mashups

Yesterday was Rush Drummer Neil Peart's birthday. He is without a doubt one of the greatest rock drummers that has ever picked up the sticks. Take the Rush song 'YYZ' for example. Certainly one of the band's best examples of songwriting and playing...

I love mashups and there are some great ones on the internet. Some of the best are made by the folks at Wax Audio, and the usually involve bands that you wouldn't normally associate together. here's a great one with the Beatles and Motley Crue...

Take the power rock of KISS, mix in the new wave quirkyness of the B-52s, put it in the hands of music mashup master DJ Cummerbund, shake well, and the result is an epic mashup called 'Detroit rock Lobster.' Enjoy!  

Comparisons have dogged the young band from the beginning. Now you can judge for yourself.

You might consider two bands like Wham and Slayer pretty much musical opposites, Wham being the soft-rock top 40 of the eighties and Slayer one of the heroes of thrash metal. That's why it's surprising to hear how well two songs from these bands blend together so well...

Some of those mashups of songs from completely different genres are complete train wrecks. Some of them on the other hand, work surprisingly well. Take the classic Bill Withers tune 'Use Me', add vocals from Pantera's 'Mouth For War', and throw in a little guitar solo flavor from Ted Nugent's 'Stranglehold', and you've got a very cool mashup...

One of the strangest convergences of two pieces of classic art in pop culture history is the notion that the movie 'The Wizard of Oz' serves as sort of a video companion to 'The Dark Side of the Moon.'

The Foo Fighters performed a live mashup in Brazil, singing Van Halen's "Jump" to the music of John Lennon's "Imagine."

Have you 'Heard it Round and Round the Grapevine?'

The video for Aerosmith and Run-DMC's classic collaboration on "Walk This Way" has been given the "bad lip reading" treatment.

The music from 'Home Alone' gets a musical mashup even Kevin McAllister would be proud of.

Take two of my favorite bands-Van Halen and AC/DC, two of their best songs-'Runnin' With the Devil' and 'Highway to Hell', use clever audio and video editing, put them together and what do you get? Only one of the best mashups of all time from You Tuber Wax Audio...