Comments on: Crash Into Mr Xcitement

Crash Into Mr Xcitement

davejay — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:45:43 -0800

Mashup I made for fun, had laying around on my hard drive, and remembered while reading this thread. The tracks are "Crash" from Gwen Stefani's "Love. Angel. Music. Baby." (written by her and Tony Kanal) and "Mr. Xcitement" from They Might Be Giant's "Mink Car" (and featuring Mike Doughty on vocals.) What I like about it is that neither track is an acapella track, and that both singers (like both music tracks) are overlapping throughout, but it still works -- other than a tempo (but *not* pitch) change to speed up "Crash" and a few measure movements/cuts, no other changes were necessary. Note that release of the TMBG/Doughty track predates the Stefani track, and that I cut off the spoken word intro and painfully long musical ending of the TMBG track (which the Stefani track did not overlap) to save you all download time.

By: tepidmonkey

tepidmonkey — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:02:30 -0800

Nice! "Mr. Xcitement" is the only TMBG song I skip when it comes up, but this mashup makes it good.

By: snsranch

snsranch — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:49:10 -0800

I don't know enough about the intricacies of mixing to say anything really intelligent, but I can say that this is really good to listen to. Thanks.

By: buriednexttoyou

buriednexttoyou — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:23:47 -0800

Inspired!

By: davejay

davejay — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:31:27 -0800

I don't know enough about the intricacies of mixing...

That's actually the beauty of this one; no mixing was required, nor was it necessary to obtain an acapella track for one of the songs. They were already in the same key, about the same length, and the overlapping vocals/breaks/whatnot lined up almost perfectly; I just needed to speed up "Crash" a bit and extend/cut a measure here and there to keep 'em sync'd.

So the only inspired thing I did here was listen to "Crash" and immediately think "That sounds exactly like Mr Xcitement." I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)

By: jeffamaphone

jeffamaphone — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:48:52 -0800

Awesome. I likes.

By: The Great Big Mulp

The Great Big Mulp — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:38:13 -0800

This is really interesting. And quite a bit of fun. I'm surprised they overlap so well.

By: haunted by Leonard Cohen

haunted by Leonard Cohen — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 19:37:52 -0800

That made for some serious butt shakin' laundry foldin', nice!