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Gettin Wiggly with it

Thus far it's been relatively easy for our family to resist the Evil Cultural Force that is The Wiggles.  We played a few songs on sampler CD's when The Lad was littler, and he might have watched the show a few times on premium cable at his Grands', but he's remained largely unmoved by the group's relentlessly upbeat wackiness.

That said, a couple of cultural artifacts have come this way which deserve note.  One is a bizarre and in some ways incredible Wiggly cover of "Walk on the Wild Side," which according to the Copy, Right? blog is taken from a (promo-only?) covers collection put together by an Australian DJ.

The Wiggles: Walk On The Wild Side mp3

And in order to avoid having to do two separate posts about the Wiggles, I might as well also put up a pretty hilarious mash-up which made the rounds a bit last fall - of the W's with "Blitzkrieg Bop" and "I Wanna Be Sedated."

King Rocker: 2 Ramones Wiggle in a Room mp3

Ze moonlight? Oui. Ze snowstorm? Non.

Walking to the train just now I made a very non-important discovery. AIR makes a perfect aural soundtrack for many activities - late night chats in smoke-filled rooms, perfume commercials, bonin'. But for walking across town trying to hold your umbrella in an annoying late-season snowstorm? Eh, not so good.

Air - Playground Love / from the Virgin Suicides  (mp3 from Amazon)

Slicker than your average mash-up

To way oversimplify: most mash-ups are constructed on the premise of 'let's try vocal a over instrumental b' -  not that there's anything wrong with that...  But Lenlow's 'Sweet Child o Ravi' takes the deconstruction a lot further.  He grabs drum part a, and plays with riffs b, c, and d to see how they overlap, with a generous amount of pitch-fucking, to create something original and cool.  The song is vibing along trippily, when 90 seconds in, the "Sweet Child of Mine" riff shows up - the effect is like running into your rowdy friend from high school ten years later at chillout bar, and marveling at how much he's changed.  Or, you know, something like that...

Lenlow - Sweet Child o Ravi

More Lenlow blogging and mashing