Re: [bomp] Okay, who knows what this is?

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it's rob Branigin singing karoeoke (SP?)  to his fave singer

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----- Original Message -----
From: Sknoof@aol.com
Date: Thursday, December 6, 2007 9:31 am
Subject: [bomp] Okay, who knows what this is?
To: bomp@router.xnet2.com

> 
> Had a, um, "listening experience" last night that was so utterly 
> horrifying 
> they could probably use it at Guantanamo (where we DON'T torture 
> people, right, 
> I forgot)...
> 
> ...In fact it was SO horrible it sort of actually crossed the 
> line back into 
> "interesting" -- at least for a minute or two. Then it went 
> back to sheer 
> torture again.
> 
> I was sitting, waiting for a client, in the very-expensive 
> showroom of an 
> audio-video design shop -- the kind of place where you see 
> $20,000 stereo 
> receivers hooked up to $10,000 turntables by means of $1500 
> cables. And on a huge 
> plasma TV on one wall there were two music videos (TWO!!!! ONLY 
> TWO!!!!) in 
> constant rotation. One of them was totally forgettable and only 
> mildly annoying. 
> But the other...
> 
> It's one of those hip-hop/"modern R&B" crossover things...the 
> guy actually 
> does some singing. Anyway, it's built on two looped samples. 
> One is a fairly 
> standard hip-hop drum thing, slowed down. But the other sample, 
> the one it's 
> stapled onto, is Bobby Vinton's recording of "Mr. Lonely" -- 
> SPED UP SO IT 
> SOUNDS LIKE AN LP PLAYED AT 45 RPM. **WITH THE VOCAL!!!**
> 
> I've hated that song since I first heard it on the radio in, 
> what, 1964? 
> '65? Speeding it up certainly doesn't help. Good lord, I could 
> not believe what 
> I was hearing.
> 
> Pretty damned expensive-looking video, too, so this must be some 
> big deal of 
> a record. Well, for all I know it could be brand new or four 
> years old, no 
> idea.
> 
> Anybody?
> 
> 
> 
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