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A frighful discovery

posted by [personal profile] cathyr19355 at 10:50pm on 05/02/2009 under ,
Tonight, I was looking at the latest crop of recommendations for me on Amazon when I came across this CD: Rockabye Baby: Lullaby Renditions of Tool.

Yes, you got that right; Lullaby Renditions of Tool. It turns out that there's a whole line of covers of rock classics with titles of the formula "Rockabye Baby: Lullaby Renditions of X". The arrangers redo the originals as slowed-down instrumentals featuring gentle instruments such as glockenspiel and vibraphone, and market the results to rock-loving new parents as infant lullabies.

I started looking up some of the other covers after finding the Tool lullaby remake. I wasn't surprised to find the Beatles in the list. But Led Zeppelin? U2? Metallica? Pink Floyd? Some of the songs were still pretty good, even with the Stepford Lullaby treatment, while others were unrecognizable. The cover art on all of these has to be seen to be believed. Just chase the links.

The Nine Inch Nails one was still disturbing, despite the lullaby treatment. (Yes, oh yes, they had one for Nine Inch Nails. It's right here.)

Good grief. Is nothing sacred anymore?
Mood:: 'appalled' appalled
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posted by [personal profile] metalfatigue at 04:53am on 06/02/2009
After the Bluegrass Tribute to Tool, this is not so surprising.
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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 06:28am on 06/02/2009
Yes, but I'd bet that one at least was musically interesting. This is just an attempt to beat money out of new parents who are still missing their wild n' crazy clubbing days.

After listening to about 60 seconds of the Lullaby version of "Hurt," I'm almost tempted to say that any parent who plays it for his/her infant should be prosecuted for child abuse. Almost.
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posted by [identity profile] stickmaker.livejournal.com at 04:55am on 06/02/2009


Have you heard of Stretched Beethoven? A guy took a recording of the 9th Symphony and stretched it out to a full twenty-four hours:

More here:

http://www.park.nl/park_cms/public/index.php?thisarticle=118
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posted by [identity profile] stickmaker.livejournal.com at 04:58am on 06/02/2009


And then there is "Run For Your Life;" all the Beatles music in order of release, as one file, sampled down to just over an hour:

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/10/the-complete-be.html
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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 06:28am on 06/02/2009
That's silly--and I need to listen to it sometime. Thanks for the pointer.
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posted by [identity profile] stickmaker.livejournal.com at 02:49pm on 06/02/2009


You can still recognize some of the songs.

And I swear at one point the Beatles shout "Oi! Oi! Oi!"
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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 06:19am on 07/02/2009
Now I *really* need to listen to it. But not tonight--I'm beat.
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posted by [identity profile] stickmaker.livejournal.com at 11:31pm on 08/02/2009


And then there is "Revolution 1" which is "Revolution" sampled down then slowed to produce a bizarre, jittery sound.

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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 02:06am on 09/02/2009
Isn't there a version of Revolution that was played backward, in a search for secret messages or something silly like that?
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posted by [identity profile] stickmaker.livejournal.com at 02:52am on 09/02/2009


A number of songs - including several by the Beatles - supposedly contain "backwards masking," words and phrases reversed and put into the recording as a concealed clue or subliminal message. The problem is that the human brain is hardwired to find spoken words, so people do find things, even when there's not really anything there.

The funniest was "I sing this song for Satan" from the Mister Ed theme.

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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 06:28am on 06/02/2009
No, I haven't. That's geeky, but it doesn't reek of wrongness to me.
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posted by [identity profile] shennan.livejournal.com at 07:35pm on 06/02/2009
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!

I am getting some for whenever I choose to reproduce. I already sing Guns-n-roses in lullaby form to my nieces and nephews :D
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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 06:19am on 07/02/2009
Just don't buy 'em the Nine Inch Nails one. That's all I ask. ;-)
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Deja ???

posted by (anonymous) at 11:06pm on 22/02/2009
Hi, Cathy !

Well, there's a fancy-baby-stuf shoppe at the NW corner of Rittenhouse Square, with a display of these CDs in the window, and I remembered, after walking past it on Saturday, that I'd seen these CDs displayed there before and mentioned their existence to someone - who wasn't you. But for a while I thought that 'twas you it might have been...

Now, being an old fogie who's never heard any of Tool's _originals_...

Yours, John
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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 01:25am on 23/02/2009
Nope, wasn't you, John.

Since you don't know Tool, you'll have to take my word that the "Rockabye Baby" version of their stuff was pretty good. The Led Zeppelin one--not so much. :-)
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