So who did the very first "mash up"?
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So who did the very first "mash up"?
I was just thinking about this today while watching the Superbowl and thinking about that Rock Sugar band. Who did the very first mash up?
As far as I can tell, it was either Dr Demento doing "Stairway To Heaven" with the lyrics to "Gilligan's Island", but I don't know who really did that and when. Had to be in the '70s or '80s.
Or it was the Replacements from their live show at CBGB in '84 when they were so drunk they did a bunch of mash ups (possibly by accident) where they did "Let It Be" with the lyrics to "Fuck School" and "I Will Follow" with "Kid's Don't Follow" (among others).
As far as I can tell, it was either Dr Demento doing "Stairway To Heaven" with the lyrics to "Gilligan's Island", but I don't know who really did that and when. Had to be in the '70s or '80s.
Or it was the Replacements from their live show at CBGB in '84 when they were so drunk they did a bunch of mash ups (possibly by accident) where they did "Let It Be" with the lyrics to "Fuck School" and "I Will Follow" with "Kid's Don't Follow" (among others).
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The Residents did an album called Third Reich And Roll in 1974, it's two side-long songs that are nothing but mash-ups of multiple pop songs.
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The Residents are listenable. And I should clarify that they performed all the songs, it wasn't the original recordings layered on top of each other.
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Re: So who did the very first "mash up"?
I'll bet there were some even before 1974.
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Re: So who did the very first "mash up"?
Suprmallet is correct about the Residents being the stylistic forefathers of the mashup. Taking other people's music and fucking it up is their forte. Baby Sex (made, but not heard, in 1971) opens with "We Stole This Riff," which is the riff from Tim Buckley's "Down By the Borderline" with the lyrics changed to "We stole this riff/From Tim Buckley/And we'll steal from you/If you ever do anything."
But in terms of taking two popular recordings and juxtaposing the lyrics of one and the instrumentation of the other, give it up for The Evolution Control Committee. Doing it "without digital editing tools, on a Tascam Porta-Two and a linear turntable":
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I know that this doesn't have to do with the "first" mashup, but I just heard this song from 2002 and it's incredible, it's like the entire history of popular music in 12 minutes:
Osymyso - Intro-Inspection pt. 1
Osymyso - Intro-Inspection pt. 2
Osymyso - Intro-Inspection pt. 1
Osymyso - Intro-Inspection pt. 2
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How about Revolution No. 9 by the Beatles 1968?
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http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/so...spx?SongID=897
A 1956 song consisting of what we'd now call "samples".
A 1956 song consisting of what we'd now call "samples".
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http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/so...spx?SongID=897
A 1956 song consisting of what we'd now call "samples".
A 1956 song consisting of what we'd now call "samples".