Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/06/07/smooth-criminal-with-every-oth.html
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In my opinion, the beat-stripped version of The Proclaimers’ I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) is the true zenith of this form (though I can’t get at a link for it from here)
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There’s a guy on YouTube who’s amazing at just ruining songs. Some of these cross the line from funny to evil and right back again a few times.
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Here we go.
(Apologies for the tumblr link but that appears to be the source)
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I don’t get it.
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Well that fucked that song up good and proper, didn’t it?
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Would love to hear the flip side of the song.
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WAT. (I am an old.)
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Now can someone do Thousand by Moby (the fastest song to ever get into the UK top 40)?
I don’t expect it will change much, but I want to see if someone can remove every other beat from a 1000bpm song.
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I think it’s maybe 4/4 and ~60bpm, but with a few 2^-10th notes thrown in. I’d love to see the notation for that, It looks like current symbols stops at 2^-7th (the demisemihemidemisemiquaver note https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_twenty-eighth_note)
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You sure this isn’t just the Scottish Gaelic version?
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Jackson’s magnum opus: Move It On Out Girl
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Can’t wait to see what Sugarfoot does with this!
Not at all!
Although, I will admit on balance that I prefer the one with the removed beats put back and these here removed instead. It has a completely different feel to it.
If you haven’t already seen it, this is what youtube was invented for.
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Thank you. That was wonderful.
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Many years ago, I stayed up late listening to the radio and taping it, using the pause button on a cassette deck to similar effect. Somewhere I still have that tape, with most of The Police’s Syncronicity II cut up in such a fashion. The technique produced some interesting results during the commercials
See the bit starting at 2:44 in EBTG’s Temperamental:
Every second syllable cut.
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