-six-thirty

six-or-six-thirty — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:24:01 -0800

... fuck I'm only halfway through

By: Lutoslawski

Lutoslawski — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:55:22 -0800

Dan Deacon, my love for you knows no end.

By: ChrisHartley

ChrisHartley — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:58:50 -0800

I bought the track and mirrored it on itself so it plays through normally and then starts from the end playing backward back to the beginning. Maybe it is the coffee in my brain but the effect is similar to falling in to a well in the ground watching reality grow smaller and smaller and then falling through the center of the earth and back to the surface on the other side, where everything is backward. Really amazing.

By: Lutoslawski

Lutoslawski — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:03:47 -0800

Conceptually, it borrows heavily from early Reich tape works like Come Out, though it's somehow more depressing, even though the content is ostensibly much less depressing.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:46:12 -0800

Where do the weird metallic sounds come from around 1:30? Is it clipping or something?

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:35:07 -0800

Maybe it is the coffee in my brain ... Coffee? ... or?

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:38:53 -0800

You know what ... I was thinking "hey, I think I've heard this before ... is this a double post?" And then I thought, "hey, didn't I post this before?! ..." and then I asked myself, "wait a minute. are you stoned?" and then I answered, "yes," and then I realized no, it wasn't me at all. it was saul wright at 9:07 PM on July 11, 2012

By: Mars Saxman

Mars Saxman — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:08:07 -0800

How funny that some people find this so unpleasant while others kinda dig it. I thought it was kind of soft and trancey and gentle, but my wife hated it so much she came in from two rooms away to ask me to turn it off.

By: whitneyarner

whitneyarner — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:37:19 -0800

I think this is what dying must be like, and not in a bad way.

By: exogenous

exogenous — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 05:14:37 -0800

As Lutoslawski says, I think Dan Deacon has been listening to some Steve Reich.

By: Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey

Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:00:38 -0800

I know many people will disagree with me, but I file Steve Reich in the same category of a-musical noise made by people throwing tennis balls at disassembled pianos and that same sort of mid-20th century avant-gard wankery. I know SR is going for evocation of trance-like experiences. For some of us, it just comes out as grating noise with elaborate syncopation.