I tried to watch that but it was the same thing over and over again.

So, in order words, it was Coldplay, Katy Perry, and a bunch of crappy rap & R&B?

SoundScan ruined pop music. It sounds strange, but once a system was put in place to count the music that people were actually buying, America's tin farking ear began the slow death of the music industry.

It sounds strange, but once a system was put in place to count the music that people were actually buying, America's tin farking ear began the slow death of the music industry.

I thought sales tracking proved that Garth Brooks was popular. (People were buying Garth at WalMart rather than Billboard hits at record stores.) How did we get from there to Katy Perry?

ZAZ: I thought sales tracking proved that Garth Brooks was popular. (People were buying Garth at WalMart rather than Billboard hits at record stores.) How did we get from there to Katy Perry?

I'll take Katy Perry over Garth Brooks any day.
I'd like Katy Perry over me, for that matter.

Sounds like a McDonald's commercial.

Wow...it really does sound all alike. Suck.

That was farking awful.

It all sounds like one great big Nickleback song to me...

(that's code for complete and total tone deaf CRAP)

Girl Talk would have done a better job. And then been sued promptly.

So he cut a long instrumental bridge of that Coldplay song which really makes me feel like moving. And if the native BPM of an R&B song didn't match that Coldplay song at all, he cut a random quote from it and placed them over it, or tried to mask that by putting a different beat in between. If it did match kinda closely, he used 20 seconds of it, except for that OneRepublic song, which he used extensively. The sound quality of those lyrical parts sounds awful, too, which I'm sure is in part youtube, and in part an attempt at frequency cutoffs in Audacity.

I do make better mashups than that, but I have the modesty to not share it with anyone but friends.

And I don't call myself DJ.

I love DJ Earworm. Good one, subby.

utterly pointless

15 seconds.

This is pretty unremarkable. Really nothing more than a couple of vocal cuts pasted together with no real vision or inventiveness. The samples are so short and limited that it really doesn't matter how the "DJ" beatmatches either

And "DJ" is in quotes because I'm sure this guy is another ipod jockey that put this together on Acidpro

The sad thing is this is the most annoying thing ever ... and it's indistinguishable from regular pop music.

Tony Stark
"This is pretty unremarkable."
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well, yeah, pretty much like the top 25 songs of 2008.

Phegan: 15 seconds.

10.

Ladies and gentlemen...behold the best mashup of 2008:

"Cooking by the book" from Lazy Town feat. Lil' Jon (YouTube)

+(NSFW audio)

/sorry

Yikes. I like a lot of DJ Earworm's stuff - even stuff that includes source material I don't like -- but not this. Just doesn't seem inspired.

Klingon Penis: So, in order words, it was Coldplay, Katy Perry, and a bunch of crappy rap & R&B?

SoundScan ruined pop music. It sounds strange, but once a system was put in place to count the music that people were actually buying, America's tin farking ear began the slow death of the music industry.

I think for the most part popular music tends to play to the lowest denominator anyways to attract the largest mass audience.

Stuff like Chopin or Mozart or whatever is really "music" in the sense that they follow their eras respective theories of harmony, counterpoint, etc. For example, they tend to start and end on the tonic, they have proper cadence points, the sequences use proper phrasing, etc, and so on.

Whereas pop music tends to play fast and loose with the theoretical side as to make something that is more psychologically attractive [also music videos can then focus more on visual appeal as oppose to auditory appeal]. Case and point, how many pop songs end with a perfect cadence, or really have any sort of true binary/trinary form. Proper modulation from one key to the next? etc...

Don't get me wrong I like listening to rock, alternative, trance, techno, etc. But my ipod has spent just as many hours playing classical/romantic era music as it has stuff from the 21st and 20th century.

MindlessStonedIndulgence: Girl Talk would have done a better job. And then been sued promptly.

To be fair to DJ Earworm, I don't think Girl Talk could have done any better with the same source material.

I am gonna play this at the club next week and see what the girls say....lol

25 songs sound like Wait No More? Dude, those guys rawk!

I think it was good. I liked it. It was well done.

Music is like driving, everyone else that doesnt drive/ listen to my music is crazy and stupid.

That should sum up this thread!

Earworm is great! This...well not so much. MY favorite is DJ. LobersterDust. (new window)

So if you take 25 of the shiattiest pablum of the year and mix it together, you can actually come up with something approaching mediocrity?

You can polish turds after all.

politicalgateway: I am gonna play this at the club next week and see what the girls say....lol

I am too at my show...it will either be my opening or ending video. Not sure which...depends on the crowd

I liked this, someone put a lot of work into it and he/she did a great job. I don't listen to this stuff but it doesn't mean I bash on it like all you bastards. To each his own.

botsects: Ladies and gentlemen...behold the best mashup of 2008:

Holy shiat! THAT is def going into the play list!
ROFLMAO!!!!

/i'm crying

Courtney Cox-Zucker: So if you take 25 of the shiattiest pablum of the year and mix it together, you can actually come up with something approaching mediocrity?

You can polish turds after all.

Worked for Microsoft's Vista.

/zing!

NiveK-: I don't listen to this stuff but it doesn't mean I bash on it like all you bastards. To each his own.

A lot of us aren't really bashing Earworm. It is just we KNOW he can do alot better. The guy is awesome. Check the guy out. But his source material for this year comp...well it was a weak year.

/liked last years better

Now I know what a polish turd sounds like!

*polished*

//-1 to myself

[*the following expression of defiant ignorance is said in a mid 70's Peter Hammill singing-delivery*]

[*soft volume*]
i didn't reCOGnize more than half ----
[*medium volume*]
of those songsinthat
[*growly anguished scream*]
LIIIIIISSSSSST...

[*medium volume*]
and... i'm ---- PROUD ...of...
[*joyous scream*]
THHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT
[*whispered*]
as i should be?

_______________________________________

/ i HATE that "like a lollipop" song... makes me want to stab my ears out with a spork.
// why oh why did i listen to that?

give it some hand claps and it's stars on 45 from
25 years ago, absolute sh*t.
i swear, the next idiot who tells me he's a dj and then
talks as if he's a musician or an artist, is getting
his turntable rectally inserted.

botsects: Ladies and gentlemen...behold the best mashup of 2008:

"Cooking by the book" from Lazy Town feat. Lil' Jon (YouTube)

OMG That made me snicker uncontrollably. Stephanie is/was a guarded secret about who she really is. Now she is in production for a movie so the show is gone.

/check out oobi
//i don't wonder why my kids are how they are
///long slashie!

corey_d: Now I know what a polish turd sounds like!

have you seen this?

Link (new window)

Oh good another mash thread!

Radiohead vs Dave Brubeck

Kraftwerk vs Timbaland

Gorillaz vs The Cure

\only 3 per thread

Dam, so much hate wtf.. I really enjoyed it, and I'm high. That maybe why. Either way it took decent talent to put that together.

Came looking for a Weird Al Yankovick Polka Power medley, leaving very disappointed indeed.

not hating... just not as good as last year's...

tombotia: The sad thing is this is the most annoying thing ever ... and it's indistinguishable from regular pop music.

And THAT is what makes it so craptacularly wonderful.

/'Before The Music Dies'
//See it if you haven't already.

botsects: Ladies and gentlemen...behold the best mashup of 2008:

"Cooking by the book" from Lazy Town feat. Lil' Jon (YouTube)

Indeed

Girl Talk is awful. Go Home Productions is where it's at.

www.gohomeproductions.co.uk (new window)

My time was better spent taking a dump which was induced by trying to watch that lame vid.

sayntfuu

i like the radiohead one far better than the other two.
that first one is a work of genius.

Best.
Mashup.
Evah!

For this year.
Meh.

Tony Stark: This is pretty unremarkable. Really nothing more than a couple of vocal cuts pasted together with no real vision or inventiveness. The samples are so short and limited that it really doesn't matter how the "DJ" beatmatches either

And "DJ" is in quotes because I'm sure this guy is another ipod jockey that put this together on Acidpro

What the hell is wrong with Acid Pro? It is a professional track based music creation program. If you want to create a mix version of a song, this is the program you use to do that.

Ipod jockey? DJs don't need to carry around turntables and scratch, only hip hop mainly still do this. And DJs will use a laptop to transition between songs seamlessly, not an ipod. The only person bringing just an ipod is someone that going cheap at a party, and doesn't take requests.