Fake Bob Dylan Sings Real Dr. Seuss

02 Feb 2013 Leave a comment

by Ed Cyphers in General Posts, On a Lighter Note Tags: , ,

(Reprinted from Open Culture)

Five years ago, a 30-something music producer from Houston, Texas got a big idea. Why not take his two favorite things — Bob Dylan and Dr. Seuss, of course — and mash them up into one original creation. Hence came Dylan Hears a Who, a mock album that took seven Dr. Seuss classics and put them to the melodies and imitated voice of Mr. Dylan. The cuts went viral, giving Dylan-Seuss fans worldwide the chance to enjoy creative takes on Green Eggs and Ham (above); The Cat in the Hat; Oh, The Thinks You Can Think!; Too Many Daves; and The Zax. Soon enough, the songs faded into YouTube oblivion, awaiting the day when a digital archaeologist would come along and do an excavation. Well, today’s the day. Enjoy!

Too Many Daves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHIWNwVKWbw&feature=player_embedded

The Zax: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbtU15j5GG8

Oh the Things You Can Think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nURf3BePHiw

The Cat in the Hat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG5Mnvh4acc

MajorVsMinor: Major Scale Songs Digitally Modified to Minor Scale

02 Feb 2013 1 Comment

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In a previous post, we told you about MajorScaledTV, a site that makes songs sound a little happier by modifying them digitally from minor to major scale:

https://edcyphers.com/2013/01/20/majorscaled-tv-minor-scale-songs-digitally-modified-to-major-scale/

Naturally it only makes sense there’s someone out there doing the exact opposite. That someone is Oleg Berg, a musician from Donetsk, Ukraine. His site, MajorVsMinor, contains songs whose harmonic scales have been digitally altered to give them a more melancholy vibe. As he demonstrates with the Beatles’ “Hey Jude” above, he can take a sad song and make it…sadder.

Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/user/MajorVsMinor

(Thanks Diana!)

‘Katachi’: A Mesmerizing Animation of 2,000 Plastic Silhouettes

02 Feb 2013 Leave a comment

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(reprinted from The Atlantik)

Shugo Tokumaru’s music seems deceptively simple, at first. “He creates toy-box indie pop with his vast collection of noise makers and a computer,” Pitchfork’s Joe Tangari explains in a review for Tokumaru’s latest album, In Focus? “[He] can pile instruments all over each other in a way that makes no sense on paper and then make it come off as the most natural thing in the world.” Two Polish artists, Katarzyna Kijek and Przemyslaw Adamski, seem to approach stop-motion animation the same way. For this music video for “Katachi,” which means “shape” in Japanese, they layered thousands of PVC cutouts to create dynamic, 3-D sculptures.

If Your Dance Moves are Better than These People…

01 Feb 2013 3 Comments

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Songs You May Have Missed #316

01 Feb 2013 Leave a comment

by Ed Cyphers in Best of the Blog, Songs You May Have Missed Tags: ,

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Magic Pie: “Full Circle Poetry” (2005)

Reason number one to either love or hate prog rock: songs that don’t even get to the chorus for seven minutes. As much as I appreciate epic ambition, concept albums and the like, it’s a rare 14-minute song that I really enjoy. This is one.

These Norwegian proggers aren’t cutting edge innovators of the genre. Rather they tend to construct their epics from pieces nicked from classic-era bands such as Yes, Kansas and Gentle Giant.

Which is okay by me. Hardcore progressive rock fans are notoriously immoderate in their criticisms of derivative bands, concepts and sounds–as if the genre should reinvent itself every time a band releases an album. Sometimes it should be enough to simply appreciate an artist rearranging the existing pieces into something agreeable. The vocals, the musicianship and the song craft here are exemplary. It’s okay with me that I hear echoes of more original bands from a past era. In fact, it’s kind of comforting. Most of the time I don’t require music to challenge me, only to please me.

What a concept.

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