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I just received this from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Strike-Baseballs/dp/B003EEMG1U
Go scroll down and check out the sample clips.
Basically, in an ironic reversal of popular trends, these guys have
taken crappy modern music and turned it into classic Rock & Roll.
Several things are clearly apparent:
1. These aren't cheezy novalty tracks. This stuff is high-quality music.
It sound *fresh* and crisp and exciting.
2. It's not some guy doing bad Elvis impressions. This is propper,
authentic Rock & Roll. The arrangements and instrumentation are all very
convincing, as are the vocals. (I didn't even *notice* these were covers
until I reached track 3!)
3. They've taken utter crap and made it sound... good. I mean, *really*
good. As one reviewer wrote "it shouldn't work at all... but it really
does!" I can't believe it.
Also, I would point out that I now have multiple CDs of music from the
1950s (not all of it in any one style, mind you). There are some utterly
brilliant songs in there. But there's surprisingly little that's good to
dance to.
Then I went to Roade, and all night long the DJ played authentic tracks
that thunder along at a frenetic pace. I didn't recognise any of them,
but they were all very, very fast.
And so is this new CD. This is the kind of tempo we danced to at Roade.
Maybe slightly faster, but not much. And with the characteristic rapid
basslines. At Roade, I saw a man actually do this to a double bass,
live. I wouldn't have believed you could do that to a fretless
instrument, but he did it all night!
Damnit, now I have the overwhelming urge to go dance... and I've got
nowhere to dance and nobody to dance with! :-(
(That's the only problem with this dancing lark!)
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Oh my God... I just found this on the official website:
http://www.thebaseballs.com/videos/rocknroll
How *mental* is that?? It's, like, 3 minutes long and appears to be a
single take. Crazy!
I had no idea Poland was anywhere near this cool.
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Am 06.08.2010 14:30, schrieb Orchid XP v8:
> I just received this from Amazon:
>
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Strike-Baseballs/dp/B003EEMG1U
Thanks for sharing - this is cool indeed.
Remotely reminds me of a band called "Big Daddy". They did some good
"retro-cover" music, too - though not strictly Rock&Roll, and it's been
a few years now.
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> http://www.thebaseballs.com/videos/rocknroll
Try this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zcOFN_VBVo
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- Warp
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> It's, like, 3 minutes long and appears to be a single take. Crazy!
Did you watch Children of Men? There's a scene that seems like 5 or 8
minutes long, all one take, of him running through a war zone, into a
building which gets blown up, back out again, etc etc etc.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
C# - a language whose greatest drawback
is that its best implementation comes
from a company that doesn't hate Microsoft.
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Oh my God... I just found this on the official website:
>
> http://www.thebaseballs.com/videos/rocknroll
>
> How *mental* is that?? It's, like, 3 minutes long and appears to be a
> single take. Crazy!
>
It's a fun music video and all, but as far as technical achievement for
long single take videos this is not very impressive nor very novel (not
knocking the band, I'm sure they have a limited budget and aren't out to
make a technically impressive video anyway).
In the realm of music videos (of which I know very little) I think that
Ok Go's "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w is much more
impressive in this regard (and is inspired by equally or more impressive
previous work, such as that by Peter Fischli and David Weiss). There's
also several full-length movies which are essentially shot in a single
take, Rope (Hitchcock) and Russian Arc (Aleksandr Sokurov) both come to
mind. Multi-minute long takes in film actually aren't that uncommon.
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Kevin Wampler <wam### [at] uwashingtonedu> wrote:
> Multi-minute long takes in film actually aren't that uncommon.
Actually taking into account the total amount of movies out there,
and the extremely small amount of multi-minute long takes, I'd say
it is pretty uncommon.
Some TV series also sometimes make some really long take, probably just
for the fun of it. For example, at the beginning of the Stargate episode
"Fallen" there's a rather complex uncut sequence of over 50 seconds (the
one that ends with "I hope it's not contagious").
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- Warp
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On 07/08/2010 7:28 PM, Kevin Wampler wrote:
>
> It's a fun music video and all, but as far as technical achievement for
> long single take videos this is not very impressive nor very novel
If you are interested in single shot films then try Russian Ark. 96
minutes of St. Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum shot in one fluid
take using High Definition video cameras.
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Stephen
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Stephen wrote:
> On 07/08/2010 7:28 PM, Kevin Wampler wrote:
>>
>> It's a fun music video and all, but as far as technical achievement for
>> long single take videos this is not very impressive nor very novel
>
> If you are interested in single shot films then try Russian Ark. 96
> minutes of St. Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum shot in one fluid
> take using High Definition video cameras.
>
I actually mentioned Russian Arc in my post :), but yeah, it's really
impressive.
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Warp wrote:
> Kevin Wampler <wam### [at] uwashingtonedu> wrote:
>> Multi-minute long takes in film actually aren't that uncommon.
>
> Actually taking into account the total amount of movies out there,
> and the extremely small amount of multi-minute long takes, I'd say
> it is pretty uncommon.
Good point, I should probably have gone with a word like "rare" instead.
> Some TV series also sometimes make some really long take, probably just
> for the fun of it. For example, at the beginning of the Stargate episode
> "Fallen" there's a rather complex uncut sequence of over 50 seconds (the
> one that ends with "I hope it's not contagious").
>
I haven't really watched much of the Stargate TV series. How is it?
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On 07/08/2010 9:10 PM, Kevin Wampler wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
>> On 07/08/2010 7:28 PM, Kevin Wampler wrote:
>>>
>>> It's a fun music video and all, but as far as technical achievement for
>>> long single take videos this is not very impressive nor very novel
>>
>> If you are interested in single shot films then try Russian Ark. 96
>> minutes of St. Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum shot in one fluid
>> take using High Definition video cameras.
>>
>
> I actually mentioned Russian Arc in my post :), but yeah, it's really
> impressive.
Oops! So you did (-_-;;)
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Stephen
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Kevin Wampler <wam### [at] uwashingtonedu> wrote:
> I haven't really watched much of the Stargate TV series. How is it?
Personally I liked it, but I can understand how some people might not
like it too much, as it falls quite far in the soft end of sci-fi hardness.
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Kevin Wampler wrote:
> It's a fun music video and all, but as far as technical achievement for
> long single take videos this is not very impressive nor very novel (not
> knocking the band, I'm sure they have a limited budget and aren't out to
> make a technically impressive video anyway).
As far as I can tell, the video was made not by the band themselves, but
by a bunch of fans at their local school, on their own initiative. Given
that it's an amature production, it's not half bad.
--
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Am 07.08.2010 20:28, schrieb Kevin Wampler:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Oh my God... I just found this on the official website:
>>
>> http://www.thebaseballs.com/videos/rocknroll
>>
>> How *mental* is that?? It's, like, 3 minutes long and appears to be a
>> single take. Crazy!
>>
>
> It's a fun music video and all, but as far as technical achievement for
> long single take videos this is not very impressive nor very novel (not
> knocking the band, I'm sure they have a limited budget and aren't out to
> make a technically impressive video anyway).
It's apparently not the band who did the video, but the pupils at some
Polish school. For /that/, it seems exceptionally impressive to me.
> In the realm of music videos (of which I know very little) I think that
> Ok Go's "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w is much more
> impressive in this regard (and is inspired by equally or more impressive
> previous work, such as that by Peter Fischli and David Weiss).
Compared to the Baseballs video, I think it's pretty lame: Virtually all
you have to choreograph is a bunch of predictable mechanics. That's a
piece of cake (once you have mastered the technological skills) compared
to choreographing some 100 amateur actors, of which maybe 25 or more
have a short "main actor" role.
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clipka wrote:
> Thanks for sharing - this is cool indeed.
Isn't it just? Heck, I showed it to one of my classmates, and now she's
asked me to get her a copy too.
I guess I can add this to the list of "things Laura has made me spend
money on". ;-)
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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clipka wrote:
>
> It's apparently not the band who did the video, but the pupils at some
> Polish school. For /that/, it seems exceptionally impressive to me.
Ahh, yeah, that is pretty sweet. Speaks well for the band members as well.
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Am 08.08.2010 16:42, schrieb Orchid XP v8:
> clipka wrote:
>> Thanks for sharing - this is cool indeed.
>
> Isn't it just? Heck, I showed it to one of my classmates, and now she's
> asked me to get her a copy too.
>
> I guess I can add this to the list of "things Laura has made me spend
> money on". ;-)
Is she cute? ;-)
BTW, if you're going for the CD version, you may try to get the newest
edition, "The Baseballs - Strike! Back", which features a second CD with
cover versions of "Poker Face", "Ayo Technology", "Jungle Drum" and
more, which don't seem to be released on mp3 yet. (Unfortunately I only
realized after having bought the "Strike!" album on mp3 already.)
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Am 08.08.2010 18:22, schrieb Kevin Wampler:
> clipka wrote:
>>
>> It's apparently not the band who did the video, but the pupils at some
>> Polish school. For /that/, it seems exceptionally impressive to me.
>
> Ahh, yeah, that is pretty sweet. Speaks well for the band members as well.
BTW, it's not /their/ school who did the video. The guys are actually
German, not Polish. The video appears to be pure fan art.
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Am 08.08.2010 18:35, schrieb clipka:
> BTW, if you're going for the CD version, you may try to get the newest
> edition, "The Baseballs - Strike! Back", which features a second CD with
> cover versions of "Poker Face", "Ayo Technology", "Jungle Drum" and
> more, which don't seem to be released on mp3 yet. (Unfortunately I only
> realized after having bought the "Strike!" album on mp3 already.)
Well, forget what I said - unless you want to wait three more weeks: the
"Strike! Back" double album is scheduled to be released no sooner than
August 27th.
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>> I guess I can add this to the list of "things Laura has made me spend
>> money on". ;-)
>
> Is she cute? ;-)
Yeah. Her sister is cuter, but Laura herself is definitely a looker.
I'm also fairly sure the both of them are married. :-P
> BTW, if you're going for the CD version, you may try to get the newest
> edition, "The Baseballs - Strike! Back", which features a second CD with
> cover versions of "Poker Face", "Ayo Technology", "Jungle Drum" and
> more, which don't seem to be released on mp3 yet. (Unfortunately I only
> realized after having bought the "Strike!" album on mp3 already.)
Yeah, there is that.
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On a slight tangent, I would like to bring to everyone's attention the
"There She Is!" Flash series at www.sambakza.net . There are five
videos in the series, all set to Korean rock music.
Dunno how long these bands (they appear to be five different ones) have
been looking at the English (Brit and Yank) music scenes, but they have
picked up on the paradigm and work it exceptionally well.
Regards,
John
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