Rhythm games are a very important piece of every growing child's development. If it weren't for DDR, would any of us even know how to dance at the club? If it weren't for Guitar Hero, would anyone on the entire planet know how to play guitar? No. Because guitars didn't even exist until a time traveler brought Guitar Hero back to the neolithic period. Oops, uh, please disregard that previously classified information.
Look there's nothing wrong with popular music. There's nothing wrong with things that have a wide appeal. It just so happens that the more you obsess about an art form, the further down the rabbit hole you go. This means that the 3 of us have a really hard time knowing what the average person listens to, even if we listen to it as well. We're broken. This is our attempt at healing. Please be kind to us. Features samples from: Hamilton - My Shot Taylor Swift - Blank Space Wilson Phillips - Hold O...
Have we already been doing this for 7 thousand months? Seems like just yesterday our clones were activated to start this research. Though I guess from our point of view maybe it was yesterday? Who can keep track really. Anyway, with 35 challenges already in the bag it was just a matter of time before we'd start revisiting some of them, and that's what this challenge is all about. Taking a mashup we made in the past, and inverting the parts used. Featuring clips from: Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood Th...
We've been making music too good for too long. If we're going to accomplish our goal of destroying music forever we need to start exploring the dark corners that we try to ignore. Ian has to make an electro-swing song and Ryan has to make a Country song. Do they succ seed? There's only one way to find out. Featuring audio from: Lil Nas X - Old Town Road Carrie Underwood - Before He Cheats Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime Taio Cruz - Dynamite AWOLNATION - Sail Skeewiff - Close Shave...
Let's face it. All ideas have existed before. All knowledge exists in the void and every once in a while a person will rediscover it. I think Plato said that or some shit. I'm not sure how true it is because I'm pretty sure that Plato didn't have an iPhone but I wasn't there so I don't really know. All music has already been made. That's why we took the easy way out by making music with stuff that already exists. But we aren't the only ones.
Happy Birthday USA, you big failed experiment.
Well it's the middle of summer for the north side of the earth. A lot of people think north is the top hemisphere but what people don't know is the earth is actually rotating on its X-axis, not its Z-axis. Meaning the actual top of the earth is the east pole. But you didn't hear that from me. Anyway since it's the summer let's go ahead and listen to our favorite rainy day music.
Do you listen to albums all the way through as the artist intended? Or are you a shufflegoblin? Let's make a quick alignment chart. Listening to full albums: Lawful Good Listening to all music on shuffle: Chaotic Neutral Listening to a single album on shuffle: Chaotic Evil You can fill in the other 6 for yourself, because I'm out of ideas. Anyway, this week the boys had to put their playlists on shuffle and pick from there. Did they get anything good? Only one way to find out ya dingus....
Another movie-based challenge? Yeah. We love movies. Everyone on the planet loves movies. This time we have to use a song that was made specifically for a movie. Like Prince's Bat Dance, or whatever Aerosmith made for Armageddon. (Is that right? I'm not gonna fact check it, there's no time.) Pop some popcorn and listen to some cinematic music masterpieces,
Hey there. Have you ever had a job? Have you ever worked a job where you listen to the same playlist of songs every day with absolutely no control over when it starts, ends, or how loud it is? Does your place of work use sonic warfare against the workers? Rise up. Kill your kings. And listen to this podcast comrade.
Love is in the air. This week the boys have to make mashups using their girlfriend's favorite songs (at the moment). Did they make something that the ladies liked? Or did they commit sonic crimes? Tune into your favorite underground (literally) broadcast and find out!
Instruments? Violins and stuff? Oh man that is such CLASSIC music. Singing? Man that is SO music. It's crazy. The years go on and on yet we can always rely on good ol' music to keep it real. And that's why we hate it, and want to hurt it. We're gonna try listing the songs here in the show notes, because why not? Maybe it'll be helpful? Might be a spoiler? Who knows. You do. So tell us. Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D Greenday - Basketcase Cole Porter - Can-Can Eve 6 - Inside Out...
Hey there, what's your favorite genre of music? What even is a genre of music? Can music, or anything really, be categorized? Who knows? Not us! Anyway, listen to this garbage we made!
Grab your sweatbands, your short shorts, and your cutoff sweat shirts because this week we're getting SHREDDED. Blast this podcast into your headphones while you work out and get ready for the pump of your life. ADVISORY: THE MRI TAKES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR PERSONAL INJURY OR DEATH INCURRED WHILE LISTENING TO THIS BROADCAST.
The boys down in the center of the earth haven't been to the movies in thousands of years, as previously established the only film media they have down there is a single VHS copy of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. But that's not going to stop them from using some music from some of the movies they've heard about!
This one goes out to those special ladies who rock out at the bar on a Tuesday night to White Snake. This one's for moms! The long awaited sequel to our Dadrock episode, at last the duology is complete. So put on your red shoes and get ready to dance the blues.
This week the boys have to make a mashup that uses the theme song from their favorite TV show. Remember TV shows? Back before the surface signal interference was so bad that they became in-transmissible? Seems like thousands of years ago, because it was. Speaking of signal interference we got a [REDACTED BY THE OFFICE OF THE MRI]
What can we say? Opposites attract. Alright I'll admit, that phrase is accurate for magnets and music and like, nothing else. Luckily this is a music podcast so we're in the clear. This week the boys have to combine "extreme" music with "normie" music. Can it be done? Apparently because this episode got released. Should it have been done? Remains to be seen.
It was just a matter of time. You've been able to cut the sexual tension in the center of the earth with a knife for the past 19 episodes. But now it's finally time for us to lay our cards on the table, and make a sexy mashup.
¡Hola! En este epesodio, usamos música extranjera! ¿Quién ganará? Sólo el algoritmo sabe. Fuck around and find out!
Bash the fash, baby! That's right, we're going fully political. On top of that we got Krog helping with the editing now. He's smart as hell but editing is a skill that takes practice. Help us raise dissent against [REDACTED BY THE OFFICE OF THE MUSIC RESEARCH FACILITY]
It's everyone's favorite time of the year! The Mashy awards! Take a trip down memory lane with the boys in the center of the earth and see what mashups over the last year will receive special recognition. And don't worry, you'll still be getting another new episode on Friday as usual.
Welp, we messed up. Ryan is in the Isolation Cube sweating out a particularly bad case of Moon Madness. Does that mean we stop? Absolutely not. Science waits for no one. The challenge this week is to use a purely instrumental song as a backing track. Who will come out on top and who will get shot into the vacuum of space in the center of the earth? Tune-in to this top secret broadcast to find out!
Cartoon themes are almost always bangers. They bring to mind memories of hearing your favorite show coming on and running across the house to watch. Cracking open a Caprisun and an ice cold Otter Pop. Eating a raw Pop-Tart and getting taken to a new world of new experiences. Do Millennials spend too time trying to relive the glory days of the 90s? Yeah probably. So why in the world wouldn't we try to capitalize on that?
This one goes out to the hardest working people we know: our moms! Kick your feet up and ease into the weekend with some tracks hand picked by some very special ladies.
Is there any genre of music more polarizing? Kids love it, Parents hate it. Except the one's that obsess over a certain children's media company that happens to own like 90% of film studios. All hail the mouseopoly! If any episode is gonna get us sued it's definitely this one. Enjoy it before it gets DMCAAed!
Cutting a song's BPM in half might not sound like much. Okay maybe it does. But you know why? Because it's a LOT. Who will take home the gold this week? Tune in to find out!
We all knew this was coming. It's real gamer hours here at the center of the earth. We have our various controllers and... other videogame paraphernalia. High Scores? You better believe it. Get those big numbers. Big jumps, big shoots, big Mario. You know how when he eats the mushroom and gets big? I love that.
The boys at the Center of the Earth are well practiced with messing with other people's music... but what about their own? This week each challenger must sing the vocal track for one of the songs used. Does Ian, a professional musician have the edge? Or is Ryan just the GOAT? Tune in to find out.
What are your favorite dad-rock songs? Are you a Kiss fan? Stones? Maybe you're like my dad and don't listen to music at all because your heart isn't capable of forming emotions. Either way the boys in the center of the earth have brought some bangers. Though one of the tracks might be considered... mom-rock??? Who can say for certain. Argue about it on our twitter @shitty_mashups
