Team9 / The Beatles : Eleanor Rigby

Here's another rock on rock mash.  Once again someone has taken a Beatles original and mashed it against another tune with an edge, showing how hard the Beatles could have rocked had they really, really wanted to ("Helter Skelter" not withstanding).

Team9 careens Paul's dour classic "Eleanor Rigby" off Queens of the Stone Age's hard rocker "In My Head", almost totally stripping out the dainty double string quartet that anchored the song before, keeping only a touch, and replacing it with rock riffs and a little keyboard that somehow match the song perfectly.  The vocals are even processed in a way that sounds a lot like Josh's trademark stoner rock murmur.  Unfortunately, I have more pictures than words for this one, as there isn't much more to say about it than I've already said for previous mashes.  But it's nice to hear the Beatles really rock out.

You can't buy the mash anywhere, but you can pick up the original "Eleanor Rigby" on the Beatles' 1966 Revolver and the original "In My Head" on Queens of the Stone Age's 2005 release, Lullabies to Paralyze.

[You can listen to Team9's mash of the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby" by navigating to the post "Song088" and clicking or right-clicking on the title or the link.]

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Wax Audio / The Beatles : Come Together

At its most basic, the mashup is slapping one song's lyrics on another song's music.  But at its most creative, the mashup is a full-on remix, taking elements of both songs and creating something truly new, unique and interesting.

The Beatles have been done to death, by radio, by covers and certainly by mashups.  The most famous is probably Danger Mouse's mash of Jay-Z's The Black Album with The Beatles' self-titled 'white album' and there are a couple other entries worth checking into, another one of which will likely make its way to these pages in the next week or so.  But this one is by far the best.

Wax Audio has taken a great piece of rocking electronica, Justice's "Waters of Nazareth" and laid it underneath one of the best rock songs of all time, "Come Together" by the Beatles.  But, in doing so, he's altered the pacing and flow of Lennon's masterpiece, cutting it apart and repiecing it together, reinventing both songs.  At first, the interplay is pretty straightforward, but towards the end, Wax Audio plays with the dynamics, adding some echo and a nifty breakdown.  Notice also how he introduces the organ from "Nazareth" into the second part of the song.  And I especially love at the end when he gets John to throw down the shout-outs, a sort of digest version of the whole song.  This thing is composed, folks.

Unfortunately the only version he's got up on his site is the cheesy one where he added samples from Barack Obama and Martin Luther King Jr. speeches.  Fortunately, I'm here for you kiddies, bringing you the unadulterated version.  You can't buy this mash anywhere, but you can get the original "Come Together" on the Beatles' classic Abbey Road and the backing track was generated from Justice's excellent LP, Cross.

[You can listen to Wax Audio's mash of The Beatles' "Come Together" by navigating to the post "Song083" and clicking or right-clicking on the title or the link.]

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