Sugarhill Gang - Rapper’s Delight
Peter Piper - Run DMC
Beastie Boys - Paul Revere
A Tribe Called Quest - Award Tour
Digital Underground - Humpty Dance
Snoop & Dr. Dre - (Mangled) Nuthin but a G Thang
Tupac & Dr. Dre - California Love
Notorious BIG - Juicy
The Roots - The Seed
Eminem - My Name Is
Missy Elliot - Work It
Soulja Boy - Crank That
T.I. - Live Your Life (both the song and the reference start with a sample of Mi Ya Hi)
Kanye West - Gold Digger
Jay-Z & Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind
Rapper’s Delight again
I’ll try to look at the second one in a bit, but if they pick up where they left off I might not know the newer stuff.
My pleasure. It’s like one of those quiz sites where you have ten minutes to identify 100 songs or whatever.
The second one:
Kurtis Blow - The Breaks
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five - The Message
NWA - Express Yourself (samples the original)
Public Enemy - Bring the Noise
Rob Bass - It Takes Two
Salt & Pepa - Push It
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
Black Sheep - The Choice is Yours
Cypress Hill - Insane in the Brain
DJ Kool - Let Me Clear My Throat (samples Hollywood Swingin and then The 900 Number)
DMX - Party Up
Nelly - Hot in Here or Herre or whatever
50 Cent - In the Club
Outkast - Hey Ya
Lil Wayne- A Milli
Then I had to look the autotuned one up. All I Do is Win, DJ Khaled, apparently. And in finding that out I realized that people have already done this. Fuck those guys.
I never liked Fallon as a performer when he was on SNL or in any of his movies, but he was always a great impressionist (unlike the utterly devoid of talent Carson Daly) and he’s managed to create the perfect venue for himself. That was awesome. He also makes the lyrics Butterfly in the Sky sound more like a Morrison song that got turned into a kid’s show theme than a kid’s show theme being sung by Morrison.
I liked the way he made the end of Good Night, Moon sound exactly like Morrison had blatantly ripped it off of a marginal native american poet. Inspired!
I’m not familiar with the Reading Rainbow theme song and wasn’t paying attention when I clicked over so didn’t realize he was doing the theme song in a Doors impersonation. So the first time he said “Reading Rainbow” I thought “huh, I did not know they took that title from a Doors song.”
Jimmy was on The Tonight Show last night as a guest, and they showed the Morrison bit, then he did a snippet of Neil Young and Bob Dylan - with guitar and harmonica. All three were spot on. Jimmy has a great ear and a great talent at impersonations.
My favorite thing about this is that it’s just such a bizarre idea. How on earth does someone come up with it? I mean it’s not like someone could listen to the theme from “Reading Rainbow” and go “Hmm, reminds me of the Doors!”
I’m equally in awe of people who can do mashups. How on earth did they notice song A can be laid over song B? Especially if they’re from completely different eras or something.
If I might re-rail this thread back to the original Fallon video, can anyone tell the last thing he sings? It sounds to my ears like “Geo lightning”. I assume it’s the name of another book but I can’t make it out.
By the way, some really enthusiastic “Very Hungry Caterpillar” fans in the crowd!
