Preface: Mashups are an art form where someone superimposes one song on top of another to form a brand new song. Wired has a good article on the phenomenon.
I recently ran across the darndest thing: a mashup of Nickleback + Nickleback. The original MetaFilter thread was back in April, so maybe I’m a bit behind the curve on this one ;). But, there was a recent follow-up thread when NPR covered the mashup.
And, unlike most mashups, this one wasn't done as a tribute to the bands involved. Rather, a fellow named Mikey Smith wanted to show his girlfriend that all of Nickleback's songs sound just about the same. And, in particular “How You Remind Me” and “Someday” could be combined almost eerily (with one song in each channel).
And, while the original threads don’t have an MP3 handy of the now-christened “How You Remind Me Of Someday”, this guy at Nintendorks has the MP3 on his server (yeah, I could link to the MP3 directly, but I figure that I could at least link to his entry about it if he’s donating the bandwidth for it).
Really, this mashup just weirds me out [and trying to figure out how to un-end that sentence with a preposition almost made my head explode]. The songs plod along at the same pace, the drum solos come in almost one-after-the-other and the choruses are almost in sync as well. I didn't like Nickleback before — though I couldn’t put my finger on it — and now I think I've figured out at least of my reasons ;).
1. I heart mashups.
2. Un. Be. Lievable.
3. I knew I had a reason, deep inside, to hate that band.
Well, maybe this is not the same thing exactly but I was really impressed when the music director for the Sopranos (which always features well chosen music) superimpossed The Police Every Breath You Take with the Peter Gunn Theme in the opening scene of I believe the second season. It was a sequence showing the family under surveillance by the FBI. Very smoothly done. I managed to find it somewhere and enjoy listening to it.
i’d say that nickleback rocks, there a hell of alot better than some of thows new peace of shit bands like audio slave or valvet revallver, talk about songs sounding the same. You guys are completely lost anyways, someday and how you remind me are completely different songs, they got different cords and a different beat . Its just nickleback’s stile that sounds the same.
Lol at that guy above me. Like nickelback apparently have a fan. woh