Comments on: Metafilter Orchestra - It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

Metafilter Orchestra - It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:58:27 -0800

The Metafilter Music Collaboration, as described here and here. Starring cabingirl on violin, chococat on acoustic and electric guitars and vocals, equalpants on electric guitar, escabeche on bass guitar and vocals, myself on drum programming and vocals, googly on beats and bass, herrdoktor on noise Moog, buzz bass synth and tambourine, jazon on acoustic and electronic drums and tambourine, karlos the jackal on tremoloa, karlos the jackal's wife on vocals, micayetoca on melodica, shaker and pandeiro, snsranch on banjo, tdismukes on bass guitar, tehloki on bass synth and strings synth, verysleeping on vocals and singing saw, and ZachsMind on vocals.

Previously: Teaser #1, #2.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:00:10 -0800

MeTa.

By: itchylick

itchylick — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:47:17 -0800

This sounds great. I love the break in the middle. So that's ZachsMind singing the lead? He does a good Stipe if you ask me.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:50:27 -0800

Nope, it's me. Zach's in there doing backup - and "Leonard Bernstein", not to mention.

By: itchylick

itchylick — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:55:00 -0800

Doh. Well good job sir. You all sound great.

By: equalpants

equalpants — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:44:35 -0800

Dude, that's pretty awesome. I especially love whatever's going on in the background in the second verse (is that the saw?).

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:58:35 -0800

Turned out very fun! Congrats on getting that done!

I'll try to participate on the next one. I tried to master these lyrics but it just fried my fragile little brain too much so I gave up. Sorry. :)

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:05:48 -0800

Great work, folks! I kind of hate this song, but I love all of you!

By: Karlos the Jackal

Karlos the Jackal — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:22:17 -0800

This is supercool. I really, really like the melodica stuff and the stuff around it in the "Bernstein" verse, and the awesome guitar solo right after. I can catch only the tiniest hint of tremoloa, but it occupies the same general timbre-area of an awful lot of other things going on there, so it's not surprising that it disappears.

Fun stuff! Let's do Metal Machine Music next!

By: Corduroy

Corduroy — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:27:32 -0800

Oh man, the singing saw is one wild instrument.

Really cool. Nice job putting it all together, goodnews.

By: heyho

heyho — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:51:23 -0800

FreeBird!!

By: cashman

cashman — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:07:51 -0800

Good job! No covers next time!

By: gummi

gummi — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:28:56 -0800

Bravo, everyone!

By: doctor_negative

doctor_negative — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:43:01 -0800

Cool, good one folks.

By: tehloki

tehloki — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:35:15 -0800

Thinking of putting the tracks up anywhere?

By: sleepy pete

sleepy pete — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:39:31 -0800

Nicely done. It sounds really great, gnfti. Great job mixing it all together.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:53:08 -0800

So awesome. I feel like a complete goof for not getting tracks off to gnfti. Oh, the Rick Astley counterpoint that could have been...

Full tracks are available here.

By: chlorus

chlorus — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:48:33 -0800

Needs more cowbell.

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:54:26 -0800

I say it every time I hear a banjo: I wish I had the patience to actually learn to play. This is awesome.

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:09:57 -0800

Y'all is awesome.

By: roll truck roll

roll truck roll — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:15:20 -0800

This is great.

I'm sorry for being one of the 20 people to poop out on this. I'm so worthless.

By: davey_darling

davey_darling — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:20:00 -0800

Yeah, me too..

It feels like back in high school when you wanted to try out for the school play, and then didn't, and it was a huge hit.

By: spiderwire

spiderwire — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:33:50 -0800

So, John Cage collab, anyone?

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:30:07 -0800

I'm just glad to know that I'm not the only one who was lame.
They don't call me Baroness Ruinstein von Gartenpartei for nuthin'.

By: herrdoktor

herrdoktor — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:49:27 -0800

Cool beans! Pretty amazing to hear everything come together.
Well done.

By: escabeche

escabeche — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:06:57 -0800

This is terrific; add my kudos to the heap!

I have to admit, I can't hear myself in here at all, but the things I do hear sound much better than what I sent in, so I can't complain!

Looking forward to the next song.

By: melissa may

melissa may — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:13:34 -0800

I just can't imagine what a migraine-inducer it was to work with so many tracks recorded at different levels. I'm really impressed -- well done.

By: headspace

headspace — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:26:31 -0800

That's just really freaking awesome, you guys!

By: snsranch

snsranch — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:04:38 -0800

Yea, GNFTI, you did a great job with this!

By: jokeefe

jokeefe — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:35:28 -0800

Sounds fantastic, well done you guys.

By: spiderwire

spiderwire — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:19:23 -0800

Could y'all please stop interrupting my John Cage collaboration?

...

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:01:34 -0800

Could y'all please stop interrupting my John Cage collaboration?

If you're talking about a 4'33"-style collaboration, spiderwire, keep in mind that Cage fully expected sonic interruptions and welcomed them as an integral part of the piece! In the current context that would certainly include Mefier comments!

On the other hand, if it's some of the prepared piano pieces that you and ol' mischievous John are working up, then I can understand how all these noisy comments could get in the way: you really do need some silence when you're placing those spoons, paper clips and rubber bands onto the piano strings.

By: spiderwire

spiderwire — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:26:57 -0800

What I mean is that I can't tune all these goddamn radios if you guys keep talking!

No, I was making a cheap 4'33" joke -- I know what it means, but it was too good to pass up. I even set it up 12 hours in advance. :)

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:29:04 -0800

Ah, the radios! Cool!

By: MaryDellamorte

MaryDellamorte — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:40:59 -0800

This is pretty fucking cool...the only thing it's missing is a banjolele!

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:45:20 -0800

Goddamn.

By: fleacircus

fleacircus — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:47:12 -0800

I wish I'd gotten involved in this, but zoikies do I hate that song.

By: By The Grace of God

By The Grace of God — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:21:54 -0800

holy muffin of doom.

this song shall be the theme song for metafilter: the movie

By: Melinika

Melinika — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:29:31 -0800

Made of win.

By: unknowncommand

unknowncommand — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:18:56 -0800

This is awesome. Good job.

By: chococat

chococat — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:39:38 -0800

I wish I'd gotten involved in this, but zoikies do I hate that song.
Ya, I was kind of disappointed at the song selection; I was hoping it would be a gnfti original, frankly. But it was fun to participate all the same and I think he did a great job.

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:38:25 -0800

This is great. Frankly, I love the idea of doing this to all sorts of overplayed classics. There is so much new energy to this version that it feels like I'm back in high school hearing it for the first time, getting my mind blown and wondering just who Leonard Bernstein is. Thanks everyone. Please do another one soon. I'll nominate "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel as another example of the "could use a fresh interpretation" category.

By: bicyclefish

bicyclefish — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:45:43 -0800

awesome awesome awesome. There's my $5 membership's worth of awesome, right there.

By: piratebowling

piratebowling — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:02:00 -0800

Amazing! Downloaded and pumping all the time now.

By: cccorlew

cccorlew — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:14:06 -0800

That's just plain 'ol fun.
What a blast to hear.
Thanks!

By: micayetoca

micayetoca — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:22:06 -0800

I have to admit, I can't hear myself in here at all, but the things I do hear sound much better than what I sent in, so I can't complain!

Me neither. But if we don't tell anyone people will think we are as good as the others.

As for all the people who complained about the song: I agree, but still, I couldn't let this pass.
And I'm nicely surprised with the final result, I kinda thought (from what was being said in the Meta threads) that it was going to be a bit more rock oriented.

Also, the vocal teaser is brilliant stuff. (And gnfti deserves an award for putting himself thru this).

By: lilywing13

lilywing13 — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:47:22 -0800

I finally got a chance to download and listen to this, and goddamn, if it isn't wonderful!
Nice work, y'all.

By: freya_lamb

freya_lamb — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:05:54 -0800

oh! oh! oh!

Just ace. More please :)

By: verysleeping

verysleeping — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:16:05 -0800

Thanks goodnewsfortheinsane for putting all this together; it sounds great. I cannot imagine the nightmare that was sorting through all of our tracks, but it turned out spectacular!

By: Deathalicious

Deathalicious — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:35:33 -0800

This reminds me of the one day band from This American Life playing Rocket Man

Only, you know, better.

Oh, and it's definitely worth it to listen to some of the individual tracks on their own. I'm rockin' to tehloki's as we speak.

This really really makes me wish I could, you know, music.

By: Deathalicious

Deathalicious — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:46:36 -0800

I tried to master these lyrics but it just fried my fragile little brain too much so I gave up.

lynnster, would this have helped:

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By: Deathalicious

Deathalicious — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:51:27 -0800

Sorry, this is a better link for the One day Rocket Man

By: deborah

deborah — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:41:21 -0800

I dunno. I think the song is perfect for the Metafilter Orchestra.

By: COBRA!

COBRA! — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:28:24 -0800

Wow, this is really, really cool. Shit, nice job, all.

By: saxamo

saxamo — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:13:04 -0800

This is amazing!!!! Please please can we have more Metacollaborations?!!!!