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Yo La Tengo Is Murdering The Classics

This was just brought to my attention:

> They said it shouldn’t be done, but we did it anyway. Starting in 1996, we’ve made an annual visit to WFMU during their fundraising marathon. People who pledge money to the station while we’re on get to make a request, and we try to play it. And guess what? It’s not that easy. Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics is a 70-minute compilation drawn from 1996-2003, a Best-of, or Best-of-the-Worst, or Worst-of-the-Best, or . . . oh, what’s the use, it’s dreadful. No song titles will be provided, don’t ask. Beautiful cover art by Adrian Tomine. Order at your own risk. No refunds.

A true delight of a cover album.

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A Music Geek Holy Shit Moment

I’ve always been interested in the intersection between pure music and pure technology – perhaps this explains my music game fixation, or the mashup addiction.

So when I saw a picture of Kid Beyond giving a demo of Ableton Live at NAMM, I had to ask my former roommate and resident DJ expert Dave Cross (not the comedian!) what he knew about it. He had, after all, been telling me how much he loved Live not a few days beforehand.

Timely as ever, he linked me to a video of the same sort of demo, also given by Kid Beyond. It is fucking unreal. It’s turned me into some sort of stuttering fool who can only say things like “The beatbox…loops…foot pedal…holy SHIT”.

If you’re any sort of geek who’s into music technology, you MUST see this.

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Weapons of Mass Irritation

Last time I [posted about a mashup](https://vjarmy.com/archives/2005/11/wowzers.php), I wrote:

> Every now and then, there’s a mashup so goofy, so absurd, that you can only listen and try your damnedest not to die with laughter.

Today, I need to add a corollary:

Every now and then, there’s a mashup that is such a crime against humanity, that you can only listen in abject terror. It is the musical equivalent of a kick in the balls, and yet you will be unable to delete it.

If this isn’t enough warning, consider these quotes I’ve already gotten from people I’ve pawned it off on:

*”There is no god.”*

*”Seriously, who ever did this needs to be tracked down and beaten to death.”*

If that’s not enough warning, this is the last bit I can give before you go over the abyss: One of the source songs – nay, *the* source song – has been declared as “[a stunning assemblage of awful ideas](http://www.slate.com/id/2131640/)”, and “[so monumentally vacuous, slapped together and tossed-off that it truly tests the definition of ‘song’](http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/features/comments/12-15-05/)”, among other lofty awards this year.

Ladies and gentlemen, behold: Aber N. Stein’s [Turkey in My Humps](http://musicbuilder.net/music/bands/3164/). [as always, [via GYBO](http://www.gybo-v3.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=12511)]

Finally, something absolutely worse than the transit strike!