It’s the return of the 11:11 a.m. Tuesday Time-Waster series! So, what induced me to post something to distract you on this Tuesday morning (depending on your timezone)? Music, that’s what.
When you take two different genres of music and mash them together, sometimes the results are mind-blowing. Case in point: when Metallica teamed up with the San Francisco Symphony. The resulting two-disc album is, hands down, my favorite album of all time. (And that’s saying a lot, because I’m terribly indecisive.) I bought the album the week it came out in 1999, and I’ve had at least one of the CDs on standby in my car ever since.
I was recently playing Philip Glass music (classical) on repeat while finishing up that very long road trip blog post. I’ve always been a Blondie (rock) fan. So when I happened to see both of their names listed in one song, I dropped everything and followed the link. The result is cool.
Then I began exploring the other songs posted by that SoundCloud user, whose name is the intriguing “Daft Beatles.” Daft Punk meets the Beatles?! Why, yes. Adele meets Guns and Roses? Yes, that happens, too. How about anything involving the Top Gun theme song?
Somewhere back around 2000, I actually created some very short mashups. They were short and extremely rough, and I vaguely recall that it was a painfully slow process, though I’m sure “there’s an app for that” now. I don’t think I’m creative enough to really make great mashups, but can someone make me a cool mash-up involving The Birthday Massacre’s song “Pins and Needles“? That’s been played quite a few times around here lately, and I have no idea why I haven’t just bought the whole album already. Warning: Their music already sounds a little like a mash-up, so your results could be a disaster.
I cannot EVEN describe how tickled I am that this post’s URL has 1111 in it. 11:11 in the post AND in the URL! Yes, my nerdiness knows no limits.
Yay, mashups! (And yay, number nerdiness!)
I have done a couple myself (and have one or two coming, when I get into that kind of spirit again).
Word Up + Sex Bomb – and please note that the only thing I’ve done here is match the tempo of the songs and start Word Up eight bars before Sex Bomb. During the song I just swap between the two, and sometimes play them in unison. (Oh yeah, and at the end Tom Jones modulates, so I have to modulate him down again.)
Thinkin’ About Your Body + Sneakers – the latter might not be well known, but is an instrumental funk song I really like.
And what got me hooked on mashups is this 50 Cent + Jimmy Shand mashup which I still think is fantastic.
(I’ll have to listen to your suggestions another time, though! Maybe tomorrow morning.)