Did you know that taking a really shitty song and putting a techno beat on it makes it infinitely better? :rolleyes:
That is all.
Or when the “singers” string all their words together into many incomprehensible sentences? I still have no idea what that Beyoncé Knowles songs are about half the time.
Don’t ever, Ever, EVER watch the Cablevision preview channel.
You’ve never known pain until you’ve listen to a techno remix of Britney’s “Toxic”.
The earmuffs, they do nothing!
Hehe, I read this thread title and just knew World Eater was going to post.
I dislike it when 80’s songs I really LOVE are transformed into dance mixes. Sometimes they are transmogrified beyond belief! (where’s the “I’m retching” smiley?)
Yesterday, I was sitting peacefully in my room when my downstairs neighbor starting playing something I had never heard before:
**A down-home fiddle rendition of Pachelbel’s (sp?) Canon in D with a techo beat mixed in. **:eek:
I was so horrified that I called my boyfriend as a witness that I wasn’t just making it up.
mischievous
Disc Six
A dance remix,
So I can catch the latest trend
And it’ll make you scratch your head
And wonder where my taste went.
-Barenaked Ladies, Box Set
I have nothing else to add…except that Blondie totally jacked up “The Tide Is High” in this way…but Blondie original releases usually *are *really shitty songs with a techno back beat. I love 'em nonetheless.
Especially when they run the vocals through that Cher “robot” vocoder.
To know pain, is to have heard the Revisited CD “by” Nanci Griffith. It starts off with the original songs only to go into reeeeeeeallllly bad dance versions of songs like “Late Night Grande Hotel”, “St Teresa”, and “Gulf Coast Highway”. From what I heard, it was never given an official release so I found a copy on eBay for $40.00. Curiousity is a real bitch.
Ouch! Obviously there was a reason why they never gave it an official release.
Like that hateful Gap commercial that puts a techno beat with Seals and Croft’s “Summer Breeze” that makes me punch large, comical holes in my tv remote whenever it comes on.
God yes, I hate techno remixes. Not least because you often can’t tell whether the CD is skipping.
Obviously you have never heard the techno remix of Europe’s ‘The Final Countdown’
“A Little Less Conversation” by Elvis Presley.
Without the JXL beat, it is just a cornball clunker from a guy who, to his credit, usually picked great songs to sing to.
With the beat, it is the perfect “Shut up and fuck me” song.
I once had a friend who’s favorite song was a techno-remix of the Broken Wings song by ( I think? ) Mister Mister.
Ya know how on gospel music compilation commercials it always has pictures of people singing the songs, looking to be on the verge of tears by the strength of the music ? Thats the face he got everytime he listened to this song.
Nice person. Horrible music tastes.
What I especially hate in these forms of music is listening to how other techno-y cliches are added into the original songs - like the quiet ambient-floaty moments, followed by a snare drum buildup, cymbal clashes and then the techno beat again. :eek:
I hate when they remix an 80s song, add those crappy beats, Cher-boterize it, etc. and the kids today all love it; the same kids who think “who likes that 80s crap” :rolleyes:
(ol’ rolleyes doesn’t do it justice)
You people don’t know pain until you see the adverts for “Irish Clubland”.
Traditional Irish songs, speeded up, techno beat, and vocodered falsetto vocals.
but not only do they do Irish songs on this, they also churn out other songs like “Living next door to Alice” “Can’t take my eyes off you” and “7 drunken nights”.
It is the most horrible advert ever, and all the songs are done by the same people responsible for the travesty that was “Dance to Tipperary”.
I hate them all.
Where did you come from…
Where did you go…
Where did you come from…
Cotton-Eyed Joe
'nough said.
This doesn’t involve techno, and the song in question is usually quite good, when performed correctly (i.e., the way I think it should be performed), but…
Last Friday, I was listening to “The Morning Show” on Minnesota Public Radio (thank you, internet!). Now, usually, I love the mix of music they put out, very well done (the show introduced me to the Colorblind James Experience, for example). But they had a guest on Friday. Jearlyn Steele(spelling of first name may be wrong), who was performing on Prairie Home Companion that weekend. She sang the worst rendition of " Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee" I have ever heard. Lacking any energy, feeling, or joy, it was the sound of someone really in love with their own voice, taking a wonderful piece of music and turning into a damned lounge act. Now, I am not familiar with Ms. Steele, and I didn’t hear PHC that weekend, but I am now permanently soured on her. Why, why do vocalists do this?
I wouldn’t say it’s limited to vocalists. There are a lot of “musicians” who aren’t aware of how bad they sound. It’s practically an epidemic.
I agree Msmith, that could be worse then Toxic.