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Fri Oct-19-07 07:20 AM
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Van Halen's "Jump" - enjoy a staggering, atonal trainwreck: |
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So, the sampled keyboard riffs are tuned 1.5 semitones higher than the rest of the band, but still they soldier on. http://warmowski.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/jump-in-pitch/:rofl: mikey_the_rat
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Fri Oct-19-07 07:36 AM
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1. What's really amazing about this |
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is how Roth and Eddie both attempt the task of singing/playing in two different keys simultaneously!
That's hilarious.
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Fri Oct-19-07 07:41 AM
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2. To a degree, I can sympathize. |
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I've got a great recording (well, not great) of my college band, Outrage, performing "Twist and Shout." I (the bassist) am slightly flat, and Chuck (our guitarist) is slightly sharp. We both realize we're out of tune, and each of us starts correcting pitch. As I am tuning up and he is tuning down (while still playing and singing the song), there is a brief, sonorous moment where we are in tune, then we pass each other and I go sharp and he goes flat. At the end of the song, all you can hear is the band onstage howling with laughter!
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Fri Oct-19-07 08:13 AM
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3. I couldn't lookn at the article |
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I hates...hates Van Halen. I never "got" it.
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Fri Oct-19-07 08:52 AM
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9. Go. Listen. Best laugh you'll get all week. |
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Seriously. Watching the entire clip is nigh impossible - just give it 90 seconds. Like I told DS1, give it about 30-45 seconds after the band comes in after the synth intro.
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Fri Oct-19-07 08:24 AM
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4. A good Spinal Tap moment. |
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In fact, they may as well take a cue from Tap and call it a free-form jazz moment!
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Fri Oct-19-07 08:35 AM
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5. Pompous, cheeeeeeezy synth, combined with banner-waving and confetti? |
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The Tap could not have done it better. The only things missing were:
Alex blowing up on stage Wolfgang getting stuck half-in and half-out of some prop Dwarfs as Druids
As it was, they had an 80% Spinal Tap moment without even trying. That, in itself, is quite impressive.
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regnaD kciN
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Fri Oct-19-07 10:21 AM
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12. Spinal Tap, indeed... |
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I'm sure that, if Van Halen promised to play the synth at that sampling rate every night, there are people here who would be quite happy to make them a 10" replica of Stonehenge!
(And even Tap wouldn't have come up with that giant inflatable microphone as a stage prop... :rofl: )
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Fri Oct-19-07 08:39 AM
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6. I really really hate that moronic pos of a song |
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Don't think much of the band, either
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Fri Oct-19-07 08:43 AM
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7. Then this is the vid for you. Seriously. |
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I, too, have always loathed this particular tune (though there are a few Van Halen songs I do like). You need not watch the whole thing; that may well be impossible. Just give it a good 30 seconds after the opening synth riff. It is worth it. Unintentional Spinal Tap lives!
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Fri Oct-19-07 08:47 AM
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Fri Oct-19-07 09:44 AM
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10. Just what that "song" deserves...! |
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Fri Oct-19-07 09:51 AM
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11. I'm surprised (well, not really) that they didn't stop it and start over. |
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Fri Oct-19-07 10:24 AM
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13. I think it's the tape that's too high |
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Star Wars was never that ummm yeah
anyway
I don't think it's totally her fault
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