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I doubt it! I've got a couple of library aides who were too young to remember The Matrix, and I'll make them listen to this mess. But I don't think the musical references are For Them. I think this is a very special disaster for people around 30.
The lyrics make it even better. Almost every line is hysterical.
Neil Cicierega is the creativity of the Internet made flesh.
Also this is the third one of these albums. The previous ones have some great shit, too.
I will say that the opening track (which I later learned was named "shit") strikes me as the most maximalist you-like-this-bullshit-well-fuckin-shovel-it-in-your-maw-you-goblins of the songs
there are plenty of seemingly intentional groaners throughout the album (which are hit-or-miss depending on your tastes), and torturous meme edging (the back-to-back one weeks, followed by making you happy to be saved by all star) but there are also some real bangers and funny jokes interspersed
I'd recommend the smooth criminal mashup at the very least
oh, my sweet Australian engine wizard
I still haven't
oh ok then @SimBen LIED to me
i take back a small sliver of the ""props"" I'd given it
Shit's the last song and it's a work of art, teddy
ART
PSN- AHermano
I am the worst at naming songs, but I thought there was some rap or R&B in there?
Talking about mashup artists not the samples
though also I kinda doubt that Neil has what anyone would refer to as mainstream penetration outside of internet cultures
He's one of two I know by name and the other one I only know because people in this thread keep bringing it up.
Yeah I guess a better way to say it is that I wish that the diversity of mashup culture was better represented to a wider audience
Yeah but youre about as hip as a max steel trapper keeper
Isn't that what constitutes "mainstream" though? The whole concept of someone being mainstream is "recognized by people who have no other reason to know about this".
I was more of an action man dude myself
I am also guessing that radio stations would be hesitant to play tiger because even though the sampling is TECHNICALLY legal it's messy
And my local public radio music station played tracks from feed the animals regularly but that's an exception because the current is a weirs singular entity
Danger Mouse's Grey Album?
Yeah good catch!
But yeah there's not many, which I attribute to mashups being so seeped in internet irony culture that just seems to scream bored white college kid with a mac.
Album's don't have the same problem.
Potter Puppet Pals? Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny? Hyakugojyuuichi?
Fucking hell, what other earlier internet shit did he come up with?
not because it is excellent in and of itself, although it is
Adrian Brody has seen it, of course--if nothing else, he has at least one friend who's an internet weirdo and saw it the day it came out and sent it to him
and he watched it and was just like "huh" or maybe he really enjoyed it for all the same reasons the rest of us do, and then got on with his life
which is not the reason it is one of my favorite things, although this, too, is excellent
what I like is the possibility that, six months or a year later, some elderly, half-savvy relative saw it on fuckin' Huffpo or whatever, and then sent it in an email to Adrian with the subject, "just saw the trailer for your new movie"
and I can't think of anything more entertaining than Adrian Brody trying to explain Brodyquest to some dessiccated great aunt, and failing
God I would watch an actual Brodyquest movie
JESUS CHRIST REALLY?
Yes.
Also he's your dad.
if it makes you feel better, mashup culture is a term I first read from this very post!
as such, all artists are equally unheard of by me (regardless of race, religion, or political belief)!