Listen: ZZTop's "Legs" and U2's "Streets Have No Name" are the same song

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/08/03/the-streets-have-no-legs.html

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Geez… I haven’t thought about mashups in a long time. I listened to this one and it turns out, I still hate them. I don’t mind similar types of combined music (like the old Stars on 45 medleys), but mashups just make my brain hurt as I try to resolve one or the other of the songs.

Take two great things and make it into one muddled mess. Genius.

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I have to disagree. That sounded like a hot mess to me.

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Considering the geographical and musical closeness between Portishead and Tricky and the relatively close release dates in 1995, I think they knew what the other was doing with Wallace Collection’s Daydream Ike’s Rap 2.

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I hear “Laurel.”

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“Sharp Dressed Man” and “Addicted to Love” are the same song, aren’t they?
Also “Life on Mars” and “Space Oddity.”

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Pet Shop Boys did better, 27 years ago, by mashing Streets Have No Name with the Frankie Valli hit, Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You:

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You beat me to it :smiley: That is a great cover by a great band. Like any really great cover, it brings something totally different to the original track.

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I love mashups but find this particular attempt to be un-listenable.

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Wow! That video for the Trickey track is good.

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I think I was still a teen when I discovered that KC and the Sunshine Band only had one song - they just swapped out the one line of lyrics, presto, another #1 hit!

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You can do this with two country songs.

Which two country songs? Pick two at random!

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The question is how much should Marvin Gaye’s estate sue them for?

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Apparently you can sing all of Emily Dickinson to the tune of “The Yellow Rose of Texas”.

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vs

{OK, it’s a cover… but at exactly the same tempo, but just a different key, and a few snips of Police’s Roxanne and something else…}

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“This is the Hour of Le-ead
Remembered, if OUTLIVED —”

Holy moley, you’re right.

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Rhythm guitar =/= melody. Similar elements, but not the same song.

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I’m pretty sure this specific video was made so that you could hear how both tracks, playing at the same time, were familiar.

This isn’t a “mashup”.

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Re-looking at the OP I see you are correct. Good point.

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…also to the tune of “Amazing Grace” and the Gilligan’s Island theme song.

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