tags: mashup
2007
May
- 2007 May 16
- phil collins “take me home”
Maybe I’m just being morbid. Maybe it’s because I just finished working in the ICU and watched plenty of people die and signed plenty of death certificates. Maybe it’s because I had dinner with (among others) someone who works for the medical examiner. Nothing like talking about people who died in sudden, unexpected, and often gruesome ways while having Japanese food. Maybe it’s because the track before this one was “Mad World” by Tears for Fears, which has the classic line “the dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had,” a song that was resurrected by Gary Jules and the movie “Donnie Darko.”
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September
- 2007 Sep 7
- youtube candy
Before I find myself dragged back down into the pit of self-pity as I reminisce rather mawkishly, I thought I would share some mashups that I thought were particularly clever.
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2012
June
- 2012 Jun 8
- it's the way it's put together
So, yeah, up until 1 am for no good reason, except I got sucked into YouTube and the Hype Machine, finding covers and mashups of pop songs that have finally burrowed their way into my consciousness after constant exposure. And it both delights me and makes me a little wistful that I'm not the first person who thought two songs just happened to fit really well together not just thematically (lyrically speaking) but even in terms of key signature and rhythm.
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2015
May
- 2015 May 7
- To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before
So in the process of converting old handrolled blog entries to Jekyll I stumbled upon a song from a Rainbow Brite cassette tape that my sister listened to over and over and over again when we were kids and which subsequently embedded itself into my skull.
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September
- 2015 Sep 12
- Do It to Me One More Time/Locked Away
It's been bothering me all morning, but I think I finally figured out what the new song by R. City featuring Adam Levin sounds like.
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