Sometimes, I’m listening to a song and I am hit with the memory of another song tickling my synapses like wind through tree leaves. It might be a similar chord progression, base beat, or sound. I then momentarily wish to devote long hours on computer to perfecting the perfect mashup remix awesomeness. Then I remember I have enough on my plate and just jot down the song names for another day. Well, today, I am giving you this gift. Whether they are meant to be mashups or destined for a copyright infringement lawsuit, who knows, but promise me that if you mashup these tunes, post the link in the comments so I can enjoy your creative efforts?
Betty Who’s Just Like Me and Blue October’s Into the Ocean
The Honeycomb’s Have I The Right and Violent Femmes’s American Music and Twisted Sister’s We’re Not Gonna Take It
Fun’s Some Nights and Kansas’s Carry On Our Wayward Son
Ke$ha’s Tik Tok and Katy Perry’s California Girls
Milky Chance’s Flashed Junk Mind and Blur’s Song 2
Fun’s Carry On and Green Day’s Good Riddance
Blondie’s The Tide Is High and Bob Marley and the Wailers’s Stir It Up
Langhorne Slim’s Worries and White Stripes’s Doorbell
Marvin Gaye’s Got to Give It Up and Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines (maybe just mash in Pharrell’s “hey hey hey” part of Blurred Lines and let Marvin’s genius roll with the rest?)
Modest Mouse’s Float On and Lupe Fiasco’s The Show Goes On
Capital Cities’s Safe and Sound and MGMT’s Kids
The Ting Ting’s Shut Up And Let Me Go and The Waitresses’s I Know What Boys Like
Ya Ya by Lee Dorsey and Rehab by Amy Winehouse
Green Day’s She’s A Rebel and Jawbreaker’s Boxcar
The Beatles’s Lady Madonna and Sublime’s What I’ve Got
Emeli Sandé’s Next To Me and Avicii’s Wake Me Up
The Archie’s Sugar Sugar and One Direction’s What Makes You Beautiful
Sam Smith’s Stay With Me and Tom Petty’s Won’t Back Down
The Ramones’s Blitzkrieg Bop (Hey Ho Let’s Go) and Joan Jett’s Bad Reputation
Hoagy Carmichael’s Heart and Soul and Ricky Nelson’s Poor Little Fool
Schoolhouse Rock’s Telegraph Line and The Who’s Pinball Wizard
Bon Jovi’s Livin’ on a Prayer and Bananarama’s Venus
White Stripes’s I’m Lonely and Janis Joplin’s Mercedes Benz
Carbon Leaf’s American Tale and Avicii’s Wake Me Up
Now these might not be as obvious sound-wise, but the topics would be awesome mashed together.
Mackelmore’s Thrift Shop and Madonna’s Material Girl
B*Witched’s C’est La Vie and Shakira’s She Wolf
The Lumineers’s Stubborn Love and Vance Joy’s Mess Is Mine
And totally not meant for a mash-up because of the legal issues these songs’ musicians have weathered, but how can different songs have the same sound? Did they all watch the same commercial with the same catchy jingle and it built up from there?
Creaky Boards – The Songs I Didn’t Write
Cat Stevens – Yusuf (Foreigner Suite)
What songs do you think sound like they’d fit well together? I know I’m not the only one who listens to music with a million other songs in her mind. I mean, look at these mashups already on YouTube. Here’s one: The Police and Bruno Mars
Happy weekend!