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.

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[e-to-the-ipi.livejournal.com]

Yesterday I came across a really bizarre cover of Tom Waits I Don't Want to Grow Up" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IaNaQHjIRE): The Ramones' version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inpKD4vXxZ4&feature=related). This also led to me discovering how insane the original's video is. (I'm not entirely sure why the latter video has art by Dan Clowes.)

If nothing else, it's rare for a song to take a Tom Waits song and produce a version where the lyrics are less intelligible. (Audible?)

My first thought is that this would be rather interesting to do to 90% of Tom Waits songs.