M Is FOR MASHUP - May 8th, 2013
Roaring Appetite For Beatles Mashups
By DJ Useo
I really love the Beatles. I bought all their CD's one a week every payday until I had them all. So what a shock that the very first mashup I discovered
was a Beatles mashup. The Monkees vs the Beatles by GO HOME PRODUCTIONS
[ http://www.gohomeproductions.co.uk/ ] to be accurate. I was a
natural candidate for being attracted to Beatles mashups. (As well as ANY mashups,lol.) One home producer in particular, the prolific and
accomplished MP3J eventually started his own mashup forum to feature his fave group, the Beatles. I joined his new BEATLES REMIXERS GROUP
forum right away and still post there to this day.
That's how I was soon able to compile a 2-disc collection of my own Beatles-related mashups called '
MAST PASTERS VOLUME ONE'
[ suprmchaos.com/bcEnt-Wed-081011.index.html ] .
Now that was back in the terrible year of 2011. (Sorry to mention it. I know we're all trying to forget
every year from 2000 till now) Now in 2013, a devastatingly horrible year so far, I bring relief in the form of a sequel to 'MAST PASTERS VOLUME
ONE' entitled '
MAST PASTERS VOLUME TWO'
[ ] .
The first disc of the new volume is Beatles vs rock music from people like Led Zeppelin, Elvis Presley, Tom Petty, Killing Joke, and tons more. Disc
two features 'not rock' mashups with the Beatles using artists like Kraftwerk, Coldcut, Gary Numan, Erasure, with a large dose of new techno bands
you probably haven't heard of. Then, it occurred to me that since 2013 has been an abomination of a year so far, I felt you needed something extra to
drive the pleasure home. Thus, I added a bonus 5-track EP of BEATLES VS STRANGLERS mashups for those among you craving that big something
extra. Hmm, it also comes back to my mind that there's a good handful of unreleased tracks on discs one and two. The Cheap Trick vs Beatles track
and the Gary Numan one, among others will be new to everyone. Since the text of this release isn't on my blog, I'd like to present it now for your
edification.
DJ Useo - Mast Pasters Volume Two
playlist
Disc One - Rock
01-Here Comes The Ramble On (Led Zeppelin vs The Beatles)
02-And Your Punkrocker Can Sing (The Beatles vs Teddybears)
03-Here Comes Your Twist & Shout (The Pixies vs The Beatles)
04-Dont Let Me Down Sex Type Thing (The Beatles vs Stone Temple Pilots)
05-Think for Yourself Across The New Divide (Linkin Park vs The Beatles)
06-Baby Please Dont Come Together (The Beatles vs Amboy Dukes)
07-A Hard Days Roll Over Beethoven (The Beatles vs Electric Light Orchestra)
08-I Saw Her Standing There Running Down A Dream (Tom Petty vs The Beatles)
09-Remember A Something (The Beatles vs Pink Floyd)
10-I Should Have Known Better Adorations (The Beatles vs Killing Joke)
11-Is It Any Wonder In My Life (The Beatles vs Keane)
12-Komm Gib Mir Deine Black Dog (Led Zeppelin vs The Beatles)
13--Moonage Daydream I Feel Fine (David Bowie vs The Beatles)
14-Oh Boy The Word (The Beatles vs Cheap Trick)
15-Stygian Nuclear War Rain (The Beatles vs Axevyper)
16-Roll Over Beethoven (Radar Love) (Golden Earring vs The Beatles)
17-Suffragette Smokin Walrus (David Bowie vs Boston vs The Beatles)
18-Wrong Bird Can Sing (The Beatles vs Social Distortion)
19-I Wanna Be Your Sunshine Of Your Love Man (Beatles vs Cream)
20-Revolution With Butterfly Wings (Smashing Pumpkins vs The Beatles)
21-Lady Madonna I Don't Care (Elvis Presley vs The Beatles)
22-My Own Nowhere Man (Lit vs The Beatles)(After NsNs)
Disc Two - Not Rock
01-Misunderstood Car (The Beatles vs Santa Esmerelda)
02-Random Looking Through You (The Beatles vs Gary Numan)
03-Real Dinka Love (The Beatles vs Dinka)
04-Back In The Aerophobia (The Beatles vs Dodge & Fuski)
05-Cant Buy Me Love Till the Sky Falls Down (The Beatles vs Dash Berlin)
06-Degenerate Weep (The Beatles vs Filthy Beasts)
07-Do You Want To Know A Secret Beyond Imagination (Beatles vs Cymbalta)
08-Ticket To Electric Cafe (The Beatles vs Kraftwerk)
09-I Need You Breathe Of Life (The Beatles vs Erasure)
10-You Know My Name Is Beef Jerky (The Beatles vs John Lennon)
11-You Won't See Me Kill A Man (The Beatles vs Cypress Hill)
12-You Wont Sonne Me (The Beatles vs Rammstein)
13-I Want To Hold Your Cat (The Beatles vs Squeeze)
14-Paperback NWO (The Beatles vs Ministry)
15-Ooolite Grove Tax Man (The Beatles vs Ozric Tentacles)
16-For You Moog (The Beatles vs Coldcut)
17-More Beatles & Pieces (The Beatles vs Coldcut)
18-Sour Milk Relax (Mika vs The Beatles)
19-Beatles Interview In Paris
DJ Useo - Mast Pasters Volume Two -Bonus EP
playlist
The Beatles vs The Stranglers
01-Dear Prudence The Raven
02-Eight Peaches A Week
03-Get Back A Go Go
04-Michelles Midnight Summer Dream
05-The Word Souls
Thanks for indulging me. It just hit me now, seeing the full playlist laid out this way how happy I am with this collection.
I hope you enjoy it, and perhaps share it with a friend. I don't get to charge money for it, since it's a mashup album, so I look
forward to any feedback if you're motivated. useo8@yahoo.com Look for the 3rd IT IS TO LAFF funny mashup album in a few weeks, and coming on
the SUMMER SOLSTICE is the 7th annual SUMMER BOOTY mashup collection with over 30 mashers! Later, all.
Mix Of The Week
Do yourself a favor right now, and listen or download my new funny long mix called 'REMASTERED AND FUNNY'. It's tons of
classic novelty songs remastered and woven into an hour and seven minutes long mix.
[ www.bmbx.org/2013/05/remastered-and-funny/ ]
Mashup Tip
Mix a lot of stuff over a long period. Then release it all at once to make it look like you did them all at once really fast.
Latest Useo Thing
'DJ Useo May 2013 Mashup Podcast - RAWK!' is my 100th podcast! Woot! That doesn't include radio shows, either! Thanks to
everyone for urging me to keep at them. This anniversary edition features many of my hardest rocking mashups, so be prepared!
[ groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/05/dj-useo-may-2013-mashup-podcast-rawk.html ]
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
Jethro Tull will punch you if you mash his songs! ;)
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Though private, Hawking was hardly vague about why he was backing out of the conference. The wheelchair-bound 71-year-old said that "his independent decision to respect the boycott, based upon his knowledge of Palestine, and on the unanimous advice of his own academic contacts there." The news was reported quickly and soberly by the Israeli press, as Hawking joins a small but growing list of British celebrities who are taking a stand against Israel's treatment of Palestine.
This isn't the first time that Hawking's spoken out against Palestine, though. While he hardly ever chimes in on global politics, the physicist has actually been turning up the volume on his criticism of Israel. In 2011, he told Al Jazeera that Israel must engage with Hamas to put an end to the violence. "If Israel wants peace, it will have to talk to Hamas, like Britain did with the IRA. Hamas are the democratically elected leaders of the Palestinian people, and cannot be ignored," he said. "The situation is like that in South Africa before 1990. It cannot continue." This statement came after Hawking made a famous visit to the region, one that piqued his interest about the Palestine issue.
Stephen Hawking
First Amendment Awards
Hugh M. Hefner
An atheist student who fought to have a prayer banner at her Rhode Island public high school removed is getting an award named for Playboy founder Hugh Hefner.
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Ahlquist was threatened for challenging the Cranston school banner's constitutionality. She has spoken all over the United States about her legal fight. A humanist association raised $60,000 for a scholarship for her.
The Hefner awards were established in 1979 to honor people's contributions to protecting First Amendment rights.
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Lambesis was taken into custody on Tuesday in Oceanside, California, after he solicited help from the detective, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department said in a statement. Police had previously learned Lambesis was seeking someone who could commit the slaying, the department said.
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A family squabble has turned into a federal court battle over the remains of the legendary Native American athlete and Olympic medalist, who died in 1953 and whose life was depicted in "All American," a 1951 movie starring Burt Lancaster.
The dispute could take an important turn this week, when the borough court will announce on Thursday whether it will appeal a federal district court judge's decision that could eventually clear the way for Thorpe's remains to leave town.
Jim Thorpe never lived in the eastern Pennsylvania town that took his name, but his remains were placed in a mausoleum here in an agreement with his widow allowing the settlement to be named after him.
Six decades later, a feud over where Thorpe should be buried has pitted his two sons, who want to move him back to native lands in Oklahoma, against his grandchildren, who want him to stay in the Pennsylvania town that erected statues and a monument "to one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century."
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A modern production of Richard Wagner's opera "Tannhauser" is causing a stir in Germany because of Nazi-themed scenes showing people dying in gas chambers and members of a family having their heads shaved before being executed.
A spokeswoman for the Dusseldorf opera house said Tuesday that members of the audience "booed and were shocked" by Saturday's opening performance.
At the opening of the Duesseldorf performance, performers could be seen inside glass chambers, falling to the floor as white fog flowed - an allusion to the mass killings of the Jews in the Nazis' death camps. After a half hour, the music stopped and a family stepped on stage. The parents and their children were having their hair shaved off and then they are shot dead - another reference to treatment of Jewish captives during the Holocaust.
The original Tannhauser opera is set in the Middle Ages and was first performed in Dresden in 1845. It is based on a traditional ballad about the bard Tannhauser and features a singing contest at the Wartburg Castle in south-central Germany.
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Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for April 29-May 5. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "NCIS," CBS, 18.29 million.
2. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 16.29 million.
3. "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 13.45 million.
4. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 13.07 million.
5. "Person of Interest," CBS, 12.96 million.
6. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 12.67 million.
7. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 12.12 million.
8. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 11.84 million.
9. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 11.27 million.
10. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 11.26 million.
11. "Dancing With the Stars Results," ABC, 10.89 million.
12. "60 Minutes," CBS, 10.71 million.
13. "Castle," ABC, 10.53 million.
14. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 10.13 million.
15. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 10.02 million.
16. "Elementary," CBS, 9.75 million.
17. "Modern Family," ABC, 9.64 million.
18. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 9.49 million.
19. "Survivor: Caramoan," CBS, 9.25 million.
20. "The Mentalist," CBS, 9.17 million.
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In Memory
Margaret Ruth Groening
Margaret Groening died peacefully in her sleep on April 22, 2013, in Portland. Born Margaret Wiggum on March 23, 1919, in Chisolm, Minn., Margaret was 94 years old.
Margaret's parents, Matt and Ingeborg Wiggum, met on the boat coming to America from Norway. They settled in Everett, Wash., where the paper mill "smelled like money," and Matt worked as a machinist. As high school valedictorian and Miss Everett, Margaret's highest honor was being named May Queen of Linfield College. She graduated from Linfield in 1941 and married classmate Homer Groening, whom she chose because he made her laugh the most.
Margaret taught high school English before starting a family, and her love of language was apparent in the many Double-Crostics she completed (in ink). Margaret and Homer supported the Oregon Symphony, the Portland Trail Blazers and many local yarn shops (Margaret was a talented needlework artist).
Besides Homer, Margaret was preceded in death by her oldest daughter, Patty, who died in Jan., 2013. She is survived by her brother, Arnold; her children, Mark, Matt, Lisa and Maggie; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
The family thanks the wonderful caregivers from Visiting Angels and the hospice nurses from Housecall Providers. Special appreciation also goes to loyal friend, Grace Clark.
Margaret Ruth Groening
In Memory
Ray Harryhausen
The name Ray Harryhausen probably isn't familiar to the average moviegoer, but fans of today's science fiction and fantasy films owe a debt to the legendary effects wizard, who died Tuesday at the age of 92.
For decades, Harryhausen was Hollywood's premiere stop motion effects artist, building models that would seemingly interact with actors on screen in films ranging from "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad" through his final film, 1981's "Clash of the Titans."
In recent years, most of Harryhausen's animation techniques have been supplanted by computer-generated imagery (CGI). But even animators who create their effects entirely on computers today use techniques pioneered by Harryhausen and his tiny physical models.
Beginning his career during the golden age of science fiction, Harryhausen counted many of the genre's towering figures among his contemporaries. For example, Harryhausen joined the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society at the urging of friends Ray Bradbury and Forrest J Ackerman in the 1930s. Bradbury would go on to write some of science fiction and fantasy's seminal novels, including "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles."
Along the way, Harryhausen created the effects for some of the most beloved genre films in history, including titles such as "Jason and the Argonauts."
Ray Harryhausen
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