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October 7, 2015 11:24 AM Subscribe
If you watch only one completely-realized, well-lipsynched, full-length video mashing up Spongebob Squarepants clips with Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" this year, make it this one.
Girl Talk has ruined certain songs for me as I can now only hear those versions. War Pigs is one of those songs.
posted by GuyZero at 11:33 AM on October 7, 2015 [11 favorites]
posted by GuyZero at 11:33 AM on October 7, 2015 [11 favorites]
GuyZero, I am definitely with you.
Also, the song is too great to have a word rhymed with itself in the first two lines.
posted by RubixsQube at 11:40 AM on October 7, 2015 [5 favorites]
Also, the song is too great to have a word rhymed with itself in the first two lines.
posted by RubixsQube at 11:40 AM on October 7, 2015 [5 favorites]
Geezer Butler's lyrics are part of what made Black Sabbath so awesome.
posted by Cookiebastard at 11:46 AM on October 7, 2015
posted by Cookiebastard at 11:46 AM on October 7, 2015
OOOOHLAWJEA
posted by echocollate at 11:55 AM on October 7, 2015 [8 favorites]
posted by echocollate at 11:55 AM on October 7, 2015 [8 favorites]
Also, the song is too great to have a word rhymed with itself in the first two lines.
Every single time I hear this song, I'm like wait, really? How did anyone in the room let that slide? And then I just go with it because, I dunno, Sabbath.
posted by brennen at 12:12 PM on October 7, 2015 [3 favorites]
Every single time I hear this song, I'm like wait, really? How did anyone in the room let that slide? And then I just go with it because, I dunno, Sabbath.
posted by brennen at 12:12 PM on October 7, 2015 [3 favorites]
Generals gathered in their classes...
Generals gathered in their glasses...
Generals gathered in their asses...
I guess there were some options they could have gone with.
posted by GuyZero at 12:21 PM on October 7, 2015 [1 favorite]
Generals gathered in their glasses...
Generals gathered in their asses...
I guess there were some options they could have gone with.
posted by GuyZero at 12:21 PM on October 7, 2015 [1 favorite]
"sitting on their asses"?
posted by brennen at 12:23 PM on October 7, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by brennen at 12:23 PM on October 7, 2015 [2 favorites]
From the YouTube Hole I just fell in to:
Spongebob Sings:
Uptown Funk
Turn Down For What
Thrift Shop
Moves Like Jagger
We Will Rock You
Pokerface
I Gotta Feeling
I Like To Move It
Black and Yellow
I'm Sexy and I Know It
...so after that, you really have to appreciate the Sabbath cover for not using the Season 2 episode "Band Geeks" which seems like the #1 Go To source for clips for this genre.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 12:26 PM on October 7, 2015 [1 favorite]
Spongebob Sings:
Uptown Funk
Turn Down For What
Thrift Shop
Moves Like Jagger
We Will Rock You
Pokerface
I Gotta Feeling
I Like To Move It
Black and Yellow
I'm Sexy and I Know It
...so after that, you really have to appreciate the Sabbath cover for not using the Season 2 episode "Band Geeks" which seems like the #1 Go To source for clips for this genre.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 12:26 PM on October 7, 2015 [1 favorite]
My late buddy Quazimagnolia - who never quite got me into Black Sabbath - would have loved this. I'm not so sure how I feel about it.
Quaz died last year - it involved heroin and wasn't an accident - and I went to his funeral. I hadn't seen him in years and I hadn't seen his mother since the 1970s. We had drifted apart but in the last few years made a mutual commitment to each other to try and re-establish ties. We called each other, sent e-mails, and tried to catch up on 20 years. We made a fair effort.
Anyway the guy didn't have a lot of friends, but I was one of them and I decided that there's going to be at least one friend at his funeral so I hop on a plane.
I brought a proper suit with me, but sitting in the bar the night before I decided that a Black Sabbath tee-shirt would be more fitting so in the morning I went off in search of one.
Obviously, they're not as popular as I recall because I went from store to store. One kid even asked me who they were. It was getting late and I was starting to get anxious so I find a place that prints images from the net and was able to make a pretty decent copy of the 1978 War Pigs U.S. tour shirt. I know he saw them at least once during that tour - I was with him.
Well anyway, I get to the church - a big Catholic church in central New Jersey - and I meet another buddy there who also knew Quaz and we walked in together, stinking of weed. Quaz would have wanted it that way. I walk to the front of the church, introduce myself to his mother because I thought she wouldn't recognize me and she damn near fainted. You know it's one of those occasions where you don't have anything to say and just being there says it all? That was one of those moments so I don't say anything other than "I'm so sorry about John" kiss her on the cheek and walk to the back of the church.
Stay with me, I'm getting to the point.
Well anyway, I see it's going to be a Catholic mass and as soon as the priest raises his arms and starts talking, I look over at my buddy Steamer and say "Yo Steamer. Do you want to sit through this?" He looks at me and says "Let's go." So we got up and walked out without saying a word.
I figured Quaz would have appreciated the gesture, but he would not have expected me to sit through an entire mass even if it was all about him. Especially if it was all about him. He would have appreciated that I traveled 5000 miles for one minute.
So I'm driving away from the church with that weird feeling you get after an experience like that and War Pigs comes on the radio. It was like a goddamned movie soundtrack.
So yeah, in addition to being one of the great anti-war anthems, I've got some mixed feelings about seeing it sung by Sponge Bob like this.
RIP Quazi. You finally got me into Black Sabbath. Asshole.
posted by three blind mice at 12:26 PM on October 7, 2015 [59 favorites]
Quaz died last year - it involved heroin and wasn't an accident - and I went to his funeral. I hadn't seen him in years and I hadn't seen his mother since the 1970s. We had drifted apart but in the last few years made a mutual commitment to each other to try and re-establish ties. We called each other, sent e-mails, and tried to catch up on 20 years. We made a fair effort.
Anyway the guy didn't have a lot of friends, but I was one of them and I decided that there's going to be at least one friend at his funeral so I hop on a plane.
I brought a proper suit with me, but sitting in the bar the night before I decided that a Black Sabbath tee-shirt would be more fitting so in the morning I went off in search of one.
Obviously, they're not as popular as I recall because I went from store to store. One kid even asked me who they were. It was getting late and I was starting to get anxious so I find a place that prints images from the net and was able to make a pretty decent copy of the 1978 War Pigs U.S. tour shirt. I know he saw them at least once during that tour - I was with him.
Well anyway, I get to the church - a big Catholic church in central New Jersey - and I meet another buddy there who also knew Quaz and we walked in together, stinking of weed. Quaz would have wanted it that way. I walk to the front of the church, introduce myself to his mother because I thought she wouldn't recognize me and she damn near fainted. You know it's one of those occasions where you don't have anything to say and just being there says it all? That was one of those moments so I don't say anything other than "I'm so sorry about John" kiss her on the cheek and walk to the back of the church.
Stay with me, I'm getting to the point.
Well anyway, I see it's going to be a Catholic mass and as soon as the priest raises his arms and starts talking, I look over at my buddy Steamer and say "Yo Steamer. Do you want to sit through this?" He looks at me and says "Let's go." So we got up and walked out without saying a word.
I figured Quaz would have appreciated the gesture, but he would not have expected me to sit through an entire mass even if it was all about him. Especially if it was all about him. He would have appreciated that I traveled 5000 miles for one minute.
So I'm driving away from the church with that weird feeling you get after an experience like that and War Pigs comes on the radio. It was like a goddamned movie soundtrack.
So yeah, in addition to being one of the great anti-war anthems, I've got some mixed feelings about seeing it sung by Sponge Bob like this.
RIP Quazi. You finally got me into Black Sabbath. Asshole.
posted by three blind mice at 12:26 PM on October 7, 2015 [59 favorites]
Why do drummers always have triangular heads?
posted by benito.strauss at 12:39 PM on October 7, 2015
posted by benito.strauss at 12:39 PM on October 7, 2015
Do homophones count as the same word in poetry or song lyrics?
posted by straight at 1:18 PM on October 7, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by straight at 1:18 PM on October 7, 2015 [4 favorites]
Also, I had a New Testament professor 25 years ago who played War Pigs for our class and complained about the masses/masses repetition.
posted by straight at 1:23 PM on October 7, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by straight at 1:23 PM on October 7, 2015 [1 favorite]
For those complaining about the most metal rhyming couplet in history* (rhyming "masses" with "masses") it should flabbergast you even more to learn that those are the second draft lyrics. The song was originally called Walpurgis and had quite different lyrics.
*I kid, I kid.
posted by namewithoutwords at 1:25 PM on October 7, 2015 [3 favorites]
*I kid, I kid.
posted by namewithoutwords at 1:25 PM on October 7, 2015 [3 favorites]
Also, on my first comment, not_on_display just rolled my favorite count over so it ends in 666.
posted by straight at 1:27 PM on October 7, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by straight at 1:27 PM on October 7, 2015 [2 favorites]
Generals gathered in their asses...
I guess there were some options they could have gone with.
"Slathered" would have scanned in the line as well. Just sayin'.
That video is awesome, though. I'm having an awful day at work and if you had told me this morning "Your day will be brightened by a cartoon you're not very fond of combined with a metal band you are very fond of," I would have laughed at you.
Who's laughing now?
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 1:49 PM on October 7, 2015 [3 favorites]
I guess there were some options they could have gone with.
"Slathered" would have scanned in the line as well. Just sayin'.
That video is awesome, though. I'm having an awful day at work and if you had told me this morning "Your day will be brightened by a cartoon you're not very fond of combined with a metal band you are very fond of," I would have laughed at you.
Who's laughing now?
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 1:49 PM on October 7, 2015 [3 favorites]
This is great. I almost shared this in work chat, but then I remembered that most of my coworkers were born after 1985. Which is too bad because this song will always kick ass.
posted by double block and bleed at 1:59 PM on October 7, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by double block and bleed at 1:59 PM on October 7, 2015 [4 favorites]
Generals gathered in Manassas...
posted by Wolfdog at 2:07 PM on October 7, 2015 [15 favorites]
posted by Wolfdog at 2:07 PM on October 7, 2015 [15 favorites]
Do homophones count as the same word in poetry or song lyrics?
I think that, while formal prosody would tend to frown on it, it's absolutely fine in song lyrics in general, and clearly so here. The reason it works is that both the melody and meaning are different, leaving only the phonemes the same. It would not be good poetry, but it's a perfectly acceptable song lyric. That's true of at least 95% of song lyrics, including some of the greatest lyrics ever written. It's a different form and always has been.
posted by howfar at 2:41 PM on October 7, 2015
I think that, while formal prosody would tend to frown on it, it's absolutely fine in song lyrics in general, and clearly so here. The reason it works is that both the melody and meaning are different, leaving only the phonemes the same. It would not be good poetry, but it's a perfectly acceptable song lyric. That's true of at least 95% of song lyrics, including some of the greatest lyrics ever written. It's a different form and always has been.
posted by howfar at 2:41 PM on October 7, 2015
Once you've ridden the Hasselhoff, there's no going back.
posted by clvrmnky at 3:13 PM on October 7, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by clvrmnky at 3:13 PM on October 7, 2015 [2 favorites]
This went far beyond what it needed to be good. This is firmly in the territory of great.
Now we just need the Girl Talk version with some driving school clips.
posted by davejh at 3:48 PM on October 7, 2015
Now we just need the Girl Talk version with some driving school clips.
posted by davejh at 3:48 PM on October 7, 2015
I love the way Facebook announced this trending topic:
Video Surfaces of Black Sabbath Song Synced With 'SpongeBob SquarePants' Clip
posted by straight at 4:13 PM on October 7, 2015 [1 favorite]
Video Surfaces of Black Sabbath Song Synced With 'SpongeBob SquarePants' Clip
posted by straight at 4:13 PM on October 7, 2015 [1 favorite]
In discussions about bad song lyrics masses/masses rarely comes up. So there's that. Also, forgot this song weighed in at 7 minutes. You really got your money's worth back in the good old days.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 7:34 PM on October 7, 2015
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 7:34 PM on October 7, 2015
Every single time I hear this song, I'm like wait, really? How did anyone in the room let that slide?
I feel this paved the way for crap like the Beastie Boys rhyming commercial with commercial and other rhyming indignities
posted by jessamyn at 7:44 AM on October 8, 2015 [3 favorites]
I feel this paved the way for crap like the Beastie Boys rhyming commercial with commercial and other rhyming indignities
posted by jessamyn at 7:44 AM on October 8, 2015 [3 favorites]
Spongebath
posted by mmrtnt at 8:19 AM on October 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by mmrtnt at 8:19 AM on October 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
Little Sponge who made thee
Dost thou know who made thee
posted by not_on_display at 9:02 AM on October 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
Dost thou know who made thee
posted by not_on_display at 9:02 AM on October 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
I feel this paved the way for crap like the Beastie Boys rhyming commercial with commercial and other rhyming indignities
So the last time I googled that up it was apparently an error that they never corrected and the original written lyrics were rehersal & commercial.
posted by GuyZero at 9:10 AM on October 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
So the last time I googled that up it was apparently an error that they never corrected and the original written lyrics were rehersal & commercial.
posted by GuyZero at 9:10 AM on October 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
I'm way more OK with the rhyming of two different meanings of "masses" in War Pigs than I am with "cute" and "moot" in that god-damned song.
posted by Wolfdog at 11:22 AM on October 8, 2015
posted by Wolfdog at 11:22 AM on October 8, 2015
GuyZero: So the last time I googled that up it was apparently an error that they never corrected and the original written lyrics were rehersal & commercial.
Confirmed!
posted by not_on_display at 12:23 PM on October 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
Confirmed!
posted by not_on_display at 12:23 PM on October 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
GuyZero: " it was apparently an error that they never corrected and the original written lyrics were rehersal & commercial."
Huh, that's a big mystery solved. Is there a similar explanation for this rhyme scheme:
I can't stop, y'all,
'till' the early morn', so rock-rock, y'all,
tick-tock y'all,
to the beat, y'all
c'mon and rock, y'all
posted by Bugbread at 4:36 PM on October 8, 2015
Huh, that's a big mystery solved. Is there a similar explanation for this rhyme scheme:
I can't stop, y'all,
'till' the early morn', so rock-rock, y'all,
tick-tock y'all,
to the beat, y'all
c'mon and rock, y'all
posted by Bugbread at 4:36 PM on October 8, 2015
Mocking lyrics of party-rock-raps songs is the lowest form of humour, y'all.
posted by GuyZero at 4:45 PM on October 8, 2015
posted by GuyZero at 4:45 PM on October 8, 2015
GuyZero: "Mocking lyrics of party-rock-raps songs is the lowest form of humour, y'all."
Below fart jokes?
posted by Bugbread at 6:17 PM on October 8, 2015
Below fart jokes?
posted by Bugbread at 6:17 PM on October 8, 2015
Below fart jokes? All jokes are below fart jokes, for they are both the foundation and the pinnacle of jokes.
posted by double block and bleed at 5:01 AM on October 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by double block and bleed at 5:01 AM on October 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
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