iPod Friday 7

As you may have guessed by now, we get all into music. With hot, humid weather here and lots of fun music coming out all the time, it helps to have fresh tunes ready to go on the old iPod to keep us on track.

We thought about posting tunes by The Cure, and even by jailbird Paris Hilton now that CNN is broadcasting ridiculous reports every ten minutes. Guess there’s not much going on in the news today. Yeah, right.

Anyway, let’s just check out some road-tested mashups that we’ve run across over the last year. As something of a warning, we like our tunes to have a beat, nothing slow and lugubrious. Classical music is great to listen to while sitting in a comfy armchair with a glass of wine, but don’t ask us to listen to ‘Moonlight Sonata’ during a tempo run. If that gets you across a finish line, more power to ya, but we’ve got to have something that helps keep the pace. And if you’ve heard these already, you know what we mean.

First up is a fun little mash of the disco tune ‘Born To Be Alive’ by Patrick Hernandez (trivia: Madonna got her start touring in Europe as a backup singer for this guy) mixed with ‘Vertigo’ by ancient wave rockers U2. Created by mashmaster FuTuRo.
Born to Vertigo

Next up is a wonderful little gem from one of our favorites, Party Ben. It’s the ‘ChicFranzieBoys’, or in other words, Chic + Franz Ferdinand + The Beastie Boys. Somehow, it works, in an old school kinda way…
ChicFranzieBoys

Masher Audiodile made this wonderful slice of craziness last year, mixing Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Closer’ with The Art of Noise. Not for playing loudly at work (f-bomb alert), unless you’re planning on quitting today.
Closer (To The Editor)

Next is not technically a mash, but it’s in the mash family, a remix of sorts of Queen’s ‘Another One Bites the Dust’ by Rhythm Scholar. Happily, even Joan Jett chimes in at the end… Though it’s probably not too appropriate, we’d love to hear this one at a race!
Another One Bites The Dust (Rhythm Scholar Blasted Breaks Remix)

Finally, one more Party Ben opus, it’s a mash of Gnarls Barkley ‘Crazy’ with Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’. Perfectly done, it’s ‘I Feel Crazy’. Yeah!
I Feel Crazy


Hope you like these; once again, they were all road-tested by CR at various locations in Central Park, Randall’s Island, Battery Park, the Queensboro Bridge, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and wherever the hell we ended up dehydrated but happy. And if you want even more from these great mashup folks, head over to the following fine places:

FuTuRo
Party Ben
Audiodile
Rhythm Scholar


Happy listening, and happy weekend!