Well those guys at G.corp have done it again. If it's not the reworking of Iggle Piggle and Makka Pakka then it's something altogether more sophisticated.
I'm still not sure where I sit with mash-ups but this is great!
Marvin Gaye meets Bob Marley?
I know it's a classic but in the world of mash nothing can be sacred and everything is up for grabs.
Mind you, I nearly had this song spoiled for me by a local 'singer' at an acoustic night who sang with such an affected accent in the vain hope of appearing credible and despite his pasty faced white boy striving to summon up enough melanoma to pull it off - I was confused for a full 5 minutes trying to work out what was so lusty about a suburban region of London to have evoked the title Sexual Ealing?
Was it something that the local council had adopted to raise the profile of the region only known for it's 50's and 60's film credentials?
Had it been twinned with a city in Holland?
No it was in fact...you guessed it, the Marvin Gaye classic being delivered by a twat who couldn't or wouldn't or thought he shouldn't pronounce his 'H's.
So from Mashed to Mispronounced - or inaudible diction on a performance.
As the cleverly 'mashed' (Bob meets Des) Maxell ad once said - that's what I thought he said?
There must be other offenders in the wold of inaudible lyric, mistaken and confused meaning or just bad vocals? any favorites?
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wow, smooth mashing. great combo. thanks for posting this track!
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I'm on the fence with mash-ups as well, some of them in the hands of a clever dj work out real well but I think the downside of these mash-ups are when less clever recording artists start mashing older hits with their own original recordings. Such is the case with Kid Rocks "All Summer Long (Sweet Home Alabama)/ Werewolves of London" mash up.
I think this is a horrific trend we'll be seeing a lot of in the years to come.
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Dachmo - I agree, the first instance of 'plundering' archives I can remember was the awful stars on 45 thing, take a disco beat and see how many songs are in the same time signature.
I was a little concerned with the reworking of the Beatles 'LOVE' album which appeared to do the same thing with ringo - in effect how many variations of the same drumming (Or was it how many songs were the same?) either way in that case as i said in an earlier post - Ringo (and possibly Jim Keltner) were vindicated as we realised he proved entomologists wrong - there really was a backbone to the Beatles and Ringo - God bless him - was it.
The studio trend which delivers the Kid Rock kind of shit is a whole different thing altogether and I am constantly frustrated that most people may believe it's actually their original songs!
Take the Gabrielle song rise - or should I say Knocking on heavens door, it really is no further developed than the 70's trend to rewrite the lyrics as the Baron Nights made a career out of with a series of novelty tracks. Or Roy Chubby Browns idea to overdub a one liner on a Smokie track (WTFIA?!).
Or Oasis (The Rutles were funnier!)
Mash ups that fair better have an art or even a basic musical grounding to them. First are the songs even in the same key?Time? etc.
Second do they create something new (albeit utilizing the original source).
Third - does it stand up on it's own?
I suppose their is a fourth category - is it intended to demonstrate how alike two songs are as with the mix of Pleasant Valley Sunday and Paperback Writer. If shame is the aim then there are many such instances to draw on most of the British Guitar Rock Royalty of the 60's - see also a previous post (http://mog.com/chandlersford/blog/94198).
I do like this one, though that may just be the simple fact that Marvin adds quality to anything.
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Now that grooves! (You can't say it rocks, can you?) Most mashups are interesting like Samuel Johnson's dog is interesting, not because they're good but because they've been done. But this could be a song in itself and I'm surprised there isn't a reggae version with that kind of great groove to it. Nice one!
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Pretty tastee, c-ford. Then again, when it comes to mashes of any ilk, I'm all ears.