I hate that I was laughing at that so much. It's either way too early or really funny.

Well, that was sad.

Oh my...

As far as I can tell, this is the first greenlight of a Songsmith song after 8 rejections. Van Halen, Sting and the Beatles didn't make the cut.

This is what Heaven sounds like.

All the time.

CtrlAltDelete: This is what Heaven sounds like.

All the time.

CtrlAltDelete This is what Heaven sounds like.

All the time.

What do I have to do to avoid going to this version of Heaven?

/One ticket please?

ROTFL. Add a heavy 909 kick drum and speed it up to about 180 bpm and you'll have a happy hardcore anthem!

Another Rush thread huh?

CtrlAltDelete: This is what Heaven sounds like.

All the time.

Heaven sounds like OMD?

wow.... a major key music backing to the vocals actually fits very good places. it makes the song seem happyhappyhappy. weird.
and the song plus the serious vid is weirdly funny.

and, btw, WTF is Microsoft Songsmith? was it made in the 90's or something? cuz it sounds *that* cheezy. yeesh.

Sounds like someone got all the background beats on their Casio to play at the same time.

Umm.....If that's heaven. I will avoid it. Heaven will be endless concerts by Hendrix, The Animals, Kurt Cobain and various members of bands that I love that have passed on. Hopefully with me jamming with them. OH....and Rush will be there too,and they will be just as awesome as they are now.

Loves me some Rush....but not loving that.

Have those guys found a good singer yet?

Third_Uncle_Eno: and, btw, WTF is Microsoft Songsmith? was it made in the 90's or something? cuz it sounds *that* cheezy. yeesh.

Believe it or not, it's brand new software. Provide a vocal track, and you select the mood and genre and such, and it generates the backing tracks.

Enter Songsmith (the beat actually reminds me of Bloodhound Gang's "The Bad Touch")

I was going to download the free demo from their site and waste the rest of my afternoon, but they recommend 1GB of RAM, which is a bit more than my 6-yr old 'puter has.

That made baby jebus cry.


/ still laughing

Wow...that version sucks and blows, at the same time.

Total fail at 1:26 in... his vocals slow waaay down and the backing tracks don't even notice. And it's not like it shouldn't be able to; his cadence is fairly steady. WEAK.

madden101: Believe it or not, it's brand new software. Provide a vocal track, and you select the mood and genre and such, and it generates the backing tracks.

Sounds like Raymond Scott's Electronium is rolling over in it's electronic grave*.

/*which is apparently Mark Mothersbaugh's basement

Oh, but you know who's taking interest in this?

Cyrus "The Slammer" Sullivan.

/Obscure? Not even a little bit.

Just as I suspected - Rush sucks without Neil Peart

/Greatest Drummer
//Ok one of the best
///Not trolling for who's the best drummer posts

notmtwain: As far as I can tell, this is the first greenlight of a Songsmith song after 8 rejections. Van Halen, Sting and the Beatles didn't make the cut.

There is a reason, this shiat sucks but people like to troll rush fans.

All these shiatty songs sound like crappy video game rejects.

Why oh WHY did you not post THIS one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kxqMpGAL3I

It's beyond awesome. :)

There is a reason, this shiat sucks but people like to troll rush fans.


Sad but true.

Oops, wrong linky... Link
This program is seriously too much fun.

MS is high, totally high man.

natekelly35: Oops, wrong linky... Link
This program is seriously too much fun.

OMFG! THAT was a new level of WTF?

thanks microsoft!

I love the South Park Tom Sawyer (new window)

CtrlAltDelete: This is what Heaven sounds like.

All the time.

Reason no. 2112 why i am happy to be going to hell.

dogdaze: I love the South Park Tom Sawyer (new window)


That. is. sofa. king. rad.

OMG I love this!!!!!

Huge Rush fan and this is just great!

I love how it's really the same music looping over and over, it's so.... happy sounding!

What.. The.. F

That song's happy slider goes to 11.

PYROY: Have those guys found a good singer yet?

Repeat. Fail.

One Thousand: Just as I suspected - Rush sucks without Neil Peart

/Greatest Drummer
//Ok one of the best
///Not trolling for who's the best drummer posts

That wasn't Rush - that was an abomination with Geddy's vocals on it. But I repeat myself...

/fark you subby

Yeah, sounds like Geddy's singing over a 1980s keyboard. I had to close my eyes because it was too weird watching the video.

Oh wow.

Folks, I'm the guy behind these. Whoever submitted this chose one of the worse ones. I strongly recommend Roxanne or one of the other choices (just click on this link to go to all of my videos) before the Rush one.

mekkab: Total fail at 1:26 in... his vocals slow waaay down and the backing tracks don't even notice. And it's not like it shouldn't be able to; his cadence is fairly steady. WEAK.

I'm not sure what you're saying here. First, Songsmith is incapable of dealing with tempo changes. I nudge the MIDI data a bit in various directions to compensate for this. As far as I know, nothing goes particularly off-course in any of the ones I've done (meaning, anything in the CLASSIC HITS BY MICROSOFT SONGSMITH series).

This is the ONLY intervention I make in the computerized process. I do not change any of the chords/music Songsmith selects, and I use the randomly-selected genre that pops up when you start the program.

steamingpile: There is a reason, this shiat sucks but people like to troll rush fans.

You thought this was supposed to sound good?

The whole point of this project was to show how ridiculous Songsmith is. And yet I receive emails from Microsoft telling me how awesome they think they are and interview requests from the Times of London.

ZAZ: Yeah, sounds like Geddy's singing over a 1980s keyboard.

That's because he *is* singing over a 1980s (actually 1970s) keyboard -- the sampler I ran the MIDI data through for that track is an Arp Odyssey.

Here are links to my other videos:

Eye of the Tiger
White Wedding
Creep
I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Just What I Needed
Roxanne
Wonderwall
Long Train Runnin'
What's Going On

Subby here. I chose Rush to maximise the chances of it going green, of course - the troll fu in that band is strong.

The best one of your videos, bubbaprog, is by far Van Halen, for sure.

/off to try some myself

danduran: The best one of your videos, bubbaprog, is by far Van Halen, for sure.

What Van Halen? I haven't made anything by Van Halen.

bubbaprog: danduran: The best one of your videos, bubbaprog, is by far Van Halen, for sure.

What Van Halen? I haven't made anything by Van Halen.

If that's not yours, someone has stolen your thunder. It's a bizarre cruise ship version of some Van Halen song, and Roth comes across as a drunken yob who's stolen the microphone.

danduran: If that's not yours, someone has stolen your thunder. It's a bizarre cruise ship version of some Van Halen song, and Roth comes across as a drunken yob who's stolen the microphone.

Oh, that's a David Lee Roth solo song, but yeah, I've heard it.

Came here to fill up my ignore list. Left satisfied, and yet disappointed by the weakness of the trolling.

AeroBoar:
Heaven sounds like OMD?

hahaha, holy shiat it DOES sound just like early OMD!

that is just weird.

danduran: bubbaprog: danduran: The best one of your videos, bubbaprog, is by far Van Halen, for sure.

What Van Halen? I haven't made anything by Van Halen.

If that's not yours, someone has stolen your thunder. It's a bizarre cruise ship version of some Van Halen song, and Roth comes across as a drunken yob who's stolen the microphone.

OMG I just saw the Van Halen one and I can't stop crying I am laughing so hard. I think I may have peed my pants.

I cried.. For the 30 seconds before I closed the tab...

I've done a couple with videos, but Youtube keeps rejecting them for copyright content. How did the others get through?

bubbaprog: I strongly recommend Roxanne

I just found that one on the "Related videos" sidebar and came here to post it. Excellent work!

Wow, the Wonderwall one actually sounds pretty good.

danduran: I've done a couple with videos, but Youtube keeps rejecting them for copyright content. How did the others get through?

I see, Warner = bad, Universal = good. But you can get around it by just posting the audio with a pic instead of a video, it seems.

The Ballad of El Scorcho (new window)

danduran: If that's not yours, someone has stolen your thunder. It's a bizarre cruise ship version of some Van Halen song, and Roth comes across as a drunken yob who's stolen the microphone.

He credits Bubba in the video description and even gives links to his videos.

/Going to see if I can use my connections to get that and the Wonderwall played on the local radio