YOUR MASHUP QUIZ: After Adam posted that mash-up of the top songs of 2009, I thought, "how hard could that be?" As it turns out, moderately hard. Or not hard, but exceedingly time-consuming. Anyway, after the jump is my maiden voyage on the Good Ship Mash-Up, "Let There Be Drums." With the dumbest video a lawyer can create in under an hour.
Points to anybody who can identify all of the source material -- only five sources in all.
Incidentally, greatest mash-up of all time? Greatest mash-up of all time.
I've got the easy two:
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AC/DC, "Let There Be Rock."
baba O'Reilly was the only one I knew. But I didn't expect to know any, so that's a win for me.
ReplyDeleteisaac -- i know you like the music on 'chuck' and wanted to pass along this list of top 10 2009 albums from alex patsavas, chuck's music supervisor. nothing too surprising but interesting, nonetheless.
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Wanted to experiment with the embedeed, non-popup comments, but if I can't flip them into first-to-last order, forget it.
ReplyDeleteAh. Fixed. It just means we can't do the "live" updating within comment threads once open.
ReplyDeleteYAY for the non pop-up comment page! Hoping this means I'll be able to see all the comments on the iphone now. I also only knew Baba O'Reilly, but would like to toss this into the running for best mashup ever.
ReplyDeleteYAY, indeed. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Adam and all others who were working on making the comments work more or less like they used to.
ReplyDeleteAnd Maret, it works now on the iPod Touch, so it ought to work on the iPhone too. (And yeah, only Baba O'Reilly for me as well.)
Thanks. The clip above actually uses some work from a band I first heard on Chuck.
ReplyDeleteI guess I'll give the full answer later, but obviously the first two were easy. There is a third that I consider moderate, a fourth that I consider difficult (a moderately well-known band that I've written about here, but it's hard to identify drums), and a fifth that even I consider pretty obscure.
ReplyDeleteWhoops, but what I really meant to say was: "Baba O'Riley." It's almost as if the Who said, "you're going to get the name of this song wrong, but even if you get the name right, you're going to spell it wrong."
ReplyDeleteIf you like mashups, the Best of Bootie 2009 compilation is out . . . at a bare minimum, "Use The Same Old Song" (Kings of Leon/Four Tops) is fantastic.
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Tom, I first heard the Single Ladies in Mayberry mash-up I linked to at a Bootie L.A. show. I agree with you -- they're good fun.
ReplyDeleteOkay, if anybody is still reading: (1) Drums: "You Dissolve," The Thermals. (2) Keyboard/bass loop: "Felicia," The Constellations. (3) Horns, chanting ("Right!"; "Aw!"): "Rock and Roll Lifestyle," Cake. As noted above, vocals by Bon Scott of AC/DC, and bridge by The Who.
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