Tag: songs
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Dan Mei & Marc Johnce & CJRMix Re-Retrospective
I think DMF – now more commonly known as Dan Mei & Marc Johnce – first came onto my radar with their compilation mashups around 2008 or 2009. The best being the long-lost Bootrospective – a Pet Shop Boys mashup album that I talked a lot about back in the day, one of my favourite…
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Return of Lionel Vinyl – Ian Dury Mashups
Lionel Vinyl is back – aka FAKEID, Gloomybear, Geoff Carpet, Geek Chic Soundsystem seriously the man has had more aliases than me. Now named Ian Geek, I’ve been checking out his Twitch streams, very good – yes I am totally Team Dancing Golem – and now recently he released an excellent new mashup over at…
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Dua Lipa’s Levitating ASS: aka how not to copy a song
Artikal Sound System · 03 Live Your Life Future Nostalgia is apparently copying a song from 2017….eh Dua Lipa? Sound familiar? Artikal Sound System’s ‘Live Your Life’ is identical to Levitating, and was released on an EP in 2017 – called funnily enough ‘Smoke and Mirrors’. As Luxxury points out in his video, the choruses…
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Brandi Carlile covers Pat Benatar
Going through CoverMeSongs Covers of 2021, and this one by Brandi Carlile hit me like a brick. Covering 80’s classics like Pat Benatar is a major plus from me, but when you realise these were rescheduled shows from 2020 that the lockdown delayed, the message of “We Belong’ gets a whole new meaning. I’m no…
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Rolling the credits on 2021 – Billie Eilish vs Taylor Swift
There was a Crumplbangers Discord challenge last week to make an ‘ending’ mashup for 2021 using only 2021 sources, so I decided to use two tracks I loved and actually only heard this year – Taylor Swift‘s new Taylor Version of ‘All Too Well’ and Billie Eilish‘s hit ‘Happier Than Ever’. I realised while I…