FAN: The Ultimate Mashup

Wow, this is cool. With Led Zeppelin being in my Top 3 bands of all time (not sure where though) and Bloom County being my favorite print comic....this is kind of like pop culture crack for me. The way the Zeppelin riffs are weaved together with Christmas songs is pure genius. Me likey. I want to get this in mp3 format.

Mashup Spotlight

I had some friends over for a cookout this weekend as one's family is away on vacation and one I just plain haven't seen in a while and it was time. After we knocked back our steaks from Ilg's Meats and drank our share of beer, we hit the basement bar which turned into a show-and-tell on YouTube. I saw some Deathklok on AdultSwim.com and I was showing some Chad Vader on YouTube as well as Sad Kermit doing Hurt. We turned our attention to looking for mashups and found some gems. I'll list a few here. The first is Run DMC doing Tricky over Metallica's Enter Sandman. Cool stuff. Next up is Foo FIghter's and Guns 'N Roses. Weird how stuff like this just meshes. Snoop Dogg and Led Zep comes off OK as a party song. Next one is either good, or just sounds crazy after a few beers, but it's The Chemical Brother's Galvanize mixed with none other than John William's Theme from The Empire Strikes Back. Rave music probably. Anyway, some pretty creative stuff in there.

Ernie & Bert Original Gangsters

I swear, if I didn't have a job, I'd sit around and make Sesame Street mashups all day long. They make me laugh, but then again, what doesn't.

Superb Movie Mash-Up

Wow. I usually don't like many of the movie mash-ups posted on YouTube because they aren't very creative. I much prefer the music ones. However, this one had me smiling throughout....and it's not just because I'm a huge Rush fan. Dude must have put hours into tmaking this thing as almost every lyric matches up to something going on in one of the movies. Cool. Brilliant, even.

YouTube Mash Ups Mining

Green Day & Queen Cool Cool Cool, but they didn't credit the drums from U2's Bullet The Blue Sky which they unmistakenly are.

Corey Hart & Justin Timberlake Obviously I'm not a fan of JT, but I do like my cheesey 80's music and I like the Corey Hart song. The thing is, when these two are mixed - it could easily pass as a song and not a mashup. It works. Weird. Really Weird.

AC/DC & J-Kwon Ok I have to admit, I don't even know who the hell J-Kwon is. The song sounds remotely familiar like I may have heard it somewhere before....but again...the J-Kwon song over one of the most famous riffs of all time doesn't sound that terrible. Plus, if it brings AC/DC to a new crowd....so be it. Needs more Angus....less J-Kwon :)

AC/DC & Queen We Will Rock You chorus needs speeded up ever so slightly....Moor Cowbell would have done a better job. Moor Cowbell and I once sat 3rd row for AC/DC. I can trace the beginning of my hearing loss to that night!

AC/DC & Black Eyed Peas I'm sensing maybe AC/DC's manager should cut a deal to put out an album like Linkin Park/Jay-Z and mash them up with current artists. If I was at a club and drinking....I can see me doing the "white boy overbite" to this. My cousin Still A Boomer does the best white boy overbite EVER.

Eurythmics & The White Stripes The production in this one is lacking music-wise, but it's still pretty good if you like both songs.

The Bee-Gees & Shakira & Britney Spears ummmm, you mean there's music with this? I was just watching all the skin being flashed. I do walk about 3 inches taller though whenever I hear Stayin' Alive's groove.

More Good Mash Ups

This one features The Police and Snow Patrol. This one is a little better - Green Day with Oasis and others at the end including Aerosmith. And this is just too obvious as I think of "Hey Mickey" every time I hear the new Avril Lavigne song "Girlfriend".

Daddy Time - Sweet!

My daughter is 7 going on 8 and loves music. LOVES music. Good. She loves to sing and has had a real amp and microphone since she was about 5. We put on mini concerts all the time (to HER music, not mine, although her voice could probably do a good Geddy Lee) ) She can easily identify a song as being "the Blues" when she hears it, but her favorite artists to listen to right now are Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson, Hannah Montana, Hilary Duff and The Cheetah Girls. Like I said in the previous post, TV sucked tonight so I was spending some time surfing YouTube for music clips. I wasn't even done with my first song (Pearl Jam & U2 together live) when she came bopping around the corner and wanted to search for Muppet clips. Fun as that sounded (and I mean I LOVE it when she thinks the same stuff that I think is funny, is funny) I was in the mood for music and decided to try a new game with her: we would watch a clip of one of my favorites and then I would watch one of hers. She asked me to see the first concert I ever saw so I dialed up Whitesnake for her. "Ooooooooooh gross, look at their hair!". Ha. Funny. "they look like GIRLS!". I was forgetting that she usually just hears my music. When Tawny Katain shows up for the first time with her hair that would fill a small football stadium, she shrieked even louder......"Eeeeeewwwwwwww!". If she only knew how hot her daddy used to be for that same woman! Little did we know she would end up attacking her 17th famous boyfriend/husband with a shoe! Anyway, we watched some live clips as well and then we watched Carrie Underwood - her choice - which I didn't mind one bit if you get my drift. She asked me who my first favorite band was.....so I had to roll out "You wanted the best, you got the best - The hottest band in the world..........K-I-S-S........". She couldn't believe that I liked them. If you think she thought David Coverdale's hair was offensive, you should have heard her when Gene Simmons started wagging his tongue around! It was hilarious! We saw some Kelly Clarkson, we saw The Cure, then she wanted to find some Green Day. I had to watch the lyrics as she is only used to When September Ends and Good Riddance. We BOTH love Wake Me Up When September Ends. Her birthday is in September and I think thats what started it. Anyhoooo, it's outstanding to have a song that you can dig with your daughter and you both actually like it. I like it so much that when I got involved with a band over the internet with Still Moor Cowbell (regular poster Kevin), I suggested we do that song and I volunteered to both sing it and play drums. It didn't turn out too bad. If Still Moor Cowbell can upload it somewhere and pass me the link - I'll pass it on if anyone wants to check it out. I'm not sure you can grab it off our site where we upload our tracks to be mixed if you aren't a member. Anyway - she has us on her iPod singing it and likes to show it off. Funny she does that since she told Still A. Dad something to the effect of "him and his music that he thinks is so great....". Precious, isn't she? To get back to my reason for posting this - she was trolling for a Green Day song and came across a mash-up of Green Day and Kelly Clarkson. It flat out rocks. I'm very impressed with some of the mash-ups I come across. This is one of the better ones. I saw a great movie mash-up the other day between Star Wars and Boogie Nights. Instant classic. If you saw both movies, you would really like it. That was a stupid statement. I guess I should have said "If you saw Boogie Nights" you will really like it. Enjoy the mash-up. Pass it around. Found this one later, but didn't show it to her. TV Sucks. YouTube Rules.

Babar? BABAR? What the?

This guy had a good idea, and instead of waiting until he could get his hands on a decent second animal - he went with....Babar The Elephant? Kermit's well timed "What?"s make the video if you ask me. Man, I love me some mashups.

It's The Great Outkast, Charlie Brown

This is totally cool. Good job by the creators who beg "please don't sue us" at the end of the credits. If you know the song "Hey Yeah" (or even if you don't) you should enjoy this Smash Up / Mash Up of the popular Outkast song with Charlie Brown's Christmas Special. Too cool. One question: Where the hell is Franklin? Damn, he gets no respect. Freida and Violet are there jamming, Violet is either doing the Vogue or an early Macarena, and there are a set of twins that never had a speaking part - why the hell can't Franklin break it down? Man, I love me some Charlie Brown.