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Unexpected, but great mashups
So I just encountered this mashup of Britney Spears' "Toxic" and Deftones' "Change (In the house of flies)" and it just works so well.
Same with ABBA's "Dancing Queen" over Linkin' Park's "Numb" by Manuel of Zeal & Ardor.
What are some mashups you think work surprisingly well? (Please link them!)
How can i not post this classic
definitely up there for me as one of the best songs there is, i find myself listening to it from time to time and it never fails to get me emotional
then on the complete opposite side of the spectrum i got
Bill Mcclintock's entire channel. He essentially birthed Soul Metal as a genre. But if you're going to force me to choose an example, I think Get Ready for the Grave (Temptations Get Ready + Black Sabbath Children of the Grave) is amazing. Plus the combined name is great. I listen to a lot of Mr. Mcclintock's mashups 100% unironically.
DJ Cummerbund has some great mashups, but leans into the funny/absurd and takes himself much less seriously. As can be seen by his inclusion of Randy "Macho Man" Savage in every video like an Easter egg. Not that Bill Mcclintock takes himself all that seriously either, but DJ Cummerbund really leans into it.
His most popular video is Dr. Dre + Disturbed The Next Sickness. And that mashup is indeed great, however, I think Old Staind Road is his best work. The mashup creates a legit song that's better than the sum of its parts imo.
He also blessed us with the gloriously absurd PantsFeet. I'm not on there, but I heard that song had quite the resurgence on tik tok recently.
One thing I really enjoy about both of those artists is that they include at least a third (usually more) artist that isn't mentiined in the title, so you always get a pleasant surprise. For example the un-mentioned artist at the end of Old Staind Road seems like it shouldn't work if you just say the name of the songs/artists, but actually fits perfectly when you hear it. Like all three songs were written for each other. And if you didn't read the credits in the video description or comments beforehand, you'd never guess in a million years that last song would work.
My final example is a DJ/mashup artist who, afaik, doesn't really lean into the goofiness/absurdity nearly as much. He just legit makes awesome mashups. It is with great pleasure that I present to you Girl Talk, aka Gregg Gillis the biomedical engineer.
My favorite album of his is Night Ripper. If you like mashups and you aren't hooked right from the start, then I have no idea what to tell you and we can't be friends.
I have ADHD and will sometimes find myself playing 30 seconds of a song, skipping to another, and so on. When I'm in one of those moods, I just put on Girl Talk and let him do it for me. Plus you can shake your ass to all of it.
I just want to second this and encourage OP to check out the Bill Mcclintock channel, especially his Slayer mashups. My favorites are: Tropicana Death Ensemble, Raining Lobsters, and Everything She Wants is South of Heaven. These are so wildly well done and fun.
from DJ Cummerbund's catalog, my favorites are:
Through the Flaming Hotels of California (The Eagles, DragonForce, and Destiny's Child)
Play that Funky Music Rammstein (Wild Cherry, Rammstein, and Metallica)
and from Bill McClintock:
Rime of the Good Times (Chic and Iron Maiden)
With a Rebel Yell, She Cried "Don't Give Up the Fight" (Bob Marley and Billy Idol)
BBC Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue has been doing this since the 70s.
Bieber and Slipknot: https://youtu.be/kspPE9E1yGM
Lady Gaga and Meshuggah: https://youtu.be/UU63P50ag0c
Drake and Wii: https://youtu.be/gYOEyzBFYa4
Eminem and yoshi’s island
I also made this like 10 years ago but more to show that songs are basically the same.
My absolute favorite - Call Me Maybe / X Gon Give It To Ya
Love Oneboredjeu, and I love her take on Down with the Sickness mixed with The Shape of You, Shape of the Sickness
Girl Talk's Feed The Animals is hard to beat. (It's a full-length album!)
Here's something a little different. Rather than a mashup of existing songs, we have a collection of songs created by remixing hundreds of clips of people's amateur music to create something far more amazing than the sum of its parts. I'm talking of course about Kutiman. This gets my personal vote for the coolest musical project of all time. The tracks are excellent pieces of music in their own right. If anyone ever tries to tell you that remixes and mashups aren't real music, send them this. These people have never met, and yet they have jammed together.
This just came across the desk from There I Ruined It, Hit the road, Nickelback!
If there's one you have to hear its this one: Thomas (the tank engine) gon' give it to ya
Edit: and of course the essential, DJ Earworms United States of Pop 2009
Oh but have you seen Thomas the Dank Engine??
Ah, if it's children's shows you're after, have you tried We Will, We Will Mend It?
I'm surprised no one's mentioned Neil Cicieriga. He's released four albums of 'plunderphonic' music, mashing up a wide variety of pop songs in a manner befitting today's meme culture (he has a weird fascination in particular with Smash Mouth's 'All Star'). A few of my favorites:
I'm a huge fan of Neil Cicierega's work. Nightmovin cracks me up every time but is also very well done
Credit to @cfabbro for this but I've become a big fan of Andre Antunes and I think some of his stuff counts as mashups...
Andre Antunes is awesome. I still listen to those two tracks regularly. The Kiffness and Bill McClintock are my other favorite mashup channels, and both have tons of awesome tracks too.
Definitely check out Moonic Productions on Youtube. Is a guy called Otu who has some great vocal chops but also does all other instruments.
A few top ones are If Linkin Park did Madonna's Frozen, if System of a Down did Toxic by Britney Spears, if Kyuss did Pretender by Foo Fighters, and if Meshuggah did ABBA's Dancing Queen.
have you run across ”rock sugar” yet?
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWzGf_fn488gxD_sOQtu4a7JXRnt8Hm6t
there's a playlist. mashing madonna and ac/dc in ”shook me like a prayer”... or... well, there's just too many.
professor of rock covers their backstory, and it's pretty stellar as well.
Stayin' Alive In The Wall.
Always the classic Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Wonderwall mashup.
And this one by Mariah Carey and Soulja Boy always makes me chuckle, especially around Christmas time.
Many years ago, someone give me an album called Gangstagrass? I believe it was JayZ and Bluegrass.
edit: looks like the dude who did the mashup album has since formed a group by the same name.
If there is a sound that might save America's soul, it's theirs. Hiphop and Bluegrass and Country, the mashup is the unlikely meeting of the genres and how well it works. I'll link a couple of their finest live tracks.
Pomplamoose has been putting together fun mashups for years. Here are some of my favorite, more unexpected ones:
I’ve always been partial to A Perfect Circle’s (sadly only ever performed live) contribution, dubbed Diary of a Lovesong — although not the better known version from eMOTive, this one just hits better for some reason. Wish we could’ve had a studio version too…
And from the other end of my musical preference spectrum, years back I discovered Grant Willard, a composer who made some cool classical music mashups and others. (Warning: Last one is catchier than you might think!)
I didn't expect to love the Dancing Queen/Numb mashup but yet, here I am jamming out to it!
These are a few that I've had on my iPod for likely a decade at this point.
This old gem always puts a smile on my face:
Beastie Boys / Ratatat - Intergalactic
Nikki Minaj x Pokemon - Team Flanaconda
Love these Tesher mashups of Indian songs crossed over with top music:
Ramta Jogi X Old Town Road
Avengers Theme Bhangra
Not strictly mashups, but Andre Antunes does metal renditions amazingly well. One, of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and another, of Kenneth Copeland
A couple of movie trailer mashups that stood out to me: James Brown, 2Pac - Unchained (The Payback/Untouchable), Apashe - Battle Royale X The Who - My Generation
This mashup of Nine Inch Nails' The Perfect Drug and Taylor Swift's Shake it Off is so good we played it at our wedding (during the reception). Bonus points for it mashing up my and my wife's musical tastes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhvXST1Rc3g