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Thursday, May 17, 2012

I'm bad, I'm universally compatible

Somehow I missed out on the joke.  I was on YouTube watching a video when I saw another video, Port O'Brien's "I Woke Up Today" listed.  I clicked on it to watch it, and I loved it.  I thought how humorous and ironic that they would use some old footage from something else to make this video (truthfully, it is better than the "official video" which makes me like the song a little less after seeing it.)
When reading about this beauty, I learned that the footage was from Tommy Seebach, a Danish musician, with his version of the classic "Apache."  He looks like Howard Stern circa 1982 with bad hair and mustache.  The video is considered to be universally compatible with almost any song. Needless to say, I found an incredible amount of songs that have been put to Seebach's amazing video.  Interesting enough, he covers several genres.  He does hard rock & metal with Marilyn Manson, Disturbed, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Van Halen, Audioslave,etc. The one from this category I like best is the Darkness' "I Believe in a Thing Called Love."

He also does the White Stripes, Chemical Brothers, & Prodigy.  He also covers Snoop Dogg, the Beatles, "Sexyback," "Surfin' Bird," "Misirlou" among others. 

I also like when he delves into new wave & pop.  He does Right Said Fred, Duran Duran and my favorite from this group, a-ha!


There's even a Punjabi vesion.  See if you can find anything else interesting.  I will leave you with this...




4 comments:

  1. This is fanstastic and as advertised...
    I always laughed at the "Apache" video -- but I never knew that there was a cottage industry cutting it to match other songs. "Take on Me" was especially amusing.
    But I really like "Hungry Like the Wolf"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TiB-5gJzXQ&feature=related

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  2. Wait... this is even better...
    Seebach vs. Joy Division (or more accurately Warsaw):
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfklUSUyykg

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  3. And here's L.A. Style's rave classic "James Brown is Dead"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB94DHEwSik

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  4. See, you were hooked. I know there is still More great stuff to find. Thank you Tommy Seebach.

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