More Beatles remix/mashup delirium. Hell! (website, zipped download). Hate (website, multiupload link). Mutation (website). The Beastles & Let It Beast (website, multiuploadlinks). The Act You've Known For All These Years (website). And the granddaddy of them all, The Grey Album. (overview, multiupload link) Download links found in some of the websites. [And apparently some of the torrent links are dead -- I tried to include working links when I found the website ones to be non-functioning.]
Absurd story on site about how they came into being as well but it's basically a mashup of post-Beatles stuff made to sound as if the band was still playing together. posted by treblekicker at 1:21 PM on February 3, 2010
Not sure that the Grey Album can outdo the Linkin Park/Jay-Z mashup album. I dislike "Encore" and "Numb" separately, but "Numb/Encore" is a brilliant song.
The Mutation one is excellent (I'm in awe of the guy's technical skill, and I love being able to pick out bits of tracks that I recognise as they poke their heads into the new and bizarre concoction that's been created), but I didn't even try the Hell and Hate ones, solely because of the frankly painful puns in the track titles. I mean, really, "Got To Get You Under My Knife"?
(On preview: to continue the chain, the Linkin Park/Britney Spears mashup "Toxic Faint" massively improves both songs.) posted by ZsigE at 1:27 PM on February 3, 2010 [1 favorite]
I wish there was a way to buy people shots of rare, ludicrously expensive liquor through Metafilter, because both hippybear and brocklanders deserve it. posted by Toby Dammit X at 1:33 PM on February 3, 2010
>I am a friend of a friend of at least 3 of the people in these links.
Pete Best, Stu Sutcliffe, and Billy Preston? posted by ardgedee at 1:37 PM on February 3, 2010 [1 favorite]
Don't want to go scouring the illegal internets from work, so I can't tell if that Grey Album is the Jay Z one, or the Beatallica one.
Otherwise, there's Beatallica (Beatles + Metallica), they had two albums, and got as far as opening for Dream Theater before they got shut down by one of the rights owners (can't remember who). Again, don't want to go searching for links from work, but Google it, sheeple! posted by qvantamon at 2:00 PM on February 3, 2010
Not sure that the Grey Album can outdo the Linkin Park/Jay-Z mashup album. I dislike "Encore" and "Numb" separately, but "Numb/Encore" is a brilliant song.
I'm also a fan of Jay Zeezer, a mashup of Hova (and other hip hop artists) and Weezer.
My favorite Jay Z mashup album, and really my favorite mashup album in general, is The Slack Album (Jay Z's Black Album + Pavement's Slanted and Enchanted). It helps if you really like Pavement, but pretty much every track is great and Our First Singer can only be explained by some sort of cosmic psychic connection between Jay Z and Stephen Malkmus. posted by burnmp3s at 2:11 PM on February 3, 2010 [1 favorite]
Would you rather the kids be on your lawn, or making Beatles mashups? posted by june made him a gemini at 2:16 PM on February 3, 2010
I didn't even try the Hell and Hate ones, solely because of the frankly painful puns in the track titles.
You should, actually. They are the reason for this post, overall, as the clever nature of the mashups on those two albums got me into digging around a bit more, and I decided to just do a consolidated post of much of what I found. FWIW, the tracks themselves don't contain bad puns at all -- just the titles. posted by hippybear at 3:01 PM on February 3, 2010
I have a fondness for their spin on 'I Dig a Pony'. posted by ovvl at 4:13 PM on February 3, 2010
Reminds me that the other day I found the Beatles mashup that no one has been waiting for. posted by Countess Elena at 4:27 PM on February 3, 2010
My fave fab mashup is Revolved. Some surprisingly effective non-hip hop connections. "You Only Live Tomorrow" kills. posted by jetsetsc at 4:59 PM on February 3, 2010 [1 favorite]
The Residents beat beat beatle us all to the punchbowl, especially in their 1977 offering:
I've collected a few of these mashups over the years. Here's one called The Beachles. Not as cool as the Beastles, but still, it's a pretty interesting idea to make a "Sgt. Pet's Sounds". (link is a direct download, not a webpage) posted by frodisaur at 5:56 PM on February 3, 2010
My fave fab mashup is Revolved.
...which seems sadly to have vanished into the netherworld of legal threats and dead torrents. posted by hippybear at 7:03 PM on February 3, 2010
My fave fab mashup is Revolved.
...which seems sadly to have vanished into the netherworld of legal threats and dead torrents.
And also its sequel Cracked Pepper -- probably suffers from the same dead links, although maybe the torrent is still alive? posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 7:06 PM on February 4, 2010
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