Oh man. When the creepy voiceover channel (#63) kicked in, I couldn't stop laughing. posted by tehloki at 8:37 PM on October 31, 2008
Take me down to the overdub city, where the music is lame but the tracks are easy. posted by Eekacat at 8:44 PM on October 31, 2008 [2 favorites has favorites]
Cool link, and I gotta hand it to the guy for the follow-through on his project.
(I bailed early, too.) posted by darkstar at 8:47 PM on October 31, 2008
Dockness fools acroze ze land
Ze meednight arrgh eez cloze at 'and
Cretyurze creul een zuch uf blued
To terrrheurize yurh neighbah-oood. posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 8:51 PM on October 31, 2008 [13 favorites has favorites]
Obsession can be an ... ummm ... obsessive thing. I prefer this version. Far scarier. posted by philip-random at 8:57 PM on October 31, 2008
A+ for sheer brute force of doing this the hard way, D- for investing the effort on a Michael Jackson song. posted by brain cloud at 9:21 PM on October 31, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]
Without any "bottom", the whole effort fails. This is (was) RnB after all. All he had to do was lower the vocal bass line loop by an octave and put some edge on it, and it would have been far more likeable. posted by Seekerofsplendor at 9:35 PM on October 31, 2008 [2 favorites has favorites]
After doing that, I can confidently say I know the notes, chords, rhythms and flourishes in this song pretty goddamn well, and .. he got everything right. Whether or not he used a MIDI file to assist, he got all the voicings and phrasings dead on.
And as long as we're on heavily overdubbed a cappella renderings and derailing with virt music, I also did the Star Wars theme a cappella, by ear, without "loops" or MIDI transcriptions, one orchestral part at a time. It's .. out there. Planning to do the whole movie that way, some day.
Anyway, by ear or not, he did a great job. Gotta get in touch with this dude. posted by jake at 10:03 PM on October 31, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]
I am utterly charmed and reasonably impressed with this dude. Arguments about whether Thriller as cover material is overplayed are about ten miles beside the point (hi jake!)—this is purposeful badassery in action with a nice meta-trakker presentation to boot. This is the kind of shit I would like to pull off.
And nobody but Vincent Price is Vincent Price, but for an ESL French dude with a thick accent I think he did a decent job of even that. posted by cortex at 10:16 PM on October 31, 2008 [4 favorites has favorites]
Cool, but you got my hopes up. I was expecting to see the Thriller dance rendered in 8-bit pixels. posted by WCityMike at 10:23 PM on October 31, 2008 [2 favorites has favorites]
Better than that interminable French lipsynced version with the high school kids. posted by smackfu at 10:25 PM on October 31, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]
D- for investing the effort on a Michael Jackson song.
He even wore different shirts for the different sections, good on him. I did not see all 64 tracks light up. posted by Meatbomb at 11:28 PM on October 31, 2008
The thing that amazes me most about this is that his voice isn't very good... posted by ob at 12:24 PM on November 1, 2008
His neighbors must hate him. posted by xorry at 1:41 PM on November 1, 2008
neighbors? i worry more about his siblings posted by CitizenD at 2:47 PM on November 1, 2008
but it still thought it was cool! posted by CitizenD at 2:47 PM on November 1, 2008
The 5'58" of my life* I'll never get back pales into insignificance when weighed against the amount of his life he'll never get back.
Based on the info written on the side, you would have to watch it nearly 3500 more times to equal the amount of time he spent on it. posted by Corduroy at 10:47 PM on November 1, 2008
The thing that amazes me most about this is that his voice isn't very good...
- ob
Yes. He should hire someone who can really sing and do it again. (He can do the Vincent Price voice I guess). Then it would be cool. posted by eye of newt at 9:08 PM on November 3, 2008
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*Less, actually, as I bailed early.
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