The Swinger

[davidn]

Everyone's posting this this weekend! I'd better do the same before you've already seen it.

The Swinger, by Tristan Jehan

It's a demonstration of a little sound manipulation routine that stretches one beat and then compresses the next in turn, forcibly introducing a swing rhythm to songs whether they want it or not. Sweet Child O' Mine and particularly Enter Sandman become absolutely hysterical when mutated in this way - the library's available to download if you want to attempt it on your own library, but I don't have Python installed here.

I think it really appeals to my preferred musical genre's habit of taking songs and then (sometimes accidentally) doing really inappropriate versions of them. Kai Hansen did It's a Sin, for example - according to one interview, he'd seen Neil Tennant saying that he hated metal, and then went off and did the cover specifically to wind him up.

Comments

[starfishchris.livejournal.com]

It's a Sin was always musically raw by synthpop standards, so it's a perfect fit for metal, especially from the very start! Although I daresay it's closer to rock than most of what is labelled metal...