All right, so this was teased last week I'm gonna read you guys the description of this record Show it to you guys here. This is Railroad sounds okay, demon diesel the sounds of a vanishing era now There is like a whole ass like fucking article on the back here. I'm not gonna read all of it. It's good I'll just keep reading Until it stops being funny, okay and if I leave a pregnant pause it is because there are a Huge just fucking ellipses in this description like for some reason these these
Dots are fucking spaced out. So I'm just trying to do my best to read it as written. Here we go. Do it Steam engines Huge black monsters shuddering under loads of coal and compressed steam Lumbering masses of iron and steel that blast the air as they spit black smoke to the heavens Tons of metal Shaking the earth as wheels churn over gleaming tracks Bearing witness to man's genius for harnessing power Immense drive shafts the grind and rhythmic strokes as the iron horse
plows along the rails basically what they're saying is there's some sexy ass trains on this record I think that it goes on like this. Yeah, it does not stop Can I just just a recording of is it just recordings of trains? Yeah, it's just recordings of the person who made this is definitely a serial killer
Serial killer or sexually attracted to trains. I feel like they it can't be it couldn't possibly be one without being the other Like oil-driven behemoths that pack the energy of a thousand whales I'm just I think it could be both but I think it could be both but it's like He is mostly I think he was he was it was very sexual and if he hadn't have fucked a train He might have killed someone however But luckily luckily for everyone the Union Pacific
Fucked this train Union Pacific is one. I was always more of a B&O railroad man myself B&O, huh board like body odor Ian I know that the only reason you really brought this up is because you didn't want to talk about Joey Biden throwing down the fucking gauntlet releasing a picture of himself wearing shorts and shorts. I'm fucking ruined I know it's even worse about that is my whole fantasy is crumbled So like he's so like lanky and skinny he looks kind of like you when you wear shorts
It's true. It's just a bunch of like it's like I mean this is the kindest way possible like an ostrich wearing shorts Joey's I but lanky and same with Ian Anytime literally anytime I wear down It has literally anytime that I wear shorts in public people come up to me and are like, let's go Brandon
And I'm like what and they're like, oh, sorry. I thought you were somebody else. Sorry. I thought you were I don't know friend Brandon Sorry, yeah, I know Brandon could you imagine I am to deep-throated horns Fuck this dude wants to fuck a train so bad Music research facility on the surface of the moon. This is shitty mashups What's up everybody welcome back to your favorite podcast I hope shitty mashups with me your best friend
Shane I hope I'm not your best friend. I hope you have a group like I do consisting of people Including these two guys Ryan and Ian. Hello. I'm the left leg and I'm the right leg of this Parasocial relationship and together we form Ultron Voltron big robots for this Anyway, of course what we do on this show is we make music mashups that Sometimes they're shitty but have a very long track record of being very cool and good
Betraying the name of the show. We've got you. We got you. I bet you feel like a fool We've made we've we've produced a fair amount of content. I'm curious. What do you guys think and what is like our ratio in terms of like? hitters to To the clunkers. Well, I'm gonna be tough for someone to go back and look because I don't know if I've ever been rude about a Mashup, I think I usually try and you know, give you a little bit of a pat even when it was a little bit of a stinker
I'm not gonna be like hey this sucks and this is why you lost. I'm gonna say
I mean, so I'm I'm just gonna rate my own catalog. I feel like that's how we got to do this I'm gonna say I'm gonna say it's all hitters never miss it I was gonna say that but then I thought back and I'm like now I Definitely made some stinkers that I just had to I had to fart out just so that I'd have something to show up But I'm gonna say I'm hitting like a strong 75% I think seven of the 96 mashups that we've that I've made for this show I would say
75% of those are good. I think it's a real I think my bad ones are in the single digits It's a real tough metric because even when you phone it in I feel like there are some weeks when you phone it in and the mashup is still because of the uniqueness of What we're doing here. It's still so fun and novel that you kind of get away with it Even the weeks you phone it in so I think the name is just ironic at this point. Ian, what's your ratio?
I think I got like I would say it's like 20% fucking like fire bangers like straight heat I would say that probably and then I would say probably like maybe 20% like Just not good like not fun in any way and then the rest are like not like Heaters, but like entertaining fun to listen to you know so that that remaining 60% so ultimately I think it's it's good you know I'm Batten over 500 for sure But I hope you know my grand slams are are not it's it's not all grand slams
You know I hope you guys like the challenges at least that's Been a tricky part to keep it spicy and fun even though we've definitely recycled some but I mean Ryan has been Absolutely cleaning up lately the last challenge that we did was the night drive challenge, which I loved I adored that You guys both brought some great mashups Ryan one though with D gosser flag blues Which was kind of crazy yeah, none of us saw that shit
But the challenge that I gave these guys for this week is the falling into place challenge which to Describe it to anyone that wasn't here with us Last episode this is one where you just had to pick some songs you can do your research Whatever see if they're in key if they're around the same beats per minute you can essentially if you think of them as Sitting two blocks next to each other you can move them back and forth to line them up
So it might look like you know oh this could work and you could shuffle them a little bit that way But you can't tweak it you can't cut it can't split it splice it Drag it up dice it You know none of that fun stuff erase it Techno light jack Techno light you can't get technologic with it. We can't be getting technologic with them now so With this in mind how difficult was it for you guys to make this track? I?
got one that I was pretty Happy with fairly quickly, but I was like I think I can do better And I couldn't It was about to come in with the big revisit I like obsessed over like Four different songs like trying to find something The the BPM and keys weren't the problem it was It was like just structure right like that was what ended up being The real killer was like having the things where it it
Just where the verses line up and what sucked too is in this process. There are probably like four or five songs where I'm like this would be a Great fucking mashup if I could you know If you could put out some you can you know if I could tweak it if I could Cut out some you can you know if I could tweak it if I can cut out some silence you know and You know whatever um And it was always so disheartening because I had some that would like start out really great
And then like the chorus of one would hit before the other and it would just lose It would just fall apart. I was like god damn it But ultimately I think you know I I was happy with the one That that that I'm I am submitting And And you know I was just trying trying to see if I could really you know find that golden needle in the goose And uh, that's what they say what they say, but you know um
I still think this was pretty groovy and fun. So So I I tried only one other thing prior to this and it it didn't it didn't work Because I forgot that keys exist
I forgot this song's existing keys. I was like this is gonna be so easy I just found two songs of the same bpm and put them together, and I was like oh, no way I forgot He's oh my man with the cord wheel busting out here nice look at that um I've From this show I've memorized that the complementary minor of a key is three semitones down um I know that now but uh Then I so then I was like okay well what key is this song in because I wanted to use that backing track for sure
And there was one other song that existed as far as I could tell that was in the same key in bpm
And I was and I was like okay. I think this will work This will be cool, and then I got it and it was in three four and the backing track is in four four But here's the thing It worked really well so So that's that's what I got Yeah Well, we don't find out we gotta wait to hear that one because this week ian does go first so ian should we uh Wander over and check out your track Please let us do We are Oh, I like this song. Yeah Oh, that's really good Oh
I can't believe it took this long for this song to make its appearance. I know Oh Oh I'm in the schools If I move About it, you could have like done a little bit of sniffing and moving it really could hit with the Yeah. That's literally, I was just sitting here thinking like, both our tracks are long. I wish I should have cut something out of the middle of mine and I was like, wait, wait. Oh, there you go. Come on. Yeah. I fell off for a second, but it came back around. You got lucky.
You got lucky. It slimed up really nice. I like so funny. Oh, man. The line at the end. Yeah, that's so good. So that's where shut up and dance ends. Yeah. Okay. So that's where we end up at there. Yeah, this goes on a little bit more. That's good. We can call it there. All right. I wanted to make sure you know that. I'm letting it go.
Real quick, I gotta say, this is one of those mashups where if I had seen it just in the wild, I would have linked it and tagged both of you guys like, check this one out. This is crazy. Somebody made a wild one. Oh, yeah. So break that shit down. So I call that shut up and get low with me. Oh, very good. It's shut up and dance by walk the moon and low by flow, ride a beat. Thomas Paine or T-Pain as he's more commonly known. Thomas Paine. Thomas Paine. Yeah. This sounds like a fucking poet.
Thomas Paine was a person, I think. Thomas Paine was a very influential man. Okay, cool. Yeah, I think he was like American Revolutionary era dude. I don't know. I'm showing my ass when it comes to my history knowledge. Hey, John, you can tease me about this later. Yeah, John, let me know who Thomas Paine is. But yeah, so I found that one pretty quick because shut up and dance was, I think it was on my mind because we'd been like playing it at band practice.
I had like accidentally started playing the little riff and I was like, Shane, what is this? And he was like, oh, that's shut up and dance. And we were almost like, we're like, should we just cover this? That's fun. The other half of our band was not as enthused about it. Less than enthused to be certain. So I tried a couple different things. What did I try on this one? Hold on. You said there was one other one that you wanted to come back and you were like, but what about this?
Well, so I did this one. I found this one pretty quick. And oh, I was trying to do it with bodies. Oh, I try. Good. Damn. That would be good because I really wanted to call it shut up and hit the floor with me. But it was just yeah, it wasn't wasn't working. But yeah, I figured that shut up and dance would be a good place to start because it's like, oh, that's a pop song. It's a very on beat song for some reason.
So I made it and I was like, I'm pretty happy with this and hadn't listened to it again literally until just now. But a couple of days ago, I was like, I don't know. I want to keep looking and see if I can find something. And first I was trying to find something to go with that paramour misery business, a paramour and fucking couldn't find anything. And then I was really trying to find something with I'm not OK by my chemical romance. I couldn't find that.
And then I literally was trying to find something for every single track on the Welcome to the Black Parade, like except for Welcome to the Black Parade. And I couldn't find a single one that lined up in a way that I like. I was nostalgia brain. And I was just I was like so frustrated by it because it was like this is like fucking pop punk shit. Like I should be able to find something. This is not like they like to sprinkle in the weird little structurally out of the blue.
Here's a five beat measure. And then that was this is usual. They're not like other pop songs. It's much deeper, dude. And if you really listen, like if you like really listen and connect to the lyrics, dude, like legitimately I do. I like that. Anyway. Yeah. Yeah. But it was just it was I was driving myself crazy. I was looking at like yellow card shit, too. Like and I was just I was like looking at other similar bands and it just wasn't.
Like I said, I found so many that I'm like, fuck, this would work if it wasn't for like this little part right here. And it was truly maddening. And so I think coming into this episode, I was like frustrated because I hadn't listened to that one that we just listened to in a minute and listening to it back again. And I was like, oh, yeah, this this one's great. This one hits really well at a few points. Like it definitely had some good moments of the synchronous.
It was good lining up when, you know, like when it hit the big booty a smack. Yeah. You always want to create one. That was a really good one. Line up still. Otherwise, it feels weird. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, so that was that was it. That was my experience with that. Well, it was good, dude. I enjoyed the shit out of that. Same. Let's see if Ryan can continue his fucking streak of what is it? Four in a row or if I win this one, I think that's the longest streak that might be.
I think previously Ian had a streak of four, if I'm remembering right. That sounds right. Let's jump in and see what happens. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, hey, I had to cheat ho cracking your car ceiling.
You gave me a When times were rough, when times were rough I made sure I had you close to me So call out my name Call out my name Call out my name When I kiss you Such a pain, I'll just stay I want you to hear I want you to see Even though you don't hear I want you to hear No one can do it to me I fall out of love, won't you call out my name?
Call out my name Come call out my name, man I'll be on my way, man I'll be on my way You said you needed me, man I almost cut a piece of myself for your life Guess I was just another big sigh Till you made up your mind You just wasted my time You're all I want, when you're gone I'll give you some love And I'll believe in you And when times were rough When times were rough I made sure I had you close to me So call out my name Call out my name So call out my name I miss you so gently
I want you to see I want you to see I want you to see Even though you don't hear I want you to hear No one can do it to me I fall out of love, won't you call out my name? Call out my name Come call out my name, man I'll be on my way, man I'll be on my way It's a weekend track Yeah, if you listen to call out my name, it's...
So now we know which one is a little bit longer, too I see you ran into the same thing in the end Yep Thank you But it's just, like, one more measure of him doing distorted vocals So it also kind of works Well, yeah Holy shit, break that down, buddy I call that...that's my name As I had in the file name And it's call out my name by the weekend, and it' the vocal track and that's what I like by cheaty face Bruno Mars.
See, I had thought that when I, cause you have in the last two episodes begun titling your track what it's actually called instead of doing a funny name thing. And when I saw that, I said, oh no, he picked the that's not my name song and I'm gonna hate this mashup. That song is awful. I've been doing the name if it doesn't really give it away.
Like once I have it, if I'm like, they don't know what the fuck this is, then I just leave it because that way I don't have to remember what I named it when I export. Very smart, very smart. Well, that was something. It's almost hard for me to believe that you kind of just like hit it up and then just press play and you're like, homework finished. No, I did have to adjust it, but I'm not like by slicing it or anything. It's just that like, like make sure they start at the same time.
Yeah, like not even just at the same time, but like I lined it up in the middle where I'm like, I needed to hit this part here. Okay, let's see how that sounds with everything else. And then, I move it back and forth a little bit, but in a still is very, very easy. I had to reduce the volume on one of the tracks. I assumed that was allowed mixing it.
I thought about trying to be cheeky and do two songs and have them like, but like not actually edit the thing, but just like automate the volume on one vocal track to like mute it like temporarily and be like, didn't break any rules, but yeah. There was some song that I was trying to do it with. I forget what it is now, but it was shot. I wouldn't have been mad at that. Yeah, I couldn't find something that felt like appropriate to do it with.
Yeah, no, I just, I lined it up and then I kept listening to it. And when it got to like the second verse or whatever, I was like, yeah, this is a little long and whatever, but I think it's fine. But then it gets to that like weird kind of like bridge part and then they like hit the outro at the same time that I was like, I feel like Mr. The Weekend, you ever do the thing where like you're trying to write a song, but you kind of got writer's block.
So you write words to a preexisting song and then you write a new song to those words. I'm like, I wonder if that's what- I've done that with an instrumental track before. I'll do that with just like basically like free form or what's it called? Free association writing. Free writing, yeah. Essentially, but just doing it out loud. Where it's like, I'll just play and like be singing a melody, but I'm just kind of saying nonsense words and phrases.
Damn, man's pulling a what's his name with the hat, with the fucking hat. Jamiroquai. And the scarf, blood on the tracks. Jamiroquai. Mr. R. Monica. Yeah, Bob Dylan. That fucking guy. Have you ever heard of when you're looking for inspiration and you have like a song that you really like and you're kind of pulling inspiration from, what people will do is sit down and handwrite the lyrics to that song to see what it felt like to write those words. That's pretty cool.
It's kind of a weird way of, I've never done it personally, but I've heard of people doing that like, oh, this song is so magical. And there are parts of this I want to pull from. So, you know, I'll play the verse chords or whatever, and then sit down and just handwrite the song out on a piece of paper, just to kind of put yourself in the same place the way that person did. Interesting thought. Shit, dude. I like that idea.
Well, fellas, this was a lot better than I anticipated it going, if I'm gonna be honest. I thought this challenge was gonna be pretty insurmountable because so much of what makes these tracks kind of incredible in the way that they work with one another is the work that you guys do. So the fact that you were so hamstringed, I didn't, once again, I have underestimated you.
I mean, I think the luck, well, see, just the lucky thing is that like, if we, they're already, it's already gonna be in key and it's already the right BPM, right? So like, if the structure lines up, you're golden. Whereas like, a lot of the time, you know, our tracks that may be like, you know, we generally make good tracks by, you know, doing a bunch of edits and stuff like that, but, you know, so, and we also kind of avoid sometimes tracks that just are so like, you know, just drop in easy.
Like, you know, I know we generally try to avoid same subgenre hip hop over same subgenre of hip hop beats, you know? But, you know, this, getting to do it this time is just, you know, you can get some good shit. Yeah. I wasn't worried about this one at all. After the Waveform challenge, Oh, true. The Blind challenge, I was like, anything is possible. Like, I don't know that there's a challenge you could give me that I would just be like, yeah, I don't know, couldn't do it.
Damn. Well, I love that confidence. I gotta start thinking outside the bun. So, the Taco Bell challenge. I don't think outside the bun for once in your pathetic little life. Man, you know what I still can't believe is that in the entire run of this show, we have only ever used the same song once. It's true. There's not many songs. Oh, yeah. There's times where we've used- I know it's been a while since that happened. Like, we've used songs that have been used previously.
Yeah. And there was like one other time where it was like, there was a snippet of something that we got to use. Yeah, there was a clip. But it was like, that doesn't count. But- And oddly enough, wasn't it Duhast? No, because that one, that's the only one that we did have. It was the foreign language challenge. We went into a- Well, hang on. That was the one that you guys both used. In the same track, we used, we both used Duhast and Gasolina. And Gasolina, yeah, we both used it.
It was the- Yeah. That's what it was. And I remember there was some sort of sudden death meltdown, but I also remember that not- I remember there being more lava involved. Why would there be lava? I don't know what to make of it. No, that's okay. I don't really know what to- Because that sounds right, but that doesn't, a lot of sense. All right, there's some sort of weird static that I'm getting. Can we, I think I'm starting to get a migraine or something. Yeah, let's go to the judgment.
Let's, yeah. Yeah. All right. The winner of the falling into place challenge is, Oh, look at Mocha. It's a cat, it's Mocha. Mocha wins. My cat, Mocha. We love you, Mocha. They love you, Mocha. Everyone loves you. She's sleeping. Everyone loves you. She's sleeping. Ryan. I'm pulling my dick out. He's pulling his meat out for five wins. Meat out for five. Meat out. There it is. Meat out. It's kind of black on the end. It's kind of, it's got like a painted tip.
He's got fucking gangrene style at the time. It's just super glued on, god damn. You guys both had incredible tracks, but that was, I almost couldn't believe that that was just kind of a one and done. I got receipts if you want it. I'm pretty sure I took a screen shot. I have never thrown that accusation and will not going forward. You guys were skeptical of my waveform challenge one. That's because it was so good, dude. I mean, listen.
I was just saying, don't be saying you just threw accusations. There was no fucking accusations. There also, we didn't have a precedent yet. Sure. Now we have, but after that, and we believe that, now there's a precedent and we just know. The thing that sucked for me about this is that as soon as the song started, it was like, I wanted to win this week, but I didn't want Bruno to lose his streak. You were concerned about Bruno's legacy. I was like, I like, because it's like, we don't abuse it.
And like all those wins, all those Bruins feel earned. Definitely needs to make some new music. We're running out of material. We are, dude. We are. I was amazed that we used this one. Bruno deep cuts. You have used this one. I think we used the vocal line for it. I used the vocal line for it. I used the foreboding challenge. Bruno Mars wins, which I won. Yeah. But so, you know, I'm happy to go into the incinerator for Bruno. All right. For Bruno. This one's for Bruno.
For you, Bruno Mars. Congratulations, Ryan, for the longest streak on the show so far. Truly remarkable that you are still standing upright. Well, I actually hollowed out these legs so they don't hurt anymore. I filled them with concrete. That's how come I don't get tired. I've been drinking a lot of wacky glue. I got these wacky, waxy bones. That was a real cough because I am dying.
But I'm just going to, hey, you know, I'm just going to sit in this chair and then maybe you guys could just like drag me around. We'll just wheel you around. Yeah. You know, Ryan, I'm back by the way. Welcome back, Ian. Ryan, you can always just not make a mashup next week. You know, but you can just do it. But what of my soul, Ian? You guys just jumped into the incinerator. Well, what of your soul, Ian? What of my soul, Ian? But what of your soul? No, that's a great point.
No, I'll do my penance. You guys should have thought of that. I'll do my penance. Look, I'll do it. I'll take the punishment. It's fine. He's just a mashup making man lately. The punishment of existence for the crime of being born. Well, let's consult the Krog device and see if there's a little wacky challenge here that can put Ryan out of his misery. I crave death. Okay. This is kind of interesting. So the challenge that I have for you guys next week is the unrequited love challenge.
One of the vocal line of your mashup needs to be a song about unrequited love. Ooh. So all of those moody songs that Ian was listening to. La, la, I want to have, I don't know if that's really about unrequited love. I'm not gonna be a super big stickler. The original, I kind of expanded when I come up with the challenge to try and not limit it too much. It was originally called the Romeo and Juliet challenge.
There's two people that wanted to be together, but couldn't because of certain circumstances. And then I thought of, but there are also love songs about like, oh my God. Like this love this person, but they don't even know I exist. Like the singer of protest the hero and cigarettes. I don't give that. The saddest relationship song of all time. Did he write a song about how much he loves cigarettes? That sweet little redhead's got her hooks in my back. It was a song about cigarettes?
I didn't know that. There's a logic song about how much he can't quit smoking because he loves cigarettes so much called Nicky, like Nickety. Oh fuck. The beat for that song is really good. The whole song he's writing it about a girl. And like some of the lyrics he uses, he says, I love it when you're fresh. I love it when I take your top off and we share the same breath. You're like, that's clever. That's good. That's good. It's a good song. Y'all should go check out the song Nicky.
It's on the album. I want a cigarette now. Fuck. No, you don't gang related. I don't. Is that the name of it? No, it's under pressure is the name of the album. Anyway, that's all I have for y'all this week. I hope you enjoyed shitty mashups.com. Who would like to give the phone number this week? 7604 mashup. 7604 mashup. I actually almost left one at work the other day while I was delivering mail, but I was gonna sound out of breath and walking. That would be funny.
I believe we said that if people don't start leaving messages that she's gonna start doing like racist impressions. Impressions? Did you say racist impressions? Is that racist impressions? Shane's gonna start pulling the fucking the pest. See, the thing is about impressions. There are, what I have heard is it's only racist if it's bad.
If you do a really good impression, well, I mean, the thing is the difference between doing the difference between doing an impression of a person and doing an impression of a race. Yeah. Anyway. You know, this person is a monolith. I pity the fool. I too pity the fool. That's my Mr. T impression, you guys. That's the best I got. Anyway, leave a voicemail, otherwise it's gonna get real nasty in here. I'm just kidding. We're gonna get picked up by Spotify. We're gonna get so racist.
Yeah. I'm gonna start saying wild shit about drinking water or something. ShittyMashups.com, have a good Friday and weekend. We love you and please don't sue us, Joe Rogan. We found each other, I helped you out of a broken place, I put you on top, I put you on top, I claimed you so proud and all apparently, when times were rough, when times were rough, I made sure I had you close to me. So call out my name, call out my name, call out my name when I kiss you so gently. I want you to stay.
I want you to stay. I want you to stay even though you don't want me. Girl, I can't do it. Girl, I can't do it. Girl, why can't you wait till I fall out of love? Won't you call out my name? Call out my name. You can call out my name and I'll be on my way, and I'll be on my way. I said I didn't feel nothing, baby, but I lied. I almost cut a piece of myself for your life. Guess I was just another piece of, till you made up your mind. You just wasted my time. You're on top. I put you on top.
I claimed you so proud and all believing, and when times were rough, when times were rough, I made sure I had you close to me. So call out my name. You can call out my name, baby. So call out my name when I kiss you so gently. I want you to stay. I want you to stay. I want you to stay even though you don't want me. Girl, I can't do it. Girl, why can't you wait till I fall out of love? And be called out by my name? And call out my name, baby. Girl, call out my name, man. I'll be on my own again.
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