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Post by MrMustard on Feb 15, 2004 1:12:01 GMT 1
Ohhh wow, this is so brilliant. I've just been listening to the new album by DJ Danger Mouse - "The Grey Album". For those unaware of what this album is, it is a deconstruction of The Beatles' White Album, which uses the lyrical content from Jay-Z's Black Album and mixes them both together to very cool effect.
Right now, I'm hearing "Mother Nature's Son" cut up with big fat beats and Jay-Z rappin over the top! I'm no huge fan of hip-hop but love hearing new twists on olden day antiquity.
One of the coolest things on it is the "oh yeah" middle section of Glass Onion cut up to dramatic effect on "Encore", which halfway through, changes to the chorus of Savoy Truffle with vocals removed!
On "99 Problems", Helter Skelter actually sounds louder and heavier than when it was first recorded, and Jay-Z's lyric suits it right down to the ground.
There's some real creative ingenuity going on here. "Piggies" is now a poppy hip-hop anthem. The opening acoustic guitar bars of "Rocky Raccoon" now has a cool and tough sheen to it as a basis for a whole new song! "Revolution 9" is now "Interlude", and wow it's been given a whole new lease of life with the addition of creepy beats - you can now actually dance to it and it still freaks your mind.
All I can say is....WOW!
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Post by MrMustard on Feb 15, 2004 10:11:26 GMT 1
Well, so far, the people I have played this to... they don't like it. Well, for one, they don't like rap and also they aren't too familiar with the White Album, only The Beatles' more popular classic radio tunes. There's nothing for them to like about it at all. Aaaargh...why am I always the only one to like something that other people absolutely HATE? It's always the way. The other thing I was going to mention is that all the big beats, each snare sound etc all came from the White Album somewhere - all the source material for the samples came from the White Album. I just think that if you're a Beatle fan and are prepared to listen to anything with an open mind, it is well worth hearing. Paul did try half-heartedly sampling old Beatles sounds with the Super Furry Animals during his "Liverpool Sound Collage", but this Grey Album is a consistently well-crafted effort. It's very cool what they do to While My Guitar Gently Weeps (forming huge thunderous break-beats over the top)... and Julia is sampled in such a way, they cleverly construct an entirely new melody out of the guitar and John's voice (yes, his voice too) - forming a perfect backdrop for Jay-Z. They even create a whole new song out of "Can You Take Me Back Where I Came From".  Inspired stuff. |
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Post by Jude on Feb 15, 2004 22:14:32 GMT 1
Aaaargh...why am I always the only one to like something that other people absolutely HATE? well it wasn't like that with the beatles now was it mr ;D??? anyway i give it a try, if i can find it that is!!! real love  jude |
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Post by MrMustard on Feb 16, 2004 9:57:45 GMT 1
I got mine off Soulseek www.slsknet.org/download.htmlThere's an article on the controversy over the Grey album here: www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,62276,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 DJ Danger Mouse himself says in the article: "I'm just worried ... whether Paul and Ringo will like it. If they say that they hate it, and that I messed up their music, I think I'll put my tail between my legs and go," Danger Mouse recently told The New Yorker. |
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Post by Jude on Feb 17, 2004 0:20:43 GMT 1
er. my pc just takes forever and ever and ever to download - can you perhaps copy it and send it to me ;D??? that would be much appreciated !!! real love jude ps: someone who cares so much about paul & ringo's opinion is clearly someone who has put love into his project, so i'm prepared to forgive him even if i don't like the work. it's question of attitude. when have you heard o**** say: i hope paul & ringo like the way i blatantly ripped off such and such a beatles song??? |
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Post by MrMustard on Feb 17, 2004 6:36:55 GMT 1
can you perhaps copy it and send it to me ;D??? that would be much appreciated By "Snail"-mail? It's a great idea but very 20th century. It's all very 1995 isn't it. I would have to teach myself how to write by hand again. ...kidding of course, hehe  |
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Post by Jude on Feb 17, 2004 19:17:26 GMT 1
just hoping that your effort to teach yourself the art of calligraphy again will not go unrewarded, i mean i'm still waiting for cds that have been sent from england round xmas!!! i'm forced to these criminal & unreliable 20th century barbaric methods as here we get nothing and sometimes even less!!! real love jude, feeling rather cut off from the civilized world |
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Post by MrMustard on Feb 20, 2004 22:07:07 GMT 1
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Post by MrMustard on Feb 20, 2004 22:16:53 GMT 1
From the www.boycott-riaa.com/article/10509 article: Date: February 19, 2004 @ 7:22 PM
Let me put in my 2 cents:
The Grey Album should be banned, not because the RIAA sez so, but because it SUCKS on 2 levels.
1. The Beatles White Album music. Who the f**k wants to hear the drugged out Beatles try & play music?
2. It's f**king Jay-Z lyrics. What an untalented POS. Though there are hundreds of white suburban dipsh*ts that would disagree, they're the ones who should be neutered before they reproduce.
Just MHO & 2 cents.I'm not a big fan of the beatles, but then again I'm a youngin. Such ignorant comments. Typical. But I like the response further down the page: I downloaded the Grey Album off KaZaA Lite (anybody have the album track list?) because I love the Beatles and was intrigued by the project. I found it to be interesting. Really artsy-fartsy. As a result of file sharing, I have now been exposed to a new type of music (frankly I had no clue about this remix phenomenon). and
Date: February 20, 2004 @ 12:42 AM
"1. The Beatles White Album music. Who the f**k wants to hear the drugged out Beatles try & play music?"
You owe The Beatles for most of the music that is out today, show some respect.
"I'm not a big fan of the beatles, but then again I'm a youngin."
I'm 18 and still love The Beatles, age isn't necessary to appreciate greatness.
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Post by Jude on Feb 21, 2004 20:42:56 GMT 1
I'm 18 and still love The Beatles, age isn't necessary to appreciate greatness. [/i] [/quote] HOW TRUE!!! on the contary the real nice thing (one of the many real nice things) about the beatles is how it manages to fill in the generation gap: for those of you coming to liverpool, you'll see a LITTLE CHILD dancing and singing beside a LITTLE OLD MAN who's 64 and beside representatives of just about any age in between, all having the time of their lives!!! real love jude, 18 so what ps: now i'm really interested to hear what that grey album is like - mr??? |
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Post by MrMustard on Feb 21, 2004 22:19:42 GMT 1
I played bits of it to a workmate yesterday, and I was like "look what they've done to While My Guitar Gently Weeps", and he was like.... no I don't know this song..how does it go? And I began singing George's melody over the top and he was still none-the-wiser, so he asked me 'ok what other songs on the White Album would I know?', and I had to say to him that unless you actually owned the album, you wouldn't really know anything off it. The only song he did know was Ob La Di Ob La Da, and Revolution (he loves The Beatles - but only knows their radio hits), but not the acoustic version of course. So it was impossible to get this person excited over hearing these sounds. Sigh.
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Post by Jude on Feb 22, 2004 0:59:11 GMT 1
well lock him up in chains that ain't the kind that you can see, force feed him the original white album, and then superimpose the grey one, then please please us with a report on the results!!! real love jude ps: what's that supposed to mean, i don't own the white album either... not on cd or tape anyway, i own just the record and i've never been able to play that... but nonetheless i could sing each and every track backwards in my sleep!!! no one's actaully tried me out so far, but i'm sure i could!!! |
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Post by MrMustard on Feb 22, 2004 10:06:37 GMT 1
I bought the White Album on record when I was 11, but a *friend* "borrowed" it and never gave it back, including the cool lyric sheet / poster (maybe he enjoyed the nude pics of John on it? who knows?). Luckily though, I still have the 4 individual portaits of The Beatles which came with the album...somewhere  I later bought the White Album again from a second-hand record store (as a replacement for the one that went missing), but this one had no lyric sheet or individual posters enclosed. And then I bought the double CD - but a flatmate borrowed it and crushed the plastic case and the cds had terrible scratches on it after I lent it to him. Luckily though, I have the songs archived on mp3 on my computer. No one can mess with them now, thankfully. |
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Post by Jude on Feb 22, 2004 19:21:20 GMT 1
me i know better... NEVER lend beatles albums, they're bound to be liked way too much to be returned!!! real love jude |
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Post by marmaladeskies87 on Jun 29, 2004 23:13:41 GMT 1
i listened to it a while ago, i thought it was interesting, i liked how the sound of beatles was introduced to a new audience, in a way i liked some tracks, not all, but it was kinda fun, but any day id take the white album over the grey album
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Inspired stuff. 
