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Godflesh Superstar [loud abrasive music, possibly NSFW].
We've discussed the Pink Floyd/Wizard of Oz "synchronicity" idea here before (1, 2), but this is shorter and somehow much more satisfying (especially if you're a GF fan). For those who don't want to watch the whole thing, it gets really good right around the 3:30 mark.
We've discussed the Pink Floyd/Wizard of Oz "synchronicity" idea here before (1, 2), but this is shorter and somehow much more satisfying (especially if you're a GF fan). For those who don't want to watch the whole thing, it gets really good right around the 3:30 mark.
Jesu!
posted by sleepy pete at 10:46 AM on March 17, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by sleepy pete at 10:46 AM on March 17, 2008 [1 favorite]
It's ashame Christbait Rising isn't a bit more danceable.
posted by The Straightener at 10:47 AM on March 17, 2008
posted by The Straightener at 10:47 AM on March 17, 2008
Awesomer still: Night on Bald Mountain and Emperor's "I Am The Black Wizards".
posted by nicolas léonard sadi carnot at 11:11 AM on March 17, 2008
posted by nicolas léonard sadi carnot at 11:11 AM on March 17, 2008
Particularly wonderful bits: 0:32, 1:45, 3:13, 3:50.
posted by nicolas léonard sadi carnot at 11:22 AM on March 17, 2008
posted by nicolas léonard sadi carnot at 11:22 AM on March 17, 2008
My thought exactly, sleepy pete. I almost went with "Jesu, Joy of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Desiring" as a title, but figured the reference might be too obscure.
posted by googly at 11:46 AM on March 17, 2008
posted by googly at 11:46 AM on March 17, 2008
Nah, googly, I like yours. Although the alternate is pretty good as well. Thanks for posting this.
posted by sleepy pete at 11:50 AM on March 17, 2008
posted by sleepy pete at 11:50 AM on March 17, 2008
I once sat down with the intention of writing some software that could scan through video files and audio files looking for instances of significant moments (sudden changes in pitch, tempo, or volume for the audio; scene cuts or the like for the video) and record the timing of each. Then you could comb through that data to find which soundtrack would most congruously match a given movie: voila, automatic stoner film generator!
Then I got distracted and ate spoonsful of peanut butter right out of the jar instead.
posted by ook at 12:02 PM on March 17, 2008
Then I got distracted and ate spoonsful of peanut butter right out of the jar instead.
posted by ook at 12:02 PM on March 17, 2008
Crikey, I was going to express amazement that they were still together, then I discovered that they have disbanded. Fourteen years isn't bad going though!
posted by asok at 12:10 PM on March 17, 2008
posted by asok at 12:10 PM on March 17, 2008
You knew Godflesh had sold out when their music became melodic. Still..cool find.
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 12:41 PM on March 17, 2008
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 12:41 PM on March 17, 2008
These video clips breed... like rats!
posted by ph00dz at 1:09 PM on March 17, 2008 [2 favorites]
posted by ph00dz at 1:09 PM on March 17, 2008 [2 favorites]
Decidedly not as awesomer - Black Metal Turkish wedding.
posted by hellbient at 1:56 PM on March 17, 2008
posted by hellbient at 1:56 PM on March 17, 2008
Everything JK Broadrick touches is gold. This was really neat.
posted by auralcoral at 2:01 PM on March 17, 2008
posted by auralcoral at 2:01 PM on March 17, 2008
This is awesome.
I mean, you could put Godflesh over anything and I'm still gonna tell you it's awesome, but this was REALLY awesome.
Godflesh posts to me are like bacon posts to the rest of y'all.
posted by Uther Bentrazor at 4:51 PM on March 17, 2008
I mean, you could put Godflesh over anything and I'm still gonna tell you it's awesome, but this was REALLY awesome.
Godflesh posts to me are like bacon posts to the rest of y'all.
posted by Uther Bentrazor at 4:51 PM on March 17, 2008
> If neither the video or audio has had its timing altered, that really is pretty remarkable.
Yeah out of curiosity I checked against the original scene and it's unaltered. Play them side by side, if only for the supreme weirdness of hearing both audio tracks simultaneously.
posted by churl at 8:58 PM on March 17, 2008
Yeah out of curiosity I checked against the original scene and it's unaltered. Play them side by side, if only for the supreme weirdness of hearing both audio tracks simultaneously.
posted by churl at 8:58 PM on March 17, 2008
If anyone's still reading this thread, I posted a related AskMe.
posted by Bookhouse at 10:32 AM on March 18, 2008
posted by Bookhouse at 10:32 AM on March 18, 2008
To make churl's suggestion easier, you can use the youtube doubler to synchronize the original and the mashup versions.
posted by googly at 11:25 AM on March 18, 2008
posted by googly at 11:25 AM on March 18, 2008
Why are there not midnight showings of JCS right along side Rocky Horror, with the same crowd and purpose? </em
Because, honestly, the music is god-fucking awful. Camp only goes so far.
posted by Bookhouse at 11:27 AM on March 18, 2008
Because, honestly, the music is god-fucking awful. Camp only goes so far.
posted by Bookhouse at 11:27 AM on March 18, 2008
BTW, you have to start the original version about 20 seconds early to sync them up.
posted by googly at 11:27 AM on March 18, 2008
posted by googly at 11:27 AM on March 18, 2008
Well, I guess opinions vary, but I find some of the Rocky Horror music sorta good, and to me the JCSS music makes me want to flee.
posted by Bookhouse at 11:57 AM on March 18, 2008
posted by Bookhouse at 11:57 AM on March 18, 2008
I don't think it has anything to do with quality. Jesus Christ Superstar is representative of a mindset that simply doesn't exist at all anymore in any recognizable form, while aspects of Rocky Horror still exist in bits and pieces of today's culture; we can still relate to it, if only as camp. JCSS just looks alien.
I mean, look at those dancers. When's the last time you saw anybody with a smile that big and that unironic?
posted by ook at 3:23 PM on March 18, 2008
I mean, look at those dancers. When's the last time you saw anybody with a smile that big and that unironic?
posted by ook at 3:23 PM on March 18, 2008
(of course, I missed the point you were making, which was that some people actually like Jesus Christ Superstar today; but in my defense my brain refuses to accept that concept as a possibility. Alien.)
posted by ook at 3:27 PM on March 18, 2008
posted by ook at 3:27 PM on March 18, 2008
As a huge Godflesh fan, and a fan of JCSS, I had high hopes indeed for this. The first time I watched it, I kinda thought it meh, but, on repeated viewings, there is something about this that works - more than simply syncopated arm movements. Perhaps the austerity of the desert, the columns, the Christ himself, silent and smiling, the crazed expressions...anyways, me likee. Whoever does this with old Jodorowsky clips could have a hit on their hands.
This song not only doesn't sound like most Godflesh, it doesn't even sound like most of the album it came off of (Hymns BTW, the last Godflesh record, and widely considered crap at the time of its release).
I must admit I fell off the Broadrick bandwagon when he started Jesu - after 15 or 20 years of buying anything he even produced, I'd finally had enough. No tempo changes, endless songs (and I loved Pure II), the same sound over and over. I get the idea that Broadrick had some kind of breakdown after Hymns, and ever since he seems stuck in a (very popular, critically acclaimed) rut. Good for him, I guess.
Finally, for all those who are blaspheming against Jesus Christ Superstar, check out WFMU's alternative version.
posted by stinkycheese at 4:22 PM on March 18, 2008
This song not only doesn't sound like most Godflesh, it doesn't even sound like most of the album it came off of (Hymns BTW, the last Godflesh record, and widely considered crap at the time of its release).
I must admit I fell off the Broadrick bandwagon when he started Jesu - after 15 or 20 years of buying anything he even produced, I'd finally had enough. No tempo changes, endless songs (and I loved Pure II), the same sound over and over. I get the idea that Broadrick had some kind of breakdown after Hymns, and ever since he seems stuck in a (very popular, critically acclaimed) rut. Good for him, I guess.
Finally, for all those who are blaspheming against Jesus Christ Superstar, check out WFMU's alternative version.
posted by stinkycheese at 4:22 PM on March 18, 2008
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