Ratt featuring Marvin Gaye?
February 28, 2018 7:37 AM   Subscribe

I Heard it Round and Round the Grapevine. A mashup of Ratt's "Round and Round" and Marvin Gaye's "I Heard it Through the Grapevine", a combination that works better than one might expect. (slyt)
posted by fings (15 comments total) 15 users marked this as a favorite
 
That's... remarkable.

What is this sorcery? And how does someone notice this works in the first place?
posted by rokusan at 7:42 AM on February 28, 2018 [3 favorites]


I have extremely conflicting feelings about Stayin' A Hollaback Girl. The first two bars of the chorus fit so well together! But the second two bars are so unsatisfying without the high notes!
posted by a car full of lions at 7:55 AM on February 28, 2018


It mostly works! They changed some of the notes and left others to make it feel authentic. To their credit, the two songs are in the same key, though one is minor and one is major.
posted by grumpybear69 at 7:56 AM on February 28, 2018


This is an absolute desecration of a classic.

Ratt must be rolling in their grave.
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 8:17 AM on February 28, 2018 [2 favorites]


I love both of the songs. I don’t know that I’ll ever listen to them again except in this way. They were clearly meant to be together.
posted by greermahoney at 8:52 AM on February 28, 2018 [2 favorites]


Grapevine makes an excellent vocal line for the Ratt song, but that harmonization makes the melody a lot less interesting. In the original arrangement, Gaye's melody is hitting notes that are dissonant with or a satisfying note in the chords of the accompaniment. (Sorry, my music theory sucks too much to be more specific.) In this mashup, his vocal line mostly just goes along with the chords of the Round and Round.

The best part of this arrangement is where he sings "you could have told me yourself that you love someone else" right before the chorus. There the melody and accompaniment fit together in a very cool way.

It's still a surprisingly good combination.
posted by straight at 9:54 AM on February 28, 2018


Harmonically, this one works better, but only because the original songs are pretty much modal
posted by milnak at 10:21 AM on February 28, 2018 [2 favorites]


My fave over the years is the Pistols and Ce Ce Peniston.
posted by stevil at 11:18 AM on February 28, 2018 [1 favorite]


Stayin' a Hollaback Girl is no match for Stayin Hot
posted by CheapB at 1:04 PM on February 28, 2018


Pretty good, but doesn't top "I Got More Than A Feeling".
posted by hanov3r at 1:16 PM on February 28, 2018


It's not a bad mashup, but it really just made me want to go listen to the Marvin Gaye original, which truly is amazing.
posted by biogeo at 4:13 PM on February 28, 2018


It turns Grapevine into something from the closing credits of an 80s buddy cop movie.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 6:52 PM on February 28, 2018 [1 favorite]


I love mashups that help me re-hear the originals. This is great – thanks for posting it!
posted by Lexica at 8:12 PM on February 28, 2018 [1 favorite]


I tend to go the other way - just Marvin.
posted by sysinfo at 9:50 PM on February 28, 2018


Fat Bottomed Girls Come Together
posted by hawthorne at 7:29 AM on March 1, 2018


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