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harder, better, faster, stronger.

piratebowling — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:04:49 -0800

Daft Punk, a capella. That is all.

By: empath

empath — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:09:32 -0800

OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ

By: voltairemodern

voltairemodern — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:12:18 -0800

A+ Just wish those chicks in the front would shut the hell up and listen.

By: pmbuko

pmbuko — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:21:44 -0800

It's impossible for a capella groupie chicks to shut up and listen. They are a pestilence on college campuses everywhere.

By: SirOmega

SirOmega — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:23:15 -0800

Bitches Ain't Shit - A Cappella

By: dobbs

dobbs — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:27:16 -0800

The FPP is so poorly recorded that it's not really even worth a look but SirOmega's link is excellent!

By: caddis

caddis — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:32:58 -0800

this represents everything that is wrong with youtube posts

By: empath

empath — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:44:46 -0800

There are acapella groupie chicks?

By: basicchannel

basicchannel — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:52:01 -0800

this represents everything that is right with youtube posts

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:03:38 -0800

I love my Daft Punk, but that Bitches Ain't Shit video blew it away. Awesome. If only for the better sound quality.

By: dreamsign

dreamsign — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:04:59 -0800

Plus, the guy on the end is wearing a Domo Kun hoodie. Sweeeet.

By: srboisvert

srboisvert — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:06:20 -0800

That blond guy in the middle can't stop the boogie. that Bitches Ain't Shit video blew it away The domo hoodie was a nice retro touch.

By: gwint

gwint — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:08:56 -0800

4 a cappella versions of the "Such Great Heights". youtube contains multitudes.

By: RokkitNite

RokkitNite — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:19:13 -0800

Good Lord - the BAS vid is trés awesome. The a cappella version of the Zelda theme will always rock my dork heart in some all-conquering way, however.

By: pax digita

pax digita — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:20:10 -0800

If you'll forgive an abrupt change of genre, Tchaikovskiy's "1812 Overture", a cappella (except for the arty in the final measures, perforce).

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:21:48 -0800

Eh, I could do better in one take, with no rehearses. The singer's voice is not robotic enough. I used to try to get the a capella groups at Cornell to do some non-traditional material, like Tool's Prison Sex, Jimi's Star-Spangled Banner, NWA's Fuck the Police, NIN's Closer. I had no takers. We could have revolutionized things. I mean, Christ, how many times can you listen to "Fields of Gold" or that stupid "Enormous Penis" song?

By: edgeways

edgeways — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:23:34 -0800

Daft Punk is playing at my house, my house I'll show you the ropes kid.

By: dreamsign

dreamsign — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:31:21 -0800

No Videos found for 'jethro tull a capella' Sometimes the world is a cruel place.

By: nightchrome

nightchrome — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:36:39 -0800

edgeways, excellent reference.

By: i_am_a_Jedi

i_am_a_Jedi — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:47:53 -0800

Go choir nerds

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:15:58 -0800

It would be nice if the audio didn't suck. this one was better too.

By: squidfartz

squidfartz — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:27:55 -0800

Best Daft Punk song evar.

By: Mr.Encyclopedia

Mr.Encyclopedia — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:47:52 -0800

A buddy of mine has done a couple of Interesting one-man A capella songs. Especially interesting if you're at all familiar with the music from Super Mario World.

By: phrontist

phrontist — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:05:37 -0800

Fun Fact: Everything except the vocoder in that song is a sample of Edwin Birdsong's "Cola Bottle Baby" sped up.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:13:03 -0800

Loituma!

By: koudelka

koudelka — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:25:53 -0800

this represents everything that is neutral with youtube posts

By: Gucky

Gucky — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:45:58 -0800

I'm torn between putting The Fat Boys on my iTunes to try to figure out what the difference between a capella and beat box is or trying to find the "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" theme just so I have an excuse to say, "Kick it Rockapella!".

By: jeversol

jeversol — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:23:37 -0800

If it wasn't for those pesky copyright laws, I'd share the greatest a cappella piece I've ever set ears upon, and that is a vocal arrangement of Barber's Adagio for Strings set to the Agnus Dei lyrics. amazon link - see track 4. The "Bitches Ain't Shit" group covered Ben Folds rendition itunes.

By: nonreflectiveobject

nonreflectiveobject — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:26:49 -0800

They left out the vocoder solo, those bastards! Seriously, that solo kicks the ass of every guitar solo in the history of cock rock. Fo' real.

By: bobot

bobot — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:01:33 -0800

This just goes to show that even the cream of the a capella crop still sucks. It was good when it was called doo-wop.

By: tehloki

tehloki — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:06:30 -0800

I was so totally pissed when I found out Daft Punk's "Harder Better Faster Stronger" was just "Cola Bottle Baby" by Edwin Birdsong.

By: cazoo

cazoo — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:08:32 -0800

no mention of petra haden singing a capella the who sell out?

By: thekilgore

thekilgore — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:59:56 -0800

is that the Be Sharps?

By: the_bone

the_bone — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:02:45 -0800

I really wanted to like "Bitches Ain't Shit" (I both love and am deeply disturbed by the Ben Folds version, and I was enough of a choir geek as a kid that I went out and made it my profession)... but it kind of fell flat with me. I think that it's because, with the exception of the second soloist, no one looked like they were having any fun. Even the non-white people in the group were white. The Barber Agnus Dei/Adagio for Strings that jeversol refers to is amazing, and I'd highly recommend it. A brilliant recording conducted by choral grandmaster Robert Shaw can be found here.

By: Target Practice

Target Practice — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:24:01 -0800

I used to have an mp3 of Rockapella covering Basket Case. I think up to that point, I thought they just broke up when the Carmen Sandiego game show went off the air.

By: Target Practice

Target Practice — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:33:05 -0800

the_bone I thought that was what was so great about it. If it had been me, I wouldn't have been able to go five seconds without laughing at how horrifically stupid the lyrics are.

By: mongonikol

mongonikol — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:33:28 -0800

Yea! SirOmega! You rule!

By: jeffamaphone

jeffamaphone — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:52:16 -0800

I just never get tired of this sort of thing. Music today is so much lacking in cleverness.

By: Target Practice

Target Practice — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:26:32 -0800

What do you mean, jeff? "My Humps" is clearly the apex of lyrical achievement.

By: Jon Mitchell

Jon Mitchell — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:22:13 -0800

Another link to Cola Bottle Baby. Tehloki - thanks for reminding me about that! I heard the original at a party years ago, and have been remembering on and off to find out what it was, and failing, ever since. My intermittent quest is over.

By: drstein

drstein — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:41:52 -0800

"It's impossible for a capella groupie chicks to shut up and listen" As the doting boyfriend of an a capella groupie chick, I must nod my head in agreement.

By: chrismear

chrismear — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:03:12 -0800

If you'll forgive an abrupt change of genre, Tchaikovskiy's "1812 Overture", a cappella Awesome, I never knew there was a video of this! You can buy this arrangement for a very reasonable price if you want to give it a go with your group.

By: SemiSophos

SemiSophos — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:10:06 -0800

"It's impossible for a capella groupie chicks to shut up and listen" It's not so much the groupie chicks as it is half the campus, drunk, crowded into the concert hall for a Knights concert on the last day of classes. Sorry about that. On a different note, it's very, very surreal to have someone in New York post a link to a video of an a capella group on my campus of 1,600 in the middle of nowhere Minnesota. Creepy.

By: phearlez

phearlez — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:34:30 -0800

Personally I'll take Nina Gordon's Straight out of Compton cover over Ben Folds' Bitches aint Shit...