Bang Your Head (It's a Celebration)!

August 24, 2019 6:30 PM

What if Kool & the Gang toured with Quiet Riot?
+Kool & the Gang - Celebration
+Quiet Riot - Bang Your Head (Metal Health)

Bill McClintock makes great and funny mashups.

"She Said 'Burn'"
++The Temptations - I Wish It Would Rain
++Deep Purple - Burn

"Chemical Warfare (Don't It Feel Good?)"
++Slayer - Chemical Warfare
++Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine
++Joe Satriani - Satch Boogie

"Eminence of Holy Wars and Creeping Death"
++The Who - Eminence Front
++Metallica - The Passover Song
++Megadeth - Holy Wars

"Ain't Too Shy to Beg"
++The Temptations - Ain't Too Proud to Beg
++Great White - Once Bitten Twice Shy

"Mother Was a Rolling Stone"
++Danzig - Mother
++The Temptations - Papa was a Rolling Stone

"War Puppets Rise to Heaven"
++Black Sabbath - War Pigs
++Metallica - Master of Puppets
++Herb Alpert - Rise
++Dokken - Heaven Sent

"Beautiful Shining Star of Superstition"
++Van Halen - Beautiful Girls
++Earth, Wind & Fire - Shining Star
++Stevie Wonder - Superstition

"Gimme Shelter Baby"
++The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
++Rick James - Give it to Me Baby

McClintock previously

posted by Gorgik (19 comments total)

Hah, these are great! I'd like to pick a favorite but they just keep getting better. And the videos are edited so well it adds to the art of the mashup.

The War Pigs one reminds me of this Cake cover. But old Black Sabbath had a lot of jazzy stuff going on if you listen in the right way.
posted by Wulfhere at 7:30 PM on August 24, 2019

That Kool and the Gang/Quiet Riot was so awesome that I am afraid to check out the others, lest my head explode.
posted by sundrop at 7:42 PM on August 24, 2019 [1 favorite]

Bill Withers and Pantera - Use My Mouth For War with some Ted Nugent thrown in... should not work, but somehow does.
posted by smcameron at 7:52 PM on August 24, 2019

Genius. Not just the music mashup, but the video editing too.
posted by forforf at 7:54 PM on August 24, 2019

I swear every single YouTube is blocked from embedding anymore.
posted by rhizome at 8:05 PM on August 24, 2019 [1 favorite]

The Kool Riot one is really good, so is the Deep Purple Temptations and Rick James Rolling Stones. Van Halen Earth Wind & Fire etc. was pretty good.
posted by rhizome at 8:18 PM on August 24, 2019

Gloria Gaynor and Dio - I Will Survive The Rainbow In The Dark - who knew these would work together so well?
posted by SisterHavana at 8:36 PM on August 24, 2019 [2 favorites]

The Bang Your Head one is amazing!

I also like this one with Creedence Clearwater Revival and Michael Jackson - The Way The Bayou Makes Me Feel ("The Way You Make Me Feel" + "Born on the Bayou").
posted by umber vowel at 9:03 PM on August 24, 2019

I haven't been so impressed and pleased with a set of mashups since the last Neil Cicierega album. These are more conventional "Gray Album" style stuff rather than the expansive, interpretive, sillier Cicierega stuff, but these are arguably even more finely crafted.
posted by tclark at 9:15 PM on August 24, 2019

Slipknot and The B-52s - "Slipshack" -- so good.
posted by mpark at 9:18 PM on August 24, 2019

Aerosmith + Temptations - I Can't Walk Next To You is nice. I notice that I've been watching these for the past three hours now... just jaw-dropping stuff.
posted by smcameron at 9:27 PM on August 24, 2019

can there be an infinite number of these? thanks
posted by look busy at 10:45 PM on August 24, 2019 [1 favorite]

Here is where you can find the complete playlist of best mashups.

I have no idea why these so predictably tickle me so much -- I had not seen Celebration versus Bang Your Head previously and it's great! -- but I am a total sucker for great mashups.

So, it that spirit, I give you the best one I have ever heard. The Temptations versus the Rolling Stones -- Papa was In the Rolling Stones. Enjoy!.
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 1:00 AM on August 25, 2019 [3 favorites]

I have fantasies of showing up at a karaoke night and singing the wrong lyrics over the songs. I may have to act on them at some point.
posted by mikesch at 1:50 AM on August 25, 2019 [1 favorite]

fantasies of showing up at a karaoke night and singing the wrong lyrics over the songs

Isn’t this every karaoke session?
posted by ricochet biscuit at 6:41 AM on August 25, 2019

These are fantastic.
posted by Qubit at 8:19 AM on August 25, 2019

One day later, She Said Burn is brilliant in every way. The clash between appearance and styles is fun to watch, but listen without the video and it's a terrific song, period.
posted by davejay at 2:34 PM on August 25, 2019 [3 favorites]

Oh wow, "Whole Lotta Trooper"! (Led Zeppelin + Iron Maiden)
posted by oakroom at 3:36 PM on August 25, 2019 [1 favorite]

THREE HOURS AND COUNTING

So good!
posted by maxwelton at 8:23 PM on August 25, 2019