Thanks for posting these - I've read about this mash up but never heard it, and it rocks! Thanks again.
You probably meant to write this, but the DJ Dangermouse record was called The Grey Album.
thanks for the correction
Just my two cents, but I think "Zurich Your Shoulder" is the winner in this particular experiment.
I'm sitting here in complete disbelief that you posted this, but believe me, I'm not bitching. I actually could not believe how many people remixed the Black Album, so for a while it was my part-time job collecting these mixes just to see how many I could accumulate. Having been a huge Pavement fan for years, this was one of the more enjoyable efforts for me. No one else I've ever spoken to about this has ever heard it. Some of Jon Doe's remixes were also very nice---if you haven't heard them, it might be worth putting yourself through a few more reduxes of Hova before you hang it up. I apologize for my wordiness, but that really made my rap nerd day.
Yeah, I'm hating. I thought this shitty mashup craze was over. When are people gonna get sick of this? While The Grey Album was interesting as an idea, it wasn't really fun to relisten to. Reusing that idea doesn't even have the original novelty. Mark this as something for only Pavement fans to hear and say, "Neat".
I tend to side more with the haters' camp myself. I remember listening to this when it first came out and not being very impressed - I agree that it's more of an inside joke for Pavement fans than anything else. The "My First Song" remix was dope, though.
I'm not the worlds biggest fan of either Jay-Z or Pavement, and the mash-ups aren't the coolest thing I've ever seen or whatever (though I dig "What More Can I Sing" even though it was a more conventional remix), but I think there's more value to mash-ups than just novelty dance tracks and spot-the-artist trivia.
I mean, New Things don't just pop out of nowhere - movements in music result from the collision of different genres and aesthetics with each other and with non-musical concepts. The thing I like about mash-ups is the way they (if they're any good) force disparate elements together in a unified whole. They're slamming rock and rap and pop and whateverthehell together in ways that they simply wouldn't normally encounter each other. New sounds come out of it, and new artists will take advantage of those sounds and make new music. It's an evolutionary thing, ultimately, just like dropping simple couplets over a single sampled beat transformed into god-knows-how-many genres and subgenres.
Hell yeeeeah - Pavement are the illest MCs on the planet - why are they f**kin with Jay-Z?
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