Comments on: Harmonica Odyssey

Harmonica Odyssey

cortex — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:47:36 -0800

Take a trip through clinical depression with this spicy new single from the Jimmy "Pharmacy" Walgreen Jazz Happening, featuring Dr. Herbert Grosowitz and his Passive-Aggressive Harmonica. (Thanks, SongSmith!)

Bonus recordings: - Matthewchen is Sucking - Punk Rock Hurl - More Like Rick Asstley Amirite - You Are My Techno The SongSmith demo lets you play with it for six hours for free, and at this point I'm having trouble imagining lasting that long. To be fair, I don't think I'm the target demographic, and there is some actual merit to the guts of this thing—it compares favorably, at least, to some aspects of the Band In A Box software I played with ten years ago in college—but I'm having a hard time imaging a broad set of circumstances in which someone would be both (a) willing to bother to and (b) competent to manage to produce anything of quality with it. I certainly failed on the being-bothered-to-try front. Things got silly fast and didn't get better before I gave up.

By: bluishorange

bluishorange — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:31:00 -0800

Songsmith got it really wrong with that Astley one.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:43:10 -0800

Just between you and me, I think SongSmith may have a drinking problem.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:07:42 -0800

Wow, only 1:26 and I bailed out halfway through. Impressive, SongSmith! Have one on me!

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:14:17 -0800

Oh, man. You missed the nice noirish turn it takes toward the third act.

By: jedicus

jedicus — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:26:27 -0800

I made it through the whole thing, but I was writhing in pain / convulsing with laughter by the end.

By: spiderskull

spiderskull — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:51:51 -0800

I think I'm going to set this site as my homepage.

By: fairytale of los angeles

fairytale of los angeles — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:23:55 -0800

Mr. F just looked over and said "Ard, what are you doing to that poor animal."

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:45:02 -0800

This is surprisingly not-so-terrible, if a little random. But then, not as random as one might expect.

By: arcanecrowbar

arcanecrowbar — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:45:08 -0800

I read the FPP, went to the site, heard this song . . . I still don't know what the hell is going on.

By: mrzarquon

mrzarquon — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:00:40 -0800

In short- everything except cortex's voice (or harmonica in this case) is computer generated. As in it made up a beat to roughly match the sounds it recorded. Soundsmith tries to generate the backup band to go with whatever vocals you provide it.

By: xorry

xorry — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:01:38 -0800

oh hell no.. I listened to the song before watching the video, and was expecting a video of some drunken beach bum with a mike.. or a reject American idol clip.

By: xorry

xorry — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:02:12 -0800

Ah.. wrong thread.. oh dear.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:13:55 -0800

I laughed so hard I freaked my cat out and he leaped from my lap leaving bloody gouges in my leg.

By: snsranch

snsranch — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:35:27 -0800

1:26, and I'm laughing my ass off! Holy crap!

By: niles

niles — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:15:27 -0800

I kinda like the Rick Roll one. I feel like it should have an Elvis remix-esque music videos to go with.

Mircosoft VideoSmith?

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:07:11 -0800

More: Kill Me Now, Queen.

By: bicyclefish

bicyclefish — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:44:33 -0800

I almost fell off my chair laughing at the harmonica. I really, really did. Sweet tapdancing moses. Hit me with another belly-blast, Dr. Herbie!