Life after Death Star
December 7, 2015 1:27 PM Subscribe
Ten Crack Commandments is the clear winner here. I listed to about half the tunes and that one is head and shoulders above the rest. The challenge seems to be getting the most recognizable Star Wars tunes to really mesh properly. The less-known music makes for a good sample but doesn't have an impact since you don't really know the tune from childhood.
posted by cell divide at 2:01 PM on December 7, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by cell divide at 2:01 PM on December 7, 2015 [2 favorites]
Who is the supposed "greatest rapper of all-time"? It's odd that the site doesn't say.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 2:37 PM on December 7, 2015
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 2:37 PM on December 7, 2015
The "Life After Death" part of the title should clue you in....
posted by sideshow at 2:46 PM on December 7, 2015
posted by sideshow at 2:46 PM on December 7, 2015
I suppose it would if I knew anything about rap. Care to help a old geezer out?
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 3:18 PM on December 7, 2015
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 3:18 PM on December 7, 2015
Notorious BIG aka Biggie Smalls raps over remixed music from the Star Wars soundtrack.
posted by sleeping bear at 3:20 PM on December 7, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by sleeping bear at 3:20 PM on December 7, 2015 [1 favorite]
Ten Crack Commandments is the clear winner here. I listed to about half the tunes and that one is head and shoulders above the rest. The challenge seems to be getting the most recognizable Star Wars tunes to really mesh properly. The less-known music makes for a good sample but doesn't have an impact since you don't really know the tune from childhood.
That one also felt really original, while being identifiable. The others were either solid sample work but the source wasn't obvious, or in one or two cases have just been done much better before(i can't even count how many times i've heard the imperial march used in a beat).
The drop off in play counts immediately after the second track sort of seems to support our conclusion here, too.
It actually kind of reminds me of the 16rpm chipmunks thing. The first track is incredibly solid, and the rest are somewhat engaging but never really reach that high again.
posted by emptythought at 3:43 PM on December 7, 2015
That one also felt really original, while being identifiable. The others were either solid sample work but the source wasn't obvious, or in one or two cases have just been done much better before(i can't even count how many times i've heard the imperial march used in a beat).
The drop off in play counts immediately after the second track sort of seems to support our conclusion here, too.
It actually kind of reminds me of the 16rpm chipmunks thing. The first track is incredibly solid, and the rest are somewhat engaging but never really reach that high again.
posted by emptythought at 3:43 PM on December 7, 2015
Like with almost all of these remix-great-hip-hop-with-music-from-someplace-unexpected, it struck me as a brilliant idea but just made me want to listen to the original beats after a track or two.
Also angry that Mo Money Mo Problems wasn't used.
posted by shakespeherian at 6:45 PM on December 7, 2015
Also angry that Mo Money Mo Problems wasn't used.
posted by shakespeherian at 6:45 PM on December 7, 2015
Why is Star Wars legendary? It's the same old Hollywood shoot-em-up with a few rubber masks and shit. I don't get it.
posted by telstar at 8:49 PM on December 7, 2015
posted by telstar at 8:49 PM on December 7, 2015
To be effective, trolling generally needs to be a smidge more subtle, telstar.
posted by dersins at 9:53 PM on December 7, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by dersins at 9:53 PM on December 7, 2015 [4 favorites]
>Why is Star Wars legendary? It's the same old Hollywood shoot-em-up with a few rubber masks and shit. I don't get it.
The obvious answer is that you don't get it because you aren't eight, or didn't see it the first time when you were eight, or whatever. That seems like cheating. To me, Star Wars is important because when executed correctly it seamlessly blends an absolutely impossible scale ("Together, we will rule the galaxy-") with an incredibly tight, personal, emotional narrative ("-as father and son!"). It is true romantic love at one hundred trillion miles, it's watching your friends grow into monsters when you can't do anything to help them before the self destruction literally melts their skin from their bones, it's watching the war drag on for years no matter what heroic and traumatizing things you personally do, it's fable of the highest order under special effects that made fables more real than the people sitting next to you for the first time in most people's lives. It's coming to grips with a morality system that doesn't quite fit observed reality when the alternative is atrocity. It's a setting, a genre unto itself where every story is possible and true.
posted by sandswipe at 11:11 PM on December 7, 2015 [1 favorite]
The obvious answer is that you don't get it because you aren't eight, or didn't see it the first time when you were eight, or whatever. That seems like cheating. To me, Star Wars is important because when executed correctly it seamlessly blends an absolutely impossible scale ("Together, we will rule the galaxy-") with an incredibly tight, personal, emotional narrative ("-as father and son!"). It is true romantic love at one hundred trillion miles, it's watching your friends grow into monsters when you can't do anything to help them before the self destruction literally melts their skin from their bones, it's watching the war drag on for years no matter what heroic and traumatizing things you personally do, it's fable of the highest order under special effects that made fables more real than the people sitting next to you for the first time in most people's lives. It's coming to grips with a morality system that doesn't quite fit observed reality when the alternative is atrocity. It's a setting, a genre unto itself where every story is possible and true.
posted by sandswipe at 11:11 PM on December 7, 2015 [1 favorite]
Why is Star Wars legendary? It's the same old Hollywood shoot-em-up with a few rubber masks and shit. I don't get it.
Because no movie really looked like a modern hollywood explosions-and-superheroes movie until then. Everyone i've talked to who saw it in theaters then pointed that out. They forced theaters to buy better speakers and projectors to even be allowed to show it. Lucas also formed ILM to make the movie. Many great movies of the 80s have effects in them that just would not have happened without ILM. And star wars had the first of a lot of modern effects(or effects that evolved from them, or became digitized emulations, or...)
If you read up on just the technical process of making the film it was utterly ridiculous compared to the schlock that existed in that genre. Logans run came out a year earlier and looked like it could have been made in the 60s(and felt like it). Within a couple years you have Alien, Terminator, etc. I've made this argument before, and had a tighter timeline but i can't find it right now.
Basically, whether you give a shit about star wars or think the story was silly it was a Big Deal. Like, a big deal the way Toy Story or the Matrix was. But more.
It was the movie equivalent of the computer mouse, but how fucked everything that didn't turn the corner was would be on the level and rapidity of respond-or-die as touch screen smartphones. It pretty much changed the metagame for blockbuster movies overnight.
posted by emptythought at 3:02 PM on December 8, 2015
Because no movie really looked like a modern hollywood explosions-and-superheroes movie until then. Everyone i've talked to who saw it in theaters then pointed that out. They forced theaters to buy better speakers and projectors to even be allowed to show it. Lucas also formed ILM to make the movie. Many great movies of the 80s have effects in them that just would not have happened without ILM. And star wars had the first of a lot of modern effects(or effects that evolved from them, or became digitized emulations, or...)
If you read up on just the technical process of making the film it was utterly ridiculous compared to the schlock that existed in that genre. Logans run came out a year earlier and looked like it could have been made in the 60s(and felt like it). Within a couple years you have Alien, Terminator, etc. I've made this argument before, and had a tighter timeline but i can't find it right now.
Basically, whether you give a shit about star wars or think the story was silly it was a Big Deal. Like, a big deal the way Toy Story or the Matrix was. But more.
It was the movie equivalent of the computer mouse, but how fucked everything that didn't turn the corner was would be on the level and rapidity of respond-or-die as touch screen smartphones. It pretty much changed the metagame for blockbuster movies overnight.
posted by emptythought at 3:02 PM on December 8, 2015
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Not all winners. Cantina song was a little too slowed down for my taste.
Great find/post.
posted by kuanes at 1:50 PM on December 7, 2015