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August 22, 2015 8:14 PM   Subscribe

Watch this completely a capella cover of "Hotel California".
posted by pjern (32 comments total) 15 users marked this as a favorite
 
Nice.... thanks!
posted by HuronBob at 8:24 PM on August 22, 2015


I completely missed the obvious post title.... Welcome to the Hotel A Capella....


Maybe a mod can get in there and do a fixup.
posted by pjern at 8:30 PM on August 22, 2015 [2 favorites]


I've sung that guitar part many times myself. That dude is a lot better!
posted by Frayed Knot at 8:36 PM on August 22, 2015 [4 favorites]


I'm not the biggest fan of pop a cappella groups, even though I appreciate what it takes musically. But that big guitar solo in particular made me smile.

(Also, "Some dance to remember ..." is one of my favorite Henley lyrics, along with "Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.")
posted by NorthernLite at 8:36 PM on August 22, 2015 [2 favorites]


I had to watch closely to confirm they weren't sneaking a kazoo in there somehow.
posted by asperity at 8:37 PM on August 22, 2015 [4 favorites]


Wimp link? Yuck. The video on Youtube.
posted by Sys Rq at 8:40 PM on August 22, 2015 [1 favorite]


YT has their "Every Breath You Take" too. I like.

(But oy, all those quick cuts -the vid editor must've been on coke.)
posted by NorthernLite at 8:51 PM on August 22, 2015


The wimp link doesn't name the group. It's Vocal Sampling.
posted by zompist at 9:21 PM on August 22, 2015 [2 favorites]


Very nice. I love a capella stuff. Thanks for posting this.
posted by InsertNiftyNameHere at 9:24 PM on August 22, 2015


Mod note: Replaced the link.
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:40 PM on August 22, 2015


but what would Lebowski say?
posted by philip-random at 9:45 PM on August 22, 2015


I had to watch closely to confirm they weren't sneaking a kazoo in there somehow.

The "guitar" guy's mic was running thru a fuzz box.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 9:46 PM on August 22, 2015 [3 favorites]


Loved it!
posted by WalkerWestridge at 9:58 PM on August 22, 2015


Well done.
posted by Oyéah at 10:17 PM on August 22, 2015


but what would Lebowski say?

Everything I hate about a cappella and the fucking Eagles all in one!
posted by mazola at 11:11 PM on August 22, 2015 [7 favorites]


Needs more cowbell.
posted by unliteral at 1:49 AM on August 23, 2015


Hotel California - one star

"This could be heaven, or this could be hell," observed my companion, scanning the menu's "Welcome from your Captain!". After waiting fruitlessly for half hour we called up our "captain" and asked if he could at least please bring me my wine: upon which we were told "We haven't had that spirit here since 1969". Apparently our Captain was ignorant both of the distinction between wines and spirits and the presence of the former on his own wine list. No wine! This in spitting distance of the Napa Valley - surely a drink to remember; some drink to forget! I pointed out that if he merely raised his eyes to the mirror on the ceiling he could see pink champagne on ice at the next table.
My companion suggested that our "Captain" was all too familiar with the location of the spirits: I was headed for the door.
posted by Segundus at 2:36 AM on August 23, 2015 [17 favorites]


Needs more cowbell a cowbella

There, FTFY
posted by otherchaz at 2:37 AM on August 23, 2015 [2 favorites]


I don't have enough thumb to up for this!
posted by oheso at 2:59 AM on August 23, 2015


Somehow they managed to achieve what I think I sound like in my head when I do this in the car all alone.
posted by traveler_ at 4:12 AM on August 23, 2015 [4 favorites]


I love everything about this.
posted by billiebee at 4:36 AM on August 23, 2015


Needs more p.
posted by Wolfdog at 6:33 AM on August 23, 2015


Their Policework isn't bad either.
posted by mrdaneri at 6:49 AM on August 23, 2015


Prefer The Persuasions.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 7:06 AM on August 23, 2015 [2 favorites]


NorthernLite: "(But oy, all those quick cuts -the vid editor must've been on coke.)"

Well....?
posted by notsnot at 7:41 AM on August 23, 2015 [1 favorite]


One of my favorite things ever is The Moog Cookbook's goofy, all-synth version of Hotel California.
posted by parrishioner at 8:20 AM on August 23, 2015


Sunshine of Your Love
 
posted by Herodios at 8:35 AM on August 23, 2015 [1 favorite]


Speaking of Lebowski, I'll go with Gypsy Kings' Spanish-language version.
posted by the sobsister at 9:12 AM on August 23, 2015


I especially like the Night Gallery backdrop.
posted by ogooglebar at 9:40 AM on August 23, 2015 [1 favorite]


Oh good, someone else sings like that in the car when it comes on. I thought I might be the only one (who would admit to it, anyway).
posted by immlass at 8:28 PM on August 23, 2015 [1 favorite]


In 2003 or so Mrs. Plinth and I were going to visit her folks and picked up a college radio station that had an a cappella show and they had the Tufts Beelzebubs doing Crazy Train, which is a little more post-processed than I like my a cappella, but still pretty amazing. They also played "I'm Sorry (The PMS Song)" by Stanford Mixed Company, and nearly had to pull over from laughing during the bridge.
posted by plinth at 7:18 AM on August 24, 2015


I turned off the radio. I wanted no faux-reggae rhythm sections. I wanted no duelling Les Pauls. No airbrushed, coke-polished harmonies. I wanted no sly digs at Don and Walt, no 6/12 twin neck guitars sounding profound. I wanted complete silence as I cruised down my public thoroughfare of choice. A complete absence, if you will, of any and all instrumentality.

But still, those voices were calling from far away.
posted by El Brendano at 2:24 AM on August 25, 2015


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