"These mashups are making me thirsty!"

February 2, 2022 10:05 PM

From Seinfeld Current Day and Hood Internet (the 19xx makers): The Seinfeld Theme Mixed With A Hit Song From Every Year Seinfeld Was On TV.
posted by MollyRealized (23 comments total)

Jeez…32 years ago.

When it debuted in 1989, 32 years previously would have been…1957.

That’s really unsettling.
posted by darkstar at 10:20 PM on February 2, 2022 [3 favorites]

I hate to break it to you, but 1989 was 33 years ago.
posted by hippybear at 10:45 PM on February 2, 2022 [7 favorites]

Works shockingly well for the hip hop tracks.
posted by migurski at 10:48 PM on February 2, 2022 [3 favorites]

For me, the funniest thing about Seinfeld is the way that theme, which so many have cited as the reason they're sick of hearing slap bass, wasn't even bass.
posted by flabdablet at 3:59 AM on February 3, 2022 [5 favorites]

I foreshadowed that Daft Punk bit coming up halfway through the video for some reason. The syncing of the group dancing down the hallway at like 2:06 is as perfect as any North Korean Army Parade/Bee Gees mashup.
posted by St. Oops at 4:28 AM on February 3, 2022

the 19xx makers

Not to be confused with 18XX.
posted by zamboni at 5:13 AM on February 3, 2022

Yeah the vibe from 1992 - "Jump Around" (House of Pain) > 1993 - "C.R.E.A.M." (Wu-Tang Clan) > 1994 - "Creep" (TLC) > 1995 - "California Love" (2Pac ft. Dr. Dre & Roger Troutman) is a whole bop.

flabdablet: That Jonathan Wolff video is incredible and I am totally smitten with his cricket sweater excited nerd energy. Is that the kinda stuff that's on E! News?? Charming geek content?? If so I need to be watching E! News.

In honor of #DoublesJubilee (and in deference to the fact that Hood Internet should always be in rotation!), some previouslies:

Hood Internet and DJ Earworm = Jets vs. Sharks: DJ Earworm: Decade of Pop - The 2000s: 10 years, 100 songs
1995's Here, to Remind You, of the Mess...: Hood Internet 1995
Let Your Body Move to the Mashup...: Hood Internet presents 1990
(^all from metabaroque)
1979-1989 Mashed from subocoyne: The Hood Internet has completed their ambitious '79-'89 project, comprising over 550 songs
1985 from WCityMike: Hood Internet – 1985 (SLYT mashup).
1979-1983: A very abbreviated musical history from schmod: The Hood Internet presents 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, and 1983; concluding a series of 5 3-minute mashups, featuring 50+ songs from each year.
posted by youarenothere at 5:23 AM on February 3, 2022 [2 favorites]

I saw more Black people in that two minutes than I did watching 9 seasons of Seinfeld (a show that I like a lot and have watched repeatedly, just sayin' though).
posted by box at 5:42 AM on February 3, 2022 [9 favorites]

I look forward to sharing this on social media and seeing a very specific subset of my friends react to it.

Thanks for brightening my morning, WCityMike2!
posted by armeowda at 6:55 AM on February 3, 2022

I saw more Black people in that two minutes than I did watching 9 seasons of Seinfeld

lol real talk; although Seinfeld for me also had that Sex and the City thing where I was simultaneously like where are the characters of color? and these writers absolutely could not be trusted with characters of color, best that they are left out?. Perhaps this mashup can be considered as not just a whole bop but also a dewhitifying of the original series which injects the realities of nineties New York into Jerry's unrealistically caucasian vision of the city...
posted by youarenothere at 7:15 AM on February 3, 2022 [2 favorites]

I'm not sure I ever understood the vitriol against having no POCs in these shows. When I moved to NYC I assumed that friend groups would be completely mixed because of comments like this or from other media. Nope, just as self segregated as anywhere else I've ever lived.
posted by sandmanwv at 7:23 AM on February 3, 2022 [5 favorites]

For me, the funniest thing about Seinfeld is the way that theme, which so many have cited as the reason they're sick of hearing slap bass, wasn't yt even bass yt .

I really hate slap bass (even though I play bass) for the most part (tiny tiny interludes in slap are ok - like U2's Gloria), and that was nails on a chalkboard. It breaks my brain that someone could work so hard for something like that - like being the world champion at making armpit farts.
posted by The_Vegetables at 7:50 AM on February 3, 2022

Box, I think they were aware of it in some way, otherwise you don't get episodes like 'The Diplomat's Club' where George desperately try to prove he's not racist by proving he has black friends, and that ends up being a round up of almost all the black characters that interacted with him on Seinfeld.
posted by WaterAndPixels at 8:02 AM on February 3, 2022

I'm surprised anyone would think that was actually a bass. It sounds like something I would have played on a Casio SK-1, which I had, and provided lots o' fun back in the day.
posted by 2N2222 at 8:08 AM on February 3, 2022 [1 favorite]

THAT WAS SO MUCH FUN

Ba-dow dow dow dow dowwww
posted by sixswitch at 8:34 AM on February 3, 2022 [1 favorite]

I'm surprised anyone would think that was actually a bass.

Civilians! I'm surprised by nothing. And I don't know, a lot of pop music then had bass guitar and synths doubling a bass part, people just think of that as bass after a while I guess.
posted by thelonius at 9:08 AM on February 3, 2022

What I'd segue the sequencer riff into is, "Tom Sawyer"........
posted by thelonius at 9:08 AM on February 3, 2022

That was a marvelous and delightful video that put a smile on my face and kept it there! Thank you for sharing it! The magnificent visual clip choice really elevated the whole thing.

I watched a lot of Seinfeld when it was airing. I had a friend group that was really into it (this was mostly theater kids, I believe). I was at a high school in a fairly agricultural area of California's Central Valley and we riffed on Seinfeld a LOT ... in retrospect it was a fandom that gave us what felt like a taste of elegant, sophisticated, absurd New York culture which felt so far away from our cafeteria French fries. So the "Time Of Your Life" clip at the end caught me by surprise and moved me. That song was such a staple of late-1990s slideshows and video montages. High school was not, for me, the height of my existence, but there is a particular scattering of experiences I can now look back on with some fondness, and one of them is the bits of Seinfeld fandom that brought some laughs into the lives of a few weirdos at those lunches.
posted by brainwane at 9:26 AM on February 3, 2022 [3 favorites]

I'm not sure I ever understood the vitriol against having no POCs in these shows. When I moved to NYC I assumed that friend groups would be completely mixed because of comments like this or from other media. Nope, just as self segregated as anywhere else I've ever lived.

So basically the same argument as gamer bros saying "BuT mUH rEALisM!!!"
posted by ultraviolet catastrophe at 10:48 AM on February 3, 2022

like being the world champion at making armpit farts

Given that the Seinfeld theme was individually recorded per episode, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find an armpit fart or two in amongst the tongue clicks and lip pops.
posted by flabdablet at 2:29 AM on February 4, 2022

Maybe you don't like slap bass, fine, but it is what you get when we stop building our cities on rock and roll, and what did you do to prevent that from happening?
posted by thelonius at 9:00 AM on February 4, 2022 [2 favorites]

Despite Jon Wolff mostly sampling himself, amazed there is no 'pole hit' anywhere in there (granted that's default Korg M1 territory).
posted by bitterkitten at 11:09 AM on February 5, 2022

For me, the funniest thing about Seinfeld is the way that theme, which so many have cited as the reason they're sick of hearing slap bass, wasn't even bass.

This I did not know:

"Each episode, I redo the theme for Seinfeld to match the pacing of his monologue" -- Jonathan Wolff

Although I guess I should have if I was paying attention.
posted by pjenks at 1:33 PM on February 5, 2022