Rock Sugar Band - "Because Pop Rocks"

XiaNaphryz

Rock Sugar is a cover band that mashes together different singles into one track. When you see what they try to do, none of this should work (let alone make any sense), but for some reason it does. In awesome fashion.

RockSugarBand.com



Here's the "backstory" of the group.

80’S METAL BAND “ROCK SUGAR” RESCUED AFTER 20 YEARS ON DESERTED ISLAND. BRAINWASHED AND CONFUSED, ROCKERS RETURN TO HOLLYWOOD WITH A SHOCKING NEW MUSICAL STYLE.

1989 should have been the best year ever for Rock Sugar, the big haired heavy metal band that had just broken the top 41 on the rock radio charts with their solid brass debut album “Bang You Like A Drum”. But instead of headlining concerts, Rock Sugar made the headlines when they were presumed lost forever after playing an extremely ill advised gig celebrating the bat mitzvah of 13-year-old Lisa Rosenberg.

The show was performed miles out to sea aboard the private luxury yacht of Lisa’s father, schnapps millionaire Schlomo Rosenberg. Assuming that Rock Sugar was some innocent boy band, Schlomo had no idea who they actually were or what they actually sounded like. He only knew from his extremely spoiled daughter that they were “really cute” and he figured that must mean she would love their music. She didn’t, and judging from the stunned expressions on their faces, neither did her prepubescent little friends.

Shortly after the chorus of Rock Sugar’s second song “Nail You Like A Hammer”, a drunken and violent brawl broke out involving the band, the rabbi, a clown, the captain, a guy in an Smurf costume, Schlomo and well over a hundred infuriated and now thoroughly sexually confused children. In the midst of the fight, as Jesse, the lead singer, was pummeling the Smurf and no one was steering the damned ship anymore, it struck an undersea stone wall. As the boat was sinking, the extremely unhappy and now yacht less Schlomo refused to let Rock Sugar climb aboard the life rafts to safety.

Having been denied rescue, the band credit their miraculous ability to make it to the shore alive only because of their firmly held belief that “sharks don’t eat metal”. Left to their own extremely questionable survival skills, Rock Sugar managed to salvage several items from the sunken yacht. In addition to their instruments, they retrieved a hot pink battery powered boom box covered with stickers of Hello Kitty, a crate of batteries, 158 cases of schnapps and numerous articles of teenage girls clothing, most of which the band admit to trying on and several pieces of which apparently fit and looked “pretty frickin’ awesome”. But things got worse when the horrified rockers discovered that the only music available for them to listen to was little Lisa Rosenberg’s very pop, very 13 year-old girl’s, very ‘80’s CD collection.

And so, the hardcore degenerate heavy metal members of Rock Sugar spent the last two decades stuck on an island with nothing to do but drink schnapps, catch hard to digest wildlife, befriend monkeys and dream of their long lost groupies while listening only to, and being slowly and systematically brainwashed by, every favorite pop song of a 1980’s preteen girl. Bored, full of schnapps and wasting away on a tropical oasis, they built a stage out of driftwood, bamboo shoots and tree sap and got to work. Against the odds, Rock Sugar was alive… and they were practicing.

Fast forward twenty years when a tuna boat with a screwed up compass discovered a group of long haired castaways on a deserted island far out in the middle of the Pacific. Finally rescued and now violently thrown back into the real life of present day Los Angeles, and with absolutely no clue whatsoever of anything that’s happened, developed or changed in the world since 1989, Rock Sugar is back and ready to electrify audiences with their brand new, razor sharp, psychotically original sound.

The first twenty years of their lives spent listening to heavy metal followed by a twenty year forced diet of little girl pop, their own influences have permanently collided with the unknowingly very influential 13-year-old Lisa Rosenberg. And now Rock Sugar is performing “re-imaginings” of the world’s favorite songs in ways that the world has never even dreamed of. Twenty years of what started with a shipwreck and turned into history’s longest reluctant rehearsal has paid off and the band, as well as the wild originality of what they have created, are beyond belief or explanation.

But while you may be able to at last take the metal band off the deserted island, apparently you can’t take 20 years of exposure to 80’s pop out of the metal band. Prepare to have the line between pop and metal blown to smithereens and pour yourself a shot of Rock Sugar.

Because Pop Rocks.

Rock Sugar Band trailer - Shook Me Like A Prayer (AC/DC / Madonna)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiLWhdJ-x-Q&fmt=22


A few samples of their tracks:

Don't Stop The Sandman Official Video (Metallica/Journey)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr4HffbAUTk&fmt=22

Here Comes The Fool You Wanted (Bon Jovi / Eurythmics)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KDuj7PC1fA&fmt=18

Shook Me Like A Prayer (AC/DC / Madonna)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpNrqxBWxQM&fmt=18]

Prayin' For A Sweet Weekend (Bon Jovi / Loverboy / Guns & Roses)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw6hwWcsBqM&fmt=18

Voices in the Jungle (Guns & Roses / Til Tuesday)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQyPjIe1yPQ&fmt=18

Straight to Rock City (KISS / Paula Abdul)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ita4xSr7teY&fmt=18

Heaven and Heaven (Warrant / Bryan Adams)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vXI8WmuN2Y&fmt=18

And their "Reimaginator" complete album listing:

DON’T STOP THE SANDMAN
WE WILL KICKSTART YOUR RHAPSODY
CRAZY GIRL
VOICES IN THE JUNGLE
HERE COMES THE FOOL YOU WANTED
SHOOK ME LIKE A PRAYER
STRAIGHT TO ROCK CITY
PRAYIN’ FOR A SWEET WEEKEND
HEAVEN AND HEAVEN
BREAKIN’ THE LOVE
I LOVE SUGAR ON ME
ROUND AND SEPARATED
DREAMING OF A WHOLE LOTTA BREAKFAST

Currently the album's only for sale on their website via Paypal. They really need to get onto iTunes or Amazon or something.

Clint Eastwood

I'd kind of rather talk about Gorillaz

AMP'd

Cloudman wrote: »

I'd kind of rather talk about Gorillaz

I'd love to

<3

I like anything with Journey in it.

Clint Eastwood

Their new album is really good! I can't stop listening to it! Rhinestone Eyes, oh man, I can't get that chorus out of my head. It's been stuck there all fucking day

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Baroque And Roll

Cloudman wrote: »

Their new album is really good! I can't stop listening to it! Rhinestone Eyes, oh man, I can't get that chorus out of my head. It's been stuck there all fucking day

Empire Ants is better, imo.

AMP'd

I really like Glitter Freeze and Some Kind of Nature! The album is probably the strongest right after Superfast Jellyfish, but I like Stylo a bunch, too!

Clint Eastwood

I can't find a bum track on the thing

I guess Glitter Freeze is kind of meandering but all of their albums have had a track like that near the middle of the listing

pirate jet, pirate jet, pirate jet, pirate jet

AMP'd

Cloud of Unknowing is a little boring, but Bobby Womack's voice is there for me

Dex Dynamo

Don't Stop the Sandman was phenomenal. And sometimes Jess Harnell slips into Wakko voice, and it's jarring and delightful.

XiaNaphryz

Dex Dynamo wrote: »

Don't Stop the Sandman was phenomenal. And sometimes Jess Harnell slips into Wakko voice, and it's jarring and delightful.

He should do a version of each song in Wakko voice, ideally with the other Animaniac voices as backup.

#pipe

Dex Dynamo wrote: »

Don't Stop the Sandman was phenomenal. And sometimes Jess Harnell slips into Wakko voice, and it's jarring and delightful.

I have only listened to Don't Stop the Sandman and I was entirely unimpressed

it's a carbon copy cover of Don't Stop Believin with a different verse guitar pattern

that is not what a mashup is

GSM

They should have called themselves Limozeen.

Crazy Larry

#pipe wrote: »

Dex Dynamo wrote: »

Don't Stop the Sandman was phenomenal. And sometimes Jess Harnell slips into Wakko voice, and it's jarring and delightful.

I have only listened to Don't Stop the Sandman and I was entirely unimpressed

it's a carbon copy cover of Don't Stop Believin with a different verse guitar pattern

that is not what a mashup is

Gotta agree with this. They're just a glorified cover band doing note for note covers of 80's hits, except they change which song they're covering mid-song. Maybe if they actually, you know, mix and matched parts from different songs so that were actually playing pieces of different songs simultaneously it'd be interesting, but this feels pretty lazy.

Abracadaniel

GSM wrote: »

They should have called themselves Limozeen.

ahahahaha

:^:

GSM

I too dislike "mashups" that just cut back and forth every verse, but "we will kickstart your rhapsody" is actually a good one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA23v2xrUbo

...except that they start lazily cutting between the two at the end.:x

Druhim

don't like these guys

Garlic Bread

GSM wrote: »

I too dislike "mashups" that just cut back and forth every verse, but "we will kickstart your rhapsody" is actually a good one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA23v2xrUbo

...except that they start lazily cutting between the two at the end.:x

Yeah this is pretty good

the other ones not so much

(I only listened to Don't Stop the Sandman)

edit: nm Straight to Rock City is awesome

CowShark

I love "Straight Up," so I'm partial to a hilarious meedley-weedley-mee guitar version of it.

YaYa

okay Don't Stop the Sandman was garbage but Straight to Rock City is pretty fucking good

Filler Inc.

Hey, so the lead vocalist was the voice of wakko on animaniacs and a whole bunch of other well known voice over work.

Sweet side gig.

NotASenator

GSM wrote: »

I too dislike "mashups" that just cut back and forth every verse, but "we will kickstart your rhapsody" is actually a good one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA23v2xrUbo

...except that they start lazily cutting between the two at the end.:x

In that slideshow, it's like the guy had a rule where he had to cut in eight pictures of girls in bikinis on muscle cars to counter every time he showed Freddy Mercury.

DE?AD

Can we talk about Beatallica here? Is that a thing we can do?

Like this...

...and this.

Run Run Run

The Far Side wrote: »

http://omg.yahoo.com/blogs/a-line/lady-gagas-head-games/389?nc

lobstercrown

god, I hate performance art so much

GRMike

Druhim wrote: »

don't like these guys

Dru has both beauty and wisdom.

JoeUser

I like these mashup things, but I like weird music regardless

Q-Unit, mashup of Queen and 50 Cent

GRMike

Edit: That was not the Jay-Zeezer I thought it was.

Garlic Bread

JoeUser wrote: »

I like these mashup things, but I like weird music regardless

Q-Unit, mashup of Queen and 50 Cent

this is great

JoeUser

Keith wrote: »

JoeUser wrote: »

I like these mashup things, but I like weird music regardless

Q-Unit, mashup of Queen and 50 Cent

this is great

You can get mp3s of all their songs here

I like Under Pressure All the Time the best

Garlic Bread

JoeUser's got some hood in him!

celandine

Metallica and Journey. What could be better?

Garlic Bread

celandine wrote: »

Metallica and Journey. What could be better?

anything else

Recoil42

JoeUser wrote: »

Keith wrote: »

JoeUser wrote: »

I like these mashup things, but I like weird music regardless

Q-Unit, mashup of Queen and 50 Cent

this is great

You can get mp3s of all their songs here

I like Under Pressure All the Time the best

Didn't the same guy do some other mashup album with Coldplay and...?

Recoil42

Also we can't really have a mashup thread without Grey Album, can we?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3VVykEt37c


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7OyoEgR1bo

Recoil42

Or Xaphoon Jones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz-8B6pl19g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR9ZFL1okUg

JoeUser

Recoil42 wrote: »

JoeUser wrote: »

Keith wrote: »

JoeUser wrote: »

I like these mashup things, but I like weird music regardless

Q-Unit, mashup of Queen and 50 Cent

this is great

You can get mp3s of all their songs here

I like Under Pressure All the Time the best

Didn't the same guy do some other mashup album with Coldplay and...?

Hmm, not that I've seen. It's The Silence Xperiment (aka DJ !)

Garlic Bread

obligatory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK2f2om8YrE

JoeUser

I like this one for the inclusion of Travis

Abracadaniel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n98DYmLnUsc

Garlic Bread

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1MVmP4MNAc