House of the Rising Sun excavated in New Orleans: [link]
How's it sit? Pretty cunning, don'tchya think?
Jayne ,'The Message'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Betsy HP - Mar 20, 2005 12:04:52 pm PST #7699 of 10003
If I only had a brain...
Tom Scola - Mar 20, 2005 4:28:46 pm PST #7700 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I don't subscribe to Music, and I haven't posted here before, so sorry if this has been posted here before: Go Home Productions. The Christina Aguilera / Velvet Undergound mashup is a thing of beauty.
DavidS - Mar 20, 2005 5:16:43 pm PST #7701 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Thanks, Tom. The Madonna/Sex Pistols works really well too.
One thing mashups have done is relieved me of concerns about Nirvana nicking Boston's "More Than A Feeling." When you're working with 4 chords, you're going to get the same combinations with some regularity.
tommyrot - Mar 20, 2005 5:25:55 pm PST #7702 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Do you suppose they'll ever change music licensing stuff to make mashups legal? Like, you can make a mashup if 95% of the profit goes to the folks who wrote and recorded the two songs used? I suppose permission would still need to be given on a case by case basis, which probably won't happen until a mashup becomes a big hit....
It just anoys me that there's a lot of cool music that's impossible to obtain legally. It's like, I want to give them money, but....
OK, this is just a rant that serves no other purpose....
Betsy HP - Mar 20, 2005 5:27:09 pm PST #7703 of 10003
If I only had a brain...
A fine rant self-justifies.
Polter-Cow - Mar 20, 2005 5:32:57 pm PST #7704 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Go Home Productions.
I didn't check out any of the mashups because there weren't any where I knew more than one of the songs in them, but I really like the remix of "Ride." It's superfun. Very cool.
Jesse - Mar 20, 2005 5:33:19 pm PST #7705 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's just like samples in rap music, legally, isn't it?
Fred Pete - Mar 21, 2005 4:30:04 am PST #7706 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
Do you suppose they'll ever change music licensing stuff to make mashups legal? Like, you can make a mashup if 95% of the profit goes to the folks who wrote and recorded the two songs used? I suppose permission would still need to be given on a case by case basis, which probably won't happen until a mashup becomes a big hit....
There are ways to deal with this, if the copyright holders have some sense.
Not sure if this is true, but I've heard that during the '80s, a Milwaukee DJ recorded a reworking of "Karma Chameleon" called "I'm a Milwaukeean" -- without addressing copyright issues first. When the issue became public, Boy George was willing not to press charges as long as proceeds went to charity.
Seems workable to me.
msbelle - Mar 21, 2005 4:59:08 am PST #7707 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
from that Go Home Productions site, can you download those mashups as MP3s? Have never done before, don;t see a button.
joe boucher - Mar 21, 2005 5:16:29 am PST #7708 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
Just click on the link, msbelle, & it will start. Or right click & choose save as.
My favorite GHP mashup is the Tweet/XTC one (it's a couple above the Aguilera/VU one).
Tom, if you're still looking in, Mr. GHP himself, Mark Vidler, was on the Brian Lehrer show a couple months back.
I like Miss Frenchie, too, especially her Peaches/Clash mashup (from the London Booted project) "Fuck 'em, Boyo". I'm sure you can guess from the title that this is not a work-friendly mp3.