12/5/2005

AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION

OK, I just got a totally evil idea for a ‘tribute’ album.

Imagine There’s No Mercy: Deconstructing the Music of John Lennon features 12 classic John Lennon tracks sorted through the worst sort of cultural filters imaginable:

  1. Happy Xmas (War Is Over) performed by a German oompah band
  2. Across the Universe in the style of Wesley Willis, rendering it even more random and incomprehensible
  3. Instant Karma! by a Western swing band
  4. A Day in the Life by the Gramercy Park Madrigal Ensemble
  5. I Am the Walrus arranged after the manner of Sun Ra
  6. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, klezmerized
  7. Give Peace a Chance by the Texas A&M University Marching Aggies
  8. Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite a la Pantera
  9. Dear Prudence in the ’smooth jazz’ style
  10. Nowhere Man by a very, very untalented boy band
  11. Revolution in the style of Burt Bacharach
  12. Imagine rendered in telephone touch-tones
Posted by Mark @ 7:27 pm | | Permalink
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3 Comments »

  1. What about “Whatever Gets You Through The Night” given a 15 minute, 150bpm treatment by a French techno band?

    And there are THREE smooth jazz versions of “Dear Prudence” on iTunes right now, so I think that’s been done enough.

    Comment by dw — 12/5/2005 @ 11:28 pm

  2. And I think that sometime, somewhere I actually have heard “Revolution” in the style of Bacharach. (Maybe through the speakers at the OCB?)

    Comment by Paul — 12/10/2005 @ 8:58 pm

  3. It wasnt the gun it was the person who pulled the trigger :lol:

    Comment by spurwing plover — 12/12/2005 @ 10:24 am

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