46 Mashups

Here's a list of all my song mashup ideas for 2007.

I might do them on guitar, like some tenacious diva where all songs are transformed to C, D & G with crunchy campfire goodness, but I don't have plans to pitch-shift and tempo-match and all that it takes to make real mashups like you find at DJ Earworm's site here.

So, without further ado:


1. Sonny & Cher - The Beat Goes On / Led Zeppelin - Misty Mountain Hop

2. Bob Dylan - Blowin' in the Wind / Fleetwood Mac - Tusk

3. Beethoven - Figlio Perduto / Popeye Movie Soundtrack - He Needs Me, He Needs Me

4. TV Show Theme - Futurama / Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

5. The Go Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed / The Knack - My Sharona

6. Jethro Tull - Living in the Past / Movie Soundtrack - Mission Impossible

7. Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise / Lulu - To Sir With Love

8. Fallout Boy - Sugar, We're Going Down / TV Show Theme - Bewitched

9. Soft Cell / Led Zeppelin - "Whole Lotta Tainted Love"

10. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water / Prince - Purple Rain

11. Carl Orff - O Fortuna / Ben E. King - Stand By Me

12. Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner / Django Reinhardt - Limehouse Blues

13. Paul Simon - The Obvious Child / Schoolhouse Rock - Mother Necessity

14. Carole King - I Feel the Earth Move / Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla

15. Pink Floyd - On the Turning Away / Scottish Bagpipes - Amazing Grace

16. Pink - Get This Party Started / TV Show Theme - Inspector Gadget

17. Frank Sinatra - High Hopes / Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive

18. Jose Fernandez Diaz - Guantanamera / TV commercial for Taco Bell - Flavor's Here

19. Tommy James and the Shondells / Party Song - "My Baby Does the Hokey Pokey"

20. The Rolling Stones - Beast of Burden / Kid's song - There's a Hole in My Bucket

21. Richard Wagner - Siegfried's Funeral / Henry Mancini - Pink Panther

22. Al Green - Love and Happiness / Otis Redding - Try a Little Tenderness

23. TV Show Theme - The Brady Bunch / Party Song - Chicken Dance

24. TV Commercial - Let's Go Outback Tonight / Paul Simon - Slip Slidin' Away

25. Pocahontas Movie Soundtrack - Savages (Part 1) / Barnes & Barnes - Fish Heads

26. The Beatles - Yesterday / Jimmie Davis - You Are My Sunshine

27. Ian Lloyd & Stories / Patti LaBelle - "Brother Louie Marmalade"

28. Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side / Elton John - Rocket Man

29. Elvis - Can't Help Falling in Love / Lawrence Welk - Adios, au Revoir, Auf Wiedersehn

30. Jimi Hendrix - Cross Town Traffic / TV Commercial - I am Stuck on Band Aids Brand, Cause Band Aids Stuck on Me

31. David Bowie - Golden Years / Alanis Morissette - All I Really Want

32. The Lovin' Spoonful - Do You Believe in Magic / Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop

33. America - Tin Man / Kid Rock - Bawitadba

34. Donna Summer - Hot Stuff / Frank Mills - Music Box Dancer

35. Smash Mouth - All Star / Lionel Richie - Hello

36. Sheena Easton - Morning Train / The Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday

37. Van Morrison - Into the Mystic / Counting Crows - Mr. Jones

38. Hanson - MMM Bop / Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5

39. Gwen Stefani - The Sweet Escape / TV Commercial - Garnier Fructis

40. Shania Twain - At This Moment / Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train

41. Kid's Song - Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star / Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five

42. Joni Mitchell - River / Grateful Dead - Ripple

43. Simon & Garfunkel - Hazy Shade of Winter / TV Show Theme - Batman

44. Alice cooper - Clones / Tone Loc - Funky Cold Medina

45. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony No. 40 (First Movement) / Bing Crosby - Let it Snow

46. Movie Soundtrack - You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch / Joan Baez - We Shall Overcome


If you make one, please drop me a line and show me how it turned out! : )

Be Positive

Just a quick pop-in to wish you a Merry Christmas! : )

Funniest thing I saw today: I had to go to work this morning. The husband and the boys got to stay home and clean. I yelled out to the boys "It's Christmas Eve so listen to your Dad today and be positive!" When I came out of the bedroom they said "Look, Mom! We're being positive!" They ran across the living room at each other, like for a hug, then about three feet away ran into and bounced off of the invisible magnetic force. Silly kids! : )

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Mashup I am not going to make: "Symphony No. 40" and "Let It Snow"

Think of it like this...

Here's an introduction to delegating for uber-geeks:

Say you could clone yourself and have an identically functioning person.

And just ignore the pesky details like what do they wear, eat, where do they sleep, do they have human rights, can they sue you for all your stuff, should they be kissing your spouse, and who's in charge here anyway, etc.

What would you have your clone do? Good, make a list. Keep all the stuff you love or better yet, be nice and give the clone all the stuff they love.

But what if the clone didn't come with all of your memories? Could you teach them how to do things? Good, make a plan.

What if they didn't turn out like you at all? Nurture trumped nature and a stress-free test tube was the best thing after all. What if, for instance, they like to use Microsoft Word? Now, you can't use Word because it doesn't do math (efficiently) and if you needed to do a mail merge there's always Access... Plus you never figured out how to turn off double-space.

But this person not only uses Word, they're good at it and can turn out professional, attractive documents in a jiffy! How did you ever get so lucky? : )

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Mashup I am not going to make: "Clones" and "Funky Cold Medina"

Dreamscape

Woke up with this: "Improvements come in many little brush strokes." (Must be time to paint?)

I'll strive to make everything a little bit better. Plug away!

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Mashup I am not going to make: "Hazy Shade of Winter" and "Batman"

Little Boxes

Less is more! We did a reorganization of the kids room and got rid of the junk and donated a few things. There is so much more space. We got rid of the clear plastic boxes that had cracks. To stand on a soapbox for a second, clear plastic boxes are dangerous. Z and I have both been cut by them. The opaque storage bins like rubbermaid are much safer and tend to bend rather than crack into jagged edges...

We got our Christmas tree! $15 for a Scotch pine at Home Depot. Thanks, Home Depot! : ) I wanted to drive home with it on top of the car. Because how many times a year do you get to drive around with a tree tied to the top of your car??? (Seriously, a tree on top of the car is usually a bad thing.) But we got a small one and the trunk is big, so it went in the trunk. It got home fine and we pulled out the decorations and the boys did a beautiful job.

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Mashup I am not going to make: "River" and "Ripple"

This I Used to Believe

Here's a cute site about things people used to believe when they were kids. Here are some good ones from there:

"My father played a lot of Beatles music for me as a child. Until high school, I thought that the standard color for submarines was yellow, like school buses.
Anon"

"I used to believe that when people said that they were in their "birthday suit" they were talking about a clown outfit.
Jocelyn"

"When I was little and I heard a weather report in the winter, I always wondered why they gave two temperatures: one for the "windshield factory" and one for everyone else. I couldn't figure out why it was so much colder where they made windshields. I don't remember how long I thought this before I learned about the wind chill factor.
chilly girl"

"When I was quite young, I believed that your coffin was really a spaceship to take you to heaven.
Sunshine"

"I used to believe pencil shavings were the key to bringing clay creatures to life. My best friend and I made a point to volunteer for the positions in school which emptied the pencil shavings from the sharpener, then secretly stash them away and bring them home to animate a small clay monster we hid in the basement. It never worked out as we planned.
Anon"

I love it! : )

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Mashup I am not going to make: "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and "Take Five"