Sgt. Pepper's Paradise City

For years artists have taken bit of older songs and reusing those bits to create new music. Take for instance Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice, Vanilla, er... Mr. Ice? Vanilla Ice samples the intro from Queen and  David Bowie's collaboration Under Pressure. 

**Side Note**

When David Bowie played the old Winnipeg Arena in 2004 he did Under Pressure and his bass player covered Freddie Mercury's part. It was unreal. Still give me chills to this day. 

Back on track now. Sampling is now a thing of the past. Well, that's not true. New artists will still continue to sample established artists (e.g Nikki Minaj sampling Annie Lennox.) but now, songs are getting slapped together to create a whole new monster: the Mashup. 


A Mashup is generally when the vocal track of one song is put over the instrumental track of another. I'll give you a for instance: take the instrumental track of Guns N' Roses song Paradise City and the vocal track of the far superior Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles and VOILA! you get this:



Now prepare yourself for some colourful language. 


It seems as if everyone is not on board with mashups, particularly this one:


bigfootman2332 "guns and roses are rythem steeling mother fuckers"


At least he got a couple words right. Thankfully, flyboy9961v was able to explain:


It's called editing man, GnR didn't steal anything. I took a listen to Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and this version sounds like it was made a little faster to keep up with Paradise City form the sound of it. Even if that is not the case, it has to be purely coincidental that this fits so well. Don't jump to conclusions man. 


And it is a coincidence. That's what's so great about mashups. Two songs that you wouldn't think about in the same context, squished together to make a new version. It's brilliant. 


Now mashups, for me, can never replace original tracks but they are little bits of edited ear candy that are my musical guilty pleasures.