Covered Well

While looking at Mashuptown, I came across an interesting thing to mention (rather briefly, I know, but I'm running out of steam right about now), and it's combining an original version of a song with a cover of it. As mentioned here, a famous example was A Plus D combining the original Crazy with Nelly Furtado's, which can be found on sites like BeeMP3.

The link I provided to Mashuptown also has the song that inspired me to do this, which is the two most famous versions of Tainted Love. No matter which one you prefer, you should enjoy this work from Copycat, where you hear the cover's vocals and music, but the music is changed so that it matches the beat of the Jones version, which to me makes it sound like Good Thing, funnily enough.

I know this is different, but combining a song with a later tune that samples the earlier tune, can also be pretty cool. For example, the aforementioned A Plus D and the song they have on their webpage of I Keep Forgettin' To Regulate, which makes you see what happens when Nate Dogg and Warren G sing directly over the song they sample rather than just using the sample and modifying it. Regulate is a song I rate pretty highly, by the way.

I'll be back around this time next week with another mashup.

Check Back On Friday Night

Unfortunately, I ran into another busy weekend; you can read about it here. I also have crap to do this week, so I'll have to do my thing this Friday. Sorry, folks.

What A Trip

I was stumped as to what to mention here, but then I went over to Mashupciti, where regularly new tracks are posted by a variety of people.

Well, one recent one is from none other than DJ Z-Trip, a DJ who's been around for awhile and does music other than mashups. But, the tune he posted there is a classic mashup where he acted a beat and used the riff from Sweet Child o' Mine* and had Stevie Wonder singing Uptight over it.

* which, by the way, seems to be totally ripped off from Alice Cooper and his new wave song Clones. Yes, Alice doing new wave; it should be no surprise that it didn't work, but the song itself is cool. Given that Cooper later was on a GNR song, there must have been no hard feelings for the riff borrowing.

You can find various downloads from Trip on his website. I've actually see Trip before in concert, and sad to say I believe it was the last time he performed in that area. Given that I got a ticket for it for ONE DOLLAR... but I wrote about the experience (much too briefly, sadly) on my MySpace page here. If you ever have the chance to see one of his performances, go! As I wrote about it then, it was quite the experience. Unique music, a videoscreen filled with groovy stuff, the lights, sound... and with his relationship with EA, he was able to do the gimmick where some fans got to play Pac-Man on the videoscreen! No kidding. Like I say, go if you ever are able to, no matter the cost. With me, it had to be the best dollar I've ever spent.

I'll be back Friday night with a new song spotlighted.

I'm Skipping...

To copy and paste from the other music blog I do:

Hello everyone. I apologize for this getting up late, but I’ve just had other things to worry about this weekend, so that’s why this is up now.

As I have relatives over at the Casa del Blair, this will be a quick blog. I know, all of these seem too short, but in this case, I have a good excu… I mean explanation.

So, I'll just not post one today due to lack of time, and when I return this Friday, I promise I'll have something uploaded for you all.