Lazyblog today. A couple of months back some dude in Britain released a Beatles/Wu-Tang Clan mashup album. It 90% sucked, but I like this track: Uh Huh – Wu Tang vs. the Beatles
Mar 042010
Mar 032010
Ready for some Lost spoilers? Here’s what I thought about last night’s episode (Sundown) in delayed semi-realtime–just think of it as my Olympics feed.
Mar 032010
Today we have yet another mashup, one of those simple compositions that takes two complementary songs (or portions thereof), puts them together, and steps away without too much trickery. The song combines Portishead‘s best known song, “Glory Box“, with the Beatles’ “I’m Only Sleeping“, a song so obscure that I hadn’t heard until 20 seconds ago, when I searched for it online so I could hear what it sounded like. Turns out it’s pretty good, but the mashup clearly samples the highlight moment (the first 10 seconds or so of the first verse). The mashup is cleverly called “Sleeping”, and from what I can tell it comes from a 2006 mashup album by CCC dedicated entirely to Revolver–the mashup album is called Revolved (that links to a surprisingly not-defunct website with unsurprisingly dead download links).
You can download it here, or stream it below:
Mar 022010
As part of Beatles Week I’m giving you one of the few songs off of Danger Mouse‘s 2004 concept album, The Grey Album, that actually sounds good (although I love the conceit of the album–combining Jay-Z’s Black Album with The White Album–most of it sounds kind of crappy). Here’s what someone smarter than me said about The Grey Album (from Pitchfork’s 7.7/10 review):
Remix albums rarely have purely noble intentions. From underground promotional vehicles to hobbyist experiments for props at local watering holes, the concept of backing familiar voices with unexpected surroundings had been all but lost to simpler production clinics with high profile guests. That is, until Danger Mouse (best known for his work with Jemini and Sage Francis) turned a color inference into an underground phenomenon with his bootleg conceptual assault, The Grey Album, a remix album that pairs the vocals of Jay-Z’s Black Album with The Beatles’ legendary White Album.
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Mar 012010
Yesterday we had an all-Beatles mashup. Today, we have… an all-Beatles mashup! But it’s different because this one is completely unsanctioned, and not as good. I first heard about it on Boing Boing in 2004, when they actually posted about stuff before everyone on the internet had already seen it four times. Anyway, we’re not here to bash Boing Boing, we’re here to praise the Beatles Mash-Up Medley, by Hank Handy.
Whatever it lacks in polish it makes up in complexity and enthusiasm. It moves from one hook to another, combining them long enough to sink in but quickly skipping on to the next memorable sample. At times the combinations are really quite nice, and it’s a fun voyage through their catalog. And even if you hate it, it’s only three and a half minutes long.
Here’s the song: Beatles Mash-Up Medley – Hank Handy
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