Get yer Monday morning mashups!

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I finally found a cure for my unnatural addiction to Fergie’s "London Bridge": RuPaul’s saucy blog pointed me to producer Steve Lima’s series of wickedly unlikely mashups, and bada-ba-dada…I’m lovin ‘em. Admittedly, some of Lima’s musical marriages (Lisa Stansfield and Evelyn ”Champagne” King, for example) work better than others (like the jank Marvin Gaye-Talk Talk duet), but anyone who can successfully meld U2’s "Vertigo" to Patrick Hernandez’s "Born to Be Alive" deserves some PopWatch props. Also worth a listen: Annie Lennox’s "Little Bird" blended with George McCrae’s "Rock Your Baby," and an Ultra Nate-Nirvana mix that sounds a lot better than I expected. Listen for yourself, and share your favorites (if any) with the group.

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dunksahoy
Mon 07/10/06 2:49 PM

Slez,
It’s time to let go of jank. You rode it ’til the wheels fell off.

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finn
Mon 07/10/06 3:25 PM

Good choices on the mashups, Slezak. I must admit though that I often like the titles of the mashups more than the actual tunes.
And yes… while I love the word jank, it’s beginning to remind me of that line in Mean Girls… “Stop trying to make ‘fetch’ happen. It’s not going to happen!”

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Stephanie Travitsky
Mon 07/10/06 9:27 PM

Three of my favorite Mash-ups are:
1. Sexy kiss machine: James Brown’s Sex Machine v. Princes’s Kiss
2. Another one bites the Funk: Daft Punks De Funk v. Queen’s Another one Bites the Dust.
3. It’s my Life: Talk Talk v. No Doubt

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