Number Five Is Alive

August 27, 2017 5:23 PM

Have an orchestral mashup of Beethoven's Fifth and Mambo No. 5. (SLYT)
posted by Shmuel510 (19 comments total)

Crazy timing with the title. Short Circuit is on the tee vee right now.
posted by NoMich at 5:56 PM on August 27, 2017

I'm not sure if this is brilliant or criminal or both.
posted by mhoye at 6:00 PM on August 27, 2017 [10 favorites]

Needs more cowbell.
posted by yhbc at 6:05 PM on August 27, 2017 [4 favorites]

I'm not sure if this is brilliant or criminal or both.

Yes.
posted by Fizz at 6:14 PM on August 27, 2017 [2 favorites]

Well, given that there's no rapping, this is basically a mashup with the original "Mambo No. 5" by Perez Prado and has nothing to do with Lou Bega.

And given that Perez is all sorts of awesome, so is this.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 6:18 PM on August 27, 2017 [6 favorites]

I'm not sure if this is brilliant or criminal or both.

Neither, unfortunately.

It switches between themes but does not bring them up into something more. But cool, the kids seem to be having a lot of fun.
posted by sammyo at 6:26 PM on August 27, 2017

A little bit of Beehoven in my life
A little bit of Mahler by my side
A little bit of Haydn is all I need
A little bit of Chopin is what I see
A little bit of Mozart in the sun
A little bit of Wagner all night long
A little bit of Schubert here I am
A little bit of you makes me your man
posted by Fizz at 6:30 PM on August 27, 2017 [24 favorites]

So this is a Japanese composer/conductor in the 21st century mashing together two songs by others, one by a partially deaf German in the 1800s and the other by a Cuban in the 1900s, and I'm watching a filmed live performance of it in the U.S.A. I really love this world sometimes.

FIZZ! that is delightful
posted by barchan at 6:33 PM on August 27, 2017 [7 favorites]

I'll raise you the Co-op Funeralcare Band playing Skyfall. Because if anything can beat a Japanese orchestral mashup, an Irish undertaker sponsored brass band getting its rocks off on kiss-kiss bang-bang is gonna be it.
posted by Devonian at 6:52 PM on August 27, 2017 [1 favorite]

Mozart in the sun

Eine kleine Tagmusik, or Philip Glass' sequel to Einstein on the Beach?
posted by Greg_Ace at 6:58 PM on August 27, 2017

I always hear the names of the main cast of friends in Mambo No.5.

A little bit of Monica in my life
A little bit of Chandler by my side
Little bit of Phoebe is all i need
Little bit of Ross keeps me happy
posted by kittensofthenight at 7:08 PM on August 27, 2017 [1 favorite]

So yeah I love this.
posted by kittensofthenight at 7:09 PM on August 27, 2017

Oh hey, a thread where I can link this video.
posted by radwolf76 at 9:05 PM on August 27, 2017 [6 favorites]

Radwolf76, I think I might have nightmares about that thing ....
posted by NorthernLite at 10:08 PM on August 27, 2017

I mis-recognized the title of the modern half of this mashup and was wondering how on Earth you could put together a rhythmic match between Beethoven's symphony and Brubeck's Take Five.
posted by fantabulous timewaster at 11:45 PM on August 27, 2017

Oh, are we doing symphony orchestra renditions of Perez Prado?
I BRING YOU MAXIMUM JOY
posted by bartleby at 12:44 AM on August 28, 2017 [4 favorites]

Mambo No. 8 (Mile)
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 6:21 AM on August 28, 2017 [4 favorites]

Is it just me or does this sound like it would have been perfect in one of the Super Mario Galaxy games?
posted by sexyrobot at 9:13 AM on August 28, 2017

Mambo No. 8 (Mile) yt

holy shit i kinda love this
posted by numaner at 2:05 PM on August 28, 2017