It seems like yesterday that Hallmighty and MarkJMix released an album, and I was prepping the next mashup podcast…and now there’s another one (and I am still working on that mashup podcast)! Lapped already, will there be a third album before I release the darned thing? And the next mashup podcast might be slightly downtempo in places, so this new mashup album is perfect for that.
Anyway this is a good mashup album, I’ve already played London’s Crying (The Clash vs B.E.P. (!)) as featured here on the podcast, but MarkJMix’s What the Hell, Just Shout! (Belle vs. Tears for Fears vs. Beats International) gives it a run for the money. In a similar downtempo mood is HallMighty – Let It Be A Freak (Rick James vs. The Beatles) which to be brutally honest is probably trying to be a end of night Bootie track – which it does perfectly 😉
And talking of tracks I think AdrianaA will love is Simple Virgin (Madonna vs. Lynyrd Skynyrd) by Hallmighty, all the Bootie hallmarks are there (pun intended – actually why didn’t they call themselves HallMark? ;-)) and also a weirdly surprising combo, I’ve not heard Lynyrd Skynyrd that way before, usually vocals are mashed not the instrumental?
And yes, as a Mac fan, HallMighty – Landslide Of Demons (Fleetwood Mac vs. Juice Wrld) is like nectar to me, especially as weirdly Landslide is a lot less mashed even with leaked stems and I don’t know why. See also Gold Dust Woman, World Turning, Don’t Stop or even Go Your Own Way.
(I’d trade the 10,000 so-so Dreams mashups for one good mashup of say Hypnotised (psst Pointer Sisters covered it) or Mystified or Hold Me – in fact any of the tracks not on Rumours, basically, but I think the Bob Welch and late Peter Green eras gets neglected – Future Games or Dragonfly/Albatross/Oh Well for instance).
Anyway I digress into the state of FM mashups – despite containing both Pearl Jam AND Linkin Park *cough* this is a solid album with a few 5 star gems (I mean as in quality, not 5 Star the band, although that’s an idea as well…).
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