2015 song of the summer

May 22, 2015 9:21 AM

'AMAZING GRACE' PLAYED ENTIRELY ON AIRHORNS WOOOOOOOOO
posted by everybody had matching towels (29 comments total)

This is so beautiful.
posted by The corpse in the library at 9:43 AM on May 22, 2015 [2 favorites]

Believe it or not, I JUST started sleeping through my existing alarm sound, and have been in the market for a new one.

I thank you, and I am just going to assume my boyfriend will also thank you.
posted by ernielundquist at 9:45 AM on May 22, 2015 [7 favorites]

How sweet the sound
posted by mcstayinskool at 9:49 AM on May 22, 2015

Also, amazingly bagpipe-like
posted by mcstayinskool at 9:50 AM on May 22, 2015 [4 favorites]

d-d-d-d-d-jay mmmmmmmix 2015 fresh from the streets come these s-s-s-s-s-s-sick b-b-b-b-beats
posted by boo_radley at 10:01 AM on May 22, 2015 [1 favorite]

I don't even have to listen to this one. I can imagine how awesome it is just from the description. Thanks for that!
posted by asperity at 10:04 AM on May 22, 2015 [1 favorite]

I can't help but think this would actually be really great to play at a funeral, just a bit of levity, and the awesome mix of laughter and sadness at the passing would be great.
posted by wyndham at 10:07 AM on May 22, 2015 [1 favorite]

> Also, amazingly bagpipe-like

I was also about to say that it's virtually indistinguishable from bagpipes. One too many funerals with an actual bagpipe rendition of Amazing Grace makes it surprisingly difficult for me to listen to. Not what I expected from airhorns.
posted by MysticMCJ at 10:09 AM on May 22, 2015

Just to be pedantic... Although soothing and eyelid curling at the same time, it would seem this is just one or more samples and lots of tone shifting, which make it less remarkable than an actual air horn band, and more along the lines of Nearer, My God, To Thee sequenced to the sound of an anvil dropped on a shitzhu.
posted by CynicalKnight at 10:11 AM on May 22, 2015 [4 favorites]

Also if you are concerned that Mr. The Rock might have run out of charming awesomeness go ahead and scroll down a little bit.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 10:13 AM on May 22, 2015

Next up, Shellac's Prayer to God on airhorns.
posted by boo_radley at 10:16 AM on May 22, 2015 [1 favorite]

Somewhat in the same vein...
posted by jim in austin at 10:26 AM on May 22, 2015 [1 favorite]

more along the lines of Nearer, My God, To Thee sequenced to the sound of an anvil dropped on a shitzhu.

You haven't lived until you have heard Laibach's arrangement of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" for reciprocating saw.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 10:38 AM on May 22, 2015

I was also about to say that it's virtually indistinguishable from bagpipes.

More specifically, Highland pipes, the bagpipe equivalent of the airhorn.
posted by Thing at 10:43 AM on May 22, 2015

THIS IS AN AIRHORN THREAD NOW
posted by Itaxpica at 10:52 AM on May 22, 2015 [2 favorites]

I CAN'T HEAR ANYONE IN THIS THREAD EXCEPT THE ALL CAPS PEOPLE
posted by Shepherd at 11:01 AM on May 22, 2015 [4 favorites]

You haven't lived until you have heard Laibach's arrangement of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" for reciprocating saw.

Not a reciprocating saw, but...
posted by Itaxpica at 11:17 AM on May 22, 2015

Itaxpica: "THIS IS AN AIRHORN THREAD NOW"

did u hear theyre bringing back xfiles
posted by boo_radley at 11:17 AM on May 22, 2015 [2 favorites]

TAKE ON HORN
posted by everybody had matching towels at 11:22 AM on May 22, 2015

this one isn't an airhorn and also I posted it in a different thread two days ago but here we are
posted by Itaxpica at 11:25 AM on May 22, 2015 [2 favorites]

Itaxpica: "this one isn't an airhorn and also I posted it in a different thread two days ago but here we are "

"Think about the sex you could have to this song... The possibilities are endless."

Thanks, youtube commenter shadowlad.
posted by boo_radley at 11:32 AM on May 22, 2015 [1 favorite]

Also: THIS and THIS TOO
posted by Itaxpica at 11:32 AM on May 22, 2015

Levels (Remix)
posted by schmod at 11:59 AM on May 22, 2015

Pedantry redux... the sound exploited here is the handheld disposable airhorn, which differs from its compressor-powered big brother in that it's fixed air reserve results in a slight drop in tone for each note, which is also the source of its off-key comedic effect.

So, if one were to be devilish enough to build a MIDI air horn based wind instrument and give us the sad sloppy eargasms we all seem to want desperately but clearly do not need, they would have to tightly restrict the compressor feed through small air canisters with one way valves to faithfully reproduce the cartoonishly flaccid stadium brain slap we all know and love/hate.
posted by CynicalKnight at 12:02 PM on May 22, 2015 [2 favorites]

I was also about to say that it's virtually indistinguishable from bagpipes.

Bagpipes equipped with lasers.
posted by CheeseDigestsAll at 12:25 PM on May 22, 2015 [2 favorites]

Bikehorn Genesis Evangelion
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 1:07 PM on May 22, 2015 [1 favorite]

Here is Amazing Grace performed on what is basically a bunch of steam whistles
posted by waxboy at 3:50 PM on May 22, 2015

I'm actually genuinely surprised this wasn't by major league wobs. His 2001 remix is very much in this vein.
posted by emptythought at 4:11 PM on May 22, 2015

Welcome to Jurassic Park
posted by subbes at 9:54 PM on May 24, 2015