[bomp] Okay, who knows what this is?

[Sknoof@xxxxxxx]

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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